William Lane Craig: YEC “Would Fly in the Face of Scientific Evidence”

Well, you can see exactly how I would respond to this claim by, well, watching me respond to it in this short video our social media team produced:

Yes, it matters what you believe about Genesis. Without a literal Genesis, and a literal Adam who sinned against God and brought physical death into this world, there is no gospel message. The first Adam is foundational to understanding the work of the last Adam, Jesus Christ.

For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. (1 Corinthians 15:21–22)

Now before someone accuses me of claiming that Craig and others like him who compromise Genesis with man’s ideas are not saved, I am not saying that. One does not have to believe in a literal Genesis to be saved. But the gospel message has no foundation without the literal history in Genesis.

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Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.