Today I am going to be rejecting the consensus of nearly all the world's scientists and upholding Biblical Creation. May the scoffers scoff all they want, but let God be true and every man a liar (Rom. 3:4).
Before I begin, allow me to say this: just because it seems the whole world believes something does not make what they believe true. Consider, for example, the prophet Elijah. He felt like one of the last servants of the Lord alive on the planet. The whole nation had drifted off into Baal-worship, and they had forsaken the Lord their God. But who today literally worships Baal? No one, to my knowledge. Baal was a dead god that could do nothing. But yet, praise God, there have never ceased to be those who worship the true God, the God of Israel, who has proven himself faithful by sending His Son, as He promised He would.
Why is the world so adamant on promoting evolution? It is because they know very well that when the first few chapters of the Bible are discredited, the cross of Christ and Christianity as a whole, are completely negated.
This may seem like a strong statement to some, but consider what I say carefully. Without the first eleven chapters of Genesis, we have lost support for the doctrines of sin and marriage. In Genesis chapter 2 we are given the reason for marriage, and in chapter 3 we see exactly how sin entered the world. In Genesis 3:15 we also have our first messianic prophecy, which says something about the accuracy of the first chapters of Genesis. Furthermore, if the first chapters of Genesis are regarded as legend or outright nonsense, what happens to the week?
If the very first and opening pages to our Bibles are disregarded, where do we begin to take the Bible seriously? I, for one, would not believe a book that has its opening pages known to be false. If we cannot even trust the first pages, what CAN we trust?
Some have suggested that the first pages of Genesis were meant to be poetry, but this idea runs into a plethora of problems. As a good many scholars have already demonstrated, the narrative was written to be taken literally. And from common sense, why would our Lord begin His word with a quasi-narrative that was actually intended to be poetry. It seems rather ridiculous to think that God would fool everyone with a forged narrative and no one would realize that it was actually poetry until the last few centuries!
It gets a whole lot worse when one tries to harmonize evolution with the Bible. Even though many have tried to do so with good intentions, the end result is nothing short of blasphemy. We are expected to believe that a good God used millions and millions of years of death, pain, and suffering to bring about a creation he called 'very good' (Gen. 1:31). That is nonsense.
If we want to believe the Bible here without disregarding the first chapters of Genesis and resorting to outright balderdash, we have but one option: we must disregard the virtually unanimous consensus of worldly scientists. They will laugh at us and mock us, but let us not take their taunts to heart. It is God who will judge them, and they will most certainly not be laughing on the day they are judged.
But what about the objections they throw at us? We must remember that most of them are of very little substance, and that there are always answers. For they believe in time and chance, but we believe in a supreme God who has the power to make something out of nothing. We believe that He made the world in the manner described in Genesis 1, and the only objections people make to that are objections made on a purely naturalistic basis. We know that God is the One who instituted the laws of nature, hence, it is axiomatic that He is not subject to them. So then, things like distant starlight are not a problem for us, for who says that God did not bring the starlight to the earth when He created the stars?
I see no reason why we cannot trust the Biblical account of creation. There have been many attempts to discredit it, and for good reason, because when it is discredited Christianity loses meaning.
There is a claim circulating that Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 are separate creation accounts. In reality, Genesis 2 is adding details to the events of Chapter 1, but sinners will go to any length to try to destroy the truth of God. Was the author of Genesis truly dumb enough to create two conflicting accounts in so short a space? I hardly think so!
The point of this is that we do not need to take the world's ideas and try to harmonize the Bible with them. God's word is unchanging, but the lies of this world are forever subject to revision. What was well accepted in the scientific community twenty years ago may be considered complete nonsense in this present day. Let us therefore stop trying to compromise. The truth of God must NEVER be made to fit with the ideas of this world. Those who fit the truth of God to the lies of this world are changing the truth of God into a lie (Rom. 1:25).
Let us therefore stop this shameful compromise and stand undaunted by the attacks of unregenerate sinners who despise the truth and will resist it to the very bitter end. We need not fear, for God will judge such persons. We instead need to hold out the truths of God's word to a world of lost sinners.
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