Furthermore, since origins are not repeatable, they are outside the realm of science. Since origins were not observable, since there was only one there and that was God, no one can comment on origins but God. So what you have in Genesis is the only and accurate first-hand eye-witness account of origins by the creator Himself.
Now in spite of that very clear-cut approach to the Word of God, many people, including Christians, have turned to science, turned to scientists who speak authoritatively on Genesis. In fact, there are theologians, many of them, Bible commentators, pastors, well-known popular pastors and preachers, some of whom you would even know who deny the Genesis account. They flatly deny the Genesis account because they accept evolutionary science to one degree or another. I’ve said this to you all the way along and I’ll repeat it again without going in to all the verification…science has proven nothing that negates the Genesis record. In fact, the Genesis record is what answers the mysteries of science. But sadly Christians and Christian theologians, Bible commentators, Christian college professors as well as pastors and teachers have denied the Genesis account, being intimidated by science.
Now there is one book, there is one book that comments on Genesis of great note…one book that I would say is absolutely authoritative and it’s the only authoritative book…one true, infallible, inerrant, authoritative commentary that has been written on Genesis…one unarguable divine book, one heavenly inspired commentary on Genesis that speaks with absolute authority, is to be unchallenged in its truthfulness. And frankly, for me this book forever settles the issue of the accuracy of Genesis.
What book is it? It’s the New Testament…it’s the New Testament. It was not written by any scientist and not even by a creation scientist. It was not written by theologians or a theologian. It was written by simple men who were given the Word to write by God Himself so that the creator is the author. You have in Genesis the account of the creation. You have in the New Testament the creator’s inspired commentary on the Genesis record. if you go to the New Testament you will find there is an affirmation there of six-day creation. There is an affirmation of divine fiat, or instantaneous creation. There is an affirmation of man being made in the image of God. An affirmation of Adam being created and then Eve. There is an affirmation of the Fall there in very specific terms. There is an affirmation of the Flood there in very specific terms. There is an affirmation of Noah and the surviving family of Noah. All of the Genesis record is very carefully referred to by the inspired New Testament.
Hubert Thomas, in his French book on Genesis 1 to 11 in the introduction, writes this, “In effect, three main points are demonstrated by reading the list we provide. These three points confirm that the New Testament can in no case whatsoever be appealed to in order to sustain any sort of evolutionary theory.”
He’s absolutely right, you can’t find anything about evolution in Genesis, it’s not there. You can’t find it anywhere in the Old Testament and you can’t find anywhere in the New Testament where commenting on Genesis somebody casts it into an evolutionary light or into the light of legend or fantasy or some kind of poetic license.
And then Thomas goes on to give three reasons. “First, without exception references to creation and especially the citations of Genesis 1 to 11 point to historical events. They are no different than the historical death of the Lord Jesus Christ on Golgotha. As far as the New Testament is concerned, creation ex nihilo…that is out of nothing…and the creation of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah and the Flood, as far as the New Testament is concerned there is no legend and no parable. All deal with persons and events of historical and universal significance.”
“This article originally appeared here at Bible Bulletin Board.”
