>>John Bradshaw:
This is It Is Written.
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I'm John Bradshaw.
Thanks for joining me.
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It captured the
attention of a nation:
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the trial nearly 100 years ago
of a Tennessee school teacher
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accused of teaching the theory
of evolution in public schools.
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On one side, former
presidential candidate
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William Jennings Bryan
argued in behalf of creation,
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while Clarence Darrow,
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who was referred to as
the "attorney for the damned,"
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defended high school teacher
and sometime football coach
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John Thomas Scopes.
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Many people today
forget that Scopes,
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the teacher put on
trial, actually lost the case.
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He was found guilty and
fined $100 for breaking the law
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of the state of Tennessee,
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which forbade the teaching
of the theory of evolution.
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In fact, the teaching of
evolution remained illegal
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in Tennessee
until the late 1960s.
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But unfortunately
for Bryan's argument,
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his defense of the
biblical creation story
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fell somewhat flat.
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History remembers the
Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925
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as a major setback for the
biblical teaching of creation.
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Five days after the trial
ended, July the 26th, 1925,
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Bryan arranged for his
final argument against evolution
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to be published, an argument
that he hadn't been able
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to deliver during the
proceedings of the trial itself.
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He then retired to his
bedroom for an afternoon nap,
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hoping to gather
strength for a sermon
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that he was gonna
preach that night.
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But he never woke up.
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In this final address,
Bryan spoke of the logic
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of the theory of evolution and
its application to human hearts.
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He wrote how the
theory Charles Darwin promoted
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regarding the origin of the
human race appeared to endorse
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the elimination of the weak
members of civilized society.
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So let's keep in mind
that according to the theory
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of evolution, the natural world
makes progress by the strong
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devouring the weak.
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The principle is known as
the survival of the fittest,
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what Darwin
called natural selection.
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Many people in the
late 19th century and beyond
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started to apply
this principle in society,
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and it wasn't hard to
see where it was going.
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It led to the oppression
of society's weaker members:
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the poor, the dispossessed,
racial and ethnic groups
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that were
thought to be inferior.
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The thought was that
it would achieve social
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and economic advancement.
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That theory became
known as social Darwinism.
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In Bryan's words,
aimed at the scientists
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who were leading people
to accept Darwin's theory,
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"Science is a
magnificent material force,
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but it is not a
teacher of morals.
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It can perfect machinery,
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but it adds no moral
restraints to protect society
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from the misuse of the machine."
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Bryan claimed that evolution
substituted the law of force
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for the law of love, and he
asked his readers the question
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posed by Pontius Pilate
as Jesus stood before him:
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"The question, 'What
shall I do with Jesus?'
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must be answered.
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A bloody, brutal
doctrine-- evolution--demands,
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as the rabble
did 1,900 years ago,
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that He be crucified."
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It's fair to say that William
Jennings Bryan got it right
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when he described the assault
made by the theory of evolution
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on the principles of
biblical Christianity.
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The fact is that
Darwin's theory on the origin
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of the natural world is
much more than an attack
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on the historical
accuracy of the book of Genesis.
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What's even more important is
the attack made by this theory
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on the heart of the gospel,
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of the idea of the
world's need of a Savior,
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and on Christ's insistence that
we treat the weak and vulnerable
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with justice and mercy.
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Evolution attacks
both of those ideas.
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Today we're
beginning a new series.
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It's called "Great
Chapters of the Bible."
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There are 1,189
chapters in the Bible.
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Today we're gonna be
looking at the very first one,
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Genesis chapter 1.
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Genesis 1 speaks to us
about the sovereignty of God,
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about the great power of God.
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And because it
deals with creation,
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it shows us that the God of
heaven is the God of nature.
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Genesis 1 demonstrates
that God is self-existent.
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And all of this runs
counter to what a lot of people
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have to say about God.
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There's no shortage of
voices that say there is no God.
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An actor who portrayed
God in a couple of movies
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was quoted as having said,
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"My belief system doesn't
support a creator as such,
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as we can call God, who created
us in His/Her/Its image."
