It Is Written

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Participants: John Bradshaw (Host), Ken Ham

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00:06 It has stood the test of time.
00:12 God4s book, the Bible.
00:16 Still relevant in today4s complex world.
00:22 It Is Written, sharing hope around the globe.
00:36 Thanks for joining me today on It Is Written.
00:38 I4m John Bradshaw.
00:40 To hear some people tell the story, if you believe that God
00:43 created the earth, then you4re out of touch, stuck in the
00:47 past, ignorant of science and backwards thinking.
00:51 Which would mean, of course, that the Bible cannot
00:54 then be trusted.
00:56 Its opening words say that God created the earth
01:00 and the opening chapter says he did it in six days.
01:03 It would also mean that Jesus was out of touch, stuck in the
01:07 past, ignorant of science, and backwards thinking.
01:11 After all, Jesus believed the creation story.
01:16 He said in Mark 10:6, from the beginning of the creation, God
01:21 made them male and female.
01:24 Jesus believed that God made Adam and Eve,
01:26 plain and simple.
01:27 And he believed that God made the Sabbath day, which was
01:31 given on the 7th day of the creation week.
01:34 Jesus said in Mark 2:27, "The Sabbath was made for man."
01:40 Made.
01:41 In the beginning, when God created the earth.
01:44 John 1:3 says, "All things were made by him."
01:50 While in Mark 13:19, Jesus referred to "the beginning of
01:54 the creation which God created."
01:57 In the Bible, Paul wrote about creation.
02:01 Peter wrote about creation.
02:03 John wrote about creation.
02:06 But a lot of people today do not believe that God
02:09 created the world.
02:11 Now, let's ask ourselves why that might be.
02:14 Is it because evolutionists are fools?
02:18 Well, I don't think that's the reason.
02:20 A lot of brilliant, well-educated people rejected
02:23 the Bible account of creation.
02:25 In fact, many evolutionists ask important questions about
02:28 origins that demand answers.
02:31 So, how is it that the Bible can say the earth is young,
02:34 just thousands of years old, and a respected scientist
02:38 relying on accepted scientific principles and practices,
02:41 would say that the Bible is wrong and not just wrong,
02:45 but wrong by millions and millions of years.
02:49 Can intelligent thinking people be scientifically
02:52 accurate while still believing what the Bible says
02:56 on the subject of creation?
02:58 To find out, I visited the creation museum
03:00 in Northern Kentucky.
03:01 A stone's throw from Cincinnati, Ohio.
03:04 The museum covers an area of 70K sq ft, a little less
03:08 than two acres, comfortably bigger than
03:10 a football field, and it's dedicated to promoting
03:13 the Biblical view of creation.
03:15 I spoke with Creation Museum president, Australian, Ken Ham.
03:19 And I started by asking him about theistic evolution,
03:24 the idea that evolution is a process used by God
03:28 to effect creation.
03:29 KH:: Within the church, and you know there are different
03:32 denominations, and so on, you will also find, as you know,
03:36 different views of eschatology dealing with end times,
03:39 different views even of baptism and different views
03:43 of other issues.
03:45 By and large, when you are arguing about such things
03:48 as eschatology or baptism or whatever it is, speaking in
03:53 tongues, or you know, a number of those different issues,
03:55 you are arguing from the Bible.
03:57 It might be people4s view of the church or people4s view of
03:59 Israel, or people4s view of Daniel, or Ezekiel or
04:02 Revelation, whatever it is.
04:03 JB:: Right.
04:04 KH:: But you see, the reason there are different views of
04:06 Genesis, like theistic evolution, for instance, is
04:09 not because you are arguing from Scripture, it's because
04:12 you are arguing outside of scripture.
04:14 You are really taking the secular view of the day
04:16 and you add it to the Bible in Genesis, and then you
04:19 have to reinterpret the clear words of Genesis, which means
04:24 that the big issue for me is it's an authority issue.
04:28 You are unlocking a door to say you don't have
04:30 to take this as written.
04:31 You are not using God's word to judge man's word.
