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Supra-Intellectual Faith Believing God in an Intellectualized Culture

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Supra-Intellectual Faith Believing God in an Intellectualized Culture A culture strongly influenced by elite naturalists whose a priori belief is that there is no God. Foolish intellectuals. Ps.14:1; 53:1

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Creation: Is it important? Creation Creation is just a side-issue? Isnt it? Faith in Jesus Christ is whats important

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Creation: How important is it? Faith Faith in Jesus Christ is of utmost utmost importance However Faith Faith without understanding is It It is seed sown on rocky soil; the sprout withers. Blind Faith

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Creation: Why is it important? Its Its the Gospel! The The Gospel doesnt start in Matthew. Gospel doesnt start with the Birth of Christ. Gospel starts at Genesis 1:1 If If you dont understand the bad news, how can you understand the good news?

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Creation: Why is it important? If If you dont start with Genesis Youre Youre starting in the middle of the story You You cant explain suffering and death If If you dont believe the Genesis account Youre Youre saying Jesus is wrong denying the Foundations of our faith Youve Youve got death before SIN

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Jesus Said If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead. Lk.16:31 How foolish you are, and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Lk.24:25

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Other scriptures say ...the one who does not believe God has made Him a liar... 1 John 5:10 ...let God be found true, though every man be found a liar... Romans 3:4 For what does the Scripture say? Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness. Romans 4:3 Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever. Psalm 119:160

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Believing God Intimidated Intimidated Give Give up either Science or Faith No No Rational person, no Educated person Dont Dont be intimidated Split Split minds Realm Realm of Faith / Realm of Science The Bible was not intended to be a Science book. But But it is intended to be truth! Creation Creation and Evolution: Both require FAITH!

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God and Evolution What about Creation and Evolution? Maybe God used Evolution to create!

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Creation and Evolution? Cant I believe in Creation and Evolution? You can not and you must not.

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Creation and Evolution? Why I believe in Why cant I believe in Creation Evolution? Creation and Evolution? Sequence Sequence Time Time Death Death Billions of Dead Things Before Sin Billions of Dead Things Before Sin

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Why you believe both the Bible and Evolution Why you cannot believe both the Bible and Evolution Sequence Creation Creation sequence: Day Day 1: Light, Water, Heavens and earth, night and day 2: Expanse [Stretching of the Universe] 3: 3: Dry land, plants Day Day 4: 4: Stars, sun, moon Day Day 5: 5: Sea creatures, birds Day Day 6: 6: Land creatures, man The The Order is Inconsistent with Evolution

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Why you believe both the Bible and Evolution Why you cannot believe both the Bible and Evolution Evolution sequence Expansion Space Stars, Sun Earth Water Moon Death Plants Sea creatures Land creatures Dinosaurs Mammals Birds Sea creatures from land creatures Man Creation sequence: Light Water Space, Earth Expansion Plants Stars, Sun, Moon Sea Creatures, Birds Land Creatures (including Dinosaurs) Man Death

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Why you believe both the Bible and Evolution Why you cannot believe both the Bible and Evolution In fact, according to God, the Earth is the oldest object in the universe! The Earth was created on Day 1, but the Sun, the Moon, and the Stars weren t created until Day 4.

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Why you believe both the Bible and Evolution Why you cannot believe both the Bible and Evolution Time Millions Millions of years years is inconsistent with what God says in His Word. What What about ? Gap Gap Theory Day/Age Day/Age Theory Theistic Theistic Naturalism Naturalism (Theistic Evolution Theory) Progressive Progressive Creation All try to add millions millions of years years to the Bible, and all produce some mighty strange conclusions...

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Why you believe both the Bible and Evolution Why you cannot believe both the Bible and Evolution such such as millions of years of death before sin. You simply can t can t insert any significant period of time into God s God s Word without doing severe damage to its truth.

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Why you believe both the Bible and Evolution Why you cannot believe both the Bible and Evolution Death God God says death came through sin. What What is death? death? * Judgment Judgment punishment for sin Separation Separation represents our current relationship with God Ablessing! An opportunity to be reconciled to God * * The Relevance of Creation by Ken Ham http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v6/i2/creation.asp

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Why you believe both the Bible and Evolution Why you cannot believe both the Bible and Evolution Billions of Dead Things Before Sin The The fossil record is Billions Billions of dead things buried in rock layers laid down by water all over the earth. -Ken Ham God God says death came into the world through sin after creation was. finished. Under Under evolutionary hypothesis, the fossil record marks millions of years of suffering and death. If If You try to say God created through evolution, then you have billions of years of suffering and death before sin. When When God finished his creation, He called it very. good. How How could a good God call suffering and death very ? good? (Gen.1:31)