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Stating that he
believes people invented God,
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he said, "So if I
believe in God, and I do,
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it's because I think I'm God."
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The famed scientist,
the late Stephen Hawking,
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claimed that there is no God.
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Hawking died in 2018.
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So what we can know for certain
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is that there's
now no Stephen Hawking.
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One Pulitzer-prize-winning
author wrote this:
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"In the search for meaning we
must not forget that the gods,
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(or God, for that matter)
are a concept of the human mind;
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they are the creature
of man, not vice versa.
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They are needed and invented
to give meaning and purpose
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to the puzzle
that is life on earth,
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to explain strange and
irregular phenomena of nature,
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haphazard events
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and, above all,
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irrational human conduct.
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They exist to bear
the burden of all things
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that cannot be comprehended
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except by supernatural
intervention or design."
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The first chapter
of Genesis teaches--
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in fact, the whole Bible
teaches--the exact opposite.
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Genesis 1 is unambiguous.
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There is a God.
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He existed
before nature existed.
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He created the world, and
He purpose-built human beings
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for a very specific reason.
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The personal God depicted
throughout Holy Scripture
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is the ultimate
definition of reality.
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Genesis chapter 1 begins
with a statement of fact.
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It says,
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"In the beginning God created
the heavens and the earth.
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The earth was
without form, and void;
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and darkness was on
the face of the deep.
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And the Spirit of God
was hovering over the face
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of the waters.
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[And] God said, 'Let there
be light'; and there was light.
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And God saw the
light, that it was good;
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and God divided the
light from the darkness.
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God called the light day, and
the darkness He called night.
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So the evening and the
morning were the first day."
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That's Genesis 1:1-5.
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Not only is God present before
He brings the natural world
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into existence, but the
elements needed to sustain life
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are present before their
natural sources are created.
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You read Genesis 1,
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and you see light
existing before the sun exists,
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and you wonder how that can be.
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Well, Genesis is telling us
that God is the source of light
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and life in the natural world,
as well as the spiritual world.
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Now, many people have
looked at the Creation story
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and read where the
Bible says "the first day,"
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"the second day,"
"the third day," and so on,
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and because of the influence
of Charles Darwin and others
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like him, they've
heard where some have said
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that the earth
came into existence
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over a long period of time,
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and so they decide that the days
of Creation cannot be literal--
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maybe each day
represents millions of years.
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So, are the days of
Creation literal or figurative?
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I'll have that in a moment
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as "Great Chapters
of the Bible" continues.
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>>John Bradshaw: Thanks for
joining me on It Is Written.
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Today, "Great
Chapters of the Bible"
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and we're looking at the
first chapter of the Bible,
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Genesis chapter 1.
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It tells the Creation story.
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The word "genesis"
means "beginning" or "origin."
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And Genesis 1
recounts the beginning,
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the origin of the world.
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It tells us that the
world was created in six days.
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But, were these really
six literal 24-hour periods?
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Or were they
something different?
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It's true that
people have been questioning
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the idea of six
literal days for centuries.
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Whereas early church scholars
like Origen and Augustine
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didn't believe in six
literal days of Creation,
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Martin Luther and the
Protestant reformers did.
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But while Origen and
Augustine didn't arrive
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at their conclusions because of
anything to do with evolution,
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many people today
reinterpret what Genesis 1 says
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in order to make it fit
with evolutionary theory.
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Let's look at that.
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Now, for one thing,
there's nothing to suggest
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that Genesis
chapter 1 is figurative.
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It tells us that an actual God
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actually created
the actual earth.
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Pretty straightforward.
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There's nothing in the
text itself that suggests
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that the days are not days,
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and there's nothing literary
about Genesis 1 that suggests
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that the days aren't real days.
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The Hebrew word for
"day" in Genesis 1 is "yom,"
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and it means "a day," 24 hours.
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What Genesis chapter
1 makes abundantly clear
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is that the days of Creation
simply cannot be understood
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as symbolic.
