2 Peter 3:3-6
3, Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5, For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6, Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
Now these verses could at least in part refer to people
questioning the Lord coming back because things continue as they always have
without any indication of him coming back, but it is also interesting that the
description of “all things continue as they were from the beginning of the
creation” is also a perfect fit to the philosophy behind uniformitarian
geology, that the process is we observe going on the earth today are the same
forces that produced everything we see on the earth. Furthermore, there is a
direct connection to this idea of being responsible for people willingly
dismissing both creation and the flood. It literally nails the central idea of
uniformitarian geology on the head.
So, we have these verses the notion that all things continue
the way they always have and that this notion that is responsible for people
being ignorant of both Biblical creation and the flood. This is a perfect fit
for uniformitarian geology because that is exactly the very concept that has
been used to get rid of both ideas from being considered acceptable concepts.
These verses actually
predict that both concepts are going to be prevalent in what it refers to as
the last days. It is clear that the problem it is predicting involves both
ideas. You are you have those that are using the long time since Jesus’ first
coming as an excuse for denying the second coming, and you have those pushing
uniformitarian geology as a direct basis for denying both Biblical creation and
the Genesis Flood.
So yes, 2 Peter 3:3-6 does predict uniformitarian geology,
it also predicts a general that Christ is going to return. Both concepts are
present because they are connected. and they ultimately extend from the same
source, that is Satan seeking to get people to deny the word of God.
Scoffers: Responding to Those Who Deliberately OverlookCreation and the Flood by Simon Turpin
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