Creation…
Why does it matter?
Why does it matter what a
Christian believes about
Creation and Evolution?
Why Does It Matter?
• “Why can’t we just teach the essentials?”
– Jesus Christ is the Son of God
– He died on the cross for our sins
– He was raised from the dead
• What do you mean by sin?
– Rebellion against God?
• How do you know this?
– When did it start?
•
http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v19/i2/narrow.asp The narrow road by Ken Ham
Why Does It Matter?
• This is the ultimate “essential.” It is the
first order of essence; an inseparable part
of the gospel.
Jesus IS the Creator!
Creation IS the Gospel!
Creation IS the Gospel
John 1:1-3,10
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word
was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He
was with God in the beginning. 3 Through Him
all things were made; without Him nothing was
made that has been made… 10 He was in the
world, and though the world was made through
Him, the world did not recognize Him.
Creation IS the Gospel
Colossians 1:15-17
15 He is the image of the invisible God, the
firstborn over all creation. 16 for by Him all
things were created: things in heaven and on
earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or
powers or rulers or authorities; all things were
created by Him and for Him. 17 He is before all
things, and in Him all things hold together.
Creation IS the Gospel
The Gospel starts with Genesis!
Paul preached the Gospel starting with Moses and
the prophets (Acts 28:23).
“…there came many to him into his lodging; to
whom he expounded and testified the
kingdom of God, persuading them
concerning Jesus, both out of the law of
Moses, and out of the prophets, from
morning till evening.”
Creation IS the Gospel
The Gospel starts with Genesis!
Whenever Paul presented the Gospel to “Greeks”
(non-Jews), he began with the Creator
(Acts 14 and 17).
Creation IS the Gospel
The Gospel starts with Genesis!
Acts 14
“…abandon these silly god-superstitions
and embrace God himself, the living God. We
don't make God; he makes us, and all of
this — sky, earth, sea, and everything in
them." Acts 14:15b (The Message)
Creation IS the Gospel
The Gospel starts with Genesis!
Acts 17
 “…When I arrived here the other day, I was fascinated
with all the shrines I came across. And then I found one
inscribed, TO THE GOD NOBODY KNOWS. I'm here to
introduce you to this God so you can worship intelligently,
know who you're dealing with. The God who made the
world and everything in it, this Master of sky and land …He
makes the creatures; the creatures don't make him. Starting
from scratch, he made the entire human race …”
Acts 17:23-26 (The Message)
Creation IS the Gospel
The Gospel starts with Genesis!
Paul realized that before he could preach about the
Cross of Jesus, he had to establish the foundation
on which it rests.
Creation IS the Gospel
The Gospel starts with Genesis!
The only reason the Gospel could be
preached to Jews without “starting” in
Genesis is that the Jews already believed the
Genesis account.
They already believed,
at least in general terms,
Moses and the prophets.
Creation IS the Gospel
The Gospel starts with Genesis!
• Our rebellion, our sin, started with the Fall.
• The Fall is an essential reality to our Faith.
• The Fall affected all aspects of man
as well as the world, and the rest of the
universe.
Creation IS the Gospel
• The Fall brought death
• As a result, death came into the universe. Death
is an intrusion. Man was not created to die. We
have a right to cry at a funeral. Romans 5:12
says, “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered
into the world, and death by sin; and so death
passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.”
http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/feedback/2006/0804.asp
Why is biblical creation important? By Donald E. Chittick
Creation IS the Gospel
• The Fall brought death
• Death entered the world when man sinned. In
fact, man’s sin affected the entire creation
Romans 8:22, “For we know that the whole
creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together
until now.”
http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/feedback/2006/0804.asp
Why is biblical creation important? By Donald E. Chittick
Creation IS the Gospel
• The Fall brought death
• Romans 6:23, “For the wages of sin is death; but
the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ
our Lord.”
http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/feedback/2006/0804.asp
Why is biblical creation important? By Donald E. Chittick
It’s the Foundation of our Faith
Every single Biblical doctrine of theology,
directly or indirectly, ultimately has its basis
in the book of Genesis.
http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v6/i2/creation.asp
The relevance of creation by Ken Ham
It’s the Foundation of our Faith
Let’s list a few:
Marriage
Clothes
Law
Morality
Death
Sin
Murder
Adultery
It’s the Foundation of our Faith
If you destroy the foundation of something,
you destroy the “something.”
 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the
righteous do? Psalm 11:3
That is why Satan is so adamant about
destroying belief in Genesis!
Believing in Evolution…
• Casts Doubt on God’s Word
• Attacks Inerrancy of Scripture
• Undermines Authority of Scripture
• Calls Jesus a liar
• Calls God Evil
• Is ungodly doctrine
Casts Doubt on God’s Word
To believe in Evolution in ANY form, you must place
death before sin.
