The Gospel of Creation and the Anti-Gospel of Evolution / ICR

The Gospel of Creation and the Anti-Gospel of Evolution ~


Because this particular article deals with both Creation and Evolution, I am posting it by itself.

You cannot have it both ways. Jesus Christ said, "I am the way, the truth and the life."

The choice is ours to make.

'Evolution is nothing but a naturalistic religious system, erected in opposition to the Holy Bible of our Lord Jesus Christ.'

"The Gospel of Creation and the Anti-Gospel of Evolution"
By: HM, PhD /Institute for CREATION Research

<http://www.icr.org/article/creation-anti-gospel-evolution/>

Thank you, Russ and Laura/Herb Allure

--DOES GENESIS MATTER TO THE GOSPEL?
---By: Brian Thomas, M.S. *
---Evidence for Creation

-A man once told me he was a “New Testament Christian,” meaning he did not believe in Genesis as history, but he did believe in Jesus. I asked him if he could think of any New Testament teaching not based in Genesis. He couldn’t. Can you? Tight historical links show that the core ideas of the gospel hinge on Genesis.

The Romans Road to Salvation highlights four verses from Romans that summarize what a condemned sinner needs to know and do to be saved from judgment. Each stop along the road reveals an essential link that securely anchors the gospel to Genesis.

At the first stop, we learn that “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”1 But what is sin? It means breaking God’s holy law. God gave the first law to Adam and Eve in the Garden, saying, “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat.”-(Genesis 2:17)

The second stop on the Romans Road says, “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”3 Death refers to separation, including body from soul or a person from God. Of course, Genesis 3 records the origin of death. When the real Adam and Eve disobeyed God, His justice demanded the death penalty.

**According to evolutionary history, man did not descend from Adam and Eve but evolved from animal ancestors that had been living and dying for billions of years. Those who believe this man-made version of history see no Adam in their past, so they struggle to understand the last Adam, Jesus.

--Now for some good news. “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”4 This says that although our crimes against God earn death, God the Father sentenced His own Son in our place. Genesis 3:15 promised help through a descendant of Eve, and that help came with Christ’s birth. His life, death, and resurrection provided a way to escape everlasting death, just as the Lord long ago provided an ark as the escape from dying in Noah’s Flood.5 Only eight people believed God’s message of coming judgment and entered the Ark to be saved.6 Matthew, Luke, Hebrews, 1 Peter, and 2 Peter all refer to Noah as a real person.7 Plus, Jesus descended from Adam through Noah, according to Luke 3:23-38. If Jesus did not descend from Adam as a historical person, then how could Christ’s payment apply to any of Adam’s descendants?

He paid our death penalty and defeated death with His resurrection, so even though our sins have earned eternal separation from God, the Lord Jesus can now save all those who trust in Him.

That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.8

Where do we first learn the benefit of believing God? Of course, it’s in Genesis, when Abraham “believed in the Lord; and He accounted it to him for righteousness.”-(Genesis 15:6)

-So, God’s glory, God’s law, man’s sin, a death penalty, a way of escape, and believing God’s Word all tightly link the gospel to Genesis history. I can think of no reason why the “New Testament Christian” I met shouldn’t just become a “whole Bible Christian.”
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--References

1)Romans 3:23. In addition to providing its historical anchors, Genesis also tightly links to the gospel because the power and beauty of His magnificent work in the creation week reflects “the glory of God” of which we fall short. How can we sinners draw near to this Creator? By following the Romans Road.
---2)Genesis 2:17.
---3)Romans 6:23.
---4)Romans 5:8.
5)--The Flood showed that God takes sin seriously, and continent-spanning rock layers containing fossils of mostly sea creatures show that God really flooded the whole world.
6)“[God] did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly” (2 Peter 2:5).
7) Matthew 24:37-38; Luke 17:26-27; Hebrews 11:7; 1 Peter 3:20; 2 Peter 2:5.
8)Romans 10:9-10.
9)Genesis 15:6. / INDESCRIBABLE -- Chris Tomlin
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=31&v=8FlIchSJoOA>
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--The Gospel of Creation and the Anti-Gospel of Evolution~

--INSTRUCTION CONTRARY TO KNOWLEDGE~~

“Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.”- (Proverbs 19:27)~~

--"Teach me good discernment and knowledge,
For I believe in Your commandments."- (PSALM 119:66)/ ~~

One of the saddest realities in the modern world is that many of the leaders of evolutionary and humanistic thought were raised in Christian homes, where from an early age they were exposed to the truths of Scripture.

Testimonies without number have been chronicled of Christian students going to universities where they were taught to doubt and then to disbelieve the faith of their parents. Perhaps all these students ever knew of Christianity was a set of rules; maybe they never understood the reasons their parents held certain views or the basis for these beliefs. Certainly the foundational teaching of creation has been missing in many Christian homes and churches.

Our primary goal as parents should be to establish a godly heritage—to teach the truths of God in such a way as will be believed and cherished by our children, so that they will “keep that which is committed to [their] trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called” (1 Timothy 6:20).

Certainly a more effective way of teaching is to continually point the child or student back to foundational principles rather than to list a set of dos and don’ts. We must teach those under our influence to be grounded in the Word so that they can make sound judgments when away from our watchful eyes. No greater aid to serious study, no better primer in careful reasoning exists than in Scripture.
Using it and other supportive materials, a child can learn to think carefully and critically. Not only will they learn information, but here they can learn wisdom and knowledge and understanding. “For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding” (Proverbs 2:6).
--ICR/JDM

---CREATION or EVOLUTION?

--You can not have both.

"All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness." --(2 Timothy 3:16)

"Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man; but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Spirit." --(2 Peter 1:20,21)

"Every word of God is pure; he is a shield unto them that put their trust in Him. (Proverbs 30:5)

"By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. --(Psalm 33:6)

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---By Steven T. Voigt
-(Volume 31 Sprint 2016 Issue 2)
-From: The Vine and the Branches~
Creation or Evolution
-A Look at Creation and the Theory of Evolution

“But now ask the beasts, and let them teach you; And the birds of the heavens, and let them tell you. Or speak to the earth, and let it teach you; And let the fish of the sea declare to you. Who among all these does not know That the hand of the LORD has done this, In whose hand is the life of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind?” (Job 12:7-10).

--THE ALTERNATIVE TO EVOLUTION IS CREATION

The alternative to evolution is creation. Creation states that the world is structured the way it is not by mere chance. Instead, creation holds that there was an intelligent Creator — THE LORD — who created all of life for a reason.

- See more at: <http://www.thevineandbranches.org/i...on-part-1/#sthash.T0rLg0wO.DntHLzFm.dpuf>
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-"IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH.
THE EARTH WAS FORMLESS AND VOID, AND THE DARKNESS WAS OVER THE SURFACE OF THE DEEP, AND THE SPIRIT OF GOD WAS MOVING OVER THE SURFACE OF THE WATERS.

THEN GO SAID, "LET THERE BE LIGHT," AND THERE WAS LIGHT. GOD SAW THAT THE LIGHT WAS GOOD; AND GOD SEPARATED THE LIGHT FROM THE DARKNESS.
GOD CALLED THE LIGHT DAY, AND THE DARKNESS HE CALLED NIGHT. AND THERE WAS EVENING AND THERE WAS MORNING, ONE DAY.
--(GENESIS Chapter 1 Verses 1-5)

--GENESIS is the Book of Beginnings. Read it to be wise and know the will of Jehovah Yahweh, YHWH.