Exodus 20:11
This post is directed at professing Christians who claim that a plain, straightforward reading of Genesis (6 days of creation, worldwide flood, etc.) is some kind of metaphorical or symbolic story, not to be taken literally, as actual events..
Jesus Christ says he is the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end. If anyone is an authority on the history of the world, it is Him.
He was there from the beginning of creation.
Jesus is The Word made flesh.
Jesus testified to the flood of Noah as a warning of the judgment to come. (Luke 17:26)
Remember, the flood of Noah is an account containing specifics on times and dates (In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month...) With details like this, we are clearly not reading some kind of metaphorical story or parable. It's almost as if God is showing us a giant flashing neon sign that this was a real event. Why can't the professing Christian simply believe it?
The entire account of Jesus Christ is intimately intertwined with the whole Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. He IS the word.
Theistic Evolution is a surrender/compromise of the clear word of God in order to conform to man's creation story... I'm sure some Christians actually believe the evolutionary narrative, and some I'm also sure just want to have a foot in both camps. They want Jesus, but they're also afraid of looking foolish to the world, so they compromise on the word, without really understanding how much it undermines the rest of scripture. What does that do to one's faith? And the faith of others? For other people to see you both believing and not believing. ("Maybe we don't really have to be worried about the judgment of God... it's not like a lot of this stuff really happened... Maybe sin isn't even real....") I can only imagine how many souls have slipped away... what a tempting pathway that compromise leaves open, to subtract any parts of scripture that we aren't comfortable with.
And how many would-be believers have turned away in doubt, because so many professing Christians themselves are teaching that the Bible is a collection of stories that didn't really happen? What kind of message does this send to the world, about how little faith you have in what God said he did? Why should anyone believe God's words, if even his supposed representatives don't?
Is the story of Jesus simply a moral lesson about sacrificing and being a good person? Or was he really the Son of God, who died on the cross for our sins, and was raised from the dead? Did this stuff really happen or not?
I shudder to think of standing before God one day and confessing to him that I taught people all sorts of things in his clear word was fake. That is a terrifying thought. And why did we do it? What was in our heart? Did we really believe the compromise? Or was social acceptance in the world more important than faith in the Word?
1 Timothy 6:19-20
Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
This post is directed at professing Christians who claim that a plain, straightforward reading of Genesis (6 days of creation, worldwide flood, etc.) is some kind of metaphorical or symbolic story, not to be taken literally, as actual events..
Jesus Christ says he is the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end. If anyone is an authority on the history of the world, it is Him.
He was there from the beginning of creation.
Jesus is The Word made flesh.
Jesus testified to the flood of Noah as a warning of the judgment to come. (Luke 17:26)
Remember, the flood of Noah is an account containing specifics on times and dates (In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month...) With details like this, we are clearly not reading some kind of metaphorical story or parable. It's almost as if God is showing us a giant flashing neon sign that this was a real event. Why can't the professing Christian simply believe it?
The entire account of Jesus Christ is intimately intertwined with the whole Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. He IS the word.
Theistic Evolution is a surrender/compromise of the clear word of God in order to conform to man's creation story... I'm sure some Christians actually believe the evolutionary narrative, and some I'm also sure just want to have a foot in both camps. They want Jesus, but they're also afraid of looking foolish to the world, so they compromise on the word, without really understanding how much it undermines the rest of scripture. What does that do to one's faith? And the faith of others? For other people to see you both believing and not believing. ("Maybe we don't really have to be worried about the judgment of God... it's not like a lot of this stuff really happened... Maybe sin isn't even real....") I can only imagine how many souls have slipped away... what a tempting pathway that compromise leaves open, to subtract any parts of scripture that we aren't comfortable with.
And how many would-be believers have turned away in doubt, because so many professing Christians themselves are teaching that the Bible is a collection of stories that didn't really happen? What kind of message does this send to the world, about how little faith you have in what God said he did? Why should anyone believe God's words, if even his supposed representatives don't?
Is the story of Jesus simply a moral lesson about sacrificing and being a good person? Or was he really the Son of God, who died on the cross for our sins, and was raised from the dead? Did this stuff really happen or not?
I shudder to think of standing before God one day and confessing to him that I taught people all sorts of things in his clear word was fake. That is a terrifying thought. And why did we do it? What was in our heart? Did we really believe the compromise? Or was social acceptance in the world more important than faith in the Word?
1 Timothy 6:19-20
Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: