My Dear Friends,
"Before you leave this course, your faith in Christianity, if you have any, will be destroyed. Christianity is a myth- a crutch for the intellectual misfit."
Isn't this a blasphemous lie? Yet such subversive words are being voiced by teachers and professors in classrooms all around the country. The tragic result is that students who are Christians not well established in the faith often are shaken in their convictions, and make shipwreck; and unconverted young people are turned entirely away from the Lord.
I was recently reminded again of this tragedy in the classrooms as my boy related the remarks of his teacher. The instructor had been teaching evolution as a fact, when my son raised the question, "What if you don't believe in evolution?"
The teacher sadly shook his head and said, "That's your problem." He then went to the blackboard to illustrate how the "evidence" for evolution far outweighs (in his opinion) all other approaches to the "how" of creation. These so-called "facts" were presented to the' class-as they are everywhere today-in the name of science; likewise denials of the Biblical declaration of the beginnings of all things are being made today in the name of science.
But let it be understood by all, that science does not know, and has never known, anything about the origin of the universe; nor does it know anything through actual discoveries about the origin of man. We know that so-called "scientists" talk as though it does, but it is all empty speculation. Many authoritative sources could be quoted to prove this point, but two will suffice:
Dr. L. L. Woodruff, professor of Biology at Yale College, has summarized in one sentence all that modern science can say about origins-"Biologists are at the present time absolutely unable, and probably will be for all time, to obtain empirical evidence of any of the crucial questions relating to the origin of life on the earth."
An outstanding authority on the history of science in today's world, Dr. George Sarton of Harvard, says, "Science can explain everything except the essential mysteries of life."
If science, therefore, is incompetent to unearth anything conclusive about creation, why then are our young people being taught the evolutionary hypothesis as if it were fact? May we not conclude, my friends, that the only other alternative that they have is the wholly unacceptable (to them) witness-the Bible record? Yet it is therein that we have the only authentic account of what happened in the beginning.
Throughout the Old Testament, God is repeatedly declared to be the Creator of the heavens and the earth, and as such is worshiped. In the New Testament the Gospel of John emphatically reiterates the Genesis testimony of beginnings. The Apostle Paul, in his epistle to the Romans, opens by charging that man's ignorance of God is inexcusable, because the created universe above and about him constitutes an irrefutable revelation of the existence of the Creator God (1:20). And not just once, but many times in his fourteen epistles, the Apostle exalts Christ the Son of God as the One by whom the worlds were framed.
Someone asks if the Bible says that God created the universe out of nothing. He did. In Rom. 4:17 and Heb. 11:3 we are told that things which are seen are not made of things which appear. Paul, writing the church at Colosse, says that all things, visible and invisible, "were created by Him and for Him" (1:16). From these and similar passages we conclude that there was no universe before God began to create it-no matter of any kind. He brought the universe into being by His own volition. How? To answer that, one would have to explain Omnipotence, an obvious impossibility.
We can, however, be entirely satisfied with the fact that the worlds came into being through and by "the Word of God."
The psalmist affirmed this when he wrote, "By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth." Psalm 33:6. We would also add the familiar words of the writer of the epistle to the Hebrews.
"Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God" (11:3).
Genesis relates that the various parts of the universe emerged by the command of God, as in Gen. 1:3: "And God said, Let there be light: and there was light." Furthermore, in Psalm 148:5, "Let them {all created things] praise the name of the LORD: for He commanded, and they were created."
When we recognize that everything began in response to God's command, we have honored His testimony as well as gone as far as it is required of man.
Is the matter of creation important? Indeed it is, and since God did create the world, there exists a personal, intelligent, purposeful Being to whom man is responsible. Any rational person knows that He would not trouble Himself to create such a vast universe, then by some mere whim (humanly speaking) populate one of its billions of orbs without any purpose or objective.
On the other hand, denying God neither removes nor changes Him; nor does the denial of heaven, hell, and coming judgment negate the places or event.
As to contending for "the faith which was once delivered unto the saints" (Jude 3), in withstanding the corruption in the educational system, I can wish you no greater recompense or blessing than that your salvation may be no theory, but a glorious reality to you. May we all be constrained to live unto Him entirely and joyfully. Once we are in the good of this, our hearts will be at rest. Then the false teachings, the vain and deceiving attractions around us also, will be viewed and estimated in the true and glorious light of God's presence, where all else pales save the grand eternal realities that appear just as they are, REALITIES.
"Lord Jesus, make Thyself to me
A living, bright reality;
More present to faith's vision keen
Than any earthly object seen;
More dear, more intimately nigh
Than e'en the dearest earthly tie."
With affection,
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