I would like to encourage everyone to read the Bible and receive it as God’s word. I would rather quote it and point to it as a standard by which we must judge and be judged. Most of the time i just state it as fact.
The problem is that many people today have been taught that it is not reliable or not totally reliable. I am not sure which is worse.
We have been taught that we have evolved and Genesis states “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. “KJV
Many people will say that science has proved the Bible wrong on this subject.
I am a factory worker and not a scientist. I respect science and admire scientists but i can’t believe them all the time. I respect people who have degrees in economics but i don’t always trust them. I look at what is going on in the mortgage industry and i realize that there are a lot of smart educated people in that industry. Even when people have great educations they sometimes do things that are not wise. Commissions and bonuses can blind people to good judgment. A lot of smart people are in trouble with foreclosures. The Bible in Romans talks about people who suppress the truth in unrighteousness. We all have the tendency to do that. When God says that He created the heaven, the earth and Man (male and female) It implies that He has rights of ownership. We have trouble with that concept and we delight to hear what we could use to gain our supposed freedom from His rightful ownership of us. If someone gives us a reason to believe that God did not,( in a very personal way) create us we are predisposed to believe it.
If you want people with scientific arguments to explain why you should believe Genesis i could try to find some for you. Ask me. You will find more who believe evolution than Genesis, if you want to stick with the majority stick with evolution for now at least.
I was taught evolution in public school. I was taught to believe Genesis at home. There were times i did not want to believe the Bible but i can’t say that i ever found evolution believable.
The apple problem
I was in Junior High school. We were doing seed diagrams. My teacher used a whole apple in stead of an apple seed. I was thinking that the little seed inside of the apple core was the apple seed and contained food for the little plant that would germinate and become an apple tree in someone’s lifetime. If the little seeds inside the apple were complete seeds, why does an apple have fruit that we can eat? Genesis says Gen 1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Gen 1:12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Gen 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. KJV
If God created the apple tree for food it makes sense to have an edible part of a apple. If the apple tree evolved why did it evolve in that way? We have a bush in our front yard. I looked at it the other day it was beautiful. There were different colors and delicate shapes. On another bush there were blooms and butterflies were flying from bloom to bloom. If you say God created it that way it makes sense. Why would it evolve that way? You can tell me that the plants evolved colored blossoms to attract bees and butterflies so that they could pollinate. Why do they need to pollinate?
If i say God made them that way you may ask why? If reproduction of living things evolved why do we need two genders of some plants to reproduce? Why would something so complex evolve? Why would something so beautiful evolve? Why would we evolve to be able to discuss complexity or beauty or morality?
Have you ever seen a abandoned junk yard? There are places where people will park cars or trucks or farm machinery and abandon them. Picture this in your mind. You have a bunch of cars clumped together in a field. If people leave them alone for a hundred years what will happen? Will they evolve into more modern transportation? How about one thousand years? Will they evolve? If one thousand engineers told you they would evolve and one engineer told you they would rust away. Who would you believe? Would you believe a billion years?
In that same abandoned junkyard would you expect to see plants and other living things in one hundred years? The same living things might not be there. Would you expect that they would reproduce? Do you expect you car to come alive and feed it self? Do you expect your car to reproduce it self?
All my life i have observed live things reproduce live things and dead things stay dead. If we say that by chance a single cell living thing came into existence how would it survive? How would it reproduce? How would it find food and know what food is? We have identified what we call single cell microorganisms. If we call them simple living things that is a contradiction. Something has to be very complex in order to be alive and stay alive. Is it logical to think that it stayed alive for billions of years in order to evolve into me and you. Will your car maintain it self? Will it feed itself? Will it reproduce it self and evolve into a newer model? Some of you might say “ was designed to wear out so that you would need to buy another one. Do you believe the designers intentions prevail on the thing he made? If you see a car that is different than the normal production cars do you say that the car evolved? You think someone customized the car! Does evolution take billions of years? Think about a 1940 model car left in a field In a thousand years. Will it evolve? Will it reproduce or will it rust away so that it is not recognizable? If one hundred men with masters degrees in engineering told you that cars reproduce and evolve could you believe it? How can you believe that living things evolve?
I can only see one reason to believe evolution. We want to do away with the knowledge of God who created us and the world we live in.
Rom 1:19 -20 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: KJV
If you got this far i thank you for putting up with my foolishness and i beg you to read God’s wisdom in His Word the Bible.
Daniel