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Why you believe both the Bible and Evolution Why you cannot believe both the Bible and Evolution Many evolutionists, including the late Carl Sagan, point this out in ridicule. Carl Sagan: Evolution would be the most wasteful, inefficient, and cruel process that could ever be conceived by which to create human beings. It is absurd to suggest that the omnipotent, omniscient, loving, and saving God of the Bible could ever be guilty of such a thing! The Long War Against God, Dr. Henry Morris, p.109 Atheists seem to understand the situation better than the majority of Christians. Heres a quote from the American Atheist magazine: Christianity has fought, still fights, and will fight science [sic] to the desperate end over evolution, because evolution destroys utterly and finally the very reason Jesus earthly life was supposedly made necessary.... If Jesus was not the redeemer who died for our sins, and this is what evolution means, then Christianity is nothing! Genesis and Evolution, American Atheist 30 (Jan.1988):7, as quoted in The Long War Against God, Dr. Henry Morris, p.119

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Why you believe both the Bible and Evolution Why you MUST not believe both the Bible and Evolution God God is not a liar! said Six Six Days. Jesus Jesus said all things would be restored. God God was there. Evolutionists were not. No No Justification MUST not

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Why you believe both the Bible and Evolution Why you MUST not believe both the Bible and Evolution God God is not a liar! ...the one who does not believe God has made Him a liar... 1John 5:10 What then? If some did not believe, their unbelief will not nullify the faithfulness of God, will it? May it never be! Rather, let God be found true, though every man be found a liar, as it is written, That you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged. Romans 3:3-4 Every word of God is tested; He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him. Proverbs 30:5 Thy word is true from the beginning Psalm 119:160

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Why you believe both the Bible and Evolution Why you MUST not believe both the Bible and Evolution God God is not a liar! said Six Six Days Not Not only in Genesis 1, but also in the 4 th commandment For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. Exodus 20:11 He He wrote it in stone With his own finger When the LORD finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, the tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God. Exodus 31:18

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Why you believe both the Bible and Evolution Why you MUST not believe both the Bible and Evolution But But I believe the word day day means something other than an ordinary day. Yom (Hebrew for day) Always Always means an ordinary day when Modified Modified by a number Accompanied Accompanied by evening, morning, or both Used Used in plural form, as in Exodus 20:11 So in Genesis chapter 1, we see Night, evening, morning, number, day, evening, morning, number, day

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Why you believe both the Bible and Evolution Why you MUST not believe both the Bible and Evolution God goes out of his way in the Hebrew language to tell us these are ordinary days.

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But But in 2 Peter 3:8, it says, With With the Lord a day is like a thousand years Lets read the rest of the verse And a thousand years are like a day. Well, that cancels that one right out.

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Why you believe both the Bible and Evolution Why you MUST not believe both the Bible and Evolution God God is not a liar! said Six Six Days ! Days ! He is not inept. God God created language is able to say what He means is powerful enough to create the universe in an instant let alone six days!

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Why you believe both the Bible and Evolution Why you MUST not believe both the Bible and Evolution God God is not a liar! said Six Six Days ! Days ! He is not inept. Why Why did God take so long? Where Where do we get our Year? Earth Earth and Sun Where Where do we get our Month? Earth Earth and Moon Where Where do we get our Week? Genesis Genesis Chapter 1 It s It s the only source of a seven day week. And And as Jesus said, The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. Mark 2:27 God took seven days so we could follow His example and have a day of rest!

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Why you believe both the Bible and Evolution Why you MUST not believe both the Bible and Evolution God God is not a liar! said Six Six Days Jesus Jesus said all things would be renewed To To the way they were in the beginning. He He didn t didn t mean a state of struggle and death. He He meant harmony and life. Mt.19:28 Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, at the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. Acts 3:21 whom heaven must receive until the period of restoration of all things about which God spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets from ancient time. Rev.21:5 And the one sitting on the throne said, Look, I am making all things new!* And then he said to me, Write this down, for what I tell you is trustworthy and true. * The * The word new here means restored not different. Isaiah 11:6 The wolf will live with the lamb

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Why you believe both the Bible and Evolution Why you MUST not believe both the Bible and Evolution God God was there. Evolutionists were not. is infallible. Man is fallible. is Holy. Man is sinful. If If you re you re going to put your faith in God, shouldn t shouldn t you believe what He says? God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill? Numbers 23:19 God is not a liar! God is not a liar! God said Six Days God said Six Days Jesus said all things would be restored Jesus said all things would be restored

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Why you believe both the Bible and Evolution Why you MUST not believe both the Bible and Evolution No No Justification! The only reason to believe in evolution is if you dont believe in God and His Word. Thats a rather precarious position for a Christian to hold, dont you think? God is not a liar! God is not a liar! God said Six Days God said Six Days Jesus said all things would be restored Jesus said all things would be restored God was there. Evolutionists were not. God was there. Evolutionists were not.

