WORLDVIEW: WHAT IS IT?
Dr. Jobe Martin
www.biblicaldiscipleship.org
www.evolutionofacreationist.com
PROVERBS 14:12
There is a way which
seemeth right unto a man,
but the end thereof are the
ways of death.
(DECEPTION)
The worldviews of
Satan’s World System
are all based on
deception!
1 CHRONICLES 12:32
“... the children of Issachar, which
were men that had understanding
of the times, to know what Israel
ought to do; the heads of them
were 200; and all their brethren
were at their commandment.”
KJV
COLOSSIANS 2:8
“BEWARE LEST ANY MAN SPOIL YOU
THROUGH PHILOSOPHY AND VAIN
DECEIT, AFTER THE TRADITION OF
MEN, AFTER THE RUDIMENTS OF THE
WORLD, AND NOT AFTER CHRIST.”
KJV
There is Biblical Christianity and then
there are various worldviews.
The study of worldviews ends up a
comparison and contrast of true,
Biblical Christianity against all of the
deceptive choices of worldviews that
Satan’s world system has to offer.
What do I believe about life and all of its
basic building blocks?
Where can I find the Truth?
Who determines what is true:
Man
Or
God?
JOHN 8: 32
“And ye shall know the
truth, and the truth shall
make you free.”
JOHN 17:17-19
Jesus said:
17 “Sanctify them through thy truth: thy
word is truth. 18 As thou hast sent me
into the world, even so have I also sent
them into the world. 19 And for their
sakes I sanctify myself, that they also
might be sanctified through the truth.”
PSALM 119:11
“Thy Word have I hid in
mine heart, that I might
not sin against Thee.”
EPHESIANS 6:13-18
13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God,
that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and
having done all, to stand. 14 Stand therefore, having
your loins girt about with truth, and having on the
breastplate of righteousness; 15 And your feet shod
with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 16 Above
all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be
able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. 17 And
take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the
Spirit, which is the word of God: 18 Praying always
with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and
watching thereunto with all perseverance and
supplication for all saints;…
SWORD OF SPIRIT = WORD OF GOD
• The word “sword” of Ephesians 6:17b is the
word for the offensive and defensive weapon of
the powerful Roman soldier.
• The word for “word” (of God) is not “logos” it is
“Rhema” which literally means the “sayings.”
• God’s spoken Word is our offensive and
defensive weapon in the midst of the
supernatural battle surrounding us. We are to
speak God’s Word into the fabric of life—that
means we must hide it in our hearts first.
CREATION
EVOLUTION
DATA:
FOSSILS,
LIVING THINGS=
SAME FOR BOTH
THEISM
God of the Bible:
Creator, Inventor,
Designer, Sustainer,
Redeemer
ATHEISM
No God:
Accidental, Non-directed,
Random, Chance,
Mindless processes
WORLDVIEW GLASSES DETERMINE CONCLUSIONS
“Even if all the data point to an
intelligent designer, such an
hypothesis is excluded from science
because it is not naturalistic.”
• Scott C. Todd, (Kansas State University Immunologist): Nature,
September 30, 2000, Letters to the editor.
THE BATTLE OF CREATION VS
EVOLUTION IS REALLY THE BATTLE
FOR THE GOSPEL.
• G. Richard Bozarth writes (“The Meaning of Evolution”,
American Atheist, Sept. 20, 1979, p. 30):
• “Christianity has fought, still fights, and will fight
science to the desperate end over evolution
because evolution destroys utterly and finally
the very reason Jesus’ earthly life was
supposedly made necessary. Destroy Adam
and Eve and the original sin, and in the rubble
you will find the sorry remains of the [S]on of
[G]od. …
If Jesus was not the [R]edeemer that died
for our sins, and this is what evolution
means, then Christianity is nothing.”
G. Richard Bozarth
Atheist Bozarth understands this
issue much better than the average
Christian!
See: The Defender’s Bible, Dr. Henry Morris
Everyone believes by FAITH
in something eternal!!!!!
~ ETERNAL
GOD
~ ETERNAL
MATTER
(energy)
BY FAITH BECAUSE NO ONE WAS THERE!
The way of evolution seems so right to so
many people, but it begins and ends by,
with and in death.
We Christians must submit so-called science to
the Bible and not submit the Bible to so-called
science.
Our ideas do have consequences.
Our assumptions really do determine our
conclusions.
Both Creation and Evolution are faith-based
religious systems.
ATHEISTIC EVOLUTION
ASSERTS BY FAITH THAT:
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There is no Creator/Designer God,
And, therefore, that purposeless,
Non-directed,
Accidental,
Mindless, Chance, Random processes over
millions of years produced the universe and
everything animate and inanimate in it.
• The “Big Bang” created space and time?
What shall we name this one?
What is the most accurate way to believe
within the realm
of the visible and the invisible, the
temporal and the eternal, the seen and
the unseen?
Which worldview deals with reality with
the most accuracy?
WHAT IS A WORLDVIEW?
Your worldview is your basic belief system.
Your worldview is the position you take regarding
the answers to the major questions in life such
as:
Does God exist and is He Good?
What can be known for sure?
Who am I; why am I here; where am I going?
What do I value; what is important to me?
Is there purpose and direction to life?
Behavior
Values
Respect for life
Wealth
Truth
“Fruit of the Spirit”
Happiness
Health
Loyalty
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Worldview
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A set of beliefs or ideas / a system of thought
Ethics
Sociology
Theology
Philosophy
Biology
Psychology
Politics
Economics
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Law
History
“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.”
Proverbs 23:7
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Secular
Humanism
Marxism/
Leninism
Cosmic
Humanism
Biblical
Christianity
Sources:
Humanist
Manifestos I, II
Writings of Marx and
Lenin
New Age writers:
Ferguson, Bailey
Bible
Theology
Atheism
Atheism
Pantheism
Theism
Philosophy
Naturalism
Dialectical
Materialism
Non-Naturalism
Supernaturalism
Ethics
Relativism
Proletariat Morality
Relativism
Absolutes
Biology
Evolution
Evolution
Evolution
CREATION
Psychology
Self-actualization
Behaviorism
Collective
Consciousness
Mind-Body
Dualism
Sociology
Non-Traditional
Family
Abolition of Home
Church and State
Non-Tradition Home
Church and State
Traditional Home
Church State
Law
Positive Law
Positive Law
Self-Law
Biblical Law
Politics
World Gov.
(Globalism)
New World Order
(Globalism)
New Age Order
(Globalism)
Justice, Freedom
Order
Economics
Socialism
Socialism
Enlightened
Production
Stewardship
Private Prop.
