Is Young Earth Creationism doing more harm to its own agenda than good? Two examples I can think of are:
1. Turning potential converts away by making it appear that a rejection of scientific knowledge is a prerequisite
We are not making it appear that a rejection of scientific knowledge is a prerequisite. No scientific facts are rejected, or requested to be rejected.
2. Inflicting doubt among believers by claiming that the only way to interpret the Bible is from a Young Earth Perspective, forcing them to choose between their faith and scientific evidence.
I don't think anyone is forced into young earth belief. I would argue that biblical inerrancy is what born again Christians (me), promote.
There is no reason to doubt the bible, when we look at scientific facts alone. We have no reason to force the bible to fit evolution when evolution is nowhere near fact.
The whole point of being born again is that you give everything to Christ (your life in all areas). It is clear that Christ was the second Adam, according to the NT.
It would do far more harm to request that a new Christian believes that Adam was a metaphor, and Christ suffered on behalf of this metaphor. It would do more harm to say that when it says "it was very good", in Genesis, that it meant that cancer and killing, and bloodshed and suffering was, "very good".
The world is already full of wishy washy false Christians, watering down the bible, to the point where they actually have churches where they promote that Christ himself was a metaphor.
Edited by mike the wiz, : No reason given.
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