Summary of the AiG Statement of Faith

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(A) PRIORITIES

The scientific aspects of creation are important, but are secondary in importance to the proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

The doctrines of Creator and Creation cannot ultimately be divorced from the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

(B) BASICS

The 66 books of the Bible are the written Word of God. The Bible is divinely inspired and inerrant throughout. Its assertions are factually true in all the original autographs. It is the supreme authority in everything it teaches.

The final guide to the interpretation of Scripture is Scripture itself.

The account of origins presented in Genesis is a simple but factual presentation of actual events and therefore provides a reliable framework for scientific research into the question of the origin and history of life, mankind, the Earth and the universe.

The various original life forms (kinds), including mankind, were made by direct creative acts of God. The living descendants of any of the original kinds (apart from man) may represent more than one species today, reflecting the genetic potential within the original kind. Only limited biological changes (including mutational deterioration) have occurred naturally within each kind since Creation.

The great Flood of Genesis was an actual historic event, worldwide (global) in its extent and effect.

The special creation of Adam (the first man) and Eve (the first woman), and their subsequent fall into sin, is the basis for the necessity of salvation for mankind.

Death (both physical and spiritual) and bloodshed entered into this world subsequent to and as a direct consequence of man’s sin.

(C) THEOLOGY

The Godhead is triune: one God, three Persons—God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

All mankind are sinners, inherently from Adam and individually (by choice) and are therefore subject to God’s wrath and condemnation.

Freedom from the penalty and power of sin is available to man only through the sacrificial death and shed blood of Jesus Christ, and His complete and bodily Resurrection from the dead.

The Holy Spirit enables the sinner to repent and believe in Jesus Christ.

The Holy Spirit lives and works in each believer to produce the fruits of righteousness.

Salvation is a gift received by faith alone in Christ alone and expressed in the individual’s repentance, recognition of the death of Christ as full payment for sin, and acceptance of the risen Christ as Saviour, Lord and God.

All things necessary for our salvation are either expressly set down in Scripture or may be deduced by good and necessary consequence from Scripture.

Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary.

Jesus Christ rose bodily from the dead, ascended to Heaven, and is currently seated at the right hand of God the Father, and shall return in person to this Earth as Judge of the living and the dead.

Satan is the personal spiritual adversary of both God and man.

Those who do not believe in Christ are subject to everlasting conscious punishment, but believers enjoy eternal life with God.

The only legitimate marriage is the joining of one man and one woman. God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside of marriage.

(D) GENERAL

Scripture teaches a recent origin for man and the whole creation.

The days in Genesis do not correspond to geologic ages, but are six [6] consecutive twenty-four [24] hour days of Creation.

The Noachian Flood was a significant geological event and much (but not all) fossiliferous sediment originated at that time.

The ‘gap’ theory has no basis in Scripture.

The view, commonly used to evade the implications or the authority of Biblical teaching, that knowledge and/or truth may be divided into ‘secular’ and ‘religious,’ is rejected. (emphasis mine; this is simply Taliban equivalent shit)

No apparent, perceived or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the Scriptural record.

(Right. What an unmitigated utter load of crap. All of it.)

What's the context? Don't believe in a literal interpretation of the bible and risk burning in a lake of fire for eternity?

That's good science too.

Look it up.

So is chemistry, physics, geology, astronomy, cosmology and everything else that has to be wrong for you and your biblical literalists to be right.

I, too, am confused by the buff, European Adam and Eve wax models.

This really bothers me -- shakes my faith, even: it's before the Fall. There must be no sex, because sex is sinful and Genesis only mentions childbirth after the Unholy Snack.

Please forgive my crudeness for just a moment, ladies. I'll give you a second to turn away.

Okay -- is it just us boys now? Great. Look at the rack on on Eve! That babe is built! Holy cr*p!

Ladies, you may cease averting your eyes.

So I've gotta ask: what are those breasts for? In most mammals (all, actually), breasts are for nursing young. But there's no sex, and no babies. Cain and Abel aren't even a notch on Adam's bedpost yet.

Unless ... no, they wouldn't be there for pleasure. He's not THAT kind of Creator.

But evolution is not science. Neither is archeology and much of astronomy. Not only are these conjectural, but, they take on a life of their own which forms the foundation of future work. If there's a wrong direction discovered anywhere, it is heresy to reveal it and it will never be proven. I'm a literal believer in the Holy Bible as the word of God, though not necessarily in agreement with all the contentions of the Creation Museum. I think that all the posters at Salon.com don't understand the meaning of cost / benefit / risk analysis. There's a whiff of denial in the tone. It's really pretty easy to get where the Creation museum is (at):

First, accept a construct. If you don't like the six day plan, then ask about the magnificent unchanging physical laws and the fact that we're made of the same stuff as my computer. Just remains to ask how it got put together.

Second, determine interaction. Be honest. If you cannot think of any examples or if you cannot admit to personal experience, then think about the rise of the U.S.

Third, figure that it might not be a bad idea to at least peruse the most published compilation in history. How about this fact. The Holy Bible is very long and EVERY LINE WRITTEN pertains to man's relationship to his God. You probably will not be the same aftewards.