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God Was There The The Creation account has three points in its favor right from the start: 1.There 1.There is an adequate cause for the effect, 2.Intelligence 2.Intelligence and a plan, 3.God 3.God was there. He He has given us His testimony; His Word This This testimony was entrusted to reliable men of God who wrote it down for us

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The REAL Battle It s It s not God vs. Science It s It s Truth vs. Orthodoxy Judeo-Christian Judeo-Christian religion vs. Secular Humanist religion God God vs. the Ungodly It s It s the Word of God v. Man s Man s fallible theories. Creation 23(2) March-May, 2001, p.18 Galileo Galileo wasn t wasn t fighting God, God, but an ungodly orthodoxy that included included the Church.

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The Orthodoxy It It is unscientific to believe any explanation that indicates the existence of God even if it s it s true!

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Absurdity This This arbitrary assertion leads to one of two necessary necessary conclusions: 1.Either 1.Either science and truth go separate ways (if God turns out to exist) or 2.There 2.There is no God. The The humanistic evolutionist, of course, believes the second.

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But God Exists! The The conclusions are false because the assertion is false. Science Science and belief in God go hand-in-hand. God God is the Author of Science

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Modern Interpretation? Should Should we apply contemporary scientific interpretations to the Bible? Just Just how much does man know? how much does man not not know? Scientific Scientific facts get discarded every day! (Actually its not the facts that get discarded, but the interpretations of the facts.)

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Fallible Man or Infallible God? Should we take the word of fallible fallible men who were not not there over the Word of our infallible God who was was there? Of course not! We We should judge the words of man against the word of God, and not the other way around. around. -Ken Ham

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Fallible Man or Infallible God? In the past, many interpretations of the Bible were wrong, not because the scriptures were wrong, but because man tried to interpret the scriptures in the context of the accepted scientific scientific ideas of the day. - The Long War Against God, God, Dr. Henry Morris, p.206

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Fallible Man or Infallible God? In the early ages, if if Christians had built their world view on the Bible as as Kepler, Newton, and others tried to do much later later [instead of building it on Greek science ] science ] the development of true science might have come much sooner. -The -The Long War Against God, Dr. Henry Morris, p.203

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Isnt Evolution a Proven Fact? What What about all the scientific discoveries that indicate there is no God and that evolution is a fact? There There are no such discoveries. There There are many assertions. All All such statements are based on the biased conclusions of fallible people. facts must be interpreted. Science Science doesn t doesn t draw conclusions; people do.

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Objectivity Which of these statements are true about scientists? 1. T hey wear white lab coats 2. T hey work in laboratories 3. T hey are unbiased 4. T hey have white hair None!

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Objectivity We re We re all human. all fallible. We all have biases. The question is What bias are you biased with? Will you be biased on the side of God s God s Word? or not?

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Present is the Key to the Past? Evolution says The The present the key to the past. Jesus indicated that the past is the key to the present: Have Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, for this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh Matthew 19:4 Moses Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning. Matthew 19:8 If If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead. Luke 16:31

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Believe it! Jesus did! Jesus referred to Genesis and the Old Testament as truth many times: Reference Topic Genesis Reference Genesis Matthew 19:4 Created male and female 1:27, 5:2 Mark 10:6 Created male and female 1:27, 5:2 Matthew 19:56 Cleave to his wife; become one flesh 2:24 Mark 10:79 Cleave to his wife, become one flesh 2:24 Matthew 23:35 Righteous Abel 4:4 Luke 11:51 Blood of Abel 4:8-11 Matthew 24:37-39 Noah and the Flood 6:1-22, 7:1-24, 8:1-22 Mark 13:19 Creation which God created 1:1, 2:4 John 8:44 Father of lies 3:45 Old Testament Luke 16:31 Moses and the Prophets Luke 24:25 Believe all that the prophets have spoken * Taken from: In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood, Does the New Testament Support Genesis 1-11?, by Dr. Walt Brown.

