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Recently I had a conversation with a Christian co worker (lets call her Sam) on evolution and the bible. When I told her that I believed God created the world within 7 literal days Sam thought I had lost my mind. What about the rocks that are millions of years old? What about all the scientific evidence proving evolution took place? Couldnt God have used evolution to create us and Genesis is just a figurative poem? Didnt Jesus talk in parables? Maybe Genesis is a parable! I believe many Christians currently have the same questions as Sam; some have even given up on a literal definition of Genesis. This poses a huge threat to the Church and is worth spending some time on.
I have always found it interesting when talking with a Christian about this subject that their line of reasoning/questioning always starts with science not with scripture. In Proverbs we are taught that all knowledge begins with a loving reverence for the Lord (Proverbs 1:7) yet when the latest scientific evolutionary discovery is published we place our evolutionist tinted reading glasses on and start reading In the beginning Does this not seem backwards? Should we not be putting our biblical glasses on and reading the world through them? If we did I think more of us would see that evolution is nothing more then the new world faith (naturalism). It is not science; it can not be proven or repeated. It is a theory put forth to allow people not to believe in God! We must understand that very smart, gifted, non Christian scientists are pushing this faith because it allows them to live an individualistic, unmoral, self centered life style. I read an article from a former evolutionary scientist who stated that the only reason he believed in evolution was because the only other logical option is creation. And if he believes in creation, he would then need to believe in a Creator and would then need to change his sexual lifestyle. He was not willing to do so; therefore he continued to preach evolution. Scripture is God breathed (2 Timothy 3:16). [Scripture] never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. (2 Peter 1:21). The bible is our ultimate authority by which science should be evaluated, not the other way around.
There are Christians who say that the Genesis account of creation is nothing more then a figurative poem meant to put creation into a framework we can understand. That God created this world and evolution was His means of doing so. This is a statement that needs to be vigorously attacked that I believe are made by Christians who are again reading scripture with naturalistic glasses on, or are not reading scripture at all. The fact is if you read scripture without any knowledge of evolution or any other theories of creation, you would come to the simple fact that God created the earth in 7, 24 hour days. Although the bible is not a science text book, when the two subjects cross paths, scripture speaks with ultimate authority.
If Genesis is meant to be taking figuratively, then we would expect to see the authors of the New Testament refer to Genesis figuratively; after all, they also had the Old Testament. However, no where in the New Testament do we see this. Need proof? Mark 13:19; John 1:3, Acts 4:24, 14:15, 2 Corinthians 4:6, Colossians 1:16, Hebrews 1:2, Revelation 4:11, 10:6, 14:7 all refer to a completed past event, not a continuous evolving process. Jesus refers to the creation of Adam and Eve as a historical event (Mark 10:6). Pauls presentation of the original sin in Romans 5:12-20 depends on a historical view of creation and Adam, as does our salvation in Jesus; For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive"
Evolution was developed and accepted as a direct attack on the God of scriptures. Not because evolutionists believed that a Creator is not needed, but because they did not want to live for that same Creator. Marvin Lubenow writes: The real issue in the creation/evolution debate is not the existence of God. The real issue is the nature of God. To think evolution as basically atheistic is to misunderstand the uniqueness of evolution. Evolution was not designed as a general attack against theism. It was designed as a specific attack against the God of the Bible, and the God of the Bible is clearly revealed through the doctrine of creation.
Through the Bible, God has revealed everything required of us, and everything He has promised us and it starts it with the literal account of creation. If this account is unreliable, then we place the rest on scripture on shaky ground.
I have always found it interesting when talking with a Christian about this subject that their line of reasoning/questioning always starts with science not with scripture. In Proverbs we are taught that all knowledge begins with a loving reverence for the Lord (Proverbs 1:7) yet when the latest scientific evolutionary discovery is published we place our evolutionist tinted reading glasses on and start reading In the beginning Does this not seem backwards? Should we not be putting our biblical glasses on and reading the world through them? If we did I think more of us would see that evolution is nothing more then the new world faith (naturalism). It is not science; it can not be proven or repeated. It is a theory put forth to allow people not to believe in God! We must understand that very smart, gifted, non Christian scientists are pushing this faith because it allows them to live an individualistic, unmoral, self centered life style. I read an article from a former evolutionary scientist who stated that the only reason he believed in evolution was because the only other logical option is creation. And if he believes in creation, he would then need to believe in a Creator and would then need to change his sexual lifestyle. He was not willing to do so; therefore he continued to preach evolution. Scripture is God breathed (2 Timothy 3:16). [Scripture] never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. (2 Peter 1:21). The bible is our ultimate authority by which science should be evaluated, not the other way around.
There are Christians who say that the Genesis account of creation is nothing more then a figurative poem meant to put creation into a framework we can understand. That God created this world and evolution was His means of doing so. This is a statement that needs to be vigorously attacked that I believe are made by Christians who are again reading scripture with naturalistic glasses on, or are not reading scripture at all. The fact is if you read scripture without any knowledge of evolution or any other theories of creation, you would come to the simple fact that God created the earth in 7, 24 hour days. Although the bible is not a science text book, when the two subjects cross paths, scripture speaks with ultimate authority.
If Genesis is meant to be taking figuratively, then we would expect to see the authors of the New Testament refer to Genesis figuratively; after all, they also had the Old Testament. However, no where in the New Testament do we see this. Need proof? Mark 13:19; John 1:3, Acts 4:24, 14:15, 2 Corinthians 4:6, Colossians 1:16, Hebrews 1:2, Revelation 4:11, 10:6, 14:7 all refer to a completed past event, not a continuous evolving process. Jesus refers to the creation of Adam and Eve as a historical event (Mark 10:6). Pauls presentation of the original sin in Romans 5:12-20 depends on a historical view of creation and Adam, as does our salvation in Jesus; For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive"
Evolution was developed and accepted as a direct attack on the God of scriptures. Not because evolutionists believed that a Creator is not needed, but because they did not want to live for that same Creator. Marvin Lubenow writes: The real issue in the creation/evolution debate is not the existence of God. The real issue is the nature of God. To think evolution as basically atheistic is to misunderstand the uniqueness of evolution. Evolution was not designed as a general attack against theism. It was designed as a specific attack against the God of the Bible, and the God of the Bible is clearly revealed through the doctrine of creation.
Through the Bible, God has revealed everything required of us, and everything He has promised us and it starts it with the literal account of creation. If this account is unreliable, then we place the rest on scripture on shaky ground.