EVOLUTION
In the beginning God
created the heavens and the earth and the earth became void. Gen 1:1
First Word
As a Christian I believe
The Bible is without error and is the final unchanging authority.
All Scripture is God-breathed
and is useful for teaching,
rebuking, correcting and
training in righteousness, 2 Tim 3:16
After reading Gen 1:1 I could close the book – Short Study –
This Word study was over
in the first sentence, but I will press on.
The Bible
- Cannon
of the Bible
– A collection of books (over 2,800
manuscripts from the 9th century) The Greek term cannon means straight
rod, rule or measure and was “THE RULES” upon which manuscripts were chosen to be included or
excluded from our Bible.
- In Christ’s day there
were writers of highly imaginative and fantastic stories
about Jesus, His family and His childhood; the authorship of some of theses
stories were often falsely attributed to His disciples in order to get acceptance.
- The
Council of Nice came together to settle the disputed issues. The majority of the OT writings had
already been settled and they were just dealing mostly with the NT
writings.
- The Greek word Biblia means book or “The
Books” and later came to be known as THE
BOOK and finally Ta Biblia;
The Bible.
- The ordinary reader couldn’t read Hebrew
or Greek; it became evident there was a need for different versions in
order to be an effective Christian. The KJV Bible is still the standard to
which all the different versions are compared, not withstanding the
Original Manuscripts.
- The Old Testament is divided up into
39 books and the New Testament has 27 books for a total of 66
inspired books. – The Bible is not a book of mysteries. - All the so
called mysteries are unfolded, unpacked and revealed in the 66 books; precept
upon precept and line upon line. - The Bible is only a veiled mystery to those
that are perishing.
- The Apocrypha contains some 14
books with writings that were excluded from the KJV Bible because of their
high imagination and silly stories.
Only six of these are found in the Catholic Bible. – I do not
discount these additional books, but I use them for “seasoning” of my own
thoughts to get an insight into the cultural mindset and thinking of men
of that day.
- Josephus
the
Jewish Historian discounted the books of the Apocrypha stating that the only
inspired writings are the books we have now.
- The Bible is not a
book for a specific age; but a book for all ages and all times. – It shows
how God deals with man Past,
Present and Future.
- It does not just CONTAIN
the Word of God; it IS
the word of God; all of it.
- God spoke forth his
powerful message through Holy men of old; not by their own thoughts, but
as they were moved by the Holy Spirit to speak.
- I count some 24
writers both old and new testament spanning some 4,000 years of history;
all writing about the same God who reveals himself in both the OT and NT.
- Jesus Christ is interwoven from Genesis to the Revelation. - Old
Testamtent history and prophecy is foreshadowed and realized in the New
Testament – The OT and the NT is actually one book.
Dan 9:2 – The Books
2 In the first year of his reign I, Daniel,
understood by “the books” the number of the years specified by the word
of the LORD through Jeremiah the prophet that He would accomplish seventy years
in the desolations of Jerusalem
NKJV
2 Tim 3:16 – All Scripture is God breathed
16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God,
and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in
righteousness:
KJV
Heb 4:12 – The word of God is quick and powerful
12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful,
and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of
soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the
thoughts and intents of the heart.
KJV
2 Peter 1:16-21 – The Holy
Spirit spoke through men
16 For we have not followed cunningly devised
fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
17 For he received from God the Father honor and
glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my
beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
18 And this voice which came from heaven we heard,
when we were with him in the holy mount.
19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy;
whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shines in a dark
place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
20 Knowing this first that no prophecy of the
scripture is of any private interpretation.
21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the
will of man: but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
KJV
Isa 28:10 – Mysteries
revealed precept upon precept
10 For it is precept upon precept, precept upon
precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a
little. ASV
2 Cor 4:3 - The Bible is a
veiled mystery only to the perishing
3 And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled
to those who are perishing. NIV
King
James
in 1604 authorized 47 men to come up with a translation of the Bible from the
original language of the Aramaic, Hebrew and Greek – It
took about 7 years and in 1611 they produced what became known as “The King James Version” of the Bible,
which is still the most accepted Bible.
Evolution 101
- Evolution
is
made up of conjecture, theories and deep thoughts of
“enlightened man”, all of which have not presented any hard proven
factual evidence that has withstood the testing of its own scientific
community.
- Wikipedia – Evolution is the
change in the inherited characteristics of biologic populations over
successive generations.
Evolutionary processes give rise to diversity at every level of
biological organization, including species, individual organisms and
molecules such as
- Simpler
said
- All forms of life come from modifications of earlier simple life forms moving
to more complex forms. – Things that are complex were developed from
something that was simple. A progression from lower forms to higher
forms. – That is evolution.