History
Historical
Evolution
Historical
Materialism
Evolutionary
Godhood
Historical
Resurrection
EVERYBODY HAS A WORLDVIEW
• Your worldview is your basic set of beliefs.
• Your worldview is the position you hold in
the foundational issues of life.
• What are the issues that construct the basic
building blocks of life (and your worldview)?
Theology
Philosophy
Ethics
Biology
Psychology
Sociology
Law
Politics
Economics
History
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Philosophy
Ethics
Biology
Psychology
Sociology
Law
Politics
Economics
History
All of these 10
areas are sacred!
All are Biblical!
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Theology
Philosophy
Ethics
Biology
Psychology
Sociology
Law
Politics
Economics
History
All 10 areas are
perverted and
twisted to some
extent in Satan’s
world system.
ART, MUSIC, CULTURE
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Theology
Philosophy
Ethics
Biology
Psychology
Sociology
Law
Politics
Economics
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ART, MUSIC, CULTURE
EMERGE OUT OF THE
BASIC BUILDING
BLOCKS OF THE
WORLDVIEW.
MATHEMATICS
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Theology
Philosophy
Ethics
Biology
Psychology
Sociology
Law
Politics
Economics
History
ALL OF THE BUILDING
BLOCKS ON THE LEFT
HAVE THEIR OWN
SYSTEM OF
MATHEMATICS.
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Theology
Philosophy
Ethics
Biology
Psychology
Sociology
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Politics
Economics
History
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MUSIC
MATHEMATICS
PUT ALL OF THIS
TOGETHER AND YOU HAVE:
CULTURE of a
WORLDVIEW.
Culture is the corporate display of
the predominant worldview of a
group of people. This can be
shown at the national or state or
city or village or school or church
or family level of society.
THE CULTURE OF A
WORLDVIEW INCLUDES:
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Art
Music
Foods
Clothes
Religion
Entertainment
Etc., etc,. etc., etc.
CATBIRD
2 CORINTHIANS 10:5
“CASTING DOWN IMAGINATIONS
(arguments, speculations), AND EVERY
HIGH THING THAT EXALTETH ITSELF
AGAINST THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD, AND
BRINGING INTO CAPTIVITY EVERY
THOUGHT TO THE OBEDIENCE OF
CHRIST.”
KJV
1 PETER 3:13-15
13 And who is he that will harm you, if ye be
followers of that which is good? 14 But and
if ye suffer for righteousness’ sake, happy
are ye: and be not afraid of their terror,
neither be troubled; 15 But sanctify the Lord
God in your hearts: and be ready always to
give an answer to every man that asketh you
a reason of the hope that is in you with
meekness and fear.
ACCORDING TO JOSH McDOWELL, BARNA
RESEARCH GROUP, PEW RESEARCH CTR. :
• We are witnessing “The Last Christian
Generation.” (Josh McDowell)
• Only 1/3 of “church-going” teenagers say the
church will play a role in their future lives.
• According to pollster George Barna: 63% of
teens do not believe Jesus is God’s Son.
• 60% believe all faiths teach equally valid truths.
• 51% do not believe Jesus rose from the dead.
• 66% do not believe Satan or the Holy Spirit
exist.
• 93% of all youth have lied to a parent.
• 75% of Christian and non-Christian youth have
cheated on a test.
• 66% of all youth have physically hurt someone.
• 70% of churched teens believe there is no
absolute moral truth.
• [This is called “Moral Relativism.”]
• Barna research reports: 98% of professed bornagain youth “…do believe in Christ, but they do
not reflect Christ-like attitudes or actions.”
• Does Satan believe in Christ?
THE VALUES OF 18-25 YEAR OLDS:
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81% say getting rich most important goal in life
51% say becoming famous most important goal
30% say helping people in need is a goal
22% say goal of becoming a community leader
Only 10% say goal is to become more spiritual
So what is the goal of most of today’s
younger generation in USA? They want
to become rich and famous!
• In other words, for the Christian youth
there is a “disconnect” between
“knowing Truth” and “practicing
Truth.”
• John 3:21:
• “But he that doeth truth cometh to the
light, that his deeds may be made
manifest, that they are wrought in
God.”
WE ARE LOSING 57%-88% OF “CHRISTIAN”
YOUTH AFTER FOUR YEARS OF COLLEGE!
(published figures)
Friends with Campus Crusade for Christ tell
me, “If we don’t get the Christian kids within
the first six weeks of their freshman year [of
college], we’ve lost them to the competing
worldviews.”
How do we lose them?
WE CANNOT DEFEND THE FAITH!
• Where did Cain get his wife?
• How did Noah get all the animals on the ark?
• Aren’t Christians really polytheists?
• Wasn’t the Flood of Noah a local flood?
• Aren’t the days of Genesis long periods of time
• Hasn’t science proven the universe is billions of
years old?
• Isn’t starlight millions of years old?
• Didn’t dinosaurs go extinct 60 M. years ago?
WE CANNOT DEFEND THE FAITH!
• The Council of Nicaea altered the Bible.
• Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene.
• Jesus and Mary had children.
• King Constantine removed the references to
goddess worship from the Bible.
• The Bible has been translated so many
times there is no way it could be the Word of
God.
• Who made your God, Where did your God
come from?
THE EVOLUTION OF MAN
WORLDVIEW THINKING IN THE
HISTORY OF THE U.S.A.
• Christian Theism: Personal God
Young Universe Creation
• Traditional Deism: Reduced God
Old Universe Theistic Evolution
• Secular Humanism: Dead God
Darwinian Atheistic Evolution
• Pagan Mysticism/Metaphysical Naturalism
I am God/All is God/There is no God
• Evolution is ‘god’, Harry Potter is God
ARE WE SUBMITTING TO THE
AUTHORITY OF GOD’S WORD?
• For example: Harry Potter is a wizard.
• Leviticus 19:31: Regard not them that
have familiar spirits, neither seek after
wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the
LORD your God.
DEUTERONOMY 18:10-14
There shall not be found among you any one that
maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the
fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times,
or an enchanter, or a witch, Or a charmer, or a
consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a
necromancer. For all that do these things are an
abomination unto the LORD: and because of these
abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out
from before thee. Thou shalt be perfect with the
LORD thy God. For these nations, which thou shalt
possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and
unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God
hath not suffered thee so to do.
• Are we submitting to the authority
of the Bible in every area of our
lives?
