Quote:
Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
What kind of church did you grow up in Hack?
As a Mormon kid, I was never taught about a young earth. There was some other ridiculous stuff to be sure, but not that.
|
Protestant. They didn't teach it as infallible and literal doctrine or anything. Far from the truth but it obviously comes up when you are discussing it or Sunday School teachers are trying to tell precoscious little brats about Genesis so you are definetely exposed to it. It was printed in some bibles. I remember my sunday school teacher telling me that you could believe that the earth was made in 7 days, that the earth is 6000 years old, or that you could interpret it in other ways. They could be 7 or 6000 of "God's years" (1 God day could be a few million years from our perspective) or perhaps you can also consider the Hebrew concept of using hyperbole or figures of speech in describing the passage of time. For example, many historians and theologians argue that the expression of the number 40 (as in "40 days and 40 nights" or "40 years in the desert") was just an ancient Hebrew way of saying: "a friggin' long time!!!"