Many
people question why it is important to know the truth about creation.
Since the foundation of Christianity lies on the Word of God it is
important that we understand the truth on how it all started. When we
speak of Christianity we must first begin with some kind of an
understanding of God and who He is.
Many would assume that
all Christians have the same idea about who God is and His character,
yet it is amazing that within Christianity there are various ideas
about God. Sadly, many who call themselves Christian's have never
read the Bible or at least a Bible containing all of God's Word.
Knowing God starts with the first book of the Bible, the book
of Genesis. The book of Genesis actually means beginnings, meaning
that it is the beginning of all things, including heaven, the earth,
and everything that is on the earth, sky, rocks, land, plants,
animals, and people to name a few.
Sadly, some Christians,
including the Catholic church itself, see creation as a fable, a
story for the uneducated and simple people of those times. However,
when the various books of the Bible were selected the people were
not, in the main, illiterate, they were well educated scholars. There
was no need for made up stories to be added to the well established
texts that the Jewish nation had used for many years. Also, it would
be counter productive to include the Genesis 1 text if this was not
seen as a genuine part of the Scriptures. It would be obvious to
people that if some of the Bible was false then the rest of it had no
credibility either!
There is a way of presenting God's Grace
that many Christians use as an illustration. They picture a wall
where a line is drawn one foot above the floor level. The area below
the line represents us, the nicest and best amongst us are towards
the top of this area, and the worst of us are towards the bottom, But
the line that represents God is thousands of miles up in the sky! The
difference between the worst and the best of us is insignificant when
we are compared to God. We are all sinners in the eyes of God, but
His Grace is available to all! Yet many strong and faithful
Christians cannot accept that our God is big enough to be the creator
of all things and for Genesis 1 to be absolutely correct. If God was
not able to create the Universe and everything in it in then He would
not be God!
God is big enough to have created the Universe any
way He wanted. Genesis 1 explains how He chose to do it. So do not be
worried about the theory of evolution. Know what evolutionists are
saying and understand how they attack Christianity. We have an answer
to the other religions. Evolution is a religion so be prepared to
answer their converts! When one sees the anti-Christian stance by
many evolutionists and the way that many evolutionists publicly
attack Christianity rather than explain their religion, it is quite
clear that Christians should be careful not to get caught up with the
theory of evolution.
How can anyone seriously believe that
something as huge as our Universe with the huge variety of life on
earth being composed of infinitely complex DNA, could have occurred
by random chance? Yet some do! And they believe that evolution is
absolutely true despite having no scientific evidence of any sort to
back it up!
The Theory of Evolution sounds like a religion to
me, and one that is clearly not Christian! So is evolutionary theory
just another alternative religion to keep people away from Salvation
through Christ?
Questioning
Creation Creates Fallacy (Inconsistencies) of The Entire Bible
God
is the Creator of All things and if we question the creation then
nothing stops us from questioning all the events that have taken
place in the Bible, including Jesus saving all mankind from hell.
Those who believe that the theory of evolution is the
scientific explanation of the existence of the universe and of life
on earth, need to understand that it is just a theory and that the
science itself does not support it. In fact one needs more faith to
believe in evolution and that we exist simply by pure random chance
and that there is no purpose at all in our lives, than one does to
believe in a Creator God!
Does it matter if Christians do not
accept Genesis as the way the universe and the earth were created?
It
does for several reasons:
1. Genesis is written as a factual
account.
2. If God made this up and it was not true then why
would we be expected to believe anything else in the Bible?
3.
Genesis explains the purpose and the fall of Man. Man was designed to
be in the image of God. But the first man and woman chose to follow
their own way. They thought that they did not need the one who
created them! So their nature became corrupted and this corruption
was passed on to subsequent generations, but even at this stage God
had provided a way for restoration.
Jesus
Christ Fulfilled The Plan of God.
This leaves one to
question without the fall of man why do Christians need Jesus Christ
at all?
As Christians we should not be concerned about Darwin
and theories of evolution (in the same way we should not be concerned
about the other religions). There is no difference between the theory
of Evolution and the other major world religions. They are all
opposed to Christianity and they all have their own doctrines that
may be similar to Christianity or may be radically different.
Christians know the Bible is the Word of God to us. They know
that they should trust God and that what He says really does matter!
No Christian will have any problems standing before Christ and say
that they believed the Word of God as written in the Bible. I am not
sure about those Christians who tell Jesus that they believed that
most of the Bible was true, but the bit about Creation was obviously
not serious!