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All All New Testament Writers referred to Genesis chapters 1-11 as truth.* Believe it! Jesus did! Reference Topic Genesis Reference Hebrews 4:3 Works were finished 2:1 Hebrews 4:4 Rest on the seventh day 2:2-3 Hebrews 4:10 Rest from His works 2:2-3 Hebrews 11:3 Creation of the universe 1:1 Hebrews 11:4 Abel offered a better sacrifice 4:35 Hebrews 11:5 Enoch taken up 5:21-24 Hebrews 11:7 Noahs household saved 7:1 Hebrews 12:24 Blood of Abel 4:10 James 3:9 Men in the likeness of God 1:27, 5:1 I Peter 3:20 Construction of the Ark, eight saved 6:14-16, 7:13 II Peter 2:5 A flood upon the ungodly, eight saved 6:8-12, 7:124 II Peter 3:45 Earth formed out of water and by water 1:67 II Peter 3:6 The world destroyed by water 7:17-24 I John 3:8 Devil sinned from the beginning 3:14 I John 3:12 Cain slew his brother 4:8, 4:25 Jude 11 The way of Cain 4:8, 4:16, 4:25 Jude 14 Enoch, the 7 th generation from Adam 5:3-24 Revelation 2:7 Tree of life 2:9 Revelation 3:14 Beginning of the creation of God 1:1-31, 2:14 Revelation 4:11 Created all things 1:1-31, 2:1-3 Revelation 10:6 Who created heaven... and the earth 1:1, 2:1 Revelation 14:7 Who made the heaven and the earth 1:1, 2:1, 2:4 Revelation 20:2 The serpent of old, who is the devil 3:1, 3:14 Revelation 21:1 First heaven and first earth 2:1 Revelation 21:4 No more death, sorrow, crying or pain 3:17-19 Revelation 22:2 Fruit of the tree of life 3:22 Revelation 22:3 No more curse 3:14-19 Revelation 22:14 The tree of life 2:9 Reference Topic Genesis Reference Acts 14:15 Who made the heaven and the earth 2:1 Acts 17:24 God made all things 1:1-31 Acts 17:26From one man [God] made every nation of menIndirect Romans 1:20 The creation of the world 1:1-31, 2:4 Romans 4:17 God can create out of nothing 1:1-31 Romans 5:12 Death entered the world by sin 2:16-17, 3:19 Romans 5:14-19 Death reigned from Adam 2:17 Romans 8:20-22 Creation corrupted 3:17-18 I Corinthians 6:16 Two will become one flesh 2:24 I Corinthians 11:3 Head of the woman 3:16 I Corinthians 11:7 In the image of God 1:27, 5:1 I Corinthians 11:8 Woman from man 2:22-23 I Corinthians 11:9 Woman for the man 2:18 I Corinthians 15:21-22 By a man came death 2:16-17, 3:19 I Corinthians 15:38-39 To each... seeds of its own (kind) 1:11, 1:21, 1:24 I Corinthians 15:45 Adam became a living being 2:7 I Corinthians 15:47 Man from the earth 3:23 II Corinthians 4:6 Light out of darkness 1:35 II Corinthians 11:3 Serpent deceived Eve 3:16, 3:13 Ephesians 3:9 Created all things 1:1-31, 2:1-3 Ephesians 5:3031 Cleave to his wife, become one flesh 2:24 Colossians 1:16 All things created by Him 1:1-31, 2:13 Colossians 3:10 Created in His image 1:27 I Timothy 2:1314 Adam created first 2:18-23 I Timothy 2:14 Woman deceived 3:16, 3:13 I Timothy 4:4 Everything created by God is good 1:10-31 Hebrews 1:10 In the beginning God made the heavens and earth 1:1 Hebrews 2:78All things in subjection under man 1:26-30, 9:23 * Taken from: In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood, Does the New Testament Support Genesis 1-11?, by Dr. Walt Brown.

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Some interesting points: Believe it! Jesus did! Every Every New Testament writer refers to the early chapters of Genesis (Genesis 1-11). Jesus Jesus Christ referred to each of the first seven chapters of Genesis. Every Every chapter of Genesis 1-11, except chapter 8, is referred to somewhere in the New Testament. New Testament writer apparently accepted these early chapters of Genesis as historically accurate. * Taken from: In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood, Does the New Testament Support Genesis 1-11?, by Dr. Walt Brown.

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Some interesting points (continued): Believe it! Jesus did! Two thirds of the New Testament books have references to Genesis 1-11. (18 of 27) Only Only these do not Galatians, Galatians, Philippians, Philippians, Iand II Thessalonians, II II Timothy, Titus, Titus, Philemon, Philemon, and II II and III John * Taken from: In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood, Does the New Testament Support Genesis 1-11?, by Dr. Walt Brown.

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Your salvation depends on it! Take God at His word (That s (That s what faith is all about!) Why do we need a savior? To To save us from our sin. If evolution happened, death was already occurring before man evolved. But if death came before man, and was not a consequence of Adam s Adam s sin, then sin, with death as a punishment is a fiction. And if sin is a fiction, why would we need Christ to save us from our sin? See 1Corinthians 15:21-22,45

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What is Evolution? Explaining Explaining the Universe without God The The idea that the Universe is self- originating The The Long War Against God, God, Dr. Henry Morris, p.213 Evolution Evolution can take many forms, of which Darwinism is only one.

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What is Evolution? The The essential attribute of an evolutionary concept is that it identifies ultimate reality with the universe of matter, space, and time, rather than with the transcendent Creator of that universe. The The Long War Against God, God, Dr. Henry Morris, p.207

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Isn t Evolution a Modern Idea? Not at all! One One form of Pre-Darwinian Evolution was known as The The Great Chain Of Being. The The Long War Against God, Dr. Henry Morris, p.38 Long Long ages have long been a belief of pagan religions. The The Long War Against God, Dr. Henry Morris, p.46 Even Even in Christ s Christ s day, Greek Stoics and Epicureans believed everything everything on the earth evolved directly from the earth material itself. The The Long War Against God, Dr. Henry Morris, p.212 The The Gnostics had similar beliefs against whom Paul wrote: Instead Instead of believing what they knew was the truth about God, they deliberately chose to believe lies. So they worshiped the things God made but not the Creator himself, who is to be praised forever. Amen. Amen. -Romans 1:25 The The Long War Against God, Dr. Henry Morris, p.213

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Evolution IS Atheism Since Evolution was devised to explain our existence without God, Evolution is fundamentally an atheistic teaching. A Christian must NOT believe in Evolution!

