There is a saying that if you repeat a lie often enough people will eventually accept it as truth. For me evolution is one of those lies. Not in a micro sense where species change often dramatically within their group, but in a macro sense where without God out of nothing everything came.
Sadly evolution (as reported in virtually every television show, news sources and schools across this land) is one of those lies that has become an ideological movement having no overt religious content but yet when spoken of and accepted as absolute truth can capture a person body, soul and spirit. It is almost as the warning laid out in 1 Timothy 4:1 of God’s Word.
There was a time in education when ‘how’ to think allowed for challenging theory and great discussions. Today in many and perhaps most classrooms we have gone from ‘how’ and growing the mind to ‘what’ to think and indoctrination. Therein lies the great danger in education mostly unchallenged by families with children in school today.
After a great deal of study and reading as well as observation I hold to the truth of God’s Word. Mankind was CREATED in God’s image (Genesis 1:26-27) and not evolved from sludge to an ape and then a human being with a conscience. It takes far less faith to believe the Bible than a so called ‘science’ textbook.
This applies to the theory of intelligent design as well which ‘educators’ do not accept either. Some say that yes God created all there is but over millions of years. Believe it if you wish but if we say God is omniscient and omnipotent as Scripture tells us in Isaiah 40:14 and in Genesis chapter one then it would be short sighted of us to doubt God could create all that is in 6 days (Exodus 20:11).
The real danger in evolution is that if there is no God then there is no Adam or original sin (Romans 5:12-21) and no need for Christ and the cross. Mankind can then live as they choose as there is no absolute. Survival of the fittest as Darwin proposed. Sadly, that chaotic state of existence is the direction society is moving today. That is THE SPIRITUAL PROBLEM OF EVOLUTION.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Evolution by its very nature when accepted furthers much (perhaps most) of the evil in society today.
DEVOTIONAL VERSE FOR TODAY: 1 Timothy 4:1 “a problem with evolution”.
PRAYER FOR TODAY: Lord guide us by Your truth.
QUESTIONS TO THINK ABOUT:
- How does 1 Timothy 4:1 show the danger of evolution?
- Why do so many want to convince us of macro-evolution as fact?
- How do you explain out of nothing comes everything including a conscience without God?
- Is Christ necessary if evolution is true?
*** Gary Jerke *** Is a former S.D. State Representative, author and Life and Liberty News contributor
Read more from Gary at Encouraging Others in Christ
Another factor also found in Genesis agaist evolution is that God commanded that: grass, herb, yeilding seed, and the fruit tree yeilding fruit whose seed was in itself AFTER HIS OWN KIND (Gen 1:11) And then in Gen 1:21 great whales and every living creature brought forth abundently AFTER HIS KIND. Gen 1:24 again cattle creeping things – – – AFTER HIS KIND meaning to me that everything reproduces offspring of its own kind — Yes, there may be some slight genetic differences and/or deformities, but all living things reproduce after their own kind. To me, this means case closed!
Very well said. Thank you for your insight and Scriptural awareness.