• Or are we submitting to, and
incorporating into our lives, more
and more of the folkways and
mores of the false, anti-God and
popular worldviews of Satan’s
deceptive world system?
ROMANS 12:1, 2
“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by
the mercies of God, that ye present your
bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable
unto God, which is your reasonable
service. And be not conformed to this
world: but be ye transformed by the
renewing of your mind, that ye may prove
what is that good, and acceptable, and
perfect, will of God.”
HOW DID WE GET TO NOW?
• Acts 17 to 1636: read Faith and
Freedom by Ben Hart and
Understanding the Times by Dr. David
Noebel
• 1636: John Harvard and Thomas
Sheppherd founded Harvard University
as an Evangelical Christian College
• 1691: John Locke, Essay on Human
Understanding (Root of French Revolution)
• 1805: Harvard goes Unitarian (Jesus is
not God = denial of the Trinity)
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• 1839: Horace Mann (a Unitarian)
establishes government-sponsored
education (Public Education) in Mass.
• 1848: Karl Marx publishes the Political
Economy. Main idea is Socialism and
Private Property is Evil.
• 1859: Charles Darwin, Origin of
Species by Means of Natural Selection
or the Preservation of Favored Races
in the Struggle for Life =
(EVOLUTION = 1859!)
• 1859: Marx and Engels, Das Capitol =
(Socialism and abolition of private property)
• 1859: Richard Wagner, Tristan and
Isolde = (Immorality and Materialism)
• 1860-1900: Nietzche, (God is Dead,
Nihilism: no meaning to life)
IDEAS HAVE CONSEQUENCES!
1925—SCOPES TRIAL
• Atheist Clarence Darrow gets William Jennings
Bryan to admit that he did not know where Cain
got his wife and that he did not know how long
the Genesis 1 days were, but they could be
millions of years.
• Darrow’s question: “You think those were not
literal days?”
• Bryan’s answer: “I do not think they were 24
hour days.” [Bryan departed from Biblical
authority and students now reap the penalty.]
1925—SCOPES TRIAL
• 1925 opened the floodgates of “popular
opinion” (evolution and millions of years) versus
BIBLICAL AUTHORITY and the Humanists
came out of the closet.
• By 1929 the first Humanist church was
established and America was into the Great
Depression!
• Could the God of the Bible have been judging
America’s departure into evolutionism from
BIBLICAL AUTHORITY?
• 1929: First Humanist Church of N. Y. City
established by Charles Francis Potter
• 1930: John Dewey = Atheist, Humanist,
Pres. of The League for Industrial Demo.,
Public Education = Secular Humanism
• 1933: Humanist Manifesto I
• 1934: A Common Faith, John Dewey, Pub.
by Yale U. Press =
Humanism is a
RELIGIOUS FAITH!
THE 1960’S
• Mad Magazine and Johnny Carson:
There is nothing sacred!!!!
• Frank Sinatra: “I did it my way.”
• Debbie Boone: “How can it be wrong
when it feels so right?”
• Invictus: “I am the master of my fate, I
am the captain of my soul.”
• 1961: (Torcaso vs Watkins) Humanism a
religion protected by 1st amendment
(AHA is a 501c 3 religious tax exempt non-profit)
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• 1962: (Engel vs Vitale) Prayer banned
• 1963: (Abington vs Schempp) Bible reading
forbidden in schools
• 1968: (Epperson vs Arkansas) Laws against
teaching Evolution now unconstitutional
• 1973: Humanist Manifesto 2 + Roe v Wade =
(ABORTION IS IN!)
• 1980: (Stone vs Graham) Ten Commandments
out of schools
• 1982: (McLean vs Arkansas) Law mandating
creation and evolution banned
• 1987: (Aguillard vs Edwards)
God Himself is out
of the U.S.A.!
• 2003: Supreme court throws out Texas
sodomy law and homosexuality is in.
• 2005: Court mandated murder (euthanasia)
is in (Terri Schaivo).
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Theology
Philosophy
Ethics
Biology
Psychology
Sociology
Law
Politics
Economics
History
ART
MUSIC
MATHEMATICS
PUT ALL OF THIS
TOGETHER AND YOU HAVE:
CULTURE
SATAN’S WORLD SYSTEM
SAYS:
• There is no right or wrong!
• There are no absolutes!
• Everything is relative!
• Who’s to say!
• Whatever!
FOUR FORBIDDEN SENTENCES!
• THERE IS NO RIGHT OR WRONG!
• The major assumption behind this
sentence is that the person saying it
is claiming he or she is right in
saying that there is no right or
wrong! We have a statement that
negates itself.
FOUR FORBIDDEN SENTENCES!
• THERE ARE NO ABSOLUTES!
• This sentence is intended to be
an absolute statement. If there
are no absolutes, then this
sentence is not absolute and it
negates itself and means
nothing!
FOUR FORBIDDEN SENTENCES!
• WHO’S TO SAY?
• This sentence intends to silence
someone who is taking a position. In
other words, “You have no right to say
that!” This negates itself, if no one has
a right to take a position, then no one
has a right to say “Who’s to say?”
because that is taking a position!
FOUR FORBIDDEN SENTENCES!
• EVERYTHING IS RELATIVE!
• The authorial intent of this
sentence is that it is an absolute
statement. If everything is relative,
then this sentence is part of
everything and is itself relative.
Then it negates itself.
WORLDVIEWS CLASH
• The ethics of Christianity teach moral
absolutes. Some things are always
right and some things are always
wrong.
• The ethics of the Humanist worldview
is called Moral Relativism. Nothing is
always right and nothing is always
wrong. It all depends on the situation.
EXAMPLE: ETHICS OF HUMANISTS IS
MORAL RELATIVISM
• “Moral Relativism” is the idea of the
Humanists that there are NO ABSOLUTES
• If a professor teaches that there are no
absolutes, a pertinent question is: “Are you
sure there are no absolutes, Professor?”
• Professor: “Yes, there is no such thing as
an absolute, everything is relative.”
Student: “Are you absolutely sure,
Professor?”
Prof.: “Well aren’t you a clever student! I will
admit that there is one absolute and that is
that there are no absolutes.”
Student: “Could there be two absolutes?”
Prof.: “NO!” Student: “Are you sure?”
Prof.: “Yes, of this I am sure!”
Student: “Are you absolutely sure?”
MORAL RELATIVISM
Some things to as the Professor:
• “Is it a moral absolute that it is wrong for a
student to murder their professor?”
• “Is it a moral absolute that the mass killings
of Hitler were wrong?” [911]
• “Is it a moral absolute that we should not
torture babies for fun?”