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Evolution IS Atheism Evolutionist Richard Lewontin: We take the side of science [sic] [sic] in spite spite of the patent absurdity, in of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in of theunsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a priorcommitment to materialism. [W]e [W]e cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door. Richard Richard Lewontin, Billions and Billions of Demons,' The The New York Review, Review, p. 31, 9 January 1997

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What About Science? What is Science? Study Study of observable, repeatable processes and events in the present. What What about the past? We We cannot observe the past. can only make conjecture and speculation about the past, based on experiments in the present.

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How old is the Earth? Approximately 6000 years old What What about millions of years? Who Who says? Science? Science? Evolutionists! Evolutionists! Based Based on assumptions! Appearance Appearance of age? But, But, it looks old! It It is old! It s It s 6000 years old!

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How old is the Earth? Approximately 6000 years old No, No, I mean it looks millions of years old! How How do you know what millions of years looks like? Can Can you tell the difference between a six thousand year-old rock and a six million year-old rock? Not Not really. We do not have the proper frame of reference to do so.

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How old is the Earth? Did God make the Earth look old? No. No. God told us how old everything is. If If we presume it looks older than God said it is, that s our own misinterpretation. How How can we know? Perceptions Perceptions and inference? Conjecture Conjecture based on interpretation? Take Take the word of someone who was there. Who Who was there? GOD

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How old is the Earth? Evolutionists keep increasing the age of the earth. Since 1900, evolutionists have increased the estimated age of the earth by 100 times! Why? The more they discover, the more they realize there is not enough time to explain the implications of their hypothesis Evolution.

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Evolution is a Fact! What about all the evidence for Evolution? Evolution Has Has never been observed no mechanism to make it work no transitional forms We see degeneration and extinction Not evolution. Isnt it?

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Evolution is a Fact? Today Today we are less confident and the whole subject is in the most exciting ferment. Evolution is... nagged from within by the troubling complexities of genetic and developmental mechanisms and new questions about the central mystery speciation speciation itself. Keith Keith S. Thompson (Biology professor @ Yale), The The Meanings of Evolution, Evolution, American Scientist Scientist 70, 1982 p.529, as quoted by The Long War Against God, God, Dr. Henry Morris, p.24 This was 100 years after Darwin s Darwin s book that supposedly solved the problem! It It makes you wonder why why evolutionary Biologists persist in believing in evolution at all. Where s Where s the evidence? The The Long War Against God, God, Dr. Henry Morris, p.24 One Evolutionist said

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Evolution is a Fact? Natural Selection* Natural Selection* Adds no information Evolution requires a way to add new information Evolution requires a way to add new information Mutations (errors, corruption of what was) Loss of information Loss of information Most are harmful, a few are neutral, no known good Most are harmful, a few are neutral, no known good Downhill process It gets rid of information. It gets rid of information. The only way to get the information back is to breed the species with a variety that still has the genetic information. The only way to get the information back is to breed the species with a variety that still has the genetic information. Evolution demonstrated today? Evolution demonstrated today? Simple variation of traits within existing populations New species are a reduction in the gene pool *Creation Magazine, 23(3) Jun-Aug 2001 p.28-29

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Evidence for Creation What Scientific Evidence is there for Creation? We We live in the same world as evolutionists have the same animals have the same fossils have the same Science share the same facts!

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Evidence for Creation All facts must be interpreted! Your Your interpretation will depend on your world-view. You You take your world view to the fact and come up with a story about the fact. Creationists Creationists dont disagree with evolutionists on science or the facts, We We disagree on the history.

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Evidence Dating Methods Most Most dating methods indicate a young earth Fossils Fossils contain unfossilized bone, blood cells, and sometimes soft tissue Decay Decay of Earths magnetic field Helium Helium in the atmosphere If earth is as old as evolutionists say, there should be a million times more helium atoms. Helium atoms cannot escape the atmosphere. Moons Moons recession from Earth Salt Salt in the sea Erosion Erosion of continents Number Number of people alive today Radio Radio halos in crystals Many Many more! Evolutionists downplay these dating methods.

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Evidence Radiometric Dating Methods C 14, C 14, K-Ar, U-Pb, Ru-Sr Three Three assumptions: Known Known initial quantities Constant Constant decay rates No No contamination of quantities or outside influences These These assumptions cannot be known Radiometric Radiometric analysis even from the same sample produce inconsistent results

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Evidence The Fossil Record Huge Huge gaps between every major life form Non-living Non-living to single cell Single-cell Single-cell to multi-cell Invertebrate Invertebrate to vertebrate Sea Sea creatures to amphibians Amphibians Amphibians to reptiles Reptiles Reptiles to mammals Mammals Mammals to man And And more!

