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YEC: A Definition
What is YEC? It stands for
Young-Earth Creationists, though the definition of young earth is made
from an old earth persepctive and therefore a false distiction. In
fact, YECs believe in a very old earth--all of 6,000 years old! That's
a long time. CreationTruths rather feels that if names are to be given
to our position, they should properly reflect it, and thus this name
would apply:
Consistant Creationism
We feel this is so because our perspective is the only one which can
adequately fuse Christian theology with proper epistomology and the
proper view of science from the Christian perspective.
What is the definition of a
Young-Earth Creationist?
A YEC is hereby defined as:
A Christian who believes:
1. The
Bible is the inspired, inerent, infallible revelation of the one true
and living God, and which has ultimate authority over all aspects of
the real world, and the plain meaning of which is the proper
understanding of the texts,
2. The
one, true, God created the heavens (universe) and the earth
supernaturally in six literal days and rested on the seventh in the
recent past (roughly 6,000 years ago),
3. Roughly
1600 years after the creation, the one, true, God sent a worldwide
catastrophic flood which covered the face of the whole earth and
deposited the vast majority of the sedimentary rock layers and buried
most of the fossils found today, including dinosaurs,
4. Immediately
after the flood for roughly a century or two there was a great Ice Age
caused by this global flood.
Also see 'Christian: A Definition' and 'Where do we stand?: The
Theological Perspective of CreationTruths.'
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