• “Is it a moral absolute that the murder of
young at T. Sq., in China was wrong?”
MORAL RELATIVISM: HOMOSEXUALITY IS
AN ALTERNATIVE LIFESTYLE
WHAT DOES THE GOD OF THE BIBLE SAY?
Fellow Christians have you become
confused on this issue? There should be no
confusion here!
• Genesis 13:13, Homosexuality is sin and
wickedness!
• Genesis 18:20, Homosexuality is grievous
sin!
• Genesis 19:7, Homosexuality is wicked!
• Leviticus 18:22, Homosexuality is an
abomination.
• Deuteronomy 23:17-18, Homosexuality
is an abomination to the Lord of Hosts.
• 1 Kings 14:24, Homosexuality(sodomy)
is an abomination.
• Romans 1:24, Homosexuality
dishonors your own body.
• Romans1:26, Lesbianism is a “vile
affection.
• Romans 1:26b Lesbianism “...is against
nature.”
• Romans 1:27, Homosexuality is unseemly
• Romans 1:28, Homosexuality is the fruit of a
“reprobate mind.”
• 1 Corinthians 6:9, Effeminate (“male
prostitutes” NIV) and abusers of themselves with mankind (homosexuals NAS)
“shall not inherit the kingdom of God”
WORLDVIEW IDEAS HAVE CONSEQUENCES
AND ITS ASSUMPTIONS DETERMINE
CONCLUSIONS
• You interpret what you see
based on what you already
believe (assume).
ASSUMPTIONS DETERMINE
CONCLUSIONS
• When talking with an atheist, don’t tell
him/her how stupid they are for not
acknowledging the existence of God, but
ask him/her “Why do you believe in
Atheism?”
• What evidence did you find that convinced
you that God does not exist?
• Is there any kind of evidence about the
reality of God that I might share with you
that you might consider?
• You do not claim to know everything about
everything, so could God possibly exist in
the sphere of things that you do not know?
• This same Atheist may tell you that
language has no inherent meaning.
• This is called POSTMODERN
DECONSTRUCTIONISM.
DECONSTRUCTIONISM
• Simple Def. = Language means what it
means to you=no absolute meaning.
• Ask a Deconstructionist: “Well, if
language has no inherent meaning then
do your statements mean anything?”
• “Prof., if words have no inherent meaning, then why should I buy your
textbook or listen to your lectures?
Does a red stop sign have any meaning
for you, Professor?”
DECONSTRUCTIONISM IS A PART
OF POSTMODERNISM
• Postmodernism is a worldview.
• Postmodernists believe that truth is
created by the life story of the individual.
• A Postmodernist might say, “I have my
truth and you have your truth.”
• In other words in a certain sense you
create your own reality. No absolute truth.
• Quite similar to New Age in this respect.
“Dogle”
• Humanists, Marxists, etc., say: “God is dead,”
or “Man is God.”
• Postmodernists agree with Humanists and
Marxists that God is “dead,” but go one step
farther and say of any piece of literature, art or
music “The author is dead!”
• If the author is a product of his/her time, culture,
language, etc., and he/she is dead—then it is
impossible for the reader of their text to get into
their head and understand their intentions.
• There is then no authoritative interpretation
of any text. The meaning is determined by
the reader of the text!
Bill Honsberger, honzl@msn.com says:
• “What then replaces the author’s intent,
unknowable to us all? Well what is left is
different versions of what is called “reader”
response theory. What this means is that
the reader of the text brings to the text
their community’s values, language
games, experiences, ethical concerns or
lack thereof….
Bill Honsberger, honzl@msn.com says:
• The question then for example is not “What was
the Apostle Paul trying to say when he speaks
about propitiation in Romans 3?”, but rather
“What do I/we think Paul was saying based on
our community’s values and concerns. So one
might answer (and they have) that as a lesbian,
feminist community our understanding of the
Bible is based on our values and understanding
and we say that Paul is a homophobic, sexist,
patriarchal evil white man, who was seeking
power over us with his claims to ‘truth’.”
Bill Honsberger, honzl@msn.com says:
• I think there is a direct connection between
Nietzsche’s death of God and the Pomo writers
death of the author. In both cases there is a
denial of any authority (no truth giver) which or
who sits above that of the autonomous human
(the singular man in Existentialism and the
community of humans in PostModern circles)
and therefore all we are left with is the much
tamer opinion or perspective. This is easily dismissed since all have perspectives and no perspective is any closer to an alleged “truth” than
any other.
THE BIBLE IS OBJECTIVE,
CERTAIN TRUE TRUTH!
• Postmodernists claim that there is no
objective, certain, clear, authoritative truth.
• Notice that they must use words that are
clearly understood and objective and
authoritative to make their claim.
• Postmodernists disconnect from reality.
• The ultimate end of postmodern thought is
that the Bible has no meaning of its own.
POSTMODERNISM PENETRATES
CHRISTIANITY VIA: THE
“EMERGING CHURCH.”
• The “Emerging Church” movement (and
Emergent Church, USA) claims to be exiting
“Modernism.”
• Modernism is seen as a synonym for the
Enlightenment thought of 17th -19th century
Europe.
• Enlightenment, now called “Modernism” has
been an “obstacle to church growth,” so says
the “evangelists” of the Emerging church
• The Emerging Church claims that Modernism
(European Enlightenment Thought) was
concerned with:
– Truth
– Certainty
– Individualism
– Colonialism
– Objectivity
– Ethical absolutes
– And a host of other “evils.”
Postmodernism rejects all of the above!
• The Emerging Church is rapidly moving
toward the “Mother Catholic Church.”
• Communion is now called the Eucharist.
• Incense is burned to enhance worship.
• Stained glass is projected for mood.
• Lights are dimmed.
• Candles are lit.
• The Bible is de-emphasized.
• Techniques of Pagan mysticism are
promoted.
HEBREWS 13:8-9
8
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to
day, and for ever. 9 Be not carried about
with divers and strange doctrines.
GALATIANS 6:7-8
7
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for
whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he
also reap. 8 For he that soweth to his flesh
shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he
that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit
reap life everlasting.
• The cure for the problems in The Church
(of historical Christianity), according to
prominent “Emerging Church” writers, is to
adapt to and accept the worldview and
values of the predominant postmodern
culture.
• In other words, to minister to the
postmodern culture we Christians must, to
a great extent, live out the postmodern
value system ourselves. We must become
“…all things to all people.”
