Wednesday November 2, 2011

Read Genesis 3

 

As a young Christian I would never have dreamt that one day I would sit and despair at the number of people within the Christian church that do not believe in a literal Adam and Eve. If Adam and Eve were not literal and if they never existed then several issues and problems arise. Let me list a few of these in no set order:-

Genesis speaks of creation being good and very good. If Adam and Eve were not literal and evolution were real, then death and dying and meat eating must have

¨ been present from Genesis 1:1. This indiscriminate killing could not have been called ‘good’ or ‘very good’ in any sense. God’s Word and hence God’s veracity is called into question.

¨ If I cannot trust God in the early chapters of the Bible, how can I trust God in the latter parts of it? How do I know that Jesus really did die on the cross? How do I know that His death and resurrection really was for me?

¨ Without a literal Adam and Eve we have no explanation for the presence of sin, evil and degradation within our world. Evolution cannot account for these as all things are amoral in an evolutionary framework. Nor could God simply declare some things sinful (like murder) if those things have been in existence and used as part of His creation since day 1.

¨ The Lord Jesus Himself and the other epistles (Romans 5:12ff takes the historicity of creation seriously. If Jesus and the Apostles believed in a literal Adam and Eve, what right have we not to?

¨ The Genealogy of Luke (Luke 3:23-38) goes back to a literal Adam. If this figure in Luke’s genealogy is not a literal person we are at liberty to place suspicion over everyone else in that genealogy. Jesus Himself was at the head of that genealogy but if Adam wasn’t real, was Jesus? Was God? Or were they both just the figment of the writer’s imagination? We simply cannot pick and choose which bits of the Bible we want to believe and which bits we don’t!

 

Prayer:-

à Jim & Faye Lyons, Straight Talk Australia.  Praise God for the  countless lives who have been touched by this ministry.

 

à Pray that these students will continue to uphold and be strong in their commitment in maintaining their purity.

 

 

Read Psalm 18:30 and consider its implications for your life today.