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Evidence The Fossil Record Abrupt appearance Abrupt appearance Fully formed Fully formed No transitions No transitions Many living creatures identical to fossils Many living creatures identical to fossils Creatures/plants once thought extinct are found alive Creatures/plants once thought extinct are found alive Coelacanth Diatonyds (extinct rodents) Wollemai pine Evidence of dinosaurs contemporary with man Evidence of dinosaurs contemporary with man

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Evidence The Fossil Record Out of place embedded rocks (Brown, 7 th ed., fig.93, p.145) Out of place embedded rocks (Brown, 7 th ed., fig.93, p.145) Trees crossing multiple strata (Brown, 7 th ed., fig.11, p.10) Trees crossing multiple strata (Brown, 7 th ed., fig.11, p.10) Geologic column (Brown, 7 th ed., #69, p.29, #69, p.77) Geologic column (Brown, 7 th ed., #69, p.29, #69, p.77) Non-existent over much of the earth Not complete anywhere Strata often incorrectly sequenced

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Evidence Near-Earth Astronomy Comets Comets Should Should not exist. Oldest no more than 10,000 years (Brown, (Brown, 7 th 7 th ed., ed., #89, p.33) No No hyperbolic orbits (Brown, (Brown, 7 th 7 th ed., ed., fig.125, p.195) Presumption Presumption of an Oort cloud Completely Completely undetectable (Brown, 7 th 7 th ed., fig.125, p.195)

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Evidence Near-Earth Astronomy This is not bad science This is not bad science its not science at all!

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Evidence Near-Earth Astronomy Where did comets come from? Where did comets come from? Earth! Earth! Fountains of the great deep More on that in another talk

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Evidence Near-Earth Astronomy Recession Recession of the Moon Has Has to be relatively new or The The Moon should have been long gone from Earth (Brown, (Brown, 7 th 7 th ed., Technical notes, pp.302-306) Dust Dust on the Moon 4.6BY 4.6BY should have resulted in the accumulation of at least 50 50 of dust and up to 440-590 440-590 -but it s it s only 3/4 deep indicating a maximum age of only 7000 years. [Evolutionists have done some serious back peddling on this by revising their hypothesis on space dust to greatly reduce the expected accumulation.] (Brown, (Brown, 7 th 7 th ed., ed., #86, p.33)

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Evidence Near-Earth Astronomy Sun Sun Faint Faint young sun and the earth. Even 25% less heat makes a permanent deep-freeze. (Brown, 7 th 7 th ed., #49, p.23) No No indication that the sun evolved or has ever been significantly different from what we see today. Earth Earth Meteoritic Meteoritic dust should be everywhere (Brown, 7 th 7 th ed., ed., #82, p.32) Decay Decay of magnetic field 50% every 1400 years. (Brown, 7 th 7 th ed., #83, p.32)

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Evidence Near-Earth Astronomy Planets Planets Rotations Rotations different (some retrograde), orbits off plane. (Brown, 7 th 7 th ed., #43, p.21)

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Evidence Distant Astronomy Supernova Supernova in 1987: SN1987a blue blue dwarf* & red giant as a binary system. Evolutionary Evolutionary theory would have predicted the Red Giant to collapse into itself and nova, but the blue giant giant went supernova instead. The The wrong star blew up! * Originally, * Originally, the pair was described as a blue dwarf and a red giant. Since the event, they have revised the description of the one that blew up to be a blue giant an unknown star type before the event.

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Evidence Distant Astronomy Supernova Supernova in 1987: SN1987a Some Some quotes immediately after the event: This This completely contradicts everything we have believed about stellar evolution. We ll We ll have to start all over on our paradigm of stellar evolution. All All existing theories of stellar evolution are now disproved. (ACC Astronomy course, 1987) They They have since re-written their interpretation of the facts of the event to fit their pre-existing theory.

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Evidence Distant Astronomy Stars Stars and Starlight God God Stretched out the heavens Isaiah Isaiah 42.5; Isaiah 44.24; Isaiah 45:12; Isaiah 51:13; Jeremiah 10:12; Jeremiah 51:15 Creation Creation has no more problem with starlight than Evolution does. Let s Let s consider

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Evidence Distant Astronomy The The Big BangTheory Red-shift Red-shift quantized God s God s stretching of the heavens may explain this quantization

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Evidence Distant Astronomy Big Big Bang? Cosmic Cosmic Background Radiation In In front of some galaxies Predicted Predicted temperature (30K) (30K) not found (3K (3K instead) Eddington Eddington already calculated 3K 3K in 1926 as the temperature of space due to starlight. Other Other problems (Brown, 7 th 7 th ed., #55, p.70-72) Heavy Heavy hydrogen not mixed, comets 2x, oceans 10x (Brown, (Brown, 7 th 7 th ed., ed., #27 p.27) Order Order from chaos (hot gas has no information) (Brown, (Brown, 7 th 7 th ed., ed., #16d, p.49) Universe Universe speeding up and slowing down Rate Rate of expansion increases with distance Matter Matter is clumped even on large scale Galaxies Galaxies shouldnt exist No No Population III stars exist (hydrogen and helium)

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Evidence Distant Astronomy Big Big Bang? Most people (even most scientists) do not understand it. They envision a dense ball of hot matter exploding into an empty space. What they do not realize is that the dimension of space must be included in the expansion. The dimensions of space itself were part of the exploding ball. Space itself was once the size of the head of a pin. Space itself expanded.