HANG ON A MINUTE….
1 Corinthians 9:22
“To the weak became I as weak, that I might
gain the weak: I am made all things to all men,
that I might by all means save some.”
Is the Apostle Paul saying in this verse that he
would live out the Postmodern lifestyle to win
postmodernists to the Gospel?
I am made all things to all men,
• Is Paul saying, “I will become an alcoholic to
minister to alcoholics?”
• “I will become a drug addict to minister to drug
addicts.”
• “I will become a fornicator to minister to
fornicators.”
• “I will become a heretic to minister to heretics.”
• “I will deny the absolute Truth of the Bible to
minister to Postmodernists.”
• It is unfortunate that the phrase “all things to all
men” (1 Cor. 9:22) has been used and abused
by the world and made to mean what Paul did
not intend for it to mean. Paul was not a
chameleon who changed his message and
methods with each new situation. Nor was Paul
a compromiser who adjusted his message to
please his audience. He was an ambassador,
not a politician! Wiersbe, W. W. 1996, c1989.
The Bible Exposition Commentary. "An
exposition of the New Testament comprising
the entire 'BE' series"--Jkt. Victor Books:
Wheaton, Ill.
1 Corinthians 8:8-13
• But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we
eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we
the worse. 9 But take heed lest by any means this
liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that
are weak. 10 For if any man see thee which hast
knowledge sit at meat in the idol’s temple, shall not the
conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to
eat those things which are offered to idols; 11 And
through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish,
for whom Christ died? 12 But when ye sin so against
the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin
against Christ. 13 Wherefore, if meat make my brother
to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth,
lest I make my brother to offend.
• The primary purpose of Paul’s not taking full
advantage of his Christian liberty was that [he]
might win the more. He deeply believed that
“he who is wise wins souls” (Prov. 11:30) and
was willing to do anything and to sacrifice
anything to win people to Jesus Christ. As far
as his rights were concerned he was free from
all men, but because of his love for all men he
would gladly limit those rights for their sakes.
He had, figuratively, become a slave to all. He
would modify his habits, his preferences, his
entire life–style if any of those things caused
someone to stumble, to be offended, or to be
hindered from faith in the Lord. MacArthur, J. 1996,
c1984. 1 Corinthians. Includes indexes. Moody Press: Chicago
“I am made all things to all men,”
• What Paul means by this statement is that he
will voluntarily restrain himself from certain
freedoms he has in Christ so as to not offend a
weaker brother!
• He is not saying that he would become a
Postmodernist in order to witness to a
Postmodernist!
• Paul would not support the Emerging Church.
POSTMODERNISTS CLAIM:
• There are no “truths” which apply to all of us.
• There are no absolute moral standards.
• There are no absolute ethical concerns.
• There is no God.
• There are personal opinions.
• There are personal perspectives.
• See the writings of Nietzsche, Derrida, Lyotard,
Ricouer, Foucault, Rorty, Baudrillard, etc.
• Most Postmodernist thinkers are/were
disillusioned Marxists.
POSTMODERNIST
RICHARD RORTY:
“I might have written an
account of how even
atheists like myself are
impressed, improved and
morally instructed by
reading Pilgrim’s Progress.”
BABOOPENQUAT?
• Disillusioned Marxists became PostModernists
and now gain strength through Multiculturalism
and its stepchild, Political Correctness, which is
rightly labeled, “Cultural Marxism”.
• Marx and Lenin taught that, given the chance,
European workers would overthrow capitalist
governments and replace them with
communism.
• But after the Russian revolution of 1917 the
Western European workers did not support the
Communist revolution or ideas.
• Why not?
• Christianity and its moral and ethical absolutes
was the roadblock to the expansion of Marxism.
• This roadblock was noticed by two Marxist
theorists in 1919: Italian, Antonio Gramsci and
Hungarian, Georg Lukacs.
• These two men decided that the spread of
Communism could only be accomplished if
Western Christian culture was destroyed.
• Rev. Jesse Jackson “Hay, hay, ho, ho Western Civ. has gotta to go!”
• So Lukacs introduced sex education into the
public schools of Hungary,1919, believing that if
children knew more about [those things] their
lust for it would overpower their Christian
morals!
• So Gramsci and Lukacs laid the groundwork to
change communism from economic terms
(ownership of private property is evil) into
cultural terms. (tolerance, sex ed, drug ed, etc.)
• Then in 1923 at Frankfurt University in
Germany the Institute for Social Research was
established=The Frankfurt School.
• The Frankfurt School moved to New York City
in 1933 when Hitler came to power.
• Theorists like Wilhelm Reich, Eric Fromm, Max
Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse, etc.
• The Frankfurt School invented “Critical Theory”
which had the goal of demonizing all traditional
institutions such as family, fatherhood,
patriotism, Bible-believing churches, etc.
• The Frankfurt School published “Studies in
Prejudice” which taught that anyone who
believes in traditional Western Christian culture
is prejudiced, a “racist” or “sexist” or “fascist” or
is mentally unstable.
• Mixing Freud with Marx, they perfected the
technique of psychological conditioning—thus,
for example, TV shows Homosexuals=normal.
• TV=Christians are crazy, intolerant fools
For example see: The Humanist magazine,
Nov/Dec 1987
• Featured cover article: “Christianity and Mental
Health: A Psychotherapist looks at how
Christianity may harm mental health,” by Dr.
Wendell Watters.
• The picture on the cover is of a church with a
person on the psychiatrist’s couch and an allwise-looking psychiatrist doing the counselling.
• Herbert Marcuse, working with Hollywood
friends, became a leading “evangelist” of
Cultural Marxism (Political Correctness)
especially on the university campuses of USA.
• “In his book Eros and Civilization, he argued
that by freeing sex from any restraints, we could
elevate the pleasure principle over the reality
principle and create a society with no work, only
play (Marcuse coined the phrase, “Make love,
not war”). Marcuse also argued for what he
called “liberating tolerance,” which he defined
as tolerance for all ideas coming from the Left
and intolerance for any ideas coming from the
• Right. In the late 1960’s Marcuse became the
chief “guru” of the New Left, and he injected the
cultural Marxism of the Frankfurt School into the
baby boom generation, to the point where it is
now America’s state ideology.
• The next conservatism should unmask multiculturalism and Political Correctness and tell the
American people what they really are: cultural
Marxism. Its goal remains that Lukacs and
Gramsci set in 1919: destroying Western
culture and the Christian religion. [see: Wm.
