Creation is Religion
Creation is Religion
[Creation is Religion by
Ken Ham] “Biblical creation is the religion upon which Creator-honoring science
is built (often called scientific creation). It is based on the Word (the Bible)
of the One who claims that He was there in the past (who is, in fact, outside of
time). He moved men by His Spirit to write His words so that we would have an
adequate basis for finding out and understanding all we need to know about God’s
creation.
We need to define in detail what we mean by the creationist view. This consists
of basically a threefold view of history—a perfect creation, corrupted by sin,
to be restored by Jesus Christ. A summary of these concepts is as follows:
In six days God created the heavens, the earth, and all that is in them from
nothing—each part is designed to work with all the others in perfect harmony.
When God completed his work of creation, He called it all “very good.” There was
no death. People and animals were all vegetarian, and the earth appears to have
had a mild climate from pole to pole, an ideal underground nutrient-rich
watering system, and no storms.
However, we no longer live in the world God originally created. Because our
first parents placed human opinion above God’s Word (as we continue to do),
struggle and death entered the world, and God cursed the creation. Charles
Darwin called this struggle to the death “natural selection” and offered his
theory as a substitute for the Creator.
Evolutionists later added accidental changes in heredity (mutations) to their
theory. But death and accident do not create: instead they bring disease,
defects, and decay into the world God created.
After mankind’s sin and rebellion (the Fall), the earth became so filled with
violence and corruption that God destroyed that world with a flood and gave it a
fresh start with Noah, his family, and the animals in the ark. Fossils—billions
of dead things buried in rock layers which were laid down by water all over the
earth—remind us of God’s judgment on sin.
After the flood, we find that the earth is again filled with violence,
corruption, and death because of human sin putting man’s opinion above God’s
Word. Christ came to heal and restore, and by his death and resurrection, He
conquered death. We may be born again into eternal life as new creations in
Christ. Thus, as surely as God created the world and judged the world with the
Flood, our ungodly world will be destroyed by fire. For those who trust in
Jesus, however, there awaits eternal life in the new heavens and new earth.
There will be no more corruption because God’s Curse will have been removed.
The Bible claims that God knows everything. He has all knowledge. If this is
true, then the Bible is the word of someone who knows everything there is to
know. If we want to come to right conclusions about anything, the only sure way
would be to start with the word of the One who has absolute knowledge. We
Christians must build all of our thinking in every area on the Bible. We must
start with God’s Word, not the word of finite, fallible man. We must judge what
people say on the basis of what God’s Word says—not the other way around."
Creation Is Religion, Ham.
http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/the-lie/chapter3.asp