However, if death was around for millions of years
before man,
the idea
of death
“the wages of
Where
does
itbeing
stop?
sin” is a myth. Death was already here!
If you’re going to cast doubt on the “six days” in
Genesis chapter 1 in order to fit millions of years
into the Bible, you also cast doubt on Romans
5:12-14, 6:23, and 8:22, the verses we read earlier,
and many other verses.
Casts Doubt on God’s Word
• …the whole justification of Jesus' life and death
is predicated on the existence of Adam and the
forbidden fruit he and Eve ate. Without the
original sin, who needs to be redeemed?
Without Adam's fall into a life of constant sin
terminated by death, what purpose is there to
Christianity?
None.
http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/edn-c003.html
Casts Doubt on God’s Word
Adam and Eve?
• Virtually every high school student understands
that in the evolutionary description of our
origins there is no place for an Adam or an Eve,
an Eden, or a forbidden fruit.
• Evolution means a development from one form
to the next to meet the ever-changing
challenges from an ever-changing nature.
There is no fall from a previous state of sublime
perfection.
http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/edn-c003.html
Casts Doubt on God’s Word
• Without Adam, without the original
sin, Jesus Christ is reduced to a man
with a mission on the wrong planet!“
http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/edn-c003.html
Attacks Inerrancy of Scripture
• We say we believe in the Inerrancy of
Scripture.
• Are parts of God’s Word wrong?
• If one part is wrong, how do we know
other parts aren’t wrong?
Attacks Inerrancy of Scripture
• Jesus indicated we are to believe the
writings of Moses:
“… ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the
Prophets, they will not be convinced even if
someone rises from the dead.’” Lk.16:31
“… ‘How foolish you are, and how slow of
heart to believe all that the prophets have
spoken!’ ” Lk.24:25
Attacks Inerrancy of Scripture
• What books did Moses write?
– Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers,
and Deuteronomy.
• What is the Book of Moses most quoted by Jesus?
– Genesis
• What is the Book of Moses most quoted in the
New Testament?
– Genesis
Attacks Inerrancy of Scripture
• Was Jesus telling us to believe only what
Moses wrote about Him?
• No, he said “…all that the prophets have
spoken.”
• If all of what the prophets and Moses wrote
is not true, why should a person rely on
any of it?
Undermines Authority of
Scripture
• Can we throw out the parts of God’s Word
we don’t like?
• The only way we know anything about
being a Christian is through God’s Word.
• Without God’s Word, there can be no
Christians, for we would know nothing
about Jesus Christ and what he has done
for all people.
Undermines Authority of
Scripture
• Once you start reinterpreting some of
Scripture according to man’s theories,
all of Scripture becomes subject to
interpretation.
• All truth becomes relative.
Undermines Authority of
Scripture
• We have faith in Jesus Christ, and we
believe the things he believed and taught:
God’s Word
Undermines Authority of
Scripture
• Jesus is the Word that became flesh
and dwelt among us. John 1:14
• Believing God’s Word is what it means
to be a Christian.
• If you don’t like God’s Word, perhaps
you should be something else.
Undermines Authority of
Scripture
• Jesus is the “last Adam.”
 “So it is written: ‘The first man Adam
became a living being’; the last Adam, a
life-giving spirit.” 1Corinthians 15:45
• If the first Adam is allegorical, why should
the last Adam be real?
Undermines Authority of
Scripture
• Adam’s sin brought physical death
 “For since death came through a man, the
resurrection of the dead comes also through
a man. For as in Adam all die, so in Christ
all will be made alive.” 1Corinthians 15:21-22
• Jesus’ sacrifice brought physical
resurrection.
Calls Jesus a Liar!
 “...the one who does not believe God has made Him a liar...” 1
John 5:10
 “...let God be found true, though every man be found a liar...”
Romans 3:4
 “For what does the Scripture say? ‘Abraham believed God,
and it was credited to him as righteousness.’ ”
Romans 4:3
 “Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy
righteous judgments endureth for ever.”
Psalm 119:160
Calls Jesus a Liar!
Jesus referred to Genesis and the Old Testament
as truth many times:
Reference
Genesis
Matthew 19:4
Mark 10:6
Matthew 19:56
Mark 10:79
Matthew 23:35
Luke 11:51
Matthew 24:37-39
Mark 13:19
John 8:44
Topic
Genesis Reference
Created male and female
Created male and female
Cleave to his wife; become one flesh
Cleave to his wife, become one flesh
Righteous Abel
Blood of Abel
Noah and the Flood
Creation which God created
Father of lies
1:27, 5:2
1:27, 5:2
2:24
2:24
4:4
4:8-11
6:1-22, 7:1-24, 8:1-22
1:1, 2:4
3:45
Old Testament
Luke 16:31
Luke 24:25
Moses and the Prophets
Believe all that the prophets have spoken
*Does the New Testament Support Genesis 1-11?,
In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood,
By Dr. Walt Brown. http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/FAQ44.html
Calls Jesus a Liar!
