The “Ascent of Man” from a quadruped to his present state, is a theory of the philosopher, which has neither foundation in fact, nor evidence in ascertained results. The “Fall of Man” from the state of Innocence in which he was originally created, as recorded in Genesis 1:27, to the degraded and loathsome condition in which God describes him in Romans 1:21-32, is a solemn and awful declaration in the book of God. And the evidences of that Fall are before our eyes every day, in outbursts of enmity from the human heart towards the Creator-God, and in the wail of woe which rises towards a silent heaven from suffering thousands because of “man’s inhumanity to man.” Nor is this all, for the Bible informs us that when a sinner dies in his sin, its power ruling his being, and its full penalty awaiting him in the afterworld, he sinks deeper still into “perdition” (1 Tim. 6:9).
“The Ascent of Man” is a falsehood and a fraud, used by Godless philosophers to flatter their disciples, and by Christless preachers to gull their hearers, making them believe that they are “as gods” —just what Satan’s first lie promised them, when they became his dupes (see Gen. 3:5)—whereas God who sees and knows man fully, declares that he is “foolish, deceived” (Titus 3:3).
The only true “Ascent of Man” is through redemption by the Cross of Christ, and regeneration by the Spirit of God. When a sinner learns his ruin, and owns his guilt before God (Rom. 3:19), resting his guilty soul on the Person (John 3:36) and work of Christ (Rom. 3:24), he passes out of death into life (John 5:24), he is raised (Eph. 2:6) up to walk in newness of life (Rom. 6:4), and as a child of God, and a member of Christ, he will one day ascend to heaven to be forever with the Lord.