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Creation and Time

A Report on the Progressive Creationist Book by Hugh Ross

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• A Key Tactic of Progressive Creationism (Part I)
  
• Dual Revelation (Part II)
  
• Other Theological Considerations (Part III)
  
• Conclusion

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Table of Contents

Introduction:	Who is Hugh Ross?
	A Brief Summary of Dr. Ross’s Book
Section 1:	A Key Tactic of Progressive Creationism
CLAIM:	The Age of the Earth is a “Trivial Doctrinal Point.”
Section 2:	Dual Revelation
	The “facts of nature” versus Scripture.
CLAIM:	Single Revelation is the belief of many creationists.
CLAIM:	The facts of nature are like a 67th book of the Bible.
CLAIM:	Observation of the universe (general revelation) is sufficient to discover the gospel.
CLAIM:	The Universe is billions of years old
Section 3:	Other Theological Considerations
CLAIM:	God Created many carnivorous animals in the beginning — long before Adam’s sin.
CLAIM:	Plants were killed before Adam’s sin, so there clearly mas death before the Fall.
CLAIM:	The death that came through sin was spiritual, not physical.
CLAIM:	Creation was subjected to futility from its very beginning.
CLAIM:	Isaiah and “Church Father” Origen supported pre-Fall “bondage to decay”
Section 4:	Biblical Considerations
CLAIM:	The Flood was local, not global.
CLAIM:	The Creation account is told from the perspective of an observer on earth.
CLAIM:	Most stars and planets were created before the first day.
CLAIM:	The simplest, most natural reading of Genesis 1 is that the days were long ages.
CLAIM:	The Bible says the earth is very old.
CLAIM:	God’s days are not our days Psalm 90:4 and 2 Peter 3:8.
CLAIM:	The use of “morning and evening” in Genesis 1 does not indicate literal days. The Hebrew word for “morning” in Genesis 1 is metaphorical.
CLAIM:	Because the word “day” in Genesis 2:4 refers to the entire Creation week, there is more reason to believe the first six days were not literal.
CLAIM:	The “uniqueness” of the seventh day indicates the days of Creation were not normal days.
CLAIM:	Genesis 1 is different than the other chapters, therefore the days can be long.
CLAIM:	The Creation days do not have to be literal because not all numbered days in the Bible refer to 24-hour periods.
Section 5:	History of Creationism
CLAIM:	The early Church Fathers supported long Creation days.
CLAIM:	Even those Church Fathers who did not write about this subject rejected 24 hour days.
CLAIM:	Church scholars of the Dark and Middle Ages would probably also disagree with literal days.
CLAIM:	Lightfoot and Ussher ignored Hebrew scholarship.
CLAIM:	creationists are “Ussherites.”
CLAIM:	God would naturally take billions of years for Creation because He is a master craftsman.
Section 6:	More on Progressive Creationism’s Billions-of-Years
CLAIM:	Science has conclusively proven earth is old.
CLAIM:	The universe has to be billions of years old, otherwise life could not exist.
CLAIM:	God used the Big Bang to create the universe.
Section 7:	Denouncing Young-Earth Creationists
	An affinity for secular evolutionists over Christians
CLAIM:	The motivation of creationists is fear.
CLAIM:	creationists have no scientific support; they are operating on blind faith.
CLAIM:	creationists deny physical reality, and they are arrogant, too.
CLAIM:	creationists are divisive.
CLAIM:	The Bible-Science Association says that Hugh Ross rejects Christ’s Atonement.
CLAIM:	creationists say salvation depends on belief in 24-hour-days and recent Creation.
CLAIM:	Wendell Bird “is not committed” to a young universe.

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