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Following God's
creative activity each day
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is the statement
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"So the evening and the
morning were the first day,"
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or the second day, the
third day, and so forth.
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Now, of course
you can argue that.
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There are people who
believe that the earth is flat;
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they argue
against it being round.
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But anyone who wants to
argue that the days in Genesis 1
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are not literal days,
well, they're entitled to do so,
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but they're arguing against God,
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against plain
statements in the Bible.
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And that, well, that
never works out well.
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Now, Genesis 1 and verse 6:
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"Then God said,
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'Let there be a firmament
in the midst of the waters,
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and let it divide the
waters from the waters.'
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[Then] God made the firmament,
and divided the waters
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which were under the firmament
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from the waters which were above
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the firmament; and it was so.
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And God called
the firmament heaven.
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So the evening and the
morning were the second day."
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That's verses 6 through 8.
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Now, here we get a
glimpse of the incredible world
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that God made.
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On the second
day of Creation week,
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the atmospheric heavens
were brought into existence,
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and they were placed between the
waters on the earth's surface
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and the waters
above the atmosphere.
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Now, when the Flood
came in Genesis chapter 7,
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"The fountains of the
great deep were broken up,
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and the windows of
heaven were opened."
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Genesis 7, verse 11.
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The story picks up in
Genesis chapter 1 and verse 9:
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"Then God said, 'Let
the waters under the heavens
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be gathered
together into one place,
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and let the dry land appear';
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and it was so.
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And God called
the dry land earth,
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and the gathering together
of the waters He called seas.
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And God saw that it was good.
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Then God said, 'Let the
earth bring forth grass,
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the herb that yields seed,
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and the fruit tree that yields
fruit according to its kind,
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whose seed is in
itself, on the earth';
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and it was so.
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And the earth
brought forth grass,
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the herb that yields
seed according to its kind,
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and the tree that yields
fruit, whose seed is in itself
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according to its kind.
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And God saw that it was good.
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So the evening and the
morning were the third day."
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Genesis 1, verses 9 through 13.
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Now, notice, the
Creation story tells us not only
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that light existed
before the sun was created,
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but plants and
other vegetation did also.
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You see, God isn't dependent
on nature, as we know it,
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in order for
life to be sustained.
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God is above nature,
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and He's the source of
everything that nature requires.
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I want you to notice
that in verses 11 and 12
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we read that the plants
God created were to reproduce
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"according to its kind."
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Now, evolutionary theory claims
that plants and animals change
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from simple forms
into very different,
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very complicated forms.
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The Bible, by contrast, tells
us that God designed nature
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to reproduce itself
"according to its kind,"
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which leads me to this point.
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A lot of Christians claim to
believe the theory of evolution,
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non-Christians, too.
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A lot of Christian or religious
teachers say that they see
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no conflict between
evolution and the Bible.
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Popes, over the
years, have said repeatedly
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there's no conflict between
evolution and Catholic teaching.
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Numerous
Protestant teachers have said
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that evolution and the
Bible can peacefully coexist.
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The problem with that is...
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that's not what
the Bible teaches.
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Genesis 1 isn't
written in symbols
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that need to be interpreted
like many of the prophecies
00:14:06.71\00:14:09.04
in Daniel and Revelation.
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It's clear-cut.
It's straightforward.
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And it's abundantly clear
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that Genesis 1 and evolution
just don't go together.
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And if believing the
Bible puts you out of step
00:14:19.85\00:14:22.72
with a priest or a pastor
or a lecturer, then so be it.
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Believing the Bible
might put you out of step
00:14:27.60\00:14:29.26
with some people, but it
puts you in step with God.
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So, let's continue
in Genesis chapter 1:
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"Then God said, 'Let
there be lights in the firmament
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of the heavens to
divide the day from the night;
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and let them be
for signs and seasons,
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and for days and years;
and let them be for lights
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in the firmament of the heavens
to give light on the earth';
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and it was so.
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Then God made two great lights:
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the greater
light to rule the day,
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and the lesser
light to rule the night.
