I Believe In The Creator Of Heaven And Earth

My dear Christian brothers and sisters in Christ…  On this day, the 18th of September, I found myself perplexed and distraught by what took place in today’s class.  (I recall all of these events for the sake of readers who do not understand the context in which these events took place)  Professor Leeper was making the point that the Christian community at large has a false sense of entitlement when it comes to the moral values that America as a country upholds.  I agree with this.  Many Christians nowadays have a very warped sense of reality that is a direct result of Biblical illiteracy and bad doctrine.  Professor Leeper then went on to explain how Christians have a false ideology that proclaims “If we could just get a Christian into power then he would uphold our values and make everyone follow the right rules.”  (Which of course is ludicrous because humans are born dead in their trespasses and sins and are imperfect in every way shape and form)  This I also agree with!  Continuing on this thought, Professor Leeper then said that all we would accomplish would be shoving our morality down the throats of others.  (Which is partially true)  In my zeal, I then interjected that it would be just like how evolution (among other things) has been forcibly crammed down our collective throats in today’s society.  I had no idea that this specific comment would spark a nuclear firestorm.  But it did.  No sooner had the words left my lips, that Professor Leeper began to verbally lambast me for my remark.  It would have been one thing to simply disagree with my point of view.  However, Professor Leeper than began to discredit everyone who had the audacity to believe that God created the world in six literal days while at the same time not using evolution to do it.  For somebody who claims that certainty is a show of arrogance he sure does seem to be pretty certain that evolution is how things were created…  On top of that, saying that “Certainty is a form of arrogance” is a statement that requires some form of certainty to even say in the first place.  During our mostly one-sided discourse I made the remark that “It takes more faith to believe in evolution than it does to believe in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.”  I truly believe this.  Of course, I also believe that evolution and Christianity really have nothing to do with one another and are two deftly opposed ideas that cannot coexist within the same universe.  Some of you may be wondering where I get these seemingly outrageous ideas from.  The answer is scripture.  

 
In Matthew 19 Jesus Christ, the only Son of the living God, was asked by the pharisees “Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?” He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female,”  Clearly from this statement it is seen that Jesus knows that Adam and Eve were created by God as Genesis recounts.  Still don’t believe me?  

Jesus continues by quoting Genesis directly. ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” (Matt 19:4-6)  Jesus is God and God cannot lie.  Therefore, this passage is verifiably and certainly true.  Meaning that Adam and Eve were real historical people!  Genesis never once describes God forming the creatures of the earth over millennia and using the process of evolution to change one creature into another.  In fact, Jesus was so certain that Adam and Eve were real people that he even validates yet more details about Genesis in Matthew 23:34-35.

Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town, so that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

 Once again, Jesus is upholding the validity of scripture by recounting the name of Abel (the murdered son of Adam and Eve) from Genesis.  It would be absurd for Jesus to hold anybody accountable for the blood of somebody who was merely a myth.  Paul, in his letter to the Romans also verified the historicity of Adam’s existence in Romans 5:14.

“Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.”

It seems pretty clear from scripture that Jesus Christ our Lord believed in the Genesis account and so did the apostle Paul.  It clearly teaches in 2 Timothy 3:16 that… “All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.”

It would be foolish of me to have a different opinion of scripture than the Apostle Paul.  It would be even more foolish of me to reject Jesus’ view of Genesis because he claimed to be God in human flesh and proved it by raising himself from the grave.

By the way, on the subject of Media Arts...  I will leave you with a wonderful song from the “Emergent Post-Modern Philharmonic Orchestra” with their rendition of "Also Sprach Zarathustra!"  They are a fantastic group that has freed themselves from the bonds of modernism and all those pesky rules about notes, timing, and are free to let the spirit guide them in their artistic expression.  Enjoy!