Creator and Redeemer
Published by Stanley Pouw in 2018 · 15 July 2018
Evolution is an impossibility. And we have been examining why in the last couple of messages. Every living thing has a DNA code, a genetic code programmed with the exact information to produce, preserve and repair that living thing. It has no less than that necessary information and no more than that necessary information. The genes in every organism limit that organism to what it is.
There is no genetic information to transform it into something other than what it is. The Bible talks about kinds of living things that can reproduce after their own kind. There can be variations within a kind, but not anything beyond that. Science tells us that evolution is a process called mutation, which simply means to change. But mutations do not change the nature or the kind of any living organism.
When mutations occur, there is always a loss of existing information. Mutations never add new genetic information. Mutations are not a mechanism for an upward evolutionary process. Dr. Werner Gitt, a director and professor at the German Federal Institute of Physics and Technology, says, "Mutations only cause changes in existing information and, in general the result of mutations is injurious.”
The body is made up of trillions of cells. The amount of genetic information in one of those cells has been estimated to fill at least one thousand books of 500 pages. That's to run one cell out of trillions in one human body. And most scientists think that is an underestimation of the complexity. Where did all this information come from? Better yet, from whom did all this information come?
Why then do scientists continue to advocate this theory of evolution motivated by chance? Well, the bottom line is they do it to avoid God. They do that to push God out of their lives, to avoid His law, to avoid His standards, to avoid His will, to avoid His Word and to avoid His judgment on their lives. Evolution is what Henry Morris so aptly called it, "The long war against God."
The Old Testament says the fool has said in his heart there is no God. It is not rational to reject the Creator. It is not rational to empower chance. It is not rational to assume that one kind of living organism can become another kind. It is not wise to reject God's law and God's Word and God's gospel. If it is neither rational nor wise, then why do men do it? And the answer is that men do it because they love sin and they love darkness.
Because their deeds are evil. They love themselves and they love their sin and they refuse to worship God or submit to His Word or His law. And Scripture shows us that what is in God's world is in God's Word. All we know about creation from nothing is what the Creator has told us, and the only place He has told us is in the Scripture. Evolution is a long war that Satan has carried on against God.
There is an almost universal belief in evolution that permeates every area of human thinking has affected every area of human life. It has affected social sciences, it has affected behavioral sciences, it has affected psychology, it has affected liberal arts, it has affected philosophy and it has even affected religion. Evolution is responsible for the political developments and the chaotic moral and social disintegrations everywhere.
Morris in his book “The Long War” shows how everything from genocide to fornication to homosexuality to abortion, to all matters of the destruction of human dignity, not seeing man as made in the image of God. And everything else, is all a part of the result of a materialistic, humanistic universe without God. So says Morris, evolution is nothing more than the long war against God.
The story of the history of the nations is given us beginning in Romans 1:18. What you have here is the cyclical history of what happens in the nations of the world throughout history. Verse 18 says, “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness.” The truth about a Creator is obvious.
Verse 19 says, "Because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them.” And He did that by giving them the ability to reason, which is basically a sequence of cause and effect patterns. Anytime you come to understand a principle, it is because there is a cause and effect relationship, there's a sequence of things that builds to a conclusion.
God is, according to verse 20, the Creator of the world. You can look at the creation of the world and experience His invisible attributes. You can look at creation and you know that God is intelligent beyond comprehension. You can look at creation and you can know that God loves beauty and order. You can see His goodness manifest in the rain, and the sunshine, and the food we enjoy, and the beauty of the world.
And the wonder of romance, and the blessing of children, and the exhilarating joy of adventure. So much can be known about His eternal power and divine nature. So much can be known, verse 20 says, that if you don't see God in this and you don't recognize Him for who He is, you are without excuse. The creation is intended to point you back to God, and to show you something about the mind of God.
Any progressive creationistic view, or any theistic evolutionary view, strikes a blow at the intention of God in Creation, to manifest His great power. God did not create it all and then let evolution take it over. That doesn't give glory to God; that gives glory to ‘the survival of the fittest’, which is invented by Charles Darwin and his friends to explain appearances, when they didn't know what they know today that contradicts it all.
Verse 21-23 says, “Because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 professing to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man—and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.” They call it wisdom, God calls it folly.
They worship the creation instead of the Creator. Verse 25 says, “They exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator.” That is what evolutionists do. They literally believe that the creature is the creator. Romans says that they threw wisdom away and accepted stupidity and folly because their foolish hearts were darkened.
Verse 26, “For this reason God gave them up to vile passions,” which are sexual sins, homosexuality and every other kind of sin that he lists in verse 27 to 32. So they just plunged into this horrible iniquity. That is the real story of where evolution comes from. It is part of the long war against God. And if we had time I would quote you many quotes from evolutionists who give blasphemous and mocking statements about God.
God is the Creator of everything. John 1:1-3 says, “In the beginning was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.” Everything that is, is made By Him In Hebrews 11:3, it says “by faith we understand.” In other words, we have to believe the Bible.