Lind, “Cultural Marxism” The Schwarz Report,
vol. 46, No. 4, p 4. www.schwarzreport.org]
PSALM 19:7-9
• The law of the Lord is perfect, converting
the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure,
making wise the simple.
• The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing
the heart; the commandment of the Lord is
pure enlightening the eyes.
• The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring
forever; the judgments of the Lord are true
and righteous altogether.
PROVERBS 14:12
There is a way which
seemeth right unto a man,
but the end thereof are the
ways of death.
(DECEPTION)
ACCORDING TO BARNA:
• “Teenagers are only mirroring adult
attitudes, 96% of whom do not reflect
the attitudes or actions of Jesus. We
are not living the faith we profess.”
• So what do we all need to do?
2 CORINTHIANS 13:5
• KJV
• 5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the
faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your
own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you,
except ye be reprobates?
• NAS
• Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith;
examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize
this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in
you—unless indeed you fail the test?
So what do we all need to do?
We need to examine ourselves to see if we are
truly in the Faith (saved by faith in the shed
blood and death of Lord Jesus and His bodily
resurrection from the dead, Romans 10:9).
Examine ourselves to decide what is the
predominate influence in our lives. Is it the way
of the world or the way of the Word of God?
What worldview do we actually live out in our
normal, daily lives and routines?
WORLDVIEW GLASSES
DETERMINE CONCLUSIONS
• The worldview ideas of Creation or
Evolution have certain inherent
consequences.
• The assumptions behind the Creation/
Evolution controversy determine the
conclusions you come to regarding the
origin, purpose and destiny of life in
general and your life in particular.
According to the Bible in the Beginning
everything was very good.
Adam was given dominion over the earth.
Then came sin and the curse.
Dominion over the earth was taken from
Adam and given to Satan (Matt. 4:8-10)
John 12:31; 14:30; 16:11
• 31 Now is the judgment of this world: now shall
the prince of this world be cast out.
• 30 Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for
the prince of this world cometh, and hath
nothing in me.
• 11 Of judgment, because the prince of this
world is judged.
2 Corinthians 4:3, 4
• 3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them
that are lost: 4 In whom the god of this
world hath blinded the minds of them
which believe not, lest the light of the
glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image
of God, should shine unto them.
1 John 5:19
• KJV
• 19 And we know that we are of God, and
the whole world lieth in wickedness.
• NAS
• 19 We know that we are of God, and that
the whole world lies in the power of the
evil one.
Ephesians 2:1, 2
• 1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead
in trespasses and sins; 2 Wherein in time past
ye walked according to the course of this world,
according to the prince of the power of the
air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of
disobedience: 3 Among whom also we all had
our conversation in times past in the lusts of our
flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the
mind; and were by nature the children of wrath,
even as others.
SCOPES “MONKEY” TRIAL
• Darwin’s theory of evolution (On the Origin of
Species by Means of Natural Selection or the
Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle
for Life) 1859
• Scopes Trial 1925: William Jennings Bryan:
Could not defend Faith—literal days of Genesis
1. Backlash of his unwillingness to submit to
the authority of Scripture = God and Creation
ultimately out of the classrooms of the world!
QUOTES FROM THE SCOPES TRIAL
• Darrow: Question—Mr. Bryan, do you
believe that Eve was the first woman?
• A—Yes.
• Q—Do you believe she was literally made out
of Adam’s rib?
• A—I Do.
• Q—Did you ever discover where Cain got
his wife?
• A—No sir, I leave the agnostics to hunt for her.
•
•
•
•
•
Q—You have never found out?
A—I have never tried to find.
Q—You have never tried to find?
A—No.
Q—The Bible says he got one, doesn’t it?
Were there other people on the earth at
that time?
• A—I cannot say.
• Q—You cannot say. Did that ever enter
your consideration?
• A—Never bothered me.
• Q—There were no others recorded, but Cain
got a wife?
• A—That is what the Bible says. [Gen. 5:4]
QUOTES FROM THE SCOPES TRIAL
• Darrow continues—Where she came from you
do not know. All right. Does the statement, “The
morning and the evening were the first day,” and
“The morning and the evening were the second
day,” mean anything to you?
• Bryan—I do not think it necessarily means a
twenty-four-hour day.
• Q—You do not?
• A—No. [Ultimately God and Creation out in USA
schools!]
HOW DID WE GET TO NOW?
• Acts 17 to 1636: read Faith and
Freedom by Ben Hart and
Understanding the Times by Dr. David
Noebel
• 1636: John Harvard and Thomas
Sheppherd founded Harvard University
as an Evangelical Christian College
• 1691: John Locke, Essay on Human
Understanding (Root of French Revolution)
• 1805: Harvard goes Unitarian (Jesus is
not God = denial of the Trinity)
.
• 1839: Horace Mann (a Unitarian)
establishes government-sponsored
education (Public Education) in Mass.
• 1848: Karl Marx publishes the Political
Economy. Main idea is Socialism and
Private Property is Evil.
• 1859: Charles Darwin, Origin of
Species by Means of Natural Selection
or the Preservation of Favored Races
in the Struggle for Life =
(EVOLUTION = 1859!)
• 1859: Marx and Engels, Das Capitol =
(Socialism and abolition of private property)
• 1859: Richard Wagner, Tristan and
Isolde = (Immorality and Materialism)
• 1860-1900: Nietzche, (God is Dead,
Nihilism: no meaning to life)
IDEAS HAVE CONSEQUENCES!
1925—SCOPES TRIAL
• Atheist Clarence Darrow gets William Jennings
Bryan to admit that he did not know where Cain
got his wife and that he did not know how long
the Genesis 1 days were, but they could be
millions of years.
• Darrow’s question: “You think those were not
literal days?”
• Bryan’s answer: “I do not think they were 24
hour days.” [Bryan departed from Biblical
authority and students now reap the penalty.]
1925—SCOPES TRIAL
• 1925 opened the floodgates of “popular
opinion” (evolution and millions of years) versus
BIBLICAL AUTHORITY and the Humanists
came out of the closet.
• By 1929 the first Humanist church was
established and America was into the Great
Depression!
• Could the God of the Bible have been judging
America’s departure into evolutionism from
BIBLICAL AUTHORITY?
WORLDVIEWS CLASH
• The ethics of Christianity teach moral
absolutes. Some things are always
right and some things are always
wrong.
• The ethics of the Humanist worldview
is called Moral Relativism. Nothing is
always right and nothing is always
wrong. It all depends on the situation.