04:34 You are using man's ideas outside of Scripture, which
04:36 you don't get from Scripture.
04:38 And then you are forcing them onto God's Word.
04:41 For instance, the Bible makes it clear.
04:44 God took dust and made a man.
04:45 So if you are going to believe in theistic evolution, you are
04:49 going to say God used evolution then the process of some
04:53 ape-like ancestor changing into humans, even in Matthew 19
04:56 when Jesus was quoting Genesis when talking about marriage,
04:59 he was talking about the one flesh, you know,
05:02 the fact that Eve came from Adam.
05:04 See, if you are going to believe in evolution, then
05:07 Adam came from an ape-man and Eve came from an ape-woman.
05:11 But, the Bible makes it very clear and Jesus himself, who
05:15 is the Word, and who is the Son of God, Jesus, quoted from
05:19 Genesis, talking about your one flesh, because the woman
05:22 came from the man.
05:23 She did not come from an ape woman.
05:26 And so, really, for theistic evolutionists, they are really
05:29 undermining Biblical authority because they are reinterpreting
05:31 God's word by forcing man's ideas on God's word.
05:34 Secondly, they are really destroying the whole basis
05:37 of marriage, if you think about it,
05:39 and of course, that all relates too to Christ and his
05:43 relationship to the church in the New Testament.
05:45 But there is even something else as well, and that's this.
05:49 All the different positions on Genesis, they all have one
05:52 thing in common.
05:53 JB:: What's that?
05:54 KH:: Putting millions of years in the Bible.
05:57 The idea of millions of years came from atheists, Deists,
06:00 people who believed in naturalism, who wanted to
06:03 explain life without God, wanted to get rid of the flood
06:06 of Noah's day, and they want to come up with a way of
06:11 explaining the world without God and so back in the late
06:14 1700s, early 1800s, these people postulated the idea
06:18 that the fossil layers we see over the earth's surface,
06:21 were laid down over millions of years, and that happened
06:24 before man.
06:26 And so you'll find that every one of the compromised
06:29 positions is people trying to come up with some new
06:33 sort of way or different way to fit millions of years
06:36 and/or evolution, sometimes, into the Bible.
06:40 And if you believe in millions of years, here's my challenge
06:43 for people.
06:44 If you take Genesis 1:29, 30, and you read it exactly
06:48 the same way that Jesus quotes from Genesis, then Adam
06:53 and Eve ate fruit, all vegetarian, and the animals
06:57 were vegetarian, they ate plants.
07:00 Now man wasn't told to eat meat until after the flood
07:03 Genesis 9:3 when God laid that out.
07:06 But originally, they were all vegetarian.
07:08 In the fossil record, supposedly existing millions
07:11 of years before man, if you believe in millions
07:13 of years, as a Christian, you've got
07:15 lots of examples of animals eating each other, fish eating
07:19 each other, bones in the stomachs of other animals,
07:21 and so on.
07:23 What are they going to do with that?
07:25 Ok. No. 2.
07:27 Doesn't the Bible clearly tell us in Genesis that as a result
07:31 of the curse, thorns and thistles came into existence?
07:35 JB:: That's correct.
07:36 KH:: The fossil record, said to be millions of years
07:39 before man, right?
07:40 There's a lot of examples of fossil thorns said to be
07:43 hundreds of millions of years old.
07:45 Wait a minute!
07:46 You've got all these thorns, millions of years before
07:49 man sinned?
07:51 Then thorns didn't come after the curse.
07:53 There are many examples of diseases in the fossil bones.
07:57 There are brain tumors.
07:58 For instance, there's a brain tumor in a dinosaur fossil,
08:02 evidence of abscesses, arthritis, cancer, all sorts
08:06 of diseases.
08:07 In fact, there are even medical researchers today who
08:10 use the fossil bones to help people understand how to look
08:14 for certain diseases and so on.
08:17 Now, when God finished creating everything, he said
08:19 everything he made was very good.
08:22 So, if you are going to believe in millions of years,
08:25 God said brain tumors were very good, cancer
08:27 was very good.