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Evidence Distant Astronomy Bang? Astronomer and Mathematician Sir Fredrick Hoyle, who was by no means means a Creationist said, Big-Bang Big-Bang cosmology refers to an epoch that cannot be reached by any form of astronomy, and, in more than two decades, it has not produced a single successful prediction. Hoyle, Hoyle, F., Home is where the wind Blows, Blows, 1994, as reported in The Skeptic, Skeptic, 16(1):52

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Evidence Distant Astronomy Cosmology Cosmology is unique in science in that it is a very large intellectual edifice based on very few facts. The strong tendency is to replace a need for more facts by conformity. Hoyle, Hoyle, et al., Nature Nature 346:807-812, Aug.30, 1990 In other words, Big Bang is a desolate theory, and in the absence of facts about stellar evolution, the orthodoxy imposes its beliefs on researchers.

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Evidence Distant Astronomy The The farthest galaxies, 11 billion light years away, should show us what the early universe looked like. light would have taken 11 BY to get here, so these distant galaxies should look young to us. Many Many of the farthest galaxies still look billions of years old! The The universe is supposedly only 13 BY old. How How did these galaxies become so old old at a time when the universe itself was only 2 BY old?

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Evidence Biology [Mathematician] [Mathematician] Sir Fredrick Hoyle calculated that the chance of obtaining the required set of enzymes for even the simplest living cell was one in 10 to the 40,000. Evolution Evolution from Space, Space, 1981, Hoyle & Wickramasinghe The The number of atoms in the entire universe is estimated at only 10 to the 80. He called the evolution of life on earth nonsense nonsense of a high order. Hoyle, Hoyle, F., The The Big Bang in Astronomy , Astronomy , New Scientist, Scientist, Nov.19, 1981 Sir Sir Fredrick Hoyle originated the 'Tornado through a junkyard assembling a Boeing 747' example, saying that believing in evolution is like believing a tornado could sweep through a junkyard and assemble a Boeing 747. Hoyle, Hoyle, Nature, Nature, 294(5837):105, Nov.12,1981 www.answersingenesis.org/news/hoyle.asp#f3

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Evidence Biology Did Sir Fredrick Hoyle s Hoyle s conclusions lead him to believe in God? No. Sadly, he concluded life came from outer-space!

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Evidence Biology In In Darwin s Darwin s day people viewed living cells to be about as complex as a ping-pong ball. Today Today we know that a living cell is practically a universe in itself.

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Evidence Biology The The organic world is one of stability of kinds with provision for variation within the kind. There There are unbridgeable gaps between the kinds.

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Evidence Biology If If evolution were true, there should be no gaps. We should see a continuum of imperceptible gradations from one form to another. It would be impossible to tell where the classification of one organism should end and another begin. Speciation Speciation itself is something we should NOT see. This This is powerful testimony that Evolution is false. -H.M.Morris, Many Infallible Proofs, Proofs, p.264

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Evidence Biology Abiogenesis Abiogenesis Spontaneous generation does not exist today. We We know life comes from life! Evolutionists Evolutionists have to assume life came from non-life.

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Evidence Biology have to assume A A process that does not exist today existed in the past An An chemically different environment that does not exist today existed in the past oceanic composition that does not exist today existed in the past In order to explain the generation of primeval organisms that only existed in the past All from a belief system that tries to say the present is the key to the past! H.M.Morris, Many Infallible Proofs, Proofs, p.270-271 This This is not science. Science Science deals with processes that exist in the present.

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Evidence Biology The earliest earliest and most primitive primitive form of life discovered in the fossil record record found in the Precambrian rocks of southern Ontairo Ontairo [is] still living today. H.M.Morris, H.M.Morris, Many Infallible Proofs, Proofs, p.273-274

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Evidence Biology Vestigial Vestigial organs. Not Not knowing the purpose of a structure does not mean it has lost its function or has no function. All All organs once identified as vestigial are now known to have a function. Furthermore, Furthermore, the idea that an originally perfect structure deteriorates over generations says nothing at all about how it was produced in the first place. The The Long War Against God, Dr. Henry Morris, p.25

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Evidence Biology Morphology Morphology Living Living entities that look alike came from a common ancestor? entities that look alike had a common creator.

