CREATION IS NOT A FAITH, ITS FACT

It's more important than ever that the church get its act together as regards the origin of life. As we live in a scientific and proof orientated culture we must as Christians be able to say with confidence what we believe and why.

Many Christians believe in creation and the account in Genesis, up to a point. Then science rears it head and disputes the Bible and Christians back down, after all science must be right. What we end up with is a mixture of scientific and Biblical beliefs coming together and undermining the power of the Word and God's promise to us.

A belief in God will always be a matter of faith, this we can not change, but evolution hopes to use the natural to stop a belief in the supernatural, by discrediting the Bibles view on the origins on man. Science is not anti-God, only mans interpretation of scientific data is anti-God. If you look at the data without any preconceived ideas, then God's handy work is shines through for all to see.

WHAT WE SHOULD BELIEVE

Here are 2 truths the Bible teaches which the Christian MUST believe in if he/she professes to be a Christian.

1.God created everything in SIX literal days.
2.God did not use evolution to bring about life.

There is another but it is not really a necessity, that is that the earth is a young earth. If you use the Bible as a aid to date the earth you come up with a figure around 6000 years. This is obviously against all scientific evidence, or is it. More and more scientists are coming up with a figure between 6,000 and 10,000 years which is in line with Bible dating.

1.SIX DAY CREATION

Genesis teaches that God created the heaven and the earth in 6 days between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 2:1, on the 7th day He rested. At the end of each 'day' we see that God clearly defines it as a literal day as can be seen in verse 5 where God explains the day had an evening and a morning.

5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

The word day used in Genesis, (Hebrew yom) can have a variety of meanings, A solar day, daylight and an Indefinite period of time. However like most words when mixed with others it defines its meaning specifically. The word appears 2291 times in the Bible. 884 times in the plural form it refers to a literal day. 359 times it is accompanied by a number or added in historical context outside of Genesis 1 it also refers to a literal day. 38 times again, outside of genesis 1 it is accompanied by evening and or morning, referring to a literal day. Now looking in Genesis 1 we see it is accompanied by evening and morning and also numeric values tightening the interpretation to a LITERAL DAY.

The only reason people try to extend the day to an unfixed period is to fit in the millions of years evolution says the earth has been in existence. Ignorance and a lack of faith in the Bible have caused and is causing a weak and broken church.

Why is it important to put creation within 6 days? Well for starters it is what the Bible says, which should be good enough for us. More than this we must see what God said at the end of each day after He had created something, He said that "it was good". Not all right but needs some work, not OK but we will leave it to mature or evolve. When God creates, He does a good job, He produces a working, finished creature, eco-system or world.

An interesting point is the 7 day week which we use. We do not see it in the stars or rotations of any planet. It has been handed down from generation to generation from God. If we truly evolved and religion came in much later than man then we would have adopted a week around the lunar month. Man would have chosen something it could see and measure. God created a working pattern for us, working and resting so that we would lead healthy and productive lives.

2.GOD DID NOT USE EVOLUTTION

It can be said of many instances in the Bible that God could have used natural phenomena to carry out supernatural events. The Flood has been explained away by a natural catastrophe, events in revelation and the out pouring of God's wrath have been explained by nuclear explosions and mans handy work. While it is true that God can use events to His purpose we must not take away or denigrate God's ability and try to explain everything in natural terms. If you do you will find yourself entering the domain of the evolutionist saying maybe and perhaps. If it says God did, then take it that He did and you won't go wrong.

Many Christians can not see the problem in believing evolution as a tool for the emergence of man, but what they don't realise is that by believing in evolution, all be it looked over looked by God they have just done away with the need for the Bible and God as our way to eternal life.

Adam was created perfect, the first man, but in evolutionary terms he would have been a result of millions of years of trial and error, of mutation and death. There was no death on God's earth, and man was created in the image of God so where does that leave the evolutionists and the evolving single celled creature rolling out of the primeval soup. God as we said earlier does not make or create anything that needs perfecting or testing.

It was through mans fall that death was introduced into the world, not by Gods design or an evolutionary side effect. God who is perfect produces perfection. Evolution denies the existence of Satan and thus of Sin. It has no room for salvation as it denies the power and existence of God.

A CALL TO THE CHURCH

It is time we taught the truth in church and showed that Science is actually behind the Bible. We should not shy away from the subject of creation and science as though it is something of the devil. Christians should feel able to speak with confidence when someone asks about their views on evolution and how does it fit in with Biblical teaching. As Christians we do not have to be scientists just informed.

Teaching of the Word has never been so important during these last days, but this is not enough when talking to people who don't believe. What is the point of quoting scripture to someone who thinks it is no more than a book. Jesus used to use parables to teach the people and scriptures to the priests, he used what they understood. Today is no different, people today do not read the Bible or get taught it at school but they do get fed science on TV and school so if you can say modern science backs up Genesis and other scriptures, and that the Bible spoke about scientific facts before we found them to be true, then people will start to listen.