Evolution And Sin
By Pastor C. R. Stam
“For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now” (Rom. 8:22).
Modern
evolution, of course, denies the Bible account of the fall and has much
to say about “the ascent of man,” but evolution fails to account for,
indeed, assiduously evades, that which lies at the very root of all
man’s troubles: sin. It fails to explain adequately why man finds
himself weak, poor, miserable, distressed, corrupt, perishing, and it
fails to explain why he is so utterly helpless to lift himself from this
state. It fails to explain his inherent sense of blameworthiness;
indeed insists he has no cause for a “guilt complex.”
Every
man feels within himself a disorder, a positive dislocation of things,
which science — and certainly the theory of evolution — is unable to
explain. Only the Bible account of the fall explains it and shows how
all man’s trouble and distress arise from his own nature, which is
fallen and corrupt.
“…BY ONE MAN SIN ENTERED INTO THE WORLD, AND DEATH BY SIN; AND SO DEATH PASSED UPON ALL MEN, FOR THAT ALL HAVE SINNED” (Rom. 5:12).
It
is most important for the unsaved to learn this lesson; to learn that
it is not merely our sins, but our sin that makes us unfit for the
presence of God; not merely our deeds but our nature; not merely what we
have done, but what we would do because we are essentially sinful as
the children of Adam.
How
profoundly grateful we should be, then, that God loves us despite our
sins and our sinful natures, and that… “…God commendeth His love toward
us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Rom. 5:8).
“In whom we have redemption, through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace” (Eph. 1:7).
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