- Creationism; I present the Bible
which records 6000 years of history beginning with Adam, documenting the
supernatural creation of the universe by the hand of God which of course evolutionist
reject. - Evolution is a rejection of God – You can’t have some
of both.
- Supernatural - Evolution denies the existence of God and
the “supernatural” documented in the Bible. – If you can remove
the supernatural from the Bible; you make the resurrection null and
void. If Christ was not raised from
the dead then the Bible is only a history book and our faith is useless. –
There would be no sin, no hell, no heaven and no Messiah.
- Evolution says the
Bible cannot be taken literally - Man was not made in the Image of God,
but was made in the image of a Monkey. – The man Jesus was merely a
product of evolution.
- Dake/Huxley – “It is clear that
the doctrine of evolution is directly antagonistic to that of creation…
Evolution, IF consistently accepted makes it impossible to believe the
Bible”.
- Interestingly – Evolutionist
accept that some molecules and their laws of operation were present in
the beginning for everything to start the evolution process, but they ignore
where these molecules came from. – Evolution shouts at God saying; “hey, we
know how to make a man out of dirt too”, and God responds by saying;
“fine, but go get your own dirt”.
1 Cor 15:14 – No resurrection – Faith is useless
14 And if Christ has not been raised, our
preaching is useless and so is your faith. NIV
Gen 1:27 - Created in the Image of God
27 So God created man in his own image, in
the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. NIV
Cosmic/Organic - Finis Jennings
- Evolution
-
Nothing and Nothing bumped into each other and made something.
- Cosmic
Evolution
claims that from lower units of matter (atoms and molecules) the
vast material suns, moons, stars, planets and universes were formed by
themselves.
- Organic
Evolution
teaches that the vegetable and animal kingdoms evolved from lower
forms of life to what they are today.
- Some say the earth is
no more than 10,000 years old; others say millions of a year old, which is
what I embrace, but that’s another study called “The Other Flood” - NYOBS 17 The Gap
Theory
- The
Bible
in its entirety condemns the theories of both cosmic and organic
evolution. It declares in no
uncertain terms that God created (brought
into existence) all material and moral creations; the animate and
inanimate things, and that He is the first and the last cause of
all existing universes and the things there in. – Those in the Church who
try to harmonize evolution with the Bible rule God out in spite of
themselves and are enemies of both God and the Church. Finis
- If you are a student
of the Word, I would suggest Dake’s
Annotated Reference Bible.
BIG BANG
- The
Bible
- God spoke and then BANG it
happened - The first scripture in the Bible says that God created the
heavens and laid the foundations of the earth.
- Then evolution
started – took about six days to “evolute” and on the seventh day God
rested from “evoluting” – It was finished.
- Degeneration
-
The law of nature PROVES that nothing reproduces anything greater than
itself. If left to its self all
nature will degenerate; not evolve – Without the Word of God, man will
degenerate; which is witnessed by Noah’s Flood – “Every inclination of
the thoughts of their heart was evil all the time” and TODAY by
the removal of prayer and the Ten Commandments out of the schools, look at
where we are. – When the soul is
neglected, man reverts to a worse and lower type of man, to
ruin and depravity.
- If you would consider
for a moment that the Cave man; the Peking man and the Neanderthal man could
have de-generated because of rebellion in a pre-Adamic world
millions of years ago. It’s referred to as “Lucifer’s Flood “ a flood that happened
before Noah and Adam - NYOBS 17
- This law of nature is
fixed. – It has not changed in 6000 years. - Every one of the millions of
things created “reproduced after its kind”. No amount of un-intelligent matter
can produce intelligent matter. – Intelligent matter must start
with intelligence. – Dead matter
cannot produce live matter.
- I
would like to quote DAKE again – “The sponge is still a sponge and has not
become an oyster, octopus, a turtle, frog, fish or crab. None of these have ever reproduced
anything except their own kind. No
lowly earth worm has ever turned into a tortoise, snake, or crocodile; no
bug, bird or animal has ever changed from its own kind or reproduced
another kind which was fertile and could produce a new kind. No monkey has ever produced a man and
the missing-link is still missing and always will be”.
Gen 1:1 – It was all
created by God
1 In the beginning God created the heavens
and the earth. NIV
Ps 102:25 – The foundations
of the earth
25 In the beginning you laid the foundations of
the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. NIV
Gen 2:2 – Took six day to “evolute”
2 By the seventh day God had finished the work he
had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. NIV
Gen 1:20-21 Reproduce
according to their kind
20 Then God said, "Let the waters abound with
an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the
face of the firmament of the heavens."
21 So God created great sea creatures and every
living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their
kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that
it was good. NKJV
Heb 2:1-4 – We will drift
away – degenerate without the word
1 We must pay more careful attention,
therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.
