Monday, June 5, 2017

June 6, 2017

I want to honor my amazing wife on this the 30th Anniversary of our wedding! Barbara, you have been a tremendous blessing in my life. Thank you for sharing this journey with me. It has been a blast! Shall we say, "A blessed blast?"

"That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does." James 1:7-8

Can a Christian believe in evolution? Is it possible for the two ideas about our origins to be reconciled or melded into a coherent explanation? Could God have used evolution to create the world?

Let's take a logical think about that.

Obviously, a confessed believer fully accepts the biblical account of creation as conclusive truth. To believe otherwise would be to conclude that part of the Bible is untrue. That doesn't work because if any of the Word is untrue then all of it is untrue. So, that presents a HUGE problem.

For Christians, the final arbiter of faith is the Bible, the Word of God. Does the Bible answer this question? Did God anticipate this debate and offer us some guidance?

Yes, He did!

In addition to the Genesis account of creation, consider these Scripture references:

* In Mark 10:6, Jesus quotes from a Genesis passage when He says, "From the beginning of the creation, God 'made them male and female'."

God didn't "morph" them or evolve them, He hand made them!

* Paul writes in Colossians 1:16-17, "For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist."

John 1:10 explains, "He [Jesus] was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not."

Still not convinced? Let me ask you a couple of questions. Why would you not want to accept the biblical account of creation with God as the Creator? If you know Him you know He is well able to create anything He desires. Evolution at best, marginalizes God's handiwork and at worst it denies it. Why would you want to do that?

Let's let Jesus have the final word on this issue. As usual, He asks this probing question, "For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me. But if you do not believe his writings , how will you believe My words?"

So, what part of "God created" don't you understand?