Prayer
Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy
lovingkindness; according unto the multitude of thy tender
mercies blot
out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity,
and
cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions: and
my sin
is ever before me. Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and
done this
evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou
speakest,
and be clear when thou judgest...Purge me with hyssop, and I
shall be
clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Make me to hear
joy and
gladness; that the bones which thou has broken may rejoice. Hide
thy
face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. Create in
me a
clean heart, O God...(Psalm 51:1-4, 7-10a).
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ,
who hath blessed me with all spiritual blessings in heavenly
places in
Christ: According as he hath chose me in him before the
foundation of
the world, that I should be holy and without blame before him in
love:
Having predestinated me unto the adoption of children by Jesus
Christ to
himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, To the
praise of
the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made me accepted in the
beloved.
In whom I have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of
sins,
according to the riches of his grace. Ephesians 1:3-7,
(personal
application paraphrase)
Lord Jesus, I believe in You as my Lord and
Savior. Help
me to walk worthy of You unto all pleasing, being fruitful in
every good
work, and increasing in the knowledge of God (from Colossians
1:10).
Conclusion
You do not have to throw out your brains or any
true,
scientifically testable and verifiable science to believe in a
literal,
six, 24-hour day creation that took place approximately six
thousand
years ago. We can believe that the Creator, the Lord and Savior
Jesus
Christ, created everything with the appearance of age. He
displayed His
ability to act without the human necessity of time by His
miracles.
Science that "proves" billions of years is based on many
insupportable
and unreasonable assumptions. So we can believe the Bible as it
addresses origins even though it does not tell us
everything. If certain types of
"science"
contradict the Scriptures, we can be certain that these
"sciences" are
either mistaken or misinterpreted or misunderstood -- because
the
Scriptures are eternal truth.
Evolutionists admit to each other that "...the
creationists have the better argument." This is because what we
see in
life and in the fossils does not display emerging kinds of
plants or
animals. Evolution from one cell to man is not scientifically
observable
at all.
The universe is young - on the order
of several
thousand, not billions, of years old. Man, dinosaur and mastodon
walked
the earth at the same time. The missing links are
missing! God
created discrete plants and animals in the Beginning and, with
minor
variations, these are what we see today. Mutations in the genes
do not
generate new life forms or even improve present life forms.
Mutations
harm or kill the organism into which they come. Prehistoric man
was
either ape, monkey or man and not some genetically evolving
apelike man
or manlike ape.
The religious quest to prove evolution from the
Big Bang
to man will occupy the singular life of many, but will end in
despair
for all who pursue this myth of evolutionary faith.
Macroevolution is the attempt to answer the big
questions
"How did I get here?" "Who am I?" and "Where am I going?"
without belief
in God. God Himself says:
"The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God." (Ps.
14:1)
"Beware lest any man spoil you through
philosophy and vain
deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the
world,
and not after Christ." (Colossians 2:8)
"Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man trusteth
in man,
and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the
Lord."
(Jeremiah 17:5)
"O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in
himself: it
is not in man that walketh to direct his steps." (Jeremiah
10:23).
"There is a way which seemeth right unto a man,
but the
end thereof are the ways of death." (Proverbs
14:12)
The conflict that started in Genesis 3 still
rages today
for the hearts and minds of people, yet the battle has already
been won
at the cross of Calvary.
"But God commendeth his love toward us, in that,
while we
were yet sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5:8)
"That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the
Lord Jesus,
and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from
the dead,
thou shalt be saved." (Romans 10:9).
Psalm 1 tells us there are only two ways to walk
in this
world....on the path of the wicked, or the way of the righteous.
God has
revealed Himself in Creation and through the written Word as
the
"right way". We will all some day stand before Him to answer for
our
lives lived in this world, and whether they have been lived for
His
eternal glory and praise, or for the praise of the power and
glory of
this world. Since the fall of Genesis 3, man has been more
interested in
the approval of men, rather than the approval of God (John 5:44;
12:43).
Even as "professing Christians", we have become
a people
who call "evil good,
and good
evil" (Isa. 5:20). More than anything else in these
deceptive times
in which we live, we have allowed ourselves to be "corrupted from the
simplicity that
is in Christ" (II Cor. 11:3). We have not brought "...into captivity every
thought to the
obedience of Christ" (II
Cor. 10:5). My challenge to Christian and non-Christian is
to
re-examine where our faith is actually invested. Is it possible
that we
have been seduced by the world's convincing "arguments of
academia",
impressive credentials and the ensuing "success", power and
prominence
that come from finding truth apart from God's Word? His Word is
truth
(John 17:17), it is eternal, living and active (Heb. 4:12) and,
will not
return void (Isa. 55:11).
The non-verifiable "assumptions" of the
scientific
community are accepted without question in our hi-tech,
sophisticated,
humanistic, impersonal "politically correct" society....even by
the
majority of professing Christians who hide behind the hypocrisy
of being
"theistic evolutionists." (Say the theistic evolutionists: Yes,
I'll
acknowledge that there is a God, but He's not powerful enough to
do
anything other than to set the wheels in motion and rest on His
laurels!) If professing Christians were in God's Word as much,
or more
than we are in the secular world's beliefs, then we would afford
ourselves the opportunity to grow in the grace and knowledge of
God's
ways and to have the empowerment of the Holy Spirit to lead us
into all
understanding. I Cor. 3:18, 19B states: "Let no man deceive
himself. If any
man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a
fool,
that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness
with
God."
The bottom line always comes back to faith. Are
we going
to believe by faith in eternal matter and energy, or eternal
God? We all
live by faith in one system or the other. No man can reason his
way to
saving faith in God because God is infinite and we are finite,
He is the
creator and we are the created. There is a great chasm caused by
sin
that separates the all-powerful God and Creator of the universe
from His
fallen creatures: us! When we refuse to accept our position
under God in
His creation (pride and rebellion), then we tend to look for
comfortable
alternatives. These alternatives allow us to escape from being
created
in the image of God and to being responsible to Him, to the
independence
from God that will ultimately result in death and eternal
separation
from Him.
Many times creationists are accused of trying to
"discredit science" or scientists, an accusation which simply is
not
true. "Origins Science", as we know it, is based on many
assumptions,
which by definition are not able to be proved. Assumptions
become
"truth" when the credentialed, powerful people of the world's
system
arrange data, and "logically" argue their case while the
"Christian"
community stands by either accepting (they don't know what the
Bible
says), or defaulting in that they don't have enough conviction
to study
the data and speak out for a creationist interpretation of
factual
science.
The greatest truth that can ever be realized in
this life
is that Christ died for sinners, and that God gave His only
begotten son
to accomplish that act of love. Whether we are an unbelieving
evolutionist, theistic evolutionist, or creationist is not the
main
issue. The issue is to whom we have bowed for our eternal
destiny....only pride and rebellion will keep us from enjoying
that
eternal rest in our Creator/Savior's complete forgiveness. Our
Lord says
to us in Matthew 11:28-30:
"Come
unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give
you
rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and
lowly in
heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is
easy, and
my burden is light."
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his
only
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish,
but
have everlasting life." (John 3:16)
"...Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end
of the
world. Amen."
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