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Evidence Language Languages Languages are more complex the farther back in history you go. The The Long War Against God, God, Dr. Henry Morris, p.253 Brown, Brown, 7 th 7 th ed., #13, p.8 Evolution Evolution predicted the opposite.

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Evidence Religion Religions Religions all stem from monotheism, belief in a creator, and an eternal afterlife. Then they degenerated into polytheism, pantheism, and animism. Evolution predicted just the opposite. Researchers are baffled. -The -The Long War Against God, God, Dr. Henry Morris, p.292

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Evidence Consciousness Self-awareness Self-awareness Evolution cannot explain this. Altruism Taking Taking action on the behalf of and to the benefit of another, often at the risk of one's own life. Evolution cannot explain this. [Brown, 7 th 7 th ed., #11]

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Computer Simulation What about computer simulations that prove evolution? All computer simulations are created by intelligent beings. Such programs do only what the programmer has instructed. That being the case, they present stronger evidence for creation than evolution.

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Evolution Fails on Every Front Creation/Flood Creation/Flood theory explains every facet of Life, Life, the Universe, and Everything. The The simplest, most logical and most scientific model of origins is still that of special creation. H.M.Morris, H.M.Morris, Many Infallible Proofs. Proofs. p.279 The The evolution model, on the other hand, continually encounters contradictions which require a multitude of auxiliary assumptions to be imposed upon its basic formulation. -H.M.Morris, -H.M.Morris, Many Infallible Proofs, Proofs, p.282

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New Discoveries What will we do if new discoveries indicate evolution is true? No No fear: God is the author of Science. The The facts of science will never be in opposition to God only man s man s opinions. Your starting premise will determine your conclusion regarding facts of science.

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Why does Evolution Persist? Because Because of the a priori priori foundational premise that there is no God. The The argument goes like this: There There is no God We We are here Therefore, Therefore, we evolved. It It persists because it must persist in order for people to not believe in God.

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Conclusion A Christian must not believe in Evolution because It s It s the doctrine of atheists We We must not let the teachings of atheists cloud our faith. It s It s the lie from Satan Did Did God really really say (Genesis say (Genesis 3:1) 3:1) He created in six days? The The loss of faith comes from doubting the Word of God.

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The Gospel Why Why can t can t we just teach the essentials? This This is the ultimate essential. essential. It is the first order of essence; an inseparable part of the gospel. Jesus IS the Creator!

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The Gospel Jesus IS the Creator! John 1:1-3,10 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that has been made made 10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through Him, Him, the world did not recognize Him.

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The Gospel Jesus IS the Creator! Colossians 1:15-17 15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 for by Him all things were created: created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rules or authorities; all things were created by Him and for Him. Him. 17 He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.

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The Gospel The The Fall affected all aspects of man Man Man has to be converted Spiritually Emotionally Morally Intellectually These These do not all necessarily happen at once

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Inerrancy of Scripture Are Are parts of God s God s Word wrong? If If one part is wrong, how do we know other parts aren t aren t wrong?

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Authority of Scripture Can Can we throw out the parts of God s God s Word we don t don t like? The The only way we know anything about being a Christian is through God s God s Word. Without Without God s God s Word, there can be no Christians, for we would know nothing about Jesus Christ and what he has done for all people.

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Authority of Scripture We We have faith in Jesus Christ, and we believe the things he believed and taught: God s God s Word

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Authority of Scripture Jesus Jesus is the Word that became flesh and dwelt among us. John 1:14 Believing Believing God s God s Word is what it means to be a Christian. If If you don t don t like God s God s Word, perhaps you should be something else.

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Authority of Scripture Jesus Jesus is the last Adam. If If the first Adam is allegorical, why should the last Adam be real? So So it is written: The first man Adam became a living being; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit. 1Corinthians 15:44

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Authority of Scripture If you try to add millions of years to the Bible, youve got millions of years of death and suffering before sin. And God called it good! Paul tells us in Romans 6:23 Death is the penalty for sin. He also reminds us in Romans 5:12-14 that sin came into the world by man, and death came into the world by sin.

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However, if death was around for millions of years before man, the idea of death being the wages of sin is a myth. Death was already here! If youre going to cast doubt on the six days in Genesis chapter 1 in order to fit millions of years into the Bible, you also cast doubt on Romans 6:23, and 5:12-14. Where does it stop?

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What Is The Gospel? Part Part I Man Man was created with no imperfection; designed to live forever had fellowship with God rebelled and became separated from God became cursed with death

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What Is The Gospel? Part Part II God God provided a path of redemption through death Jesus, Jesus, God s God s son, took the penalty for our sin, and conquered death Through Through faith in Jesus, we can spend eternity with God.

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What Is The Gospel? Part Part III New New Heavens Earth Jerusalem All All things restored to what they would have been all along: Life without suffering or death in a perfect place with our Redeemer and God. His name be praised forever!

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What Is The Gospel? Amen.