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WHY CHRISTIANS CANNOT BELIEVE IN EVOLUTION
What
of the Christian's outlook on evolution? Is it possible for the
Christian to believe in the theory? In addition to rational, scientific
reasons for rejecting evolution there are some other solid Biblical
reasons why the Christian must reject it.
1. The Bible teaches a fiat creation, that is, a creation by the
command of God (See what God said in
Gen. 1:3, 6, 9, 14, 20, and 24).
Now compare these with (Psa. 33:6;
148:1-5; 2 Cor. 4:6). However, evolution denies this, saying that
the earth came about by a slow, purely materialistic process.
2. The Bible record reveals that the first plants and animals were
crated full grown (Gen. 1:11, 12:20-25). Evolution denies this,
teaching that the first life forms were quite small and incomplete.
3. The Bible states that plants and animals only produced
"after their kind" (Gen. 1:11, 12:21, 24, 25). However, evolution,
by its very nature implies that plants and animals must produce
offspring not after their kind.
4. The Bible says there was one original man (Gen. 2:7, 8;
Matt. 19:4; 1 Cor. 15:45-47). However, evolution says that by the
time man became man he was an entire race.
5. The Bible plainly teaches that woman was taken from the side of
man (Gen. 2:21-23). However, evolution teaches that woman evolved
along side man.
6. The Bible presents man in the image of God and reveals his
decline and fall (Gen. 1:27; 3:1-24). Man, then, began at the
highest point and fell to the lowest depths. Evolution, on the other
hand, has man beginning as a small mass of protoplasm and out of this
climbing to the greatest heights.
7. In the Bible man is said to have an immortal soul (Matt.
10:28; Eccl. 12:7). However, evolution pictures "early man" as not
much more than mere beast and hardly a candidate for possessing a soul.
Did God at some point just "zap" souls into mankind or did the soul also
evolve?
8. If evolution is true then there was no first man, no fall, no
sin, no punishment for sin and no redemption from sin. This makes void
the redemptive plan of man's salvation from sin by the blood of Christ
(1 Jno. 1:7). Evolution, therefore, nullifies the Christian
system.
9. The Bible teaches that all things were created through Christ
(Jno. 1:3; Col. 1:16; Heb. 1:2). It would be interesting to hear
evolutionists explain how Christ worked through the evolution process.
But again, such an idea is absurd.
10. Under no circumstance can the Christian believe the philosophy
of evolution. The two concepts are separated by a vast gulf.
--These are some excerpts from a book entitled,
The Other Side of Evolution, by Jon Gary Williams
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