Genesis 1:1: "In the beginning
God created the heavens
and the earth." (NIV)
Trust God's Word!
It is always right.
Dr. Jason Lisle - The Ultimate
Proof of Creation
1 Peter 3:15: "But sanctify
the Lord God in your hearts,
and always be ready to
give a defense to everyone
who asks you a reason for
the hope that is in you, with
meekness and fear." (NKJV)
Worldview: The network of our most
basic beliefs (presuppositions)
about reality in light of which all
observations are interpreted.
Hebrew "yom" - 24-hour period
bounded by morning
and evening.
Romans 5:12: "Therefore, just as
sin entered the world through
one man, and death through sin,
and in this way death came to all
people, because all sinned."
(NIV)
Evidence
is All
Evidence Useful but not All
Faith
is All
The New Answers Books from
Answers in Genesis
Worldviews:
Rescuing Device - A conjecture
(guess, speculation) designed
to save a person's view from
apparently contrary evidence.
The Bible is like corrective lenses.
The Christian's Ultimate
Standard is the Bible.
Matthew 12:30: "'Whoever is not
with me is against me, and
whoever does not gather with
me scatters.'" (NIV)
Good Worldview needs to:
1. Be Logically Consistent
2. Provide Rational Reason for
Preconditions of Intelligibility
Christian worldview has no internal
contradictions. We expect the
preconditions of intelligibility...God
created our memory and senses,
and the laws of logic reflect God's
thinking.
Proverbs 1:7: "The fear of the
Lord is the beginning of
knowledge, but fools despise
wisdom and instruction." (NKJV)
The Ultimate Proof of Creation
If Biblical creation were not true,
we could not know anything!
Don't Answer, Answer Strategy
Proverbs 26:4-5: "Do not answer a
fool according to his folly, lest you
also be like him. Answer a fool
according to his folly, lest he be
wise in his own eyes."
The Ultimate Proof of Creation
If Biblical creation were not true,
we could not know anything!
1 Peter 3:15: "But sanctify
the Lord God in your hearts,
and always be ready to
give a defense to everyone
who asks you a reason for
the hope that is in you, with
meekness and fear." (NKJV)
Rejecting Genesis 1-11
undermines the very
foundation of our salvation.
Any old-earth interpretation of
Scripture is incompatible with sin
and atonement because there
is death before the Fall in this
interpretation.
Romans 5:12: "Therefore, just as
sin entered the world through
one man, and death through sin,
and in this way death came to all
people, because all sinned."
(NIV)