Wow. I just got back from the Desiring God National Conference, and I'm kind of in a state of shock (in a good way). I have a lot of schoolwork to do, so I'll keep this post short. Maybe later I'll add more. Anyway, getting to hear 6 sermons in one and a half days was great. The speakers were Louie Giglio, David Platt, Michael Oh, Michael Ramsden, Ed Stetzer, and John Piper. In addition, there were two panel discussions with the speakers. So you can see why it was kind of like drinking out of a fire hydrant. But they were all speaking on the same topic - Missions - so they all complemented each other. They all brought out some great points that I hadn't really thought about all that much. They were all amazing, but I found David Platt's message especially challenging and eye-opening. The whole conference served to really bring me closer in my relationship with God and to make me realize that Jesus' "great commission" to us is not a suggestion, but a command, an invitation into His awesome, eternal, unchanging plan for the world.
The worship times were awesome. When you get 3,500 brothers and sisters in Christ together in one room just praising their God, well, you get the picture.
Update: The videos are up now! Here's the link: http://www.desiringgod.org/resource-library/conference-messages/by-conference/2011-national-conference
That's all for now!
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Friday, September 2, 2011
Some Problems with "Theistic Evolution"
You may have heard of "Theistic Evolution", or the belief that God used evolution to create the world and all life on it. There are variations on the idea, but most proponents believe that God created the first single-celled organism, and then guided the evolutionary process to result in man. As a result, they end up pretty much throwing out the creation account in Genesis, and thus the whole Bible, as Genesis is quoted and referred to throughout the Bible.
There are many blatant problems with this belief, a couple of which I would like to point out here. According to the theory of evolution (here meaning molecules-to-man, neo-darwinian evolution), Dinosaurs evolved into birds. The believers in this theory tout the Archaeopteryx (Archaeopteryx Lithographica) as the "missing link" in this transition. (As a side note, many biologists who specialize in birds have studied the Archaeopteryx and determined that it is 100% bird, not part dinosaur, part bird). The problem is that Genesis has a different story to tell:
20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. 21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. 23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. 24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. 25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Notice here that birds come before the land-dwelling dinosaurs, which, according to evolutionary thinking, were the ancestors of birds. This is a problem for those that try to mix God's word with the word of man.
Another problem is exposed by verses 11 - 19:
11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 13 And the evening and the morning were the third day. 14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: 15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. 17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, 18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. 19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Here we have the plants coming before the sun. If, as the Bible says, the plants were created on the third day and the sun came the day after, then they could have survived just fine until the sun came. But, if the plants evolved over millions of years without the sun, how would they live? Here again is an example of fallen man trying to mess with God's word - it doesn't work.
There are many blatant problems with this belief, a couple of which I would like to point out here. According to the theory of evolution (here meaning molecules-to-man, neo-darwinian evolution), Dinosaurs evolved into birds. The believers in this theory tout the Archaeopteryx (Archaeopteryx Lithographica) as the "missing link" in this transition. (As a side note, many biologists who specialize in birds have studied the Archaeopteryx and determined that it is 100% bird, not part dinosaur, part bird). The problem is that Genesis has a different story to tell:
20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. 21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. 23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. 24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. 25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Notice here that birds come before the land-dwelling dinosaurs, which, according to evolutionary thinking, were the ancestors of birds. This is a problem for those that try to mix God's word with the word of man.
Another problem is exposed by verses 11 - 19:
11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 13 And the evening and the morning were the third day. 14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: 15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. 17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, 18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. 19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Here we have the plants coming before the sun. If, as the Bible says, the plants were created on the third day and the sun came the day after, then they could have survived just fine until the sun came. But, if the plants evolved over millions of years without the sun, how would they live? Here again is an example of fallen man trying to mess with God's word - it doesn't work.
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