Christ’s Credibility
In Jeremiah 2:26-27, God says through His prophet, “26 As a thief is shamed when he is discovered, so the house of Israel is shamed; they, their kings, their princes and their priests and their prophets, 27 who say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ For they have turned their back to Me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, ‘Arise and save us.’”
The “priests and prophets” of our day [church leadership] who hold to any of the religious doctrines of evolution (including naturalism, transmutation of species, or millions of years) should be “shamed” for their rejection of God’s Word, for in doing so they attack the very deity of Jesus.
In Matthew 19:4-5, Jesus asks, “4 Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE, 5 and said ‘FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH?’”
Here Jesus quotes Genesis 1:27 and 2:24 (also in Mark 10). He states as a fact that God made them male and female at “the beginning”. The beginning of what? Human evolution millions of years ago? That’s not what He said. Jesus confirms unequivocally a day six creation of the first man and woman, thereby annulling any possibility of a universe billions of years old.
Jesus also speaks of a literal, historical Abel in Luke 11:50-51, as well as a literal, historical Noah and global flood in Matthew 24:38-39.
In just three quotes, Jesus confirms the historical truths of Genesis 1-9. To deny Genesis as literal history is to not only deny Christ’s credibility, but the very deity of Jesus! It also denies the inspiration of the New Testament as Genesis 1-11 are referenced over 100 times! For example, Adam is mentioned by name 9 times, Eve 2 times, Cain 3 times, Abel 4 times, Seth 1 time, Enoch 3 times, Noah 8 times, and the Flood 4 times.
If Genesis is allegorical and not true, then the New Testament must also be allegorical and not true. After all, this was Charles Darwin’s conclusion.
Darwin wrote in his autobiography, “I had gradually come, by this time to see that the Old Testament, from its manifestly fake history of the world…was no more to be trusted than the sacred books of the Hindus, or the beliefs of any barbarian.” He therefore concluded, “I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true, for it is so plain the language of the text [New Testament] seems to show that the men who do not believe…will be everlastingly punished” (Autobiography, NY 1969 ed. p. 87).
Rather than follow the wisdom of men, may we and the leaders of our churches heed the words of our Creator, “But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and the everlasting King…It is He who made the earth by His power, who established the world by His wisdom” (Jeremiah 10:10,12).