08:28 See, from a perspective of Scripture, you can't have
08:32 brain tumors, cancer, arthritis, abscesses that you
08:36 see in the fossil record, animals eating each other,
08:38 thorns, supposedly millions of years before man.
08:41 And so, therefore, the whole fossil record has to come
08:43 after sin.
08:45 And when you look at the fossil record, you see
08:49 these fossils laid down in sedimentary layers over
08:51 the earth.
08:52 How would explain billions of dead things buried in rock
08:56 layers, laid down by water all over the earth.
08:59 I mean, 70% of the earth's surfaces is covered
09:01 in sedimentary strata.
09:02 You know what the Bible actually tells us?
09:04 JB: What's that?
09:04 KH: That there was a global flood.
09:05 And if there really was a global flood, you'd expect to
09:07 find billions of dead things buried in rock layers, laid
09:09 down by water, all over the earth, and that's what
09:11 you find.
09:12 JB: And that's what you find.
09:12 KH: and you know what you find?
09:13 Billions of dead things, buried in rock layers laid
09:14 down by water all over the earth.
09:15 So what should you think when a fossil is discovered that
09:19 seems to indicated human beings were on Earth millions
09:24 of years ago - when the Bible says no such thing?
09:28 KH: In a way, that evidence that we do have
09:31 a Lucy is strong enough to actually draw out
09:35 a particular interpretation which is she was some kind
09:37 of ape.
09:39 JB: More in just a moment.
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11:28 I'm John Bradshaw Today I'm discussing creation
11:30 and evolution with Ken Ham, the President of the Creation
11:33 Museum in Northern Kentucky.
11:36 Ken's been teaching creation for decades, so I asked him
11:39 about "Lucy".
11:41 In 1974, an American anthropologist working in
11:46 Ethiopia discovered fossilized remains of what became known
11:50 as "Lucy".
11:52 Lucy was actually about 40% of a skeleton.
11:56 Many people believe this skeleton to be several
11:58 millions of years old, and either a direct ancestor
12:02 of today's human beings, or closely related.
12:06 If Lucy is actually a human - or human ancestor -
12:09 and is 3 million-plus years old, there goes the idea
12:13 of a young Earth that is less than 10,000 years old.
12:16 So I asked Ken Ham if 40% of an old skeleton gives enough
12:20 evidence of human beings living millions of years ago.
12:24 KH: In a way, that evidence we do have of Lucy is strong
12:29 enough to actually draw out a particular interpretation that
12:34 she was some kind of ape.
12:35 And it is interesting.
12:37 See, when you dig up a skull, you can make, by using artistic
12:44 license, you can make the head on that skull look ape-like
12:49 or human-like.
12:51 You can take an ape skull and make it look a bit human-like.
12:54 You can take a human skull and make it look
12:56 ape-like.
12:57 If you want Lucy to be human-like, right?
13:02 Well, you want to have short arms, because apes
13:04 have longer arms.
13:05 And so, therefore, where the broken bones are,
13:07 they put them together but when you look
13:09 at them, they are tapered, indicating that they should
13:12 be apart. And so we put them apart to
13:14 where we believe they should be, showing she really had
13:20 long arms, right?
13:21 Like an ape, which is what the discoverer
13:23 of Lucy said she was.
13:24 Then, when you look at the leg bones, well, for the leg bones,
13:27 they want the opposite to happen.
13:30 Because apes have shorter legs so they want them to have
13:36 longer legs, so for the leg bones, they actually put those
13:38 bones apart whereas when we look at them, it looks like
13:41 they should be together and so, they do the opposite of
13:44 what they should do because they want to make it into
13:47 something that it really is not.
13:49 But when you've just got the bones and you
13:52 don't have the flesh and the hair and you can't
13:55 see it and so that's how people can be indoctrinated
13:58 in evolution because an evolutionist can take those
14:00 bones and arrange them in a particular way and you know,
14:03 shorten the arms, and lengthen the legs, or the rest of it,
14:07 you know, do what they want to do with them, and then put
14:11 flesh and hair on them and make it look sort of
14:14 half human-like.
