Theology questions Adam wants ECs to answer

Nope – the first sacrifice was before the foundation of the world.

Because the Lord of the Sabbath is greater than the Sabbath.

You call Jesus’ own words “rubbish”?!?!?

Yeah, that’s how we got YEC: people reading into the Bible a worldview that isn’t there and is in fact opposed to the biblical one.

Only if you ignore the fact that we have a Savior Who has come.
Your Christology is abominable: you make Jesus less than the Sabbath, less than the Temple, less than the sacrifices. You argue as though the whole point of the scriptures is to talk about sacrifices, when the Savior Himself said that the scriptures all speak of HIM.

Not according to the Bible.
Sola scriptura” when taken as you state above is not scriptural. It is not the answer to “Where can we learn about God?”, it was meant as the answer to “What is the ultimate measure?”
Taken the first way, sola scriptura cannot be supported either by the scriptures or the church Fathers; taken the second way, it is what the scriptures and the Fathers maintained, i.e. that the final standard of measurement of truth about God is the scriptures.

Interestingly, YEC on the one hand takes sola scriptura the wrong way while on the other hand it ignores that definition!

A point you thoroughly ignore is that YEC is contrary to the scriptures themselves because it relies on demanding that God forced the inspired writers to communicate not with a worldview they and their audience(s) understood but with a modern one that didn’t arise until after Newton.

And that contains the error: YEC in practice has set up science as a canon, a measure by which scripture must be judged, to which it has to conform.
Scripture does not set up science as a standard or measure or canon; it has its own worldviews and criteria.

That’s a nice personal opinion, but nowhere does scripture ascribe such knowledge to Satan – nor does it ascribe such power; the lesson that Job makes plain is that Satan isn’t allowed to even talk to God’s people without explicit permission from Yahweh!
So your claim boils down to Satan asking God if he can alter Creation in order to lie to humans – and God acquiescing. That’s the deity of the Quran who is described therein as a deceiver; it is not the God of all.

Because the narrative of Job makes it plain that Satan isn’t allowed to do the least little thing without God’s explicit permission! If we take Job as the measure, then Satan is only allowed to do anything at all if he specifies who he wants to target and God grants permission – and nowhere in there does it indicate that he can get permission to lie about God.

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