FAQ

You can find them in our Statement of Faith, which outlines what we believe about God, Jesus, Scripture, creation, and salvation.

Not in the way “evolution” is typically used. While RTB accepts that some limited change (microevolution) occurs within species over time, we reject the idea that all life—including humans—arose from evolution (macroevolution). We believe God directly intervened in history to create new forms of life, with humanity as a special creation in his image.

We believe this passage of Scripture is literal, not figurative, but a literal reading doesn’t require the days to be 24 hours. In Hebrew, the word for “day” is yom, which is used for different lengths of time depending on the context: the daylight hours, a 24-hour day, or a longer age or season. RTB understands the creation “days” in Genesis as long periods of time—a view that fits both the biblical language and the scientific evidence showing that God’s creative work unfolded over vast eras.

Yes. Scripture says that God has called creation as a witness of himself (Psalm 19; Romans 1). We’re confident that God called a reliable witness and that the Bible and nature both point to an ancient earth and universe—billions of years old. We see no conflict between the Bible’s message and the age of the universe.

Yes, we believe Adam and Eve were real, historical people specially created by God. They were the first humans, uniquely made in God’s image, and the ancestors of all people today. While we accept scientific evidence for long ages, humanity’s beginning was a miraculous creation event, not the result of evolution from animals.

RTB holds that Noah’s flood was universal in its scope for humanity but not necessarily global in geographic extent. Here’s why: at the time of the flood, humanity had not yet spread across the entire globe. Scripture describes the flood as covering “all the earth” and destroying “all flesh”—language that refers to the extent of human civilization at that time, not necessarily every square mile of the planet’s surface. This interpretation is consistent with both a straightforward reading of the biblical text and the physical evidence in the geological record. The flood was a real, catastrophic, world-altering event that accomplished exactly what God said it would—the judgment of humanity—without requiring a geology-defying flood that covered Mount Everest.

RTB does not see evidence that intelligent extraterrestrial life exists. But the Bible does describe other beings—angels and demons—who belong to the spiritual realm and can defy the laws of physics as we know them. Most UFO and UAP reports can be explained as natural phenomena, human technology, or misidentifications. The rare unexplained cases are more plausibly tied to spiritual realities than to aliens.

No, the earth is spherical. This has been established by centuries of scientific observation, satellite imagery, physics, and astronomy.

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