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GENESIS THE FOUNDATIONS OF EVERYTHING: WHAT WOULD NULLIFY THE GOSPEL? Evolution/deep time CLARIFICATION #1
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Origins 1.5.keyG E N E S I S T H E F O U N D AT I O N S O F E V E R
Y T H I N G :
W H AT W O U L D N U L L I F Y T H E G O S P E L ?
Evolution/deep time
C L A R I F I C AT I O N # 1
C L A R I F I C AT I O N # 2
THEN NOW
• Mutation
Assumptions: 1) Mutations sometimes add information 2) Sometimes
that added information is useful
Accidental, naturalistic
death is good
Secular Humanist View - The Evolutionary Tree
Morphology
consequence of sin
Biblical Creation View - The Orchard
MorphologyTi m
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W H AT W O U L D N U L L I F Y T H E G O S P E L ?
Evolution/deep time
If evolution/deep time is true, the gospel is meaningless
because:
1.Adam didn’t really exist, thus we aren’t really his descendants.
Therefore we didn’t inherit sin from Adam. Therefore, we aren’t
sinners in desperate need of a savior
W H AT W O U L D N U L L I F Y T H E G O S P E L ?
2. Sin is a meaningless social contract. So we aren’t really
sinners in desperate need of a savior
W H AT W O U L D N U L L I F Y T H E G O S P E L ?
If evolution/deep time is true, the gospel is meaningless
because:
3. Sin is not the cause of death. So we don’t need to be saved from
sin anyway.
W H AT W O U L D N U L L I F Y T H E G O S P E L ?
If evolution/deep time is true, the gospel is meaningless
because:
4. Sin is not the cause of death. Therefore the wages of sin is not
death. Therefore sin is meaningless. Death happens anyway
W H AT W O U L D N U L L I F Y T H E G O S P E L ?
If evolution/deep time is true, the gospel is meaningless
because:
4. Sin is not the cause of death. Therefore, the wages of sin are
not death. Therefore, death is not payment for sin. Therefore, the
death of the Infinite Savior does not pay our infinite debt.
Therefore Christ’s death was meaningless.
If evolution/deep time is true, the gospel is meaningless
because:
W H AT W O U L D N U L L I F Y T H E G O S P E L ?
6. God is not the creator of all as He claims to be. Therefore God
is a liar.
W H AT W O U L D N U L L I F Y T H E G O S P E L ?
If evolution/deep time is true, the gospel is meaningless
because:
7. Death and suffering were part of ‘very good’ at the beginning.
Therefore death and suffering is a good thing.
W H AT W O U L D N U L L I F Y T H E G O S P E L ?
If evolution/deep time is true, the gospel is meaningless
because:
8. Heaven, which is the restoration and completion of the
originally good creation, will be filled with death and
suffering.
W H AT W O U L D N U L L I F Y T H E G O S P E L ?
If evolution/deep time is true, the gospel is meaningless
because:
S O W H AT D O Y O U B E L I E V E ? O K , S O Y O U D O N ’ T B E
L I E V E E V O L U T I O N .
I B E L I E V E T H E B I B L E !
I S I T P O E T I C O R A L L E G O R I C A L O R I S I T L I T E R
A L H I S T O R Y ?
W E L L , H O W D O Y O U I N T E R P R E T T H E B I B L E ?
L E T ’ S S E E W H AT S C R I P T U R E S AY S A B O U T I
T…
COMPROMISE
the secular ideology of deep time.
The only reason for Christians to accept the
idea of deep time is peer pressure.
Secondary Idea:
are religious in nature.
“We have seen countless examples of universities, colleges, and
seminaries chartered
with a strong commitment to orthodox Christianity, only to erode
first into liberalism and ultimately into secularism. Why did
this
happen? There are multiple, complex reasons for the apostasy of
such institutions, but one
key factor is the desire of professors to be intellectually
recognized in the academic
world…”
–RC Sproul
“…A slavish genuflection to the latest trends in academia seduces
our leaders into conformity.
One apologist once described this pattern as the “treason of the
intellectuals”. If the secular
establishment ridicules such tenets as the inspiration of the
Bible, then insecure Christian
professors, desperate to be accepted by their peers, quickly flee
from orthodoxy, dragging the colleges, seminaries, and ultimately
the churches
with them. It is a weighty price to pay for academic
recognition.”
–Proverbs 29:25
The fear of man lays a snare, but whoever trusts in the
LORD is safe.
What do we believe?
The authority of the Holy Scripture, for which it ought to be
believed, dependeth not upon
the testimony of any man or church, but wholly upon God (who is
truth itself), the
author thereof; therefore it is to be received because it is the
Word of God.
1689 Baptist Confession of Faith Chapter 1 section 4
In the beginning it pleased God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,
for the manifestation of the glory of his eternal power, wisdom,
and
goodness, to create or make the world, and all things therein,
whether visible or invisible, in
the space of six days, and all very good.
1689 Baptist Confession of Faith Chapter 4 section 1
–Colossians 2:8
See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and
empty deceit, according to