14:15 They can make the eyes look a particular way and make it
14:18 look a bit humanlike, and that's what they do.
14:21 JB: I asked Ken Ham a question I think everyone has asked
14:25 at some time or another: how do you fit dinosaurs
14:28 into the Bible story, when the science tells us
14:31 dinosaurs lived millions of years ago.
14:34 KH: You've got crocodiles, and the nautilus, and
14:37 horseshoe crab and so on.
14:38 You've got these creatures, that according to
14:41 evolutionists, lived before dinosaurs, and then must have
14:44 lived with dinosaurs years ago and then supposedly dinosaurs
14:47 died out, then all these others lived on and they are still
14:52 living with us today.
14:53 So, the point is, these creatures are living with us
14:57 today so why is it even from an evolutionist perspective,
15:00 why is it so stupid to think that dinosaurs could not live
15:04 with people?
15:05 Now most people have the wrong idea about dinosaurs.
15:07 They think they are all great big monsters.
15:09 JB: A ha KH: Well the word dinosaur
15:11 was first invented 1841 by an Englishman, Sir. Richard
15:13 Allen and it comes from two Greek words, Dino Sauros
15:17 and translated, it means terrible lizard.
15:20 And so people get the idea that they are all great,
15:23 big monsters.
15:24 The average size of a dinosaur is only the size of a sheep,
15:27 a shepherd dog.
15:28 That's the average size.
15:29 There are many dinosaurs as small as chickens.
15:32 The mosasaurus when it hatched out of an egg, was only
15:35 the size of a mouse.
15:37 So we shouldn't get the idea that dinosaurs were all great
15:40 big monsters.
15:41 Secondly, people think that they were hundreds,
15:43 and hundreds, and hundreds of different type of dinosaurs.
15:45 Actually, there is only about 50 families of dinosaurs,
15:49 which means about 50 kinds.
15:51 Kingdom, Philem, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
15:54 We would say, in most instances, not all, but most
15:59 instances, that the kind would be more at the family level
16:03 of classification.
16:05 And we have actually had, for instance, some scientists
16:07 working on how many kinds of land animals
16:11 are there on the earth.
16:13 Not species, but how many kinds, actual kinds.
16:15 Because you know deer and moose are the same kind,
16:18 alpacas, llamas, one hump camels, two hump camels
16:21 are all the same kinds, zebras, horses are all the same kinds.
16:24 That's why at the petting zoo here, we have a zorse and
16:27 a zedonk and so on.
16:29 Actually our scientists believe there is probably
16:31 about a thousand kinds of land animals which means..
16:37 JB: 50 odd kinds of dinosaurs KH: and 50 kinds of dinosaurs,
16:41 well there's 50 families of dinosaurs, so there
16:43 are about 50 kinds.
16:44 We would say dinosaurs were made on day six
16:46 because all land animals were made on day six
16:48 of the creation week.
16:49 We believe those days are ordinary days.
16:51 The Hebrew word Yom, when it's used with evening, morning,
16:54 number or night means an ordinary day.
16:56 JB: 24 hour period KH: The only reason that many
16:58 Christians don't believe that is not because of what
16:59 the Hebrew words mean, it's because they are trying
17:03 to force millions of years into the Bible.
17:04 You take It as Written, in fact, that's where our 7-day
17:06 week comes from, Exodus 20:11, the basis of the Fourth
17:09 Commandment: In six days the Lord made the heavens
17:11 and the earth and rested on the 7th day and God blessed
17:13 the Sabbath day and made it holy
17:15 and so a seven day week is based upon
17:18 the creation week.
17:19 You know, if God made everything in six million
17:21 years and rested for millions of years, we could go into
17:23 retirement now.
17:24 JB: Yes we could.
17:24 KH: So you see those days are ordinary days.
17:28 On day six, God made the land animals and he made the first
17:30 two people, Adam and Eve.
17:31 Dinosaurs are land animals.