• 1929: First Humanist Church of N. Y. City
established by Charles Francis Potter
• 1930: John Dewey = Atheist, Humanist,
Pres. of The League for Industrial Demo.,
Public Education = Secular Humanism
• 1933: Humanist Manifesto I
• 1934: A Common Faith, John Dewey, Pub.
by Yale U. Press =
Humanism is a
RELIGIOUS FAITH!
“Even if all the data point to an
intelligent designer, such an
hypothesis is excluded from science
because it is not naturalistic.”
• Scott C. Todd, (Kansas State University Immunologist): Nature,
September 30, 2000, Letters to the editor.
THE GOD OF THE BIBLE IS OUT!
“It is not that the methods and institutions of
science somehow compel us to accept a
material explanation of the phenomenal
world, but on the contrary, that we are
forced by an a priori [up front] adherence
to material causes to create an apparatus
of investigation and a set of concepts that
produce material explanations no matter
how counter-intuitive, no matter how mys-
tifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that
materialism is absolute, for
we
cannot allow a divine foot
in the door.”
Dr. Richard Lewontin, “Billions and Billions of Demons,”
The New York Review, Jan. 9, 1997, p. 31
Total intolerance for even the idea
of God the Creator.
The issue is GOD!
ROMANS 1:28-32
And even as they did not like to retain God in their
knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind,
to do those things which are not convenient [not
proper]; Being filled with all unrighteousness,
fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness;
full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity;
whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful,
proud boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to
parents, Without understanding, covenantbreakers,
without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who
knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit
such things are worthy of death, not only do the same,
but have pleasure in them that do them.
When we as a nation, a people, depart from the
authority of God’s Holy Word, the Bible,
starting with the book of Genesis, and we
accept evolutionary thought and theory (matter
is all there is, we are evolving animals, the
earth is billions of years old), all manner of
mischief and evil creep into our country and
into our culture!
IDEAS HAVE CONSEQUENCES
GENESIS 1:1
“In the beginning God
created the heaven and
the earth.”
REVELATION 4:11
“Thou art worthy, O Lord, to
receive glory and honour and
power: for thou hast created all
things, and for thy pleasure
they are and were created.”
SATAN’S DECEPTION
• Replace Biblical Creation with millions of years
and evolution, and, next, it is easy to get God
out. (Evolution = we can be here via evolution
with no need for God.)
• When evolution is in and God is out, the world,
the flesh and the devil rule and Satan’s
deception is complete, in all its rebellion.
• The rebellion begins in the home: Pride and
selfishness rule (example: husbands don’t
lead, children know better than parents how
to run their lives, etc.).
SATAN’S DECEPTION
• If evolution is true then Jesus is not the Creator.
• If Jesus is not the Creator then He does not
have the authority and right to be the Savior.
• If Jesus is not the Savior, then the Bible is
not true.
• If the Bible is not true, then let us eat, drink and
be merry for tomorrow we die.
• If tomorrow we die, then all we have is the “lust
of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of
life…which is of the world.” 1 John 2:16
WHEN GOD IS OUT, ATHEISTIC
HUMANISM IS IN!
• “Education is the most powerful ally of
Humanism, and every American school is
a school of Humanism. What can the
theistic Sunday Schools, meeting for an
hour once a week, and teaching only a
fraction of the children, do to stem the tide
of a five-day program of humanistic
teaching?”
Charles Francis Potter
Humanism: A New Religion, (New York: Simon and
Schuster), 1930
“A RELIGION FOR A NEW AGE”
The battle for humankind’s future must be
waged and won in the public school classroom
by teachers who correctly perceive their role as
the proselytizers of a new faith: a religion of
humanity that recognizes and respects the
spark of what theologians call divinity in every
human being. These teachers must embody the
same selfless dedication as the most rabid
fundamentalist preachers, for they will be
ministers of another sort, utilizing a classroom
instead of a pulpit to convey humanist values in
whatever subject they teach, regardless of the
educational level—preschool day care or large
state university. The classroom must and will
become an arena of conflict between the old
and the new—the rotting corpse of Christianity,
together with all its adjacent evils and misery,
and the new faith of humanism, resplendent in
its promise of a world in which the never realized Christian ideal of “love thy neighbor” will
finally be achieved….humanism will emerge
triumphant. It must if the family of humankind is
to survive.
John Dunphy,
The Humanist, (Jan. 1983, pp. 23-26)
RELIGIOUS HUMANISTS TEACH
EVOLUTION IN OUR SCHOOLS!
• The American Humanist Association is a
religious, tax-exempt organization.
• At last notice the AHA was REGISTERED
WITH THE IRS as a 501(c)3 just like our
churches!
• Evolution is the faith-based religious
foundation of Humanism.
• [For more see Clergy in the Classroom: The
Religion of Secular Humanism, David Noebel]
• If we call ourselves
“Christians” we must submit
to the authority of God’s
Word, the Bible, and it is
absolutely true when it says:
• “My help cometh from the Lord, which made
heaven and earth.”
Psalm 121:2
• “Our help is in the name of the Lord, who
made heaven and earth.”
Psalm 124:8
• “The Lord that made heaven and earth bless
thee out of Zion.”
Psalm 134:3
• “Ah Lord God! Behold. Thou hast made the
heaven and the earth by Thy great power and
stretched out arm, and there is nothing too
hard for Thee.”
Jeremiah 32:17
“The heavens declare the glory of God;
and the firmament showeth his
handiwork.”
Psalm 19:1
• “Through faith we understand that the
worlds were framed by the word of God,
so that things which are seen were not
made of things which do appear.”
Hebrews 11:3
• “By the word of the Lord were the heavens
made; and all the host of them by the
breath of his mouth….For he spake and it
was done.”
Psalm 33:6,9a
WHY WOULD A TRUE CHRISTIAN
BELIEVE IN EVOLUTION?
• “How can ye believe, which receive honour
one of another, and seek not the honour that
cometh from God only?”
John 5:44
• “For they loved the praise of men more
than the praise of God.”
John 12:43
•PRIDE?
PROVERBS 16:18
• Pride goeth before
destruction, and an haughty
spirit before a fall.
REMEMBER
REVELATION 4:11
• “Thou art worthy, O Lord, to
receive glory and honour and
power: for thou hast created all
things, and for thy pleasure
they are and were created.”
GOD WON’T SHARE HIS GLORY!
“[A]nd I will not give my glory unto another.”
Isaiah 48:11c
• Evolution robs God of His glory!
• Evolution steals God’s praise!
• Christian: Are you believing the words of
men (evolution) or the Word of God?
