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Summary: RTB - Reinterpreting The Bible
Review: This book takes on Hugh Ross Reasons to Believe project, showing that it really is about (R)einterpreting (T)he (B)ible. Refuting Compromise connects the plain meaning of the Bible with the plain meaning of the observable data, making it clear that the evidence of special creation is plain, and that all attempts to reinterprete the Bible in the light of naturalistic interpretations of the empirical data do violence both to theology and to science. Hugh Ross may be well intentioned and in good faith, but he has really bad scientific and theological arguments. Darwinists will of course try to debunk this book, not by responding to it but by simply ignoring it. Darwinists don't know the difference between ignoring an argument a priori or responding to it a posteriori. By doing this, they show that by claiming to be Homo Sapiens they really have become nothing but Homo Ignorans, defending the casual and accidental origin of all things (ultimately without any known physical cause) in spite the massive evidence to the contrary. Jonathan Sarfati has shown that the level of YE creationists arguments is far more complex and articulate than darwinists would like us all to believe. I recommend this book to every Pastor and christian teacher. The Church has been largely ineffective because the authority of the Bible has not been taken seriously in such a foundational subject as Creation.
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Summary: Pseudo "unity" with unbiblical "science": Compromising??
Review: This is the best book on the subject of how many Christians compromise with worldly scientific theories to interpret God's revelation. It's a dangerous position to be in. Instead of harmonizing the latest 'scientific' theories to God's Word, the Old Earthers are willing to change the Bible's clear meaning of 6 days and a recent Creation to accomodate to secular interpretation of scientific data. Most unfortunate to see critics who are oblivious to attacks on the Bible and the church from WITHIN by Old Earthers like Dr. Ross. When Christians start compromising with secular science the way Ross does in contradiction to the Bible's clear testimony, that is an attack on Scripture. The Word of God should never be subject to human scientific adjudication as to what to believe. Remember, friends. God Himself was there at Creation. The Holy Spirit inspired Moses exactly how and what to write to us. 6 days means 6 days,not Ross' contrived 6 eons or 6 ages or 4.6 billion years, etc. If that's what Moses really meant to convey to the Hebrews and to all Church History up until Darwin's time, he sure went about it in an ambiguous way! Remember, friends. Secular scientists and compromising Christians were NOT there at Creation. Too many believers are second-guessing the Holy Spirit's clear testimony and putting words and re-definitions revisionistically into God's mouth. If the Bible says 6 days = Young Earth and 'science' or Ross says 6 eons/ages = Old Earth, dear readers, whom are you going to believe? The Holy Spirit through Moses or astrophysicist Ross and those willing to change the natural meaning of Genesis? It's required of Christians not only to contend with attacks from outside the Faith, but also from the misguided, sincere-yet sincerely-deceived WITHIN the Faith as well. Genesis must be safeguarded from BOTH attacks. Unfortunately, Ross and his disciples are unwitting combatants AGAINST the Bible's very words in the name of scientific respectability and people's offense at Genesis conflicting with Old Earthism. This book is a fair, balanced, Scriptural defense of Genesis against attacks by well-meaning Christians who go too far to avoid scientific discomfort. Better scientific discomfort than Bible discomfort! Read John MacArthur's Battle for the Beginning to understand Satan's attack on Genesis: "Did God really say 6 days means 6 days?"
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