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He made the stars also.
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God set them in the firmament
of the heavens to give light
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on the earth, and to rule
over the day and over the night,
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and to divide the
light from the darkness.
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And God saw that it was good.
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So the evening and the
morning were the fourth day."
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That's chapter 1,
verses 14 through 19
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in the book of Genesis.
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Now, notice God doesn't
name the sun or the moon.
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Why is that?
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Had something to do with this:
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They were worshiped
in the ancient world.
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And in Genesis 1, God
puts them in their place.
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God made the sun.
God made the moon.
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God made everything
that we see in nature.
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None of it is worthy of worship.
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Only God is worthy of worship.
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The Creation story continues.
Back to Genesis chapter 1:
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"Then God said, 'Let the
waters abound with an abundance
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of living creatures, and
let birds fly above the earth
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across the face of the
firmament of the heavens.'
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So God created
great sea creatures
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and every living
thing that moves,
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with which the waters abounded,
according to their kind,
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and every winged bird
according to its kind.
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And God saw that it was good."
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Genesis 1:20 and 21.
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Once again, the animals
God created were to reproduce
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after their own kind.
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Fish didn't go
on to become frogs.
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Reptiles didn't turn into birds.
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Now, you either believe
what the Bible is telling you,
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or you don't.
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You decide if God
is your authority--
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or if your high
school biology teacher
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happens to be your authority.
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On the sixth day of Creation, we
find the same principle at work.
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Back to Genesis chapter 1:
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"Then God said, 'Let the earth
bring forth the living creature
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according to its kind:
cattle and creeping things
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and beasts of the earth,
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each according to
its kind'; and it was so.
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And God made the beast of the
earth according to its kind...
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and everything that creeps on
the earth according to its kind.
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And God saw that it was good."
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Genesis 1:24 and 25.
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And then would come
Creation's crowning work.
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And what was that?
That's coming up next.
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>>John Bradshaw: Thanks for
joining me on It Is Written.
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The crowning work of Creation is
described in Genesis chapter 1,
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and we see it written
of in verses 26 and 27:
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"Then God said, 'Let
us make man in our image,
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according to our likeness;
00:18:59.37\00:19:00.90
let them have dominion
over the fish of the sea,
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over the birds of the air,
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and over the
cattle, over all the earth
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and over every creeping
thing that creeps on the earth.'
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So God created
man in His own image;
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in the image of
God He created [them];
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male and female
He created them."
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Human beings, according
to God's original plan,
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were not only to rule
over the natural world,
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they were to
reflect the image of God
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through the intimate
relationship He designed
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for husbands and wives.
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As God said in
Genesis chapter 2,
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"Therefore shall a man
leave his father and mother,
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and be joined to his wife, and
they shall become one flesh."
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Now, this is why the
New Testament describes
00:19:39.37\00:19:42.04
same-gender intimacy as
being contrary to nature
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and why the Word of God
speaks so plainly about this.
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The image of God is
revealed in humanity
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through male-female intimacy,
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through men and women
interacting with each other
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in the spiritual
roles that God designed.
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When you distort those roles,
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it leads you away
from God's original path.
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Now, I wanna share
with you three great errors
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that have come into our
world as a result of denying
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the biblical creation story, as
recounted in Genesis chapter 1.
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Three.
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The first one: idolatry.
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Once God is dethroned
from His place above and beyond
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the natural world, human beings
start making up their own gods.
00:20:21.65\00:20:25.55
Someone said years ago that "God
created man in His own image,
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and man's been trying to
return the favor ever since."
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We read about this in the first
chapter of the book of Romans,
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Romans chapter 1:
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"Professing to be
wise, they became fools,
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and changed the glory
of the incorruptible God
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into an image made
like corruptible man--
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and birds and four-footed
[beasts] and creeping things.
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Therefore God also
gave them up to uncleanness,
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in the lusts of their hearts,
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to dishonor their
bodies among themselves,
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who exchanged the
truth of God for the lie,
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and worshiped and
served the creature
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rather than the Creator."
