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Creation Compromise

Creation Compromise

Creation Compromise

Creation Compromise

Compromise Positions • Gap Theory • Progressive Creation • Theistic Evolution

Compromise Positions • Gap Theory • Progressive Creation • Theistic Evolution

GAP THEORY • The basic teaching of the gap theory is that millions of

GAP THEORY • The basic teaching of the gap theory is that millions of years ago God created the universe as recorded in Genesis 1: 1. • Lucifer (i. e. , Satan) rebelled and was thrown to earth. • Lucifer’s flood, which destroyed all plant and animal life on earth. • The earth was plunged into darkness and thus became “without form and void” as recorded in Genesis 1: 2. • The gap theory teaches that the fossils found in the earth’s crust are relics of the originally perfect world that God created. • Re-creation in six literal days as recorded in Genesis 1: 3– 31. • This view was proposed by Thomas Chalmers in the early 1800 s. • Typically, the age of the earth and universe are left to “science” to determine, but biological evolution is rejected.

PROGRESSIVE CREATION • Progressive Creation is a relatively recent idea that seeks to embrace

PROGRESSIVE CREATION • Progressive Creation is a relatively recent idea that seeks to embrace the big bang as the origin of the universe and allow for the geological evolution of the earth. • Rejects the biological evolution of life on earth. • This view suggests that God created life in spurts and recreated in slightly different forms over billions of years. • The days of creation were actually long overlapping periods of time during which God created different life forms. • Nature to be the “sixty seventh book of the Bible”. • The rock layers contain a record of the history of life on earth including pre -humans who did not have a spirit, yet strongly resembled modern humans.

PROGRESSIVE CREATION • The rocks also contain evidence of death, disease, and suffering. •

PROGRESSIVE CREATION • The rocks also contain evidence of death, disease, and suffering. • The Flood was a local event that is referred to as “universal” because it impacted all humans on the earth at the time. • The view has been popularized by Hugh Ross and the organization Reasons to Believe.

THEISTIC EVOLUTION • This view is the broadest and includes so many diverse ideas

THEISTIC EVOLUTION • This view is the broadest and includes so many diverse ideas that it is hard to define strictly. • The secular explanations of the age of the universe and earth are accurate and that the Flood was a local event. • Life on earth has evolved from simple organisms, but some believe God created that first spark of life while others believe it happened “naturally” according to the laws God ordained for the universe. • Some would accept that God had no intervening role in the evolution of life while others see God guiding the process at important steps. • Humans evolved from previous hominids and God “injected” a spirit into man at some point. • Others that at a certain point God specially created Adam and Eve as the first humans.

THEISTIC EVOLUTION • Regardless, the disease, death, and struggle to survive were part of

THEISTIC EVOLUTION • Regardless, the disease, death, and struggle to survive were part of God’s original plan for the creation. • The days of Genesis 1 are viewed as poetic expressions of the vast ages of earth’s history (a day-age interpretation) and there was never a globecovering Flood. • The day-age view was popularized by Hugh Miller in the early 1800 s at the same time Chalmers was espousing the Gap Theory. • As Darwin introduced ideas on biological evolution, those explanations were incorporated into the day age views and have continued today.

Christian Views on Creation Young Earth Biblical Creation Old Earth Progressive Creation Gap Theory

Christian Views on Creation Young Earth Biblical Creation Old Earth Progressive Creation Gap Theory Theistic Evolution Age of the Universe Age of the Earth Days of Creation Origin of Life Origin of Man Origin of Death Genesis 1 -11 Flood

Christian Views on Creation Young Earth Biblical Creation Age of the Universe Old Earth

Christian Views on Creation Young Earth Biblical Creation Age of the Universe Old Earth Progressive Creation Gap Theory 6, 000 years Billions of years Theistic Evolution 13. 7 billion years Age of the Earth Days of Creation Origin of Life Origin of Man Origin of Death Genesis 1 -11 Flood

Christian Views on Creation Young Earth Biblical Creation Old Earth Progressive Creation Gap Theory

Christian Views on Creation Young Earth Biblical Creation Old Earth Progressive Creation Gap Theory Theistic Evolution Age of the Universe 6, 000 years Billions of years 13. 7 billion years Age of the Earth 6, 000 years Billion of years 4. 5 billion years Days of Creation Origin of Life Origin of Man Origin of Death Genesis 1 -11 Flood

Christian Views on Creation Young Earth Biblical Creation Old Earth Progressive Creation Gap Theory