2 For if the message spoken by angels was binding,
and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment,
3 how shall we escape if we ignore such a
great salvation? This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord, was
confirmed to us by those who heard him.
4 God also testified to it by signs, wonders and
various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his
will. NIV
Gen 6:5 – Man degenerated
to evil and wickedness
5 The LORD saw how great man's wickedness on the
earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart
was only evil all the time. NIV
Gen 10:25 – The earth was divided; EARTHQUAKE
25 Two sons were born to Eber: One was named
Peleg, because in his time the earth was divided; his brother was named
Joktan. NIV
Transmutation
- I want to mention transmutation,
which in theory is a slow and gradual change or alteration in nature of
mutation of one lower species to a higher species which is opposite
of the Bible.
- All life is dependent
on other life. – Reproduction is a higher condition to evolution - An egg
can’t reproduce another egg; you have to have a “Higher” parent form to
produce the egg.
- Nature has
demonstrated that there is over 1 million variations within the species of the insect world, but they have
never produced something different other than what they are; only a
variation. – So if you don’t get a new species you do not have evolution.
- The theory of natural selection and the survival of the fittest has
failed. – No single example of evolution from one species to another can
be cited
- The MULE is the offspring of a male donkey and
a female horse - this crossbred mule is born sterile, it cannot
reproduce itself.
- MONKEY
Evolution
- If you check the scriptures you will see that God made Man FIRST before
He ever made the monkey, therefore in evolution; that would mean that Man
“dis-evolved” to become
a monkey. – He went from a higher life form to a lower life form.
- If the Low of
Evolution is true, then why do we not see evidence of it working
today? Why did evolution come to a
standstill when man was created? – Because it’s
Gen 2:19 – Man created first then the monkey
19 Out of the ground the LORD God formed every
beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam
to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature
that was its name. NKJV
Heavens, Earth, Man
- God created and
founded the earth to be inhabited.
Then He created man both male and female.
- He created all the flocks
and herds, and the beasts of the field, the birds of
the air including eagles and buzzards, and the fish of the sea
including whales. He created the heavens,
sky and the sun, moon and the stars.
- He put it all in
motion with a circuit of night and day and provided warmth from the sun.
Isa 45:18 God created the
earth to be inhabited
18 For this is what the LORD says--he who created
the heavens,
he is God; he who fashioned and made the earth,
he founded it;
he did not create it to be empty, but formed it to
be inhabited--
he says: "I am the LORD, and there is no
other. NIV
Gen 1:27 – God created man both male and female
27 So God created man in his own image, in the
image of God he created him; male and female he created them
NIV
Ps 8:1-9- God made man,
animals, birds and the heavens
1 O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in
all the earth!
You have set your glory above the heavens.
2 From the lips of children and infants you have
ordained praise because of your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.
3 When I consider your heavens, the work of
your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in
place,
4 what is man that you are mindful of him the
son of man that you care for him?
5 You made him a little lower than the
heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.
6 You made him ruler over the works of your hands;
you put everything under his feet:
7 all flocks and herds, and the beasts
of the field,
8 the birds of the air, and the fish of
the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.
9 O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in
all the earth!
Gen 1:20-21 – God created
the whales and eagles and buzzards
20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living
creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the
sky."
21 So God created the great creatures of the
sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according
to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. NIV
Ps 19:1-7 – He made the SKY and the SUN
1 The heavens declare the glory of God; the
skies proclaim the work of his hands.
2 Day after day they pour forth speech; night
after night they display knowledge.
3 There is no speech or language where their voice
is not heard.
4 Their voice goes out into all the earth, their
words to the ends of the world. In the heavens he has pitched a tent for the
sun,
5 which is like a bridegroom coming forth from his
pavilion, like a champion rejoicing to run his course.
6 It rises at one end of the heavens and makes
its circuit to the other; nothing is hidden from its heat.
7 The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the
soul. The statutes of the LORD are trustworthy, making wise the simple. NIV
Literally
& Supernatural
- God literally made
man in
- Jesus Christ was literally
supernaturally born – He literally supernaturally rose from the dead – He literally
and supernaturally appeared to men. – He’s literally and supernaturally coming
back - The Bible is literal and supernatural.
Gen 1:27-31 – God created
man in ONE DAY
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him;
male and female created he them.
31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and,
behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
KJV
Gen 1:21 – 25 – They were made and reproduced after their kind
21 And God created great whales, and every living
creature that moves, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their
kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
24 And God said, let the earth bring forth the
living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of
the earth after his kind: and it was so.
25 And God made the beast of the earth after
his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creeps upon the
earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Matt 1:18 – Supernatural Birth
18 This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came
about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they
came together, she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit.
