Background
His mother died when he was only nine.
His mother died when he was only nine.
She died in 1815 after only eleven years of marriage. Bugg considered their views to be identical with Roman Catholic teaching and therefore a threat to the doctrine of Justification by faith. Volume one of Bugg"s most important work, Scriptural Geology, was published in 1826 and the second volume came out the next year, together they contained more than 717 pages.
During his career he was discharged from three church positions due to complaints from some members.
During the 1820s, only some Scriptural geologists held a decidedly antagonistic attitude towards the new geology. But in the 1830s, when old-earth geology was endorsed without reservation as a substitute to the Genesis record, much disagreement arose.
The implicit rejection of the Bible’s eye witness account was thought condescending, sidetracking a typical Bible student from gaining a knowledge of nature from the Bible.
Besides this, several members of his family died in a short time and he was often illinois