As the famed theologian Rudolf Bultmann put it, modern science “has destroyed the old creation stories”.
Astronomical ideas such as the Big Bang theory have served to counter the literal interpretation of Scripture more than any other factor.
Yet these theories — which society at large regards as fact — are utterly incompatible with the Genesis portrayal of a literal six-day creation, taking place approximately 6000 years ago.
So what is the globe-believing Sabbath-keeper to make of this blatant contradiction?
He who has ever been a steadfast defender of a literal 6-day creation, is now confounded by the findings of modern science concerning the age and origin of this Earth, and must either conclude that such science is false, or submit to the oxymoronic notion of theistic evolution.
The latter is surely a far cry from the Sabbath-keeper’s mind.
Yet can he honestly accept only part of the science he otherwise admires, and similarly, accept only a part of the Bible?
Can he honestly dismiss the fact that the sun, moon, and stars were created on day 4, and were placed inside the firmament which God created to divide the waters above from the waters below?
For the True Christian, the claims of science need not be met half-way.
For in the first chapter of the Bible, the entire heliocentric model collapses.