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That's Romans
1, verses 22 to 25.
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So, first great error? Idolatry.
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Now, a second great error
that has come into the world
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due to denying Genesis 1
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is people thinking they can save
themselves by self-improvement,
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with no need of God's help.
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According to evolution,
humanity and nature combined
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are progressing
on an upward path,
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a path of continual improvement.
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But if you look
around the world,
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everything suggests to
you that that's not happening.
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Deny Genesis 1,
deny the creation story,
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and there's no longer
a fall of the human race.
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But the Bible is clear:
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The Adam of Genesis is a
real historical character.
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It's clear Adam and Eve sinned,
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and their disobedience
made it necessary for Jesus,
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the second
person of the Godhead,
00:21:54.84\00:21:56.91
to come to the earth as the
Messiah, as the second Adam.
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Here's how Paul put
it in Romans chapter 5:
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"Therefore, just as through
one man sin entered the world,
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and death through sin, and
thus death spread to all men,
00:22:08.16\00:22:11.69
because all sinned.
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Nevertheless death
reigned from Adam to Moses,
00:22:13.16\00:22:15.93
even over those who had not
sinned according to the likeness
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of the transgression of Adam,
00:22:18.77\00:22:20.30
who is a type of
Him who was to come.
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Therefore, as
through one man's offense
00:22:23.44\00:22:25.41
judgment came to all men,
resulting in condemnation,
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even so through
one Man's righteous act
00:22:28.81\00:22:30.81
the free gift came to all men,
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resulting in
justification of life.
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For as by one man's disobedience
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many were made sinners,
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so also by one Man's obedience
many will be made righteous."
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Notice how the one man
who brought sin to the world
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is identified as Adam.
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You can't read these
verses and think of Adam
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as someone generic, uh, a
mere symbol of all of humanity.
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The Adam described
in the New Testament
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is an historical
figure, just as plainly as Jesus
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is understood in the New
Testament to be historical also.
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But if the world and humanity,
in particular, are on a path
00:23:06.78\00:23:09.68
toward constant
natural betterment,
00:23:09.72\00:23:12.62
as evolution teaches,
then who needs a savior?
00:23:12.65\00:23:16.93
Sin stops being a reality.
00:23:16.96\00:23:19.29
Reject Genesis 1 and we
don't need anyone to save us
00:23:19.33\00:23:22.80
from our sins because the whole
idea of sin is incompatible
00:23:22.83\00:23:26.20
with the theory of evolution.
00:23:26.23\00:23:28.10
Or if you spiritualize Genesis
1 away and make it symbolic
00:23:28.14\00:23:31.37
or allegorical, as many do,
then you've got nothing more
00:23:31.41\00:23:35.51
than a symbolic, allegorical
fall of the human race.
00:23:35.54\00:23:41.25
Now, the third great
error you stumble into--
00:23:41.28\00:23:43.69
and you must,
00:23:43.72\00:23:44.75
when you reject creation
and you accept evolution--
00:23:44.79\00:23:48.16
is the oppression and injustice
00:23:48.19\00:23:50.93
directed at the
weak and vulnerable.
00:23:50.96\00:23:53.26
You hear a lot of talk
these days about social justice,
00:23:53.29\00:23:56.10
and it's good that
people are talking about that.
00:23:56.13\00:23:59.00
But you can't
have social justice
00:23:59.03\00:24:00.77
without Genesis chapter
1 because evolution says
00:24:00.80\00:24:04.04
that the weak, the
poor, the disadvantaged
00:24:04.07\00:24:07.74
get in the way
of social progress.
00:24:07.78\00:24:11.71
Genesis 1 is a tremendously
important chapter of the Bible.
00:24:11.75\00:24:15.42
It presents us
with clear statements,
00:24:15.45\00:24:18.15
and every one of
them offers us hope.
00:24:18.19\00:24:21.36
Think about this.
00:24:21.39\00:24:22.59
"In the beginning God"--the
Bible tells us there is a God.
