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 :
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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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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
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2. Sin is a meaningless social contract. So we aren’t really sinners in desperate need of a savior
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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.
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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
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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:
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6. God is not the creator of all as He claims to be. Therefore God is a liar.
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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.
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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