Dr. Geraty says, “Christ tells us they will know us …

Comment on Dr. Geraty clarifies his “Challenge” to literal 6-day creationism by Norman Severance.

Dr. Geraty says, “Christ tells us they will know us by our love, not by our commitment to a seven literal historical, consecutive, contiguous 24 hour day week of creation 6000 years ago which is NOT in Genesis no matter how much the fundamentalist right wing of the church would like to see it there.”

I could say a lot about this sentence, but I will limit my comment to one point. This is an illustration of the double-speak that is so common among so-called “scholars” in our midst. At first read I assumed he was talking about the whole literal 6-day creation when he says it is NOT in the Bible. (I would strongle challenge that, and I would ask him to kindly show me HOW it is NOT there!). But then I see that he could say he only meant that the “6000 years ago” part is not in Genesis, which is true. Genesis does not say specifically that creation happened 6000 years ago.

So I see here very possibly a deliberate attempt at deception.