17:32 Dinosaurs were beside Adam and Eve.
17:35 See, I have people say to me, "but the word dinosaur is not
17:37 in the Bible."
17:38 I say, well, of course not.
17:40 You know, why isn't the word dinosaur in the Bible?
17:43 Well, the same reason you don't have the word EMAIL
17:46 in the Bible.
17:46 Right?
17:47 It's a modern word.
17:48 JB: Sure KH: The word dinosaur is
17:50 a modern word.
17:51 It was made up in 1841.
17:52 In fact, I do believe there is a dinosaur described
17:55 in detail, in the Bible, more than most other animals.
17:58 In the book of Job, JB:The Behemoth
18:01 KH:Job 40:15, he says "behold, Behemoth,"
18:05 talking to Job and about this animal that lived with him,
18:08 he said he was a chief of the ways of God
18:10 The Hebrew language there implies it's the largest land
18:12 animal God made and the largest animal
18:14 we know of that lived on the land from what we
18:17 found is one of the Sauropod dinosaurs.
18:19 Now they did grow very large, by the way, but even they had
18:22 some eggs, which would not have been much bigger than
18:24 the size of a football.
18:25 That's the biggest egg we found, you know,
18:28 dinosaur eggs.
18:29 But, Behemoth, everything about it is big and strong.
18:32 Has a tail like a cedar tree.
18:34 You know.
18:36 And some of the Bible notes, I notice in some of the Bibles
18:38 say it was an elephant or hippopotamus.
18:40 Have you ever seen an elephant's tail?
18:42 It looks like a piece of rope dangling down.
18:44 Or if you see a hippo tail, you know, it's like
18:45 a flap of skin.
18:47 You know, a cedar tree?
18:49 No, I don't think so.
18:50 It's more, we believe the description
18:52 of a Sauropod dinosaur.
18:54 You see, people say, well what happened to the dinosaurs?
18:57 Well, why aren't you interested in the dodo bird?
18:59 What happened to the dodo bird?
19:00 What happened to..
19:02 what?
19:02 The Moa?
19:03 JB: The Moa in New Zealand.
19:04 That's right.
19:05 Great big bird, 9 feet tall.
19:06 KH: It's gone now.
19:07 JB: Gone.
19:07 KH: I mean, there are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds
19:09 of animals that have become extinct.
19:11 But people think it's the dinosaurs that are the big
19:13 mystery but there are lots of animals that
19:15 are becoming extinct.
19:16 Because of changing conditions and I mean that's why we have
19:18 endangered species programs.
19:19 I tell people the reason dinosaurs became extinct is we
19:22 didn't start our endangered species programs early enough.
19:24 This is It Is Written.
19:28 I'll have more with Ken Ham in just a moment.
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20:50 Today on It Is Written I'm talking with Ken Ham about
20:53 creation and evolution.
20:55 I asked Ken why what a person believes about creation
20:59 and evolution really matters at all.
21:03 KH:: Do you believe Jesus Christ bodily rose
21:05 from the dead?
21:06 JB: Oh yes I do.
21:07 KH: Where did you get that from?
21:09 JB: Right out of the Bible.
21:10 KH: Out of the bible?
21:11 JB: Yeah.
21:12 KH: So you take that as the authoritative Word of God.
21:14 JB: Most definitely.
21:15 KH: So you believe in the virgin birth too?
21:17 JB: Sure, it's right there in the Bible.
21:19 KH: Now wait a minute, wait a minute.
21:21 Secular scientists say that you can't have a man rising
21:23 from the dead, and you can't have a virgin birth.
21:25 You know, if I was to go through the Bible and what I
21:27 call our mainline churches, and I was to say: Do you
21:29 believe fed thousands of people is a miracle?
21:31 JB: Oh, they'll say yes, sure.
21:32 KH: They'll say yes.
21:33 How do you know?
21:34 The Bible says.
21:35 Do you believe Jesus walked on water?
21:37 Oh yes.
21:38 How do you know?
21:39 The Bible says.
