A KISSed History of Beliefs

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2ndTimeIsTheCharm said:
I'm not sure anymore if God created everything 14 billion years B.C. ago. Young Earth creationists are questioning the traditional science - especially since secular scientists won't consider God's involvement at all when they are studying stuff. So it's quite possible that God created everything in a shorter period of time.

Young-Earth Creationist View Summarized And Defended (accessed May 19, 2025). PDF Available

My Opinion: I think to God it is enough for us to know that He did create everything, and that there was a certain order to what was being made and that there was a definite time period He considers "day" and that He did all that in 6 days and rested on the seventh. So I won't even venture a guess as to how long ago this all started. God's point is that He started it.


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I agree that a kerygmatic part of the Alpha point is that God is Creator,
but another part is that God is able to be Savior, which is the first point of the elaborated kerygma I propose:
  1. There is a/one all-loving and just Lord or God (DT 6:4, JN 3:16, 2THS 1:6), who is both able (2TM 1:12) and willing (1TM 2:3-4, EZK 33:11) to provide all morally accountable human beings salvation or heaven—a wonderful life full of love, joy and peace forever.
This statement includes a third kerygmatic part of the Alpha creation: that God's command created MFW as the aspect of humanness that is in God's image.

I also agree that how long ago creation occurred is not a kerygmatic consideration,
because the purpose of GW is to explain who created the cosmos and why or the POS
rather than how it was created or physically operates. Even evolution is not anathema
with the belief that God directed the process and the purpose of the story of Adam and Eve
is to reveal spiritual truths including the beginning of sin and God's POS rather than
how God's physical laws produced the various species.
 
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