Live Q&A with Dr. Craig 

If you or someone you know would be interested in starting a Reasonable Faith chapter in Addis Ababa, that would be wonderful! We currently do not have any chapters in Ethiopia. Merry Christmas! www.reasonablefaith.org/chapters/chapter-application/ - RF Admin

It's really my pleasure to do that. In a few months I'll have a bachelor of degree in Theology from ETC (Evangelical Theological College) here in Addis. And also I've been doing a translation one of Geisler’s book into Amharic, in our Federal Language. Additionally, I've started studying Dr. Bill’s and Dr. J. P. Moreland’s book, Philosophical Foundation For A Christian Worldview with one of my friend. Hence, currently I'm busy in doing these stuffs... though in a few months I'm going to teach some lessons from it...

@@Homme45 Excellent! We very much look forward to having you on the team! - RF Admin

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Historically, YEC has never been the majority view. There have only really been two times that is has had a substantial following, one when proposed by Ussher and then in modern times after the seventh-day-adventist Ellen G White supported it in her writing. A careful reading of the text, keeping in mind the meanings of phrases in early Hebrew, fully supports an OEC view. It's only a fairly narrow reading that leads to a YEC perspective (ignoring or minimising the significance of verses or words in the text). You only have to look closely at the genealogies to see some big issues, such as the fact that taking the numbers literally leads to Noah still being alive at the time of Abraham (10 generations later) or that his father was 130 when he was born, so why would he consider 100 to be too old to father a child... To ask a simple question and perhaps get the ball rolling in the right direction, what exists after the first sentence? The following sentences all start with "and", indicating that they are not separated from the first, but that they follow on from each other. Where is the perspective of the witness to creation (the Spirit of God) at the end of verse 2? Job 38 gives a little more information about the process of creation also, note specifically verse 9 in the context of Genesis 1:2 and the subsequent steps of creation. Every word in the text is significant, as are the patterns of the text and the structure of the paragraphs for each "day". A thick atmosphere of dark clouds can block light from reaching the surface... The seventh day lacks the second part of the phrase that would "close" it, implying that it isn't yet finished. He is resting from His work of creation, which He will continue again at the dawn of the eighth "day" with the creation of the new heavens and earth. There's no reason to set "science" against "faith", the evidence is the evidence. Some theories are just based on wrong interpretation of the evidence (like speciation), but truth is truth and there is no deception in either of the "books" of revelation that God has provided, the Bible and nature.

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@@stephenkeen6044 Yet Dr Craig himself acknowledges "[YECs] hermeneutical claim is eminently plausible and deserves to be taken seriously by the biblical scholar. Not a few revisionist scholars agree that the young earth creationist has rightly interpreted the text" (IN QUEST OF THE HISTORICAL ADAM,p13). Historically YEC *WAS* the main view! No one thought that the 6 days represented periods of billions of years. Augustine (354-430) said "let us then omit the conjectures of men who *know not what they say* when they speak of the nature and origin of the human race... *They are deceived too* ....reckoning by the sacred writings we find that not 6000 years have yet passed" The sad truth is that Craig has effectively apostatised by denigrating the character of God. God according to Craig created the world over billions of years which involved millions of years of suffering, predation, disease and death YET for some inscrutable reason in his written *revelation* he informs us that he did so in 6 days containing evening and morning and followed by night AND in a totally different order from evolution! Oh, and that everything was *"very good."* Oh, and then to make matters worse he sends his son into the world to deliver us from the horrors that he himself brought into existence!! What's the problem with Noah still being alive at the time of Abraham? Noah survived the Flood! If Methuselah was still alive you might have a case, but Noah?!

The major difference between Baha'i and Christianity is in their doctrine of atonement. They do not believe that Jesus is the only way to God, which assumes that this essential teaching of Christianity is false. However, since we have good reason to think that it is true, namely the fact that Jesus vindicated this teaching with his resurrection, then the Baha'i claim is false. So, the best way to discuss this topic with your friend is to learn the historical evidence for the resurrection and the radically exclusive claims of Christ which it vindicates. Here's a great article to get you started: www.reasonablefaith.org/writings/popular-writings/jesus-of-nazareth/the-resurrection-of-jesus. - RF Admin

@@ReasonableFaithOrg thanks for your help. I really appreciate it.

Ok, not bad... but you could make it a bit less obvious if you would at least tangentially comment on the content of the video :-)

With theism, the creation of the universe merely lacks a material cause (think of a chair being made from the wood of a tree), but there's still an efficient cause, namely God. With naturalism, there's neither a material cause, nor an efficient cause. So, if creation by God is incoherent, then naturalism is doubly so. - RF Admin

you mean theistic evolution.

There was no catholic church.

@@tubsy. For sure. Peter was our first pope, Irenäus von Lyon the second. He wrote 5 books Adversus haereses. They have been necessary to create the bible. We catholics created the bible under the leading of the HOLY SPIRIT. It has 73 books. You have a book titled bible but there is no in. I call it Luzi Luther Book. Greetings from Germany Now you know the truth, be a child and come to us, JESUS and JAHWE ADONAI ELOHIM ZEBAOT.❤️

Where does the Bible give the age of the earth?

Don't you bring man words into the Bible by saying it's 6000 years old?