Sometime last year someone asked me the question, “How can we counteract the false information our young people are receiving concerning God and creation and teach them the truth?” (My paraphrase of the question.) In my Pastor’s Pen newsletter I presented some thoughts on the subject. I want to share that article again in several segment of my blog.

In an article I read recently, a writer stated that the Bible was ever so slowly attacking and eroding the walls of the bastions of materialistic humanism. To me, the suggestion seems to picture the Bible leading a charge from the outside against the strong, seemingly impenetrable fortresses of a philosophy that is at odds with theistic principles. I say it is an incorrect picture of the Bible for a number of reasons. One is that the Bible is truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Instead of mounting feeble attacks against unbelief and unrighteousness, rather it stands as a strong tower of ethics, morals and godliness unmovable against the onslaughts of evil. When considering the character of the Bible, I think of a children chorus that says:
The Bible stands like a rock undaunted
’Mid the raging storms of time;
Its pages burn with the truth eternal,
And they glow with a light sublime

The Bible stands though the hills may tumble,
It will firmly stand when the earth shall crumble;
I will plant my feet on its firm foundation,
For the Bible stands.

The principles inculcated in the pages of the Bible are being assailed from every direction. On television, in the movies, on the printed page and even in the classroom, our children are exposed to propaganda that contradicts the Bible by attributing the universe to an accident and tracing man’s origin to a pool of primordial soup. Concerning the universe and man, humanism says chance, the Bible says creation. Concerning the Bible, humanism says fake, God says fact.

Unbelief has reached pandemic magnitudes. At the heart of the global outbreak is age-old the attempt to shake man’s confidence in God’s existence. To accomplish this undertaking, atheist, agnostic, humanists and other unbelievers justify their position by proposing that the universe and all that is in it originated spontaneously and that the life-forms that resulted began a process of evolution that eventually produced the human family. The theory of evolution did not originate with the English Naturalist Charles Darwin, who at the age of fifty-one, published the renown The Origin of the Species. Darwin’s thoughts were the results of his extensive travels collecting specimens of what he felt established proof of evolution. So anxious to find something which would establish their conjecture that man arrived on earth as an accident and then evolved over million of years, those who wanted to rule God out of man’s life fed on Darwin’s ideas like sharks in a feeding frenzy. Then for years, the concept of evolution as man’s origin grew in popularity until what at first was presented as a theory began to be taught as fact.

In spite of the lack of definitive proof of its authenticity and a mounting number of prominent scientist who are now embracing creationism, many continue to accept evolution as the accepted answer to the existence of man,. Even Christians are not excluded from this number. So what is wrong with accepting what world opinion seems to believe is the only intelligent explanation for the material universe and all that is in it? Consider the words of eminent evolutionary biologist William Provine of Cornell University quoted by Lee Stroble. In a debate, Provine stated that if Darwin’s theory were true, it produces five inescapable conclusions:
1. there is no evidence of God
2. there is no life after death
3. there is no absolute foundation for right and wrong
4. there is no ultimate meaning for life
5. there is no such thing as free will
(The Case for a Creator, Lee Strobel, pg 18)

Evolution is THE popular world-view because it negates a responsibility and accountability to a holy God for one’s actions. The acceptance of the biblical account of creation puts God in the picture where He belongs and provides the only logical explanation for the countless intricacies of cosmos. The world does not want this accountablility.
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