A war between those who believe that God created the universe and those who believe that somehow material inanimate objects willed themselves into life has captured the news for months.  Believers in God say that God spoke and all came into being while the evolutionists claim that somehow inert objects began to spontaneous change and evolved into the life forms we have now.

It is argued for truth that neither side can prove their position. That would be true if not for one important element, which is the testimony of the men of old who have never been proven to have done anything but tell the truth. Where is their truth found? It is in the book called the Bible. In spite of the evolutionary claims, no one has been able to prove their truth telling was anything but the truth and they never will.

The book of Genesis tells that us in Gen 1:1, In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. The next series of verses tell us that he said “Let there be and that which he spoke came into existence and set forth the rules governing their existence. Then after creating everything, God rested on the sixth day.  

The proponents of evolution, some of whom claim to be Christians, argue that the word day means an indefinite period of time. The problem with that argument is that the sun rises and sets which determines the length of the day, and additionally the word used for day means a determined length of time and it meant that when the Bible was written.  Whereas the evolutionists say that it took millions upon millions of years to evolve to our present state, God did it in six days. The Bible is the written record of the creation and all the evolutionists have are supposition and pseudo-science which proves nothing. The Bible is the standard for life and living and the evolutionist has no written standard on which to rely in spite of their protestations to the contrary and Darwin notwithstanding, the principle god of the evolutionists. 

The writer of Hebrews wrote Heb 1:1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Heb 1:2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; These two verses state unequivocally that God spoke to the men of old who recorded the scriptures and that through His Son he made the worlds. It is a written record that has stood the test of time.

One word, power, explains the work of God in creation. To that end there are six Greek that are used for power, the main one being dunamis. The definitions are as follows: force (literally or figuratively); specially, miraculous power (usually by implication, a miracle itself): -- ability, abundance, meaning, might(-ily, -y, -y deed), (worker of) miracle(-s), power, strength, violence, mighty (wonderful) work, inherent capability and ability to perform anything, but with power that is not only capable of action; it is power in action. That is testified to in Genesis when God spoke the world into being.

Some evolutionists who believe in God claim that He gave power to inanimate objects to change themselves over time. The problems with such belief are many, but three are notable: One, that would have required God to give up his power which the Bible says he didn’t, and it would tend to say that he didn’t have the force to bring about His creation; two, such assertion means that the Bible isn’t true and that the words used have no real definitive meaning; and three, the obvious conclusion based on the first two is that the writers of the Bible were liars.

Whom shall be believed? The men of old or the evolutionist who deny God’s power in their quest to prove that which can’t be proved. The evolutionist appeals to science for the explanations of life. Will they please explain with logic and reason how inanimate items had the power to change to animate objects and where it all came from in the beginning. They can’t since they can’t even agree on what they claim they believe.

© 11-06-2005 DEC 

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