Mason,
I am not really trying to fight your position, I just want it to be crystal clear that OEC is a novelty in found only in very recent history. There is no footing whatever to be found for it in history. Sometimes people use some sleight of hand to use some disagreement in history about one point to somehow justify a position that was never in doubt. I am not accusing you of such. Just trying to make sure everyone stays honest.

The fierce subscription to the belief comes from the viewpoint that capitulation on this issue easily leads to capitulation elsewhere. It looks like an easy case of capitulation because no one held to it until "science" started attacking it. Somehow the hermeneutics changed. Why, if it is not capitulation?

As an aside, do you believe that Noah's flood was worldwide? Almost no OEC that I know of believes that it was.

CT

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Hermonta Godwin
Christ The King PCA
Raleigh, NC