Progressive Creation affirms the major elements of the scientific consensus of the natural sciences with three exceptions. It also upholds the essential teachings of biblical creationism embraced by Christians since the first century, stated here as follows:
The Tenets of Biblical Creation
1. God created the universe out of nothing (Hebrews 11:3).
2. God created plant and animal life in all their major variations “after their kind” (Genesis 1:11–24).
3. God created Adam and Eve in His image and likeness (Genesis 1:26–27; 2:7–25).
4. We are Adam and Eve’s descendants (Genesis 1:27–28).
5. God created us to enjoy a loving relationship with Him (Matthew 22:37–38).
6. The world, as God originally created it, was “very good” (Genesis 1:31).
7. Sin entered the world through Adam when he sinned, “and so death spread to all men because all sinned” (Romans 5:12; see also Genesis 2:16–17; 3:1–24; Romans 5:1–21).
8. God has revealed His divine attributes through that which He has created (Psalm 19:1–6; Romans 1:20).
9. We have a moral obligation to honor God as our Creator and to obey His commandments (Revelation 4:11).
10. The biblical accounts of creation are inspired texts revealed by God to His prophets. They are true and factual in all that they assert (2 Timothy 3:16–17).
Alex Kim has a secret, and he’s certain that if the students of University Christian Fellowship had known it, they never would have elected him president. His hope was that if he did a good job and God blessed their ministry on campus, no one would care.
That was before John Calvin came to Berkeley. Now Rod Sutherland, UCF’s vice president, is on a crusade. He’s trying to convince the others that Calvin was right about predestination: God has already decided who goes to heaven and who goes to hell. An increasing number of students agree with Rod.
Jamie Alfono, the group’s treasurer, isn’t among them. “Anyone can accept Christ’s offer of salvation,” Jamie says. Angela Leon, a girl with a passion for truth, concurs. “God predestining babies to hell? I’m sorry; that can’t be right.” With UCF divided and ready to fold, Elliot, a doctoral student, proposes that they form a committee to solve the mystery of predestination once and for all. The only way to reunite the group and save UCF is for them to understand the true meaning of predestination. “If we figure it out,” Jamie says, “we could win the Nobel Prize for Theology.” If we don’t, Alex thinks to himself, UCF is finished and my year as president is going to end in disaster . . . again.
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