Genesis: Paradise Lost

3,500 years ago,

after the worldwide flood of Noah's time,

before the birth of Christ,

God inspired Moses to record history from the beginning.

These writings became the first five books

of the Old Testament beginning with Genesis, the first book,

testifying of a genealogy of men, from Adam,

the first man, to Abraham, with whom God established

his covenant leading to God's ultimate plan of redemption,

a new covenant, yet to come.

It is the definitive book of our origins and our destiny,

a destiny we cannot fully understand

until we go back to the beginning.

They hijack science, and they convince the whole world

that science is only possible within an atheistic worldview.

I have to ask the question. How can you not believe

that somebody designed all of this?

Obviously, the genius of God's creative hand

screams of the existence of an intelligent designer.

The Bible begins with a statement that is so simple

a child can understand it,

yet so inexhaustibly profound,

"In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth."

You see, this argument over God's existence,

or creation versus evolution,

is not so much a religious argument,

rather, it is an ontological argument,

that is, an argument concerning the nature of reality.

It's not science versus religion.

It's a worldview clash.

Two different views of origins

resulting in two totally different worldviews that clash.

People are battling over two different histories.

You either trust God, or you trust man.

It really becomes an issue of authority.

Who is the authority?

Is it God in his Word, or is it man?

Really, we only have two possibilities.

Either the universe, and we, came about through,

a purely natural, purely physical process,

we just happened, or somebody made us.

I was really taught that there was a big bang,

there were millions of years, man slowly evolved.

Evolution, atheistic evolution, big bang,

millions of years.

If we simply happened,

then there really is no right or wrong.

We could really live our lives the way we wished to,

and that's of huge consequence.

Evolution has a lot of unintended consequences

that I'm not sure everyone has thought about.

They relate to ethics.

They relate to whether or not the world

is supposed to be good.

When you find yourself struggling with evil,

you ought to ask yourself.

"Well, I thought the world was supposed to be this way?

"If evolution is true, then get used to it."

You see if evolution is true, who am I?

You're nothing important.

You're just a piece of protoplasm

that washed up from the cosmic shores.

Man's just an animal.

We're Mother Nature's science project.

Why am I here?

If evolution is true,

if nature is all there is, there's no real purpose.

Might as well do whatever you feel like.

If it feels good, do it!

You have no meaning.

There's no reason for you to exist.

Where am I going when I die?

You're gonna go back into the ground

and that is gonna be it.

The lights are turned out.

You die and become part of nothingness.

You're worthless.

But if there is a God,

in particular the God of the Bible,

then the world or reality, is altogether different.

I thought to believe in the Bible

meant you had to reject science.

I thought I had to take a mental lobotomy

in order to start believing the Bible.

We hear the mantra.

"All the scientists believe in evolution."

Some people today want to insist

that you can't do science without believing in evolution.

In other words, if you are a Creationist,

you are not classed as a scientist.

There are thousands of PhD scientists all over the world

who don't accept evolution,

and many of them don't accept the millions of years.

I do have four degrees.

Most evolutionists I've met have only three.

There is a small movement in the evolutionist community

to try to get the doctoral degrees rescinded

from all professing creationists.

That's never gonna happen,

but the fact that someone is trying

speaks of the nature of the debate.

The secularists and the atheists took control of science.

They took control of all the science journals

and all the university science programs.

They have taken over the museums.

They have taken over the state schools.

They have taken over the universities.

The textbooks, the public schools, in every country.

The secularists really have control

of the educational system and they want their religion

of secularism, of atheism, of naturalism

forced upon the students.

They use political pressure.

They use scare tactics.

They use the ACLU.

They will intimidate school districts

and take away their autonomy

that is given to them by the constitution.

And if that's what they have to do,

if you need laws to protect your scientific theory

from criticism, what does that tell you about your theory?

In America, there is no separation of Church and State

because the State is forcing a religion on generations

of kids, and that is that everything can be explained

by natural processes only.

They eliminate the supernatural.

That is a religion.

It is a religion of atheism.

They hijack science, and they convince the whole world

that science is only possible within an atheistic worldview.

Even though modern science was born in the womb

of the Christian worldview.

Do you know that science was pretty much invented

by people of faith?

Think of Isaac Newton.

I think he needs a better PR agent.

All we know is that he had an apple fall

on his head and discovered gravity.

He was always trying to do mathematical formulas

and show that the idea of math and reason

came directly from a creator who invented the world.

Isaac Newton, Boyle, Pasteur, Faraday.

These guys were Bible-believing Christians.

Johannes Kepler, who pretty much invented

modern astronomy, he didn't see any problem

between science and the scriptures.

Most of the early scientists were not materialists.

Most of the early scientists

were theists who believed that there was a God

who had created everything

and the reason that we could understand the created world

was that there was a mind, an intelligence,

behind the material world.

We need to acknowledge that there is a creator God

who put in place an orderly universe

to allow us to understand science.

What makes more sense.

A rational God who created a rational world

that can be studied rationally, or an irrational,

meaningless process created a rational world

that can be studied rationally?

It doesn't even make sense.

In a secularized world where there is no right and wrong,

everything just exploded and this is what we have?

Why would we have all these beautiful laws

like F=ma or E=mc squared?

In a secular worldview with things like big bang,

evolution, millions of years, origin of life,

those are not scientific.

A lot of people have been duped into believing

that they are, but they're not.

For example, is big bang observable and repeatable?

No.

Is millions of years observable and repeatable?

No.

Origin of life.

Has anybody ever made life from non-life?

No.

Evolution is not scientific fact.

The millions of years is not scientific fact.

Evolution and millions of years is the greatest myth

ever forced on the minds of men.

The reason that everybody believes it is because

they have been brainwashed.

Are we gonna believe man, who wasn't there

during the supposed millions and millions of years

of Earth's history, and who really just has

to make up stories about what happened in the past?

When you start buying into evolution, millions of years,

and some of those ideas, as soon as you've done that,

you've opened the door to say,

"You don't have to trust the Bible completely."

If you can't believe Genesis one through 12,

why should you believe Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John?

That is a logical incoherence.

Now you're picking and choosing which scriptures to believe.

Hypocrisy in the Church is the greatest deterrent

to turning people to Christ and to confidence

in the written word, from Genesis to Revelation.

Genesis is so important because it's the foundation