Christian Views on Creation Young Earth Biblical Creation Old Earth Progressive Creation Gap Theory Theistic Evolution Age of the Universe 6, 000 years Billions of years 13. 7 billion years Age of the Earth 6, 000 years Billion of years 4. 5 billion years Days of Creation Actual, during the recreation Overlapping ages Poetic language for long ages Origin of Life Origin of Man Origin of Death Genesis 1 -11 Flood

Christian Views on Creation Young Earth Biblical Creation Old Earth Progressive Creation Gap Theory

Christian Views on Creation Young Earth Biblical Creation Old Earth Progressive Creation Gap Theory Theistic Evolution Age of the Universe 6, 000 years Billions of years 13. 7 billion years Age of the Earth 6, 000 years Billion of years 4. 5 billion years Actual, during the recreation Overlapping ages Poetic language for long ages God created life in successive periods Sparked by God or formed naturally Days of Creation Origin of Life God spoke distinct kinds into existence Originally created, destroy and the recreated Origin of Man Origin of Death Genesis 1 -11 Flood

Christian Views on Creation Young Earth Biblical Creation Old Earth Progressive Creation Gap Theory

Christian Views on Creation Young Earth Biblical Creation Old Earth Progressive Creation Gap Theory Theistic Evolution Age of the Universe 6, 000 years Billions of years 13. 7 billion years Age of the Earth 6, 000 years Billion of years 4. 5 billion years Actual, during the recreation Overlapping ages Poetic language for long ages God created life in successive periods Sparked by God or formed naturally Days of Creation Origin of Life God spoke distinct kinds into existence Specially created by God (6, 000 years ago) Origin of Man Originally created, destroy and the recreated Specially created (over 100, 000 years ago) Specially created by God looking like earlier hominids Evolved from other hominids Origin of Death Genesis 1 -11 Flood

Christian Views on Creation Young Earth Biblical Creation Old Earth Progressive Creation Gap Theory

Christian Views on Creation Young Earth Biblical Creation Old Earth Progressive Creation Gap Theory Theistic Evolution Age of the Universe 6, 000 years Billions of years 13. 7 billion years Age of the Earth 6, 000 years Billion of years 4. 5 billion years Actual, during the recreation Overlapping ages Poetic language for long ages God created life in successive periods Sparked by God or formed naturally Days of Creation Origin of Life God spoke distinct kinds into existence Origin of Man Specially created by God (6, 000 years ago) Originally created, destroy and the recreated Specially created (over 100, 000 years ago) Specially created by God looking like earlier hominids Evolved from other hominids Origin of Death Results of Adam’s sin Present before Adam Genesis 1 -11 Flood

Christian Views on Creation Young Earth Biblical Creation Old Earth Progressive Creation Gap Theory

Christian Views on Creation Young Earth Biblical Creation Old Earth Progressive Creation Gap Theory Theistic Evolution Age of the Universe 6, 000 years Billions of years 13. 7 billion years Age of the Earth 6, 000 years Billion of years 4. 5 billion years Days of Creation Actual, during the recreation Overlapping ages Poetic language for long ages God created life in successive periods Sparked by God or formed naturally Origin of Life God spoke distinct kinds into existence Origin of Man Specially created by God (6, 000 years ago) Origin of Death Results of Adam’s sin Genesis 1 -11 Historical narrative Originally created, destroy and the recreated Specially created (over 100, 000 years ago) Specially created by God looking like earlier hominids Evolved from other hominids Present before Adam Poetic/mythical History mixed with myth representation of history Flood

Christian Views on Creation Young Earth Biblical Creation Old Earth Progressive Creation Gap Theory

Christian Views on Creation Young Earth Biblical Creation Old Earth Progressive Creation Gap Theory Theistic Evolution Age of the Universe 6, 000 years Billions of years 13. 7 billion years Age of the Earth 6, 000 years Billion of years 4. 5 billion years Days of Creation Actual, during the recreation Overlapping ages Poetic language for long ages God created life in successive periods Sparked by God or formed naturally Origin of Life God spoke distinct kinds into existence Origin of Man Specially created by God (6, 000 years ago) Origin of Death Genesis 1 -11 Flood Results of Adam’s sin Historical narrative Originally created, destroy and the recreated Specially created (over 100, 000 years ago) Specially created by God looking like earlier hominids Present before Adam Evolved from other hominids Present before Adam Poetic/mythical History mixed with myth representation of history Lucifer’s flood between A globe covering event Genesis 1: 2 and 1: 2, and a local flood for Noah’s with a massive Ark time A local event in the Middle East Mythical or a local event in the Middle East

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