"Ever since Christians first attempted to harmonize Scripture with the
concept of millions of years, they have been straying further and
further from a literal meaning of Genesis until they have abandoned it
altogether.
A man that is an heretic
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after the first and second admonition reject;
Titus 3:10
Anglican clergyman George Stanley Faber proposed that the “days” of Genesis 1 should be understood as long periods of time. Proponents of this view often cite 2 Peter 3:8
in support of it...
In his Systematic Theology, Charles Hodge advocated this
position. “If the word ‘day’ be taken in the sense of an ‘indefinite
period of time,’ . . . there is not only no discrepancy between the
Mosaic account of the creation and the assumed facts of geology, but
there is a most marvelous coincidence between them.”
Tens of millions of Christians assumed this compromised Creation view, unaware of the destruction it wreaks on the foundation of the gospel of Jesus Christ." AIG