If Jesus referred to Genesis
and the writings of
Moses and the prophets as truth,
and they are not true,
Jesus is a liar.
Calls God Evil!
Our God is Good!
All the time!
Right?
Calls God Evil!
Is disease a good thing?
Is suffering a good thing?
Is cancer a good thing?
Is death a good thing?
Calls God Evil!
If you try to add millions of years to the
Bible, you’ve got millions of years of death
and suffering before sin.
— And God called it good!
Calls God Evil!
Billions of Dead Things Before Sin
• The fossil record is “Billions of dead things buried in rock
layers laid down by water all over the earth.”
-Ken Ham
• God says death came into the world through sin
after creation was finished.
• Under evolutionary hypothesis, the fossil record marks
millions of years of suffering and death.
• If you try to say God created through evolution, then you
have millions of years of suffering and death before sin.
• When God finished his creation, He called it “very good.”
• How could a good God call suffering and death
“very good?” (Gen.1:31)
Calls God Evil!
Adding millions of years to the Bible in ANY form
says God used
suffering,
terror,
and death
to create
—over and over again.
It says God created disease and malady,
corruption and deformedness.
How could God be good if He did this?
Calls God Evil!
Many evolutionists, including the late
Carl Sagan, point this out in ridicule.
“Evolution would be the most wasteful,
inefficient, and cruel process that could
ever be conceived by which to ‘create’
human beings. It is absurd to suggest that
the omnipotent, omniscient, loving, and
saving God of the Bible could ever be guilty
of such a thing!”
– The Long War Against God, Dr. Henry Morris, p.109
Calls God Evil!
Atheists seem to understand the situation
better than the majority of Christians.
Here’s a quote from the “American Atheist”
magazine:
“Christianity has fought, still fights, and will fight
science [sic] to the desperate end over evolution,
because evolution destroys utterly and finally the
very reason Jesus’ earthly life was supposedly
made necessary.... If Jesus was not the
redeemer who died for our sins, and this is what
evolution means, then Christianity is nothing!”
– Genesis and Evolution, American Atheist 30 (Jan.1988):7, as quoted in The Long
War Against God, Dr. Henry Morris, p.119
Calls God Evil!
Atheist Jacques Monod (noted for his contributions to molecular biology and
philosophy) said:
‘… selection is the blindest, and most cruel way of evolving
new species, and more and more complex and refined
organisms … the more cruel because it is a process of
elimination, of destruction. The struggle for life and the
elimination of the weakest is a horrible process, against
which our whole modern ethic revolts. An ideal society is
a non-selective society, it is one where the weak are
protected; which is exactly the reverse of the so-called
natural law. I AM SURPRISED THAT A CHRISTIAN
WOULD DEFEND THE IDEA THAT THIS IS THE
PROCESS WHICH GOD MORE OR LESS SET UP IN
ORDER TO HAVE EVOLUTION’ (emphasis added).
•
The relevance of creation –Quoted from an interview broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting
Commission on the June 10th, 1976 as a tribute to Monod and entitled ‘The Secret of Life’, by Ken Ham
http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v6/i2/creation.asp
Ungodly Doctrine
A Christian must not believe in Evolution
because…
• It’s the doctrine of atheists
– Its purpose is to explain our existence without God
Why should we adopt an explanation that doesn’t need
God?
• It’s the lie from Satan
– “Did God really say…(Genesis 3:1) He created in six days?”
The loss of faith comes from doubting the Word of God.
What Is The Gospel?
• Part I
– Man was created with no imperfection;
designed to live forever
– Man had fellowship with God
– Man rebelled and became separated from
God
– Man became cursed with death
What Is The Gospel?
• Part II
– God provided a path of redemption through
death
– Jesus, God’s son, took the penalty for our sin,
and conquered death
– Through faith in Jesus, we can spend eternity
with God.
What Is The Gospel?
• Part III
– New Heavens
– New Earth
– New Jerusalem
– All things restored to what they would have
been all along:
Life without suffering or death in a perfect place
with our Redeemer and God.
His name be praised forever!
What Is The Gospel?
Amen.
References
• The Relevance of Creation
By Ken Ham
http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v6/i2/creation.asp
• Creation Evangelism (Part II of Relevance of Creation)
By Ken Ham
http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v6/i2/creationII.asp
• Evolution or Creation: What difference does it make?
http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/edn-c003.html
• Why is biblical creation important?
By Donald E. Chittick
http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/feedback/2006/0804.asp
• Does the New Testament Support Genesis 1-11?,
In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood,
By Dr. Walt Brown.
http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/FAQ44.html