"By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the Word of God,” that God spoke and everything was created. Listen to this, "So that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible." Now this statement totally eliminates evolution. What you see in the created world was not made out of some other material, but rather, everything you see in God's created universe was made by Him out of nothing!
And that is exactly what it says in Genesis. Colossians 1:16 speaks of Christ as God the Creator, and says, “For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth.” Notice how many times the Scripture repeats the word all. What does that mean? Well, "in heaven," means everything that exists in the universe. "And on the earth," everything in this earth. Everything outside this earth and everything on this earth.
And listen to this, "visible and invisible." You can see a mountain, He made it. You can't see the wind, but He made it. You can't see an electric current going through the air but He made it. And that includes angelic beings called thrones, dominions, rulers and authorities, “all things have been created by Him and for Him.” This is an absolute statement.
In the Bible this truth is repeated many times. Moses says in Deuteronomy 4:32, “For ask now concerning the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth.” There was the sixth day when God created man on the earth. That was not the final stop in a multi-billion year process of evolution. Psalm 104:1-2 says, "O Lord my God, You are very great; who stretch out the heavens like a curtain.”
Evolution only tries to solve the question of how life generated on earth, but how do they hope to explain when you have an infinite universe? God did that, He stretched it out. He made the oceans, He made the earth. The Psalm goes on like that. Verse 11-12 says He made the wild animals and the birds. Verse 14 says He is the one that caused the grass to grow. And on it goes to verse 24, "O Lord, how many are Your works!"
And the more we know scientifically, the deeper we penetrate into the mysteries of this creation, the wiser the Creator becomes. The earth is full of your creatures. It goes on to talk about “the sea, great and broad, in which are swarms without number, animals small and great. There the ships move along and Leviathan, the sea dinosaur, the great whales, goes on like this. Verse 31, "Let the glory of the Lord endure forever.”
In Isaiah 45:9, God gives a warning to the evolutionists, “Woe to him who strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’ Or shall your handiwork say, ‘He has no hands’? Verse 12, “I have made the earth, and created man on it. I, My hands stretched out the heavens, and all their host I have commanded.”
In Mark 10:6 Jesus says, "But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female." In Mark 13:19, Jesus says, “For in those days there will be tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the creation which God created until this time, nor ever shall be.” Ephesians 3:9, “God who created all things." 1 Peter 4:19, “let those who suffer entrust their souls to a faithful Creator."
In Revelation 10:5 an angel comes down and has a little book that describes the judgment of God, who identifies God as, "Him who lives forever and who created heaven and the things in it, and the earth and the things in it, and the sea and the things in it." Now in Revelation 14 when the tribulation time comes and judgments are coming from the throne of God, you can see God’s impending judgment.
But during the time when God pours out judgment, that seven-year period, particularly in the last three and a half years, at the same time the gospel will be preached. It will be preached by two witnesses mentioned in Revelation 11, who will, “prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days.” It will be preached also by the hundred and forty-four thousand Jews mentioned in Revelation 7.
But there's one other great preacher in Revelation 14: 6, "I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven having the eternal gospel to preach to those who live on the earth, and to every nation and tribe and tongue and people.” The message is, “Fear God, and give Him glory, because the hour of His judgment has come; and worship Him who made the heaven and the earth and sea and springs of waters.”
The angel will preach the gospel: the Creator has become our Redeemer. The same God who created, in the end will be bringing judgment in anticipation of His re-creation. This is the constant message of Scripture, that the Creator is the Redeemer. How? Psalm 33, "By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and by the breath of His mouth all their host." He just “spoke,” verse 9, “and it was done.
It really affects me to hear the critics assault the Bible. Douglas Kelly, who has written an outstanding book called ‘Creation and Change’, says, "Many biblical interpreters have attempted to avoid the obvious conflict between a straightforward reading of the text of Genesis and opposing naturalist theories of origins. They suggest that Genesis 1 through 11, are poetic writings rather than chronological history.
Genesis 1 is not written according to the laws of Hebrew poetry. You can find lots of passages in the Old Testament that are. This isn't. There are no usages of the typical, traditional types of parallelism that occur in Hebrew poetry. And Douglas Kelly says, "No amount of exegetical straining can find the slightest poetic view of Genesis 1 - 11 in the books of the New Testament.”
Henry Morris says: "The New Testament is even more dependent on Genesis than the Old Testament. There are 165 passages in Genesis that are either directly quoted or clearly referred to in the New Testament. And there are 200 quotations of Genesis in the New Testament. The portion of Genesis which has had the greatest attacks of unbelief is the first eleven chapters, which had the greatest influence on the New Testament.
What they really want to argue with has to do with the first three chapters of Genesis and what they are most concerned with is creation. They think that science has made its point that the Bible is wrong. But Genesis is history. It's ludicrous, when there are so many clear-cut statements that this is history, to make the history part that has to do with God myth. I believe all of the Bible, do you? Let's pray together.