User:EriK

I agree utterly with the Statements of Faith found at these two links:

Got Questions Answers in Genesis

I am a Young-Earth Creationist, meaning I take the default ~6,015-year-old Earth view unless I can be shown that there's compelling evidence for inserting a few hundred or thousand years between Noah and Abraham. If it's not necessary to insert gaps, then it's not justifiable. :)

I think the main source of water for the Flood would be from the "fountains of the deep." There may or may not have been a vapor canopy--regarding Russel Humphrey's water-transmuting cosmology, the separation of the waters from the waters might actually refer to the separation of the earth proper from the rest of the universe, assuming the whole thing was filled with water in the beginning to be used as the raw material for creation. I agree with AiG et al that the reason for prolonged lifespans may very well simply have been due to superior genetics--especially convincing, given the natural-logarithmic decay curve seen in the ages of the post-Flood patriarchs.

Like any educated Creationist, I accept natural selection and view this as a powerful tool for explaining the rapid diversification and dissemination of animal kinds from the Ararat/Urartu area after Noah released all the animals from off the Ark.

I believe strongly that any view of God or anything theological that cannot be backed up by Holy Scripture (the 66 books in the Canon) is unBiblical (by definition), and therefore unreliable. Not necessarily wrong. However, if something contradicts, or appears to contradict Scripture, then it or the interpretation thereof must be wrong. This means that any sect that calls itself Christian, which imposes extra-Biblical ideas onto God's Word is committing heresy. Mormons, Catholics, Harold-Camping-ites, Jehovah's Witnesses, etc--the official positions of these groups are false. This doesn't mean that everyone who thinks they belong to these groups are damned, however--it was an important lesson for me to learn, while I was researching Creation, that people often don't actually believe what they say they believe. So there is hope for many Catholics...the less Catholic they are, the more hope. And so on.

“It is true, I have, by and large, sharply inveighed against ungodly doctrines and have not been slow to bite my adversaries, not because of their bad morals but because of their ungodliness. Of this I am so unrepentant that I have resolved to continue in this burning zeal and to despise the judgment of men, after the example of Christ, who in His zeal called His adversaries a generation of vipers, blind, hypocrites, children of the devil.” "How often must I cry out to you coarse, stupid papists to quote Scripture sometime? Scripture! Scripture! Scripture! Do you not hear, you deaf goat and coarse ass?" “I have not been hesitant to bite my adversaries….What good does salt do if it does not bite? What good does the sword do if it will not cut?” “I have no better remedy than anger. If I want to write, pray, preach well, I must be angry. My entire blood supply refreshes me….My mind is made keen and all temptations depart.” -- Martin Luther

Do you think the paragraphs above were a bit rough? Watch this sermon.

I encourage you to chalk up my talk page as much as you want, but don't you dare try to edit something I said ;]

Articles

I've Created

• Bill Maher
• Transcendental argument
• RationalWiki
• RationalWiki Atheism FAQ for the Newly Deconverted
• Quote mining
• Ancestry
• Sola Scriptura
• Hedonism

I've Significantly Edited

• Harold Camping
• Exorcism
• Evolution encourages promiscuity and lust (Talk.Origins)
• Table of Nations