Dear Bill,
Please consider:
“3 Some Pharisees came to Jesus, testing Him and asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason at all?” 4 And He answered and said, “Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, no person is to separate.” Matthew 19:4
From the above Holy Scripture don’t you see it is so abundantly clear, there was never, ever any evolution over billions of years that brought about sexual reproduction,
God created mankind male and female at the Beginning.
Please just ponder on that simple reality for twenty seconds.
And again, elsewhere Jesus says,
“But from the beginning of the creation, God ‘made them male and female.’” Mark 10:6
Jesus didn’t say millions or billions upon billions of years after He created the creation, He then made man.
Our Loving God ensured the Sacred Scriptures are crystal clear and that man in the real person of Adam, was created at the BEGINNING of creation, and God makes certain Genesis tells us ever so clearly that was on the sixth day.
If you don’t believe the words of Jesus, that Mark recorded above at Chapter 10 verse 6, then you probably won’t believe the plain meaning of what Mark recorded in Chapter 13 verse 19:
19” For those days will be such a time of tribulation as has not occurred since the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will again.
20 And if the Lord had not shortened those days, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect, whom He chose, He shortened the days.”
Jesus is letting everyone know in crystal clear terms, the troubles, the sheer immensity of terror, pain, suffering and death that will face mankind at the tribulation before the second coming of Jesus will be the greatest troubles of all “since the foundation of the world”
*“45 One of the lawyers said to Him in reply, “Teacher, when You say these things, You insult us too.”
46 But He said, “Woe to you lawyers as well! For you load people with burdens that are hard to bear, while you yourselves will not even touch the burdens with one of your fingers.
47 Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and it was your fathers who killed them.
48 So you are witnesses and you approve of the deeds of your fathers; because it was they who killed them, and you build their tombs.
49 For this reason also, the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill, and some they will persecute,
50 so that the blood of all the prophets, shed since the foundation of the world, may be charged against this generation,
51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the house of God; yes, I tell you, it shall be charged against this generation.’
52 Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge; you yourselves did not enter, and you hindered those who were entering.”
53 When He left that place, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be very hostile and to interrogate Him about many subjects, 54 plotting against Him to catch Him in something He might say.” Luke 11:45–54
It is abundantly clear here in the above passage from Luke Chapter 11 that Jesus was speaking to a Jewish audience of Israelites and possibly people present from other nations too, would have understood the words of Jesus as literal Truth, as Jesus spoke with authority and had already performed many miracles.
Also, well-known Jewish historian Josephus who lived at that very time in the first century AD clearly tells us the Jews of his day believed the historical creation account in the Holy Scriptures happened about five thousand years before that time in history, about two thousand years ago. Thus the belief in billions upon billions of years of ‘deep time’ and evolution are consequently a demonstrably False Teaching.
Jesus says, “Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; there is one who accuses you—Moses, in whom you trust. For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?” John 5:45–47
Jesus makes it abundantly clear this Scripture in the New Testament, that it’s imperative we believe the words of Moses.
Moses tells us unambiguously in Exodus: “8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 For six days you shall labour and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath of the Lord your God; on it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male slave or your female slave, or your cattle, or your resident who stays with you. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and everything that is in them, and He rested on the seventh day; for that reason the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.” Exodus 20:8-11
It is abundantly clear to me that this passage was always intended it be interpreted as seven literal days based on the Creation Week of six literal days of work and one literal day of rest.
10”Now Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. 11 And there was a woman who for eighteen years had had a sickness caused by a spirit; and she was bent over double, and could not straighten up at all. 12 When Jesus saw her, He called her over and said to her, “Woman, you are freed from your sickness.” 13 And He laid His hands on her; and immediately she stood up straight again, and began glorifying God. 14 But the synagogue leader, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, began saying to the crowd in response, “There are six days during which work should be done; so come during them and get healed, and not on the Sabbath day.” 15 But the Lord answered him and said, “You hypocrites, does each of you on the Sabbath not untie his ox or donkey from the stall and lead it away to water it? 16 And this woman, a daughter of Abraham as she is, whom Satan has bound for eighteen long years, should she not have been released from this restraint on the Sabbath day?” 17 And as He said this, all His opponents were being humiliated; and the entire crowd was rejoicing over all the glorious things being done by Him.” Luke 13:10-17
28 “One of the scribes came up and heard them arguing, and recognizing that He had answered them well, asked Him, “What commandment is the foremost of all?”
29 Jesus answered, “The foremost is, ‘Hear, Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is one;
30 and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’
31 The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
32 And the scribe said to Him, “Well said, Teacher; You have truly stated that He is One, and there is no other besides Him;
33 and to love Him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbour as oneself, is much more than all the burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
34 When Jesus saw that he had answered intelligently, He said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And then, no one dared any longer to question Him.”
Mark 12:28-34
But clearly didn’t you say:
which is clearly a false accusation.
By reading the Scripture, trusting the Lord, and believing in faith that what the Holy Scriptures say are faithful and true.
In the straightforward unambiguously clear genealogies provided in the Holy Scriptures.
Well that is a nonsensical reply to a genuine question.
No body is claiming the Bible is a biology textbook.
The Bible doesn’t tell us how the sun generates light.
But the Bible DOES tell us how the Creator created; that is HE SPOKE the creation into existence in just the SAME MANNER that HE SPOKE all the miracles into existence about 2,000 years ago.
God is not incompetent nor does He lie, He is Truth and Love.
Therefore, it should be clear to all when God informs us that He created the Heavens and the Earth and all that is in them in six days, we should believe Him in faith and Trust.
Evolution is a Fairy-tale that is misleading many from the truth and a whole generation of children have grown and are growing up now, with an atheist, evolutionary worldview that doesn’t auger well for law and order in the future.
Our society is on a slippery slope and the grade is ever steepening as evolution belief is consistently embraced more and more to depths that regrettably see, euthanasia and abortion remove the sanctity of human life for many, marriage and gender as instituted by God are currently under attack and suicide of many including many youth, is reaching terribly sad epidemic levels for those without hope who believe evolution is real, i.e., that they really believe we’re just evolved primordial pond scum, and there is no God, there is no absolute moral truth, there is no absolute law giver, when we die, we die, that’s it there is nothing else. So when life gets too hard, it is very sad that many just end it and commit suicide.
Sorry Bill, but I do not understand your reasoning here?
It is clear to me at least, what the Truth is here; it is your prerogative to differ. So be it!
God bless,
jon