By Gary Ray Branscome
The
words, “In six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and everything
that is in them, and rested on the seventh day, for that reason the LORD
blessed the sabbath day, and made it holy,” tell
us that in six days God made “heaven and earth, the sea, and everything that is
in them” (Exodus 20:11). The words of Genesis chapter one, “The evening and
the morning were the first day,” (verse 5) “The evening and the
morning were the second day,” (verse 8) “The evening and the
morning were the third day,” (verse 13) “The evening and the
morning were the fourth day,” (verse 19) “The evening and the
morning were the fifth day,” (verse 23) and, “The evening and the
morning were the sixth day,” define the word “day” by telling us
that each of those six days had an evening and a morning (verse 31). And, the
words, “God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw that
the light was good: and God separated the light from the darkness. And God
called the light Day, and called the darkness Night. And the evening and the
morning were the first day,” tell us that “the evening and the morning”
consisted of a period of darkness and light (Genesis 1:3-5).
I
have just summarized what God’s Word plainly says about creation, and
therefore, what God wants His church to believe and teach. However, Satan wants
just the opposite, and one way Satan blinds people to the truth of God’s Word,
is by causing them to regard the plain meaning of the words as nothing more
than an interpretation. Furthermore, those who treat the Biblical account of
creation as an interpretation are not being honest, because they are not trying
to teach what the Bible says, but trying to make it agree with atheist ideas.
Evolution proper is atheistic and immoral, while
theistic evolution is neither in accord with Scripture nor with the basic
principles of evolution proper. To deny the inspired character of the Book of
Genesis means to contradict the testimony of the divine, omniscient Christ, who
accepted also this book as canonical. (Dr. John Theodore Mueller, “Christian Dogmatics,” page 181)