Tuesday, 08 July 2008

• It is Impossible to Believe in Christianity and Evolution at the Same Time

  from thetheologianscafe

  The Bible is clear about a few truths.  One of those truths is how the world was created.  The Bible says, "In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth." (Gen. 1:1).  It is impossible to say that you believe in the Bible and then turn around and to deny the clear teachings of the Bible.

  The Bible then goes on to spell out how the Earth was created:

  "And God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light.   God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness.  God called the light 'day,' and the darkness he called 'night.' And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day."  (Gen. 1:3-5).

  The Bible clearly indicates that God created the Earth.  But it goes on to show how He created the Earth.  He created it in 6 days and then rested on the 7th day.  Look at the passage above.  Notice how the Bible refers to a day and a night?  The passage breaks it down by days.

  The Bible goes on to teach about the second day:

  "And God said, 'Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water.' So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. God called the expanse 'sky.' And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day" (Gen 1:6-8).

  Once again the Bible clearly teaches a literal day.

  The teaching of creationism is fundamental to understanding the whole Bible.  If a person was to sit down and read the first three chapters of Genesis, he/she would walk away with an understanding that God created the Earth and that He created the Earth in six days.

  I have never struggled with any evidence that the Earth was older than what the Bible teaches.  Why?   Imagine with me for a moment that you were with a few doctors standing next to Adam five minutes after he was created.  Imagine that we had the doctors examine Adam and tell us how old he was in years.  The doctors would probably tell us that Adam was about 20 years old (or however old Adam appeared).  But how old was Adam?

  At that moment, he was only five minutes old.  Why were the doctors wrong?  The doctors were smart people.  They were intelligent people.  They were guessing Adam's age based on their current data.  But they were wrong.  Why?  Because God had just created Adam as a supernatural act.  God created Adam in his mature state.

  Now do you remember when Jesus made the wine?  The wine was declared the best.  If you took a group of scientists and had them examine the wine, they would come up with an age.  They may guess 5 years old.  They may guess 10 years old.  But how old was the wine five minutes after Jesus created it?  It was five minutes old.  Why were the scientists wrong?  They were wrong because they were using all the data they ever knew to make a decision.  But their data didn't include the possibility of a supernatural act.

  But Christians are afraid to say they believe God created the Earth.  So they compromise.  They will come up with some sort of happy medium that indicates they can believe in creation as taught in the Bible and also believe in evolution.  These Christians show they are far more concerned about what people around them think than having a Biblical worldview.

  Those Christians are afraid to appear like they are anti-intellectual by disagreeing with the majority of the scientific community.  So they compromise the first few chapters of the Bible in order to conform to the conventional wisdom of the day.

  The problem with those Christians is they have compromised everything with a compromise of the truth of God's word.

  Is it possible to believe God created the Earth and believe in evolution at the same time?

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