Friday August 10, 2012

Read Genesis 6-9

 

Additionally one need only to consult an evolutionary tree to see that the order of creation blatantly and unashamedly contradicts the order of evolution.  The Christian is again brought to the point of decision. Do I believe God’s Word or mankind’s theories?

 

If we believe evolution then we are tacitly saying that the Bible is fundamentally wrong in its details and cannot be trusted when weighed against science/evolution. This is a vastly important point and has implications for exegesis and our belief structure when we get to the New Testament. Alternatively, we are saying that some bits of the theory of evolution are true except those bits that contradict the bits of the Bible that I choose to believe.  Such a view makes either science our god or ourselves as god and the ultimate authority in reading Scripture. Unfortunately a consistent application of this approach renders the Christian pro-evolutionist an ardent and committed atheist.  If science is my ultimate authority then the following conditions must hold because science has ‘proven’ that:

 

¨ Spirituality does not exist –  In the world of pure science there are no demons, angels, satan etc. God Himself is spirit (John 4:24) and therefore cannot exist.

 

¨ Miracles don’t happen. For many there is a natural and rational explanation for everything.

¨ Virgins don’t give birth. Therefore there is no incarnation. Jesus was really only a man fathered by a human soul.  He was only the ‘Son of God’ in a titular sense. Thus there is no real salvation. The other possibility is that we can all achieve perfection and earn our own salvation but then we’d all have to die under a curse from God as the one perfect God-man did.

 

¨ Dead people are not raised to life, except through resuscitation which guarantees that the person will die again. Jesus, thus, was not really raised from dead. Either He was resuscitated (and died again) or He was not really dead in first place. As many have argued, maybe He was only in a coma.

 

The logical conclusion of putting science above Scripture quickly becomes a salvation issue.

 

Prayer:

¨ Continue to prayer for all the new Christians who heard and accepted  God’s gift of free grace in India.

¨ Pray that the local Pastors will have the means to be able to disciple and reach these new believers.