YEC is Correct, Protestantism Isn't

Someone answered below video like this:

Young earth creationism is based on a catalogue of lies and disinformation against science.

OK, saying a scientist is wrong is "disinformation" against him? If so, scientists are "disinforming" against each other all the time. Or, other possibility, "science" means your catalogue of "scientific" beliefs, and anyone contradicting them is doing "lies and disinformation" ... you can find the guy among commenters, I'll give him a link to the blog post here when it's published.

But here is the video, pretty good overall, I weighed in on two minor details, or minor in this context, but major in very many other ones (see below the video), and here is first the video:

Christians, NEVER Make These Bible Interpretation Mistakes
Answers in Genesis Canada | 22 May 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iATXJOroJeU

Dialogue I

Hans-Georg Lundahl

@hglundahl

4:36 Disagree on thirty-fold, sixty-fold and hundred-fold fruit.

They mean degrees of holiness. In chastity it goes like married, widow(er), lifelong virgin.

Jim Hughes

@jimhughes1070

😂 it doesn't...
really 🧐
But that is a perfect example of "a private interpretation" that has no scriptural foundation.

The blood of Christ cleanses us from all sin and unrighteousness

No one gets to the throne room without going through Jesus....

There are no degrees of "holiness" in the Bible.

"Therefore be ye holy, even as He is Holy."

There is no "1/4 of the way to God" concept in Scripture...
You are either 'in' , fighting against your flesh.... Or you're still on the outside.

Even "good works" are Fruit of the Spirit.
Some Christians seek all of the gifts of the Spirit... Some do not, but they can always be counted on to pray for others in need. Love Is Love.

Paul said whoever you give yourself over to obey, that is whose servant you are.

Of course I do understand that there are 49,000 different denominations.
Different doctrines. different creeds. Different ways of worshiping.

Lots and lots of
"Different"

One Bible telling us that we should all live by the same rule... The same Word.... In The same Spirit.

Isn't that a curious thing?

Hans-Georg Lundahl

@jimhughes1070 "There are no degrees of "holiness" in the Bible."

Oh, there are.

Luke 18 depicts Jesus calling the rich young man to a higher degree of holiness than he had so far lived.

A parable about talents depicts the master giving more to the one who had won more and less to the one who had won less (only punishing the guy who had won nothing, because he buried the talent).

The one item of "equal" heavenly reward is the men who had arrived 1 h before the day ended and who got same pay.

But the point isn't all get absolutely the same heavenly reward, it's it isn't affected by seniority in service. The good robber began very late, perhaps an hour before he died ... and he's holier than most of us can hope to be.

It is also so not a private interpretation as it is an actual Catholic interpretation, namely St. Thomas Aquinas cites a Church Father for this one.

The connected doctrine is still taught and I learned it in Catechism preparing for conversion. The very opposite of private interpretation.

joe moricone

@tennis563

@hglundahl really go ahead and show me in scripture where one person, other than Jesus obviously, is holier than others. Holiness isn't earned by us it is what Jesus earned on the cross. Jesus didn't call the rich young ruler to a higher degree of holiness He made him realize his posesssions were his god.

Hans-Georg Lundahl

@tennis563 "He made him realize his posesssions were his god."

Doesn't say that.

Now, loving Jesus is holiness, and here is one candidate for holier:

When therefore they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter: Simon son of John, lovest thou me more than these? He saith to him: Yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. He saith to him: Feed my lambs.
[John 21:15]

joe moricone

@hglundahl really then why did Jesus ask him to give up his posessions and He doesn't ask that of others? how does that show Peter is any holier than anyone else? You think holiness is earned ie a work?

Hebrews 10:10 (NIV): "And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all".

Hans-Georg Lundahl

@tennis563 "and He doesn't ask that of others?"

He also basically asked that of the Apostles.

Not sure if even their fishing boats are their own.

"how does that show Peter is any holier than anyone else?"

Because Jesus accepted Peter as loving Him more than the other apostles did.

Loving Jesus is holiness, and here Jesus is specifically grading it.

"You think holiness is earned ie a work?"

You think winning arguments is about strawmanning?

The beginning of holiness, known as justification, isn't earned by works, the increase in holiness is, see Ephesians 2:8 to 10.

Follow peace with all men, and holiness: without which no man shall see God.
[Hebrews 12:14]

Parallellish to:

And Jesus advanced in wisdom, and age, and grace with God and men
[Luke 2:52]

Again, "advanced" implies gradation.

joe moricone

@hglundahl you have to assume the fishing boats were their own and there is no indication they weren't. Peter loved Jesus more than the others? don't see where you get that in scripture. in fact if you look at the greed Jesus asked do you AGAPE me? Peter answered with PHILEO a brotherly love not the Godly love that AGAPE is.

Ephesians 2
10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

so nothing about those works increasing our holiness.

that was referring to Jesus growing up as a man. Jesus is God almighty from birth so He knew everything and needed no grace since He is sinless. you really have some odd ideas about scripture

Hans-Georg Lundahl

@tennis563 Fishing boats could, for two brother pairs, belong to the dads, so Jonas and Zebedee.

Then Peter answering, said to him: Behold we have left all things, and have followed thee: what therefore shall we have
[Matthew 19:27]

"Peter loved Jesus more than the others?"

It would seem that Jesus accepted this as being so, even if Peter didn't directly answer yes to that. The very least is, Jesus accepted this as being a possibility, or He wouldn't have asked.

Ephesians 2
10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

Good citation.

"so nothing about those works increasing our holiness."

False. Since our holiness is God's doing, not ours, and since these works are God's doing, insofar as we accept to actually do them, they precisely increase God's doing (and being) in us, which is the definition of holiness.

"that was referring to Jesus growing up as a man."

Precisely. And therefore it concerns us too, since we are to conform to Him. Obviously most directly to what He did as a Man, including growing in grace.

Dialogue II

Hans-Georg Lundahl

10:23 Note, St Paul plainly doesn't take knowledge of God and obedience to Christ as involving Scripture alone.

Subsection II a

James Krych

@jameskrych7767

The more noble Berean Jews would like a word or two.

Hans-Georg Lundahl

@jameskrych7767 The Bereans were precisely not yet Christians while the one common ground they already had with St. Paul was OT Scripture.

Berea or Viria is still a parish in the diocese or metropoly (archdiocese) of Thessaloniki.

Subsection II b

T W

@tw2107-s7i

where does he say that?

Hans-Georg Lundahl

@tw2107-s7i Yes, exactly, the quote doesn't mention sola scriptura, that's what I could be asking you.

T W

@hglundahl so you can't back up what you said.
2 Timothy 3

16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God[a] may be thoroughly equipped for every good work

Hans-Georg Lundahl

@tw2107-s7i You mean it's saying Scripture is ... sufficient (without anything else as rational faith input) for "every good work"?

Sorry, but "servant of God" is a technical term, doesn't mean every Christian, but those set aside, and these have already, usually before going to Scripture, received Catholic catechesis.

Here are two verses you didn't quote:

But continue thou in those things which thou hast learned, and which have been committed to thee: knowing of whom thou hast learned them And because from thy infancy thou hast known the holy scriptures, which can instruct thee to salvation, by the faith which is in Christ Jesus
[2 Timothy 3:14-15]

This makes it clear:

• OT Scripture is the point, it is only salvific through faith in Jesus Christ, which at this point even in your view was mainly accessible to St. Timothy in oral tradition;
• and this oral tradition is even stated, namely St. Paul reminds St. Timothy that St. Paul was the Catechist of St. Timothy.