Creation and Christ
by Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
When
we believing Christians hear some “scientist” speak of “our ancestors”
roaming this earth, say, 40,000,000 years ago, we become upset, and
exclaim: “What nonsense!”
Why?
The answer is that we know that the speaker is not stating scientific
facts; he is propagating the long-disproven theory of evolution. Worse
than that, the speaker has denied God’s own account of creation by
disseminating a theory far more difficult to believe.
Yet,
when the believer hears a scientist refer to some planet, say,
460,000,000 miles away he rejoices and exclaims: “How great is our God!”
Why the difference? Ah, because astronomy, unlike evolution, is
basically a science.
Granted,
some astronomers may go far afield when they speculate on the origin of
the universe; they may even make many errors in their calculations, but
astronomy proper is nevertheless a science, based mainly on mathematics
and physics. This has proved to be true as men from earth have orbited
the earth and the moon and have landed on the moon, returning back to
earth again. Indeed, it is only a few months since two soft landings (of
instruments) were made on the planet Venus, about 67,000,000 miles
away, and all the above with the earth, the moon and Venus, not only
travelling through space at incredible speeds, but with each all the
while revolving on its own individual axis!
The
Lord Jesus Christ dwelt in glory “far above all heavens” in eternity
past and came to earth to subject Himself to humiliation and death only
that He might pay the penalty for our sins and redeem us to Himself:
“That in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus” (Eph. 2:7).
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