John 10:17-18 – He
authority to lay down His life and pick it up
17 The reason my Father loves me is that I lay
down my life-only to take it up again.
18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of
my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up
again. NIV
Matt 28:6 – He is not here
but Supernaturally risen
6 He is not here; he has risen, just as he
said. Come and see the place where he lay. NIV
Acts 1:3 – He supernaturally
showed Himself to men
3 After his suffering, he showed himself to
these men and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. He
appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God
Deception
- Satan cannot create; all he can do is corrupt. – He disguises himself as
“Enlightened Intelligence”; and after all, everyone wants to be thought of
as enlightened and intelligent.
- Satan was thrown out
of heaven and became bent on blinding the hearts of man, God’s greatest
creation.
- In the end times,
many will run to and fro with their
ears itching for “new knowledge” and “enlightenment” but will still
have no knowledge of the truth.
- Satan rebelled
against God - he sinned without a tempter – He has no excuse – He
is doomed. – Man sinned because of the tempter and has the HOPE of the
redemptive Messiah.
- There
is evolution;
those who accept Christ will evolve from mortal to immortality,
those who are blinded by Satan and DO NOT receive Christ are evolving to God’s
wrath and anger.
- You
cannot be neutral – Neutrality is a rejection of Creationism – A rejection
of God.
Rev 12:9 – The great
dragon deceives the whole world
9 The great dragon was hurled down-that
ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the
whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him. NIV
2 Cor 11:14 -15 – He disguises himself as intelligent light.
14 And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades
as an angel of light.
15 It is not surprising, then, if his servants
masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions
deserve. NIV
2 Cor 4:3-4 – The
evolutionist are blinded – They are perishing
3 And even if our gospel is veiled, it is
veiled to those who are perishing.
4 The god of this age has blinded the minds of
unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory
of Christ, who is the image of God. NIV
2 Tim 1:10 – Those that accept God Evolve to immortality
10 but it has now been revealed through the
appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has destroyed death and has
brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. NIV
Rom 2:8 – Those that
reject truth Evolve to wrath and anger
8 But for those who are self-seeking and who
reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger. NIV
Dan 12:4 – Many will run to and from after knowledge
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut
up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run
to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. KJV
2 Tim 4:3-4 – Your ears
itch to hear what suit your own desires.
3 For the time will come when men will not put up
with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather
around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want
to hear.
4 They will turn their ears away from the truth
and turn aside to myths. NIV
2 Tim 3:7 – Ever learning
but no knowledge of the truth
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to
the knowledge of the truth. KJV
Summary
- Evolution is the belief that
in the beginning, “something” already existed and somehow “something” with
its laws of operation bumped into “something else” that was different and
they had a baby. This “new
something” evolved over millions of years into its highest final form
which today we call a “man”. This
man was made in the image of a monkey.
Life forms evolve from lower forms to higher forms.
- Creationism is the belief that
in the beginning there was “nothing” and God supernaturally made something
out of it. He formed it all; the
heavens, the earth, vegetation, man, animals, birds, fish and insects and
they were commanded to “reproduce after their kind” and that’s what
they have been doing every since. – Since that time there have been
thousands of variations within the individual species, but no new species.
– It further teaches that if man is left to himself he will revert or
degenerate to a lower life form to depravity. – Life forms degenerate from
higher life forms to lower life forms.
- Given
the choice
– Now which one would a logical person choose. - GOD OR NO GOD
In the multitude of counselors,
there is wisdom.
Prov 11:14
I am grateful for those that went before me providing concepts, ideas, historical information, and scripture verses. Because of them I can stand on their shoulders and see further than I otherwise ever could have.
A Commentary – Critical, Experimental &
Practical - Eerdmans
Antiquity of the Jews; The – Josephus
Apocrypha; The – Edgar J. Goodspeed
Baker Commentary on the Bible – Walter A. Elwell
Bible Almanac; The – Packer Tenny White
Bible Commentary – F.B. Meyer
Dake’s
Annotated Reference Bible – Finis Jennings Dake
Expositor’s Bible Commentary; The – Frank E. Gaebelein
Harper’s Bible Dictionary – Harper and Row
Illustrated Bible Dictionary – Nelson’s
Illustrated Bible Dictionary; The – Tyndale
King James Version Bible – KJV
Matthew Henry’s Commentary – Matthew Henry
New International Dictionary of the Bible; The – Douglas ; Tenney
New International Version Bible – NIV
Victor Journey through the Bible; The – V. Gilbert Beers
Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible; The – Tenney
Wycliffe Bible Commentary; The – Pfeiffer & Harrison
Wikipedia Dictionary
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