| Dallas Kobylka Denies Promoting Covenant Creation
February 18, 2024
(Editor's Note: Some have asked about the views on Genesis Creation promoted by Dallas Kobylka and "Better Understanding the Bible" YouTube Channel. This page is provided to show, in his own words, that Dallas denies that he promotes Covenant Creation. His Genesis views could be more accurately described as "Local Creation" or "Mesopotamia Creation" since he views the details as describing the natural phenomena of the Ancient Near East.)
"I'm starting to realize a huge issue with people who have come to covenant creation...most people l've now met on
Facebook who have gotten into covenant creation have done so by reading Beyond Creation Science, and even though they've read a lot about this stuff...their understanding of the bible hasn't changed... It's making a new religion. I'm already butting up against it. Just when I thought I was out.... they pull me back in
This is why I openly say...
I do not believe in preterism...because of the preterists
I do not believe in Christianity... because of the Christians
I am starting to drop the term covenant creation as well...because of the creationists...
So my message will no longer be associated with covenant creation. My message is covenant language. The world of covenant creation, is something I have come to realize offers a lot of false doctrine. It, like preterism, has good information, but like preterism has similar issues....more knowledge same amount of heart.
So, I don't teach covenant creation. I teach, about the covenant, from its inception to it being complete and the language it uses."
-Dallas Kobylka, "Better Understanding the Bible" Discord Channel
"What is Genesis one?
It’s the record of God judging a nation, and then how God rebuilds them after. How does God judge? He uses nature. God sends hail, storms, wind, earthquakes…and FLOODS.
The people of Mesopotamia every season saw the flood waters come down from the mountains and was away tribes, villages and even kingdoms. They saw the actions of nature as the acts of God.
They saw every new year start, the beginning of every new season…a flood coming down and taking away all the death of winter. The waters would destroy and clear. Then after the waters ended they would subside and dry. Once the waters were gone and dry land appeared, a power regeneration would take place, and all the land would produce fruit for that season.
Genesis 1 is the story of a flood. It’s the motif of God judging, destroying and rebuilding a nation, based upon the view of Mesopotamian culture. They saw Gods natural creation process as it applied to nature as also applying to humans. Gods interaction with humans were recorded in the manner of nature events. The flood was an act of judgement. It would bring destruction and then restitution.
Adam destroyed by a flood…and Noah gets a promise to not be flooded
Israel destroyed by a flood…Daniel 9, their end will be with a flood, Matthew, the coming of man will be like the times of Noah…revelation 20, thrown into a “lake” of fire.
Genesis One - is the blueprint of how God destroys and rebuilds a nation (copied by Jeremiah to judge Israel n chapter 4)
Genesis One is not about creation of the universe or material things, it is not the creation of a covenant, or even creation as we would understand it.
Genesis One is the end of the old group and beginning of the new. Adam received the kingdom of a fallen people, and God rebuilt it into the The Kingdom of Heaven and Earth. Just as Jesus, who received a kingdom from a fallen people and they were built into the kingdom of God.
The land was without a righteous kingdom and people, so God sends a flood and washes them away. Then out of the remnant God builds a new kingdom of righteousness. They are given a whole new world, from the ashes of the old. A new people formed, a new kingdom formed and a new order over the land."
-Dallas Kobylka, Facebook Post, 02-18-24.
"In response to a web page created by Tim Martin out of fear of my teaching, I am making this public statement.
I do not support covenant creation as taught by Tim Martin and Jeff Vaughn in their book Beyond Creation Science. I believe they are wrong about their presentation of Genesis.
I do not teach, or support their positions. I do have similar positions in some areas, but as far as the covenant creation model and understanding I think they are wrong.
I am also very weirded out by someone who is collecting statements by me in order to try and create a website to argue me. I’m just some guy talking about Genesis and Tim Martin feels the need to catalog my growth for me. I find that very, very strange.
I am not associated to Tim and his teachings, as I do believe he is wrong. I only wrote this message to address the very weird choice of behaviour…he could have just asked me.   Didn’t realize I was messing up his world so much."
-Dallas Kobylka, Facebook Post, 02-18-24
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