• If you accept evolution, is it because of
pride?
1 PETER 5:5-7
Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves
unto the elder. Yea, all of you be
subject one to another, and be clothed
with humility: for God resisteth the
proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
6 Humble yourselves therefore under
the mighty hand of God, that he may
exalt you in due time: 7 Casting all your
care upon him; for he careth for you.
• The God of all creation cares about us!
• The Creator-Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
loves us and wants a relationship with us.
• Christianity is not a religion, it is a
relationship with our loving Lord.
• “For by grace are ye saved through faith;
and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of
God: Not of works, lest any man should
boast. For we are his workmanship,
created in Christ Jesus unto good works,
which God hath before ordained that we
should walk in them.”
Ephesians 2:8-10
ISAIAH 40:28
“Hast thou not known? hast thou
not heard, that the everlasting
God, the LORD, the Creator of
the ends of the earth, fainteth
not, neither is weary? there is
no searching of his
understanding.”
Where is the evidence
that slime plus time
produces music?
ASSUMPTION: “Something taken for
granted and supposed to be true” (Webster)
~ Evolutionist, Dr. G. A. Kerkut lists the
assumptions (GUESSES) of macroevolution:
 1st:
Spontaneous Generation occurred.
 2nd: It only occurred once: (non-life to life).
 3rd: Viruses, plants and animals are all related.
[Because all come from that 1st speck of life in
that primordial sea. QUESTION: What did the
1st speck of life eat?]
Macroevolution is not scientifically
testable, verifiable, reproducible.
– The 4th assumption: Protozoa [one cell]
gave rise to Metazoa [multiple cells].
– The 5th assumption: All invertebrate [no
backbone] phyla are interrelated.
– The 6th assumption: Invertebrates gave rise
to the vertebrates [backbone].
– The 7th assumption: Fish to Amphibians to
Reptiles to Birds and Mammals.
The
th
7
assumption in the words
of evolutionist Kerkut:
– “The 7th assumption is that within the vertebrates
the fish gave rise to amphibia, the amphibia to
reptiles and the reptiles to birds and mammals.”
[evolution in totality]
– The Creator says, “All flesh is not the same flesh:
but there is one kind of flesh of men, another of
beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.”
1 Corinthians 15:39
ARE EVOLUTIONARY ASSUMPTIONS VALID?
WHAT DO WE SEE?
We see discrete entities = no duckie-chicks
or horsey-cows.
ARE EVOLUTIONARY ASSUMPTIONS
VALID?
• WHAT DO WE SEE?
• We see extinction of present life forms—not the
emergence of new life forms.
• We see each life form producing after its own
kind in the fossils and in living things. It is quite
unmistakeably obvious that the missing links
(code named “transitional forms”) are indeed
nowhere to be found—the missing links are
truly missing! All life reproduces its own kind.
LET’S TAKE A LOOK AT A
PASSAGE OF
ROMANS 1:16, ff
• 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel
of Christ: for it is the power of God
unto salvation to every one that
believeth; to the Jew first, and also to
the Greek. 17 For therein is the
righteousness of God revealed from
faith to faith: as it is written, the just
shall live by faith.
• 18 For the wrath of God is revealed from
heaven against all ungodliness and
unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth
in unrighteousness; 19 Because that which
may be known of God is manifest in them;
for God hath shewed it unto them. 20 For
the invisible things of him from the creation
of the world are clearly seen, being
understood by the things that are made,
even his eternal power and Godhead; so
that they are without excuse:
• 21 Because that, when they knew God,
they glorified him not as God, neither
were thankful; but became vain in their
imaginations, and their foolish heart
was darkened. 22 Professing
themselves to be wise, they became
fools, 23 And changed the glory of the
uncorruptible God into an image made
like to corruptible man, and to birds,
and fourfooted beasts, and creeping
things.
• 24 Wherefore God also gave them up to
uncleanness through the lusts of their
own hearts, to dishonour their own
bodies between themselves: 25 Who
changed the truth of God into a lie, and
worshipped and served the creature
more than the Creator, who is blessed
for ever. Amen.
COULD A GIRAFFE
EVOLVE?
The Evolution of a Creationist, p.131
IRREDUCIBLE COMPLEXITY
• A giraffe and a Chempedak tree are
irreducibly complex.
• In reducing fractions—you reduce them
down until they can be reduced no farther.
• Only the Creator could make a giraffe!
• Only the Lord Jesus could make a
Chempedak tree.
• Lord Jesus is the Creator:
• John 1, Colossians 1, Hebrews 1.
• Psalm 1 tells us there are two paths to walk on.
• One of the most controversial issues today in the
schools and even in the church is that of origins. Was
it God creating or was it the big bang, or was it a
hybrid of both?
• Even Hollywood asks the questions:
– Where did I come from?
– Where am I going?
– How much time do I have left?
The Bible tells us the answer to those questions.
Since no one was there when this universe came into being,
then it is a matter of faith:
Faith in Eternal God
Or faith in eternal matter
In this series on the creation/evolution controversy certain
facts will be addressed that will enable us to better
understand the issues.
It’s a battle of worldviews: Our ideas DO have consequences~
Dr. Carl Sagan:
“The cosmos is all that
is or ever was or ever
will be.”
• Cosmos, 1980. page 4
PROVERBS 14:12
There is a way which
seemeth right unto a man,
but the end thereof are the
ways of death.
(DECEPTION)
• In the Creation/Evolution controversy
the main issue is God! If there is a God
then He is my Creator and Judge. The
only way to intellectually get rid of God
is to accept worldviews that are built on
evolution.
JEREMIAH 10:10-12
“But the LORD is the true God, he is the living
God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the
earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be
able to abide his indignation. Thus shall ye say
unto them, The gods that have not made the
heavens and the earth, even they shall perish
from the earth, and from under these heavens.
He hath made the earth by his power, he hath
established the world by his wisdom, and hath
stretched out the heavens by his discretion.”
ISAIAH 53:5-6
Isaiah 53 speaks of Messiah Jesus:
“But he was wounded for our transgressions, he
was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement
of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes
we are healed. All we like sheep have gone
astray; we have turned every one to his own
way; and the LORD hath laid on him [Jesus] the
iniquity of us all.”
ISAIAH 44:24
“Thus saith the LORD, thy
redeemer, and he that formed
thee from the womb, I am the
LORD that maketh all things;
that stretcheth forth the
heavens alone; that spreadeth
abroad the earth by myself.”
The Creator, the Lord
Jesus Christ, is the
Redeemer!