a real battle for what i believe...

we all intuitively know (and even those who are not CHRISTians, who are on the other side of the issue of creation, know) that we’re not just talking about science facts. we’re talking about our view of ourselves and our view of this world.

g. richard bozar said in american atheist magazine, “CHRISTianity has fought and still fights and will fight science to the desperate end over evolution because evolution destroys utterly and finally the very reason JESUS’ life was supposedly made necessary. destroy adam and eve and original sin and in the rubble you find the sorry remains of the SON of GOD. if JESUS was not the REDEEMER that died for our sins and this is what evolution means [this is not a CHRISTian talking but an atheistic scientist but he sees the truth.] then CHRISTianity is nothing.”

it’s more than just a discussion about what happened. there’s a real battle for what i believe. they are competing philosophies. if evolution and creation are not competing philosophies, why is it that when CHRISTians have a fish on their car there are people who decide to put a “darwin” on their car? it’s a little fish with amphibian legs that says “darwin”. it’s saying they’re two different philosophies of life.

JESUS is alive and darwin was a man who had a theory who is dead. it’s a theory that depersonalizes GOD.

now when we’re talking to unbelievers they might think, “when you talk about sin and stuff like that, you’ve got me. i know that’s true. but when you talk about genesis, i’ve got you! genesis doesn’t make sense.

we know that evolution is a scientific fact.” no, it’s not. it’s not provable and it has to be provable again and again to be a scientific fact. it’s a scientific theory.

a scientific theory can be influenced by fact but it can also be influenced by my philosophy. scientists are just people too. if i’ve got a philosophy that GOD’s not real, that says i don’t want to believe in a GOD, that philosophy is going to dramatically impact this theory. when you and i talk about this with our kids, when we see what’s happening in schools and share about this, we need to realize the difference between those things.

i encourage you to fight for this truth but not to make it a battleground with people. make it a battle for the truth. far too many times people turn this into a point of argument with an unbeliever or even an argument with a new believer rather than a point of truth. some of you love to argue but instead of arguing why not just tell the truth. we need to stand for this very important truth.

just a thought from the front porch…

but HE did it…

genesis 1.1 (niv), seems like such a simple verse, in the beginning GOD created the heavens and the earth, but if this verse were a battlefield, there would be many monuments and many graves erected on this one verse.

there’s a big deal, a big controversy around this one verse. creation and evolution: who did it? when was it done? how was it done? – incredible questions, incredible battles fought over this one verse. a lot of times we’re in the trenches with this battle, lobbying scientific truths and what’s important. so why this is so important. why is this important to believers?

for one because of the importance of a personal GOD.

forget all the science, all the arguments. the biggest problem of the theory of evolution is that it depersonalizes GOD. it makes GOD step back from his creation that HE set in motion by a series of events that eventually led to you being created and animals being created – life being created. that’s very different then in the beginning GOD spoke and this happened. GOD spoke and we existed. GOD spoke and plants existed. see how different that is?

even science has struggled with the theory of evolution because they realize that it’s just theory. what i want to say to you and what we need to teach to our kids is don’t let an unproven theory keep you from seeing the hand of a personal GOD at work in creation, at work in my life, at work in your life. that’s why this is a battleground. that’s why this is so important because HE is a personal GOD.

austin clark in the quarterly review of biology said this “as far as it concerns the major groups of animals, the creationists seem to have the better argument. there’s not the slightest evidence that any of the major groups ever arose from any other.” he’s one of many scientists that believe evolution is a theory that people are still working on. it’s still developing. they’re still trying to figure it out.

have you noticed that the more the theory of evolution develops, the closer it seems to be getting in some camps to what the bible actually says? what’s the big bang theory all about anyway? it happened all of a sudden. it happened all at once. there’s a lot of explanations for that that are scientific. but when it comes down to it, you and i believe it happened all at once. but it wasn’t energy, it was the word – GOD’s word immediately spoken.

just a thought from the front porch…