00:24:22.62\00:24:26.73
And what was His first
act in Genesis chapter 1?
00:24:26.76\00:24:28.83
The Bible says, "In
the beginning God created."
00:24:28.86\00:24:32.20
Why? To give life.
00:24:32.23\00:24:34.07
Let me ask you:
Where did you come from?
00:24:34.10\00:24:36.00
I'll tell you:
from the hand of God.
00:24:36.04\00:24:39.37
As Genesis 1 says, you
were created in God's image.
00:24:39.41\00:24:43.91
The world is not an accident.
00:24:43.95\00:24:45.85
It's not the result
of random processes.
00:24:45.88\00:24:48.15
You're not here by chance.
00:24:48.18\00:24:50.79
Now, we know what happened next:
00:24:50.82\00:24:52.89
Sin came into the world.
00:24:52.92\00:24:55.32
And that didn't rid the
world of the perfection of Eden,
00:24:55.36\00:24:58.03
at least not permanently.
00:24:58.06\00:24:59.69
You see, what sin took
away God is going to restore.
00:24:59.73\00:25:03.97
In the beginning everyone on
earth worshiped at God's feet.
00:25:04.00\00:25:08.10
That's going to happen again.
00:25:08.14\00:25:10.17
This ruined earth
will be re-created.
00:25:10.21\00:25:13.31
One day soon there'll be no
more sin, no more suffering.
00:25:13.34\00:25:17.85
What we had in
Genesis 1 we'll have again.
00:25:17.88\00:25:21.68
And think about it like this:
00:25:21.72\00:25:23.49
What God had in
Genesis 1 God will have again--
00:25:23.52\00:25:28.22
a world without the
horror and devastation of sin.
00:25:28.26\00:25:34.36
The world got off
to a perfect start.
00:25:34.40\00:25:37.57
And thanks to the
plan of salvation,
00:25:37.60\00:25:40.20
thanks to Jesus dying
on an old rugged cross,
00:25:40.24\00:25:43.54
thanks to a God of
love who inhabits eternity,
00:25:43.57\00:25:47.08
one day soon we're gonna
live in a perfect world again.
00:25:47.11\00:25:51.15
Do you wanna be part of the
perfect future God has planned?
00:25:51.18\00:25:54.75
You can be, by giving your
life over to Jesus right now
00:25:54.78\00:25:58.09
and asking Him to
live His life in you.
00:25:58.12\00:26:01.49
He'll do it, and He'll
do it for you right now.
00:26:01.52\00:26:05.79
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>>John Bradshaw:
Let's pray together now.
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Our Father in heaven,
we read Genesis chapter 1,
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and it speaks to us
about a loving God who made us
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in His image.
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That's how the Bible begins,
and we know how it ends--
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an earth made new,
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Your people dwelling together
with You forever without sin.
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So, heavenly Father, right now
we claim that we want this gift;
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we want to be in
the earth made new;
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we want to experience
what Adam and Eve experienced
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before the Fall.
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Thank You that we can through
Jesus, and so we claim Him now.
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Friend, I know what
you might be thinking:
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"I'm not worthy; I'm a
sinner; I've done so much wrong.
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Why would God bother with me?"
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I understand you
might be thinking that.
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But think of what God did.
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God so loved the world that
He gave His only begotten Son,
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so that when you
believe, you will know
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that you would not perish
but have everlasting life.
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Can you believe in
the God of Genesis 1?
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Friend, reach
out to God just now;
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invite Him into your heart.
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Lord, would You take
our hearts and live in them?
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And as we ask You to do so,
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we will know that we
have the gift of eternal life.
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We look forward to
the end of this story,
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the earthly story being told.
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We look forward
to eternity with You.
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In Jesus' name we pray.
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Amen.
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Thanks so much for joining me.
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I'm looking forward to
seeing you again next time.
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Until then, remember:
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"It is written, 'Man
shall not live by bread alone,
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but by every word that proceeds
from the mouth of God.'"
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