Let’s open our Bibles to Genesis chapter 1 and this will be the last in our series of origins that deal with the creation in Genesis 1. We bring the story, the six-day creation to its close.
Now let me just summarize what we have learned so far. With regard to the origin of the universe there are only three options. Only three options. Option number one we can call materialistic evolution. Materialistic evolution affirms that the entire universe as it now exists came into being out of nothing. Somehow there appeared in the midst of nothing something, something living in a primordial slime that through billions of years mutated into the intricate complex and vast universe which we now live in. That’s materialistic evolution. That’s option one.
Option two is theistic evolution…theistic meaning God. Theistic evolution affirms that God does exist and God was the original mind and the original power that launched and punctuated evolution with various creative acts along the way. So you have God involved initially. You may have God involved at other points. But evolution is the process that God used over billions of years by mutation and change to bring about the universe as we now know it.
The only other alternative you have is divine creation. And divine creation affirms that the eternal God, all wise, all powerful and unchanging made the universe as it now exists. And that God created everything out of nothing by speaking it into existence. Creationism rejects any form of evolution. Divine creation affirms that God created everything the way it is presently. Obviously within certain plants and within certain animals there are variations, but the categories remain the same as God originally created them. And frankly there are no other options.
And we’ve taken a look at the first option. The first option, that is materialistic evolution, and we know it can’t be true. It can’t be true because evolution is possible because chance is nothing, chance is not a force and nobody times nothing equals nothing. Nobody times nothing does not equal everything. Random chance cannot result in anything. If nothing exists, nothing can exist.
We also know that the system of life, DNA, chromosomes, genetic code, the information encoded into every living cell prevents evolution because that code determines what that living cell will do and it can’t do any more than it is programmed to do so it can’t become anything superior to what it is. If something does change, it is inferior, it produces something less not something more. So we know that evolution is impossible.
The second option is impossible for the same reasons as the first, because evolution is impossible. And there is not any true and accurate, scientific evidence that any life at all, any life at all has ever evolved so as to become another kind of life with a new genetic code and a new DNA. We also reject theistic evolution, the second option, because the God who is eternal, the God who is all wise and powerful and unchanging, has revealed Himself to us and told us how He created the universe. And He didn’t tell us that He used evolutionary processes. We’ve been learning in Genesis 1 and 2 and it is affirmed throughout all of Scripture there is nothing in any part of Scripture to indicate anything different than that God created everything as it is without the use of any evolutionary process.
That leaves us with only one other option, that’s the third option, and that is divine creation. God created everything as it is now. That makes scientific sense. That’s the only thing that makes scientific sense. As I’ve been saying to you, evolutionists are having a very hard time proving evolution. The reason they can’t prove it is because it didn’t happen.
How did the universe come into existence? The only record and the accurate record, the divinely ordained and inspired record is right there in Genesis 1. The Bible tells us that God created the universe in six solar days…six 24-hour days. And the genealogies of Genesis, the tracking of the generations of man indicate that that six-day creation period occurred probably six to seven thousand years ago, that’s all. This is what the Bible says and I’m just summarizing what we’ve learned. This is what the Word of God says. It is inspired and it is inerrant. This is unmistakable and inarguable. Science has never come up with anything that can disprove divine creation. In fact, on the other hand, they have never come up with anything that can prove evolution.
Now when God began the Bible He initiated revelation with the historical record of creation. That’s how the Bible begins. Because creation by God is foundational to all history and to all theology. Creation, in fact, is the foundation of all truth, all truth and all true religion. If the universe came into existence by divine creation, there is God. And since there is God, He is in charge, He is sovereign. He sets the rules. All of that is laid down as foundation in creation.
And I’ve been saying to you, the Bible is to be taken as seriously in Genesis 1 and 2 as anywhere else, as seriously as John 3:16, as seriously as Romans 3:23, as seriously as any other part of Scripture. And any less than a full commitment to the integrity of the truth of Genesis 1 and 2, anything less than that brings the Scripture into question, brings God’s accuracy and authority into question and strikes a blow against God.
Douglas Kelley(?) who has written a very helpful book I’ve referred to a number of times called Creation and Change said, and I quote, “If we avoid dealing with what the Bible says about creation of the material universe, then there is a tendency for religion to be disconnected from the real world. Or to change the figure, there is a tendency to put Scripture and Christianity into a stained-glass closet that doesn’t impact the space/time realm,” end quote.
You can’t get mystical about God the creator without being mystical about everything else that the Scripture reveals. You can’t be doubting and questioning and undermining the statements of the Bible about creation without undermining everything else the Bible says potentially as well.
Christianity does not begin with accepting Jesus Christ as Savior. It begins with accepting God as creator. And the real problem, folks, of the twentieth century, the real problem of a post-modern world is not that they reject Jesus Christ, it’s that they reject God as creator. Consequently they don’t even know who Jesus is or how He fits in. And if you reject God as creator, that, I believe, is the cause of all human lostness. It’s the cause of vagaries in human thought. It’s the cause of all the meanderings of philosophy.
On the other hand, when you believe that God is the creator and He created exactly as He revealed in Genesis, that establishes the foundation for all truth, for then God is sovereign and all truth and authority flows down from God about everything.
And I think we’ve been saying this, and I’ll just repeat it briefly, but the sad part of this is that the church has jumped on this theistic evolution bandwagon and been a part of undermining their own credibility, been a part of undermining their own gospel, been a part of undermining their own message. They’ve been contributors to the lostness of humanity by disconnecting them from a sovereign holy creator. And when the church seriously demands that people recognize God as creator and sovereign and sustainer and consummator of the time/space universe, when people…when the church tells people unequivocally that God is acting in human history, that God more than just acting, God is controlling human history, God has established the rules and the standards and God is the judge of every life, when that is established then men become accountable to God, then the Bible, and then the gospel and then Jesus Christ become critically essential because they reveal God…His commands, His laws, His promises, His purposes and His salvation.
“This article originally appeared here at Bible Bulletin Board.”