21:40 Do you believe that a man was swallowed by a fish?
21:42 And lived in a fish for three days?
21:44 How do you know?
21:45 The Bible says.
21:46 As soon as you get to Genesis in this day and age, and even
21:48 in the church and you say, what God created in six days,
21:50 man was made from dust, woman from his side, there was
21:52 a global flood, death came after sin, here is what
21:55 we hear.
21:56 Oh no.
21:57 Why not?
21:58 Well because outside of scripture here,
22:00 because these ideas of millions of years, because of evolution.
22:02 You've got to reinterpret the days, you've got to do this
22:04 and here's the point.
22:06 What is happen is this.
22:07 If we don't take a stand on the creation account in Genesis
22:11 and we allow outside ideas to reinterpret that, we are
22:15 unlocking a door and the door we are unlocking is we are
22:18 telling coming generations that you don't have to take
22:21 God's word as written here.
22:23 It puts them on a slipperly slide of unbelief through
22:25 the whole of Scripture.
22:27 You tell me to believe this bit of the Bible over here,
22:30 but this bit doesn't matter.
22:31 I can take mans ideas and reinterpret here,
22:34 but I am not allowed to do that over here.
22:36 It's hypocrisy.
22:38 God's word came under attack at the beginning
22:41 and that attack has continued down through the ages.
22:44 It's never abated.
22:45 It's the same attack yet it manifests itself in different
22:48 ways and different eras of history.
22:51 For instance, when Peter and Paul were preaching
22:53 about the resurrection, did they ever get the question:
22:55 Hey, that's all very well, preaching about
22:57 the resurrection.
22:58 What do you do with carbon dating?
23:00 Did people like Martin Luther, when he nailed the thesis on
23:02 the door of the church, did someone come up to him and say
23:05 that's all very well to nail those on the door
23:08 of the church.
23:09 I want to know about dinosaurs.
23:10 Well, the word dinosaur was not invented until 1841.
23:13 My point is this.
23:14 There is a particular Genesis 3 attack in our day.
23:18 People in past ages had to deal with all sorts of attacks
23:22 on the Bible.
23:24 Gnosticism and all sorts of heresies and so on.
23:27 I believe today that the teaching of evolution,
23:30 millions of years, big bang and so on, that permeates
23:33 the world, wherever you've got an education system,
23:36 access to the internet, access to television,
23:39 people have heard of evolution millions of years.
23:42 It permeates museums around the world, zoos around the
23:45 world, just about everybody has heard about evolution
23:48 of millions of years.
23:49 I believe that it is the Genesis 3
23:51 attack of our day.
23:52 You know, your salvation is not conditioned upon the age
23:57 of the earth of whether you believe in evolution or the
24:00 days of creation.
24:01 The condition is upon faith in Christ, right?
24:04 But believing in evolution for millions of years doesn't
24:08 necessarily affect your salvation.
24:10 There are many Christians that believe in millions of years.
24:14 Many Christians that believe in evolution.
24:16 But what it does affect is how the next generation views
24:20 Scripture itself.
24:22 What I have given you is a long answer to get back
24:25 to the fact that the issue is one of authority.
24:29 Who is the authority?
24:30 God or man?
24:31 And when you let man be an authority over God's word
24:34 and reinterpret God's word because of outside ideas
24:37 you are unlocking a door so the next generation tend not
24:40 to believe the Scripture as much and the next generation
24:43 doubt and disbelieve even more and as time goes on,
24:48 you would expect to see more and more in the younger
24:52 generations of leaving the church, walking away from
24:54 the church as exactly what we see.
24:57 JB: That's what we see today.
24:58 [Music]
25:10 Creation or evolution?
25:12 I'd like to offer you a free book that makes
25:15 this subject clear.
25:16 It's called "Out of Thin Air, produced by
25:20 It Is Written, and written by former ministry speaker
25:23 Shawn Boonstra.
25:24 It's an excellent resource that makes the subject
25:27 of creation and evolution very, very clear.
25:31 Get your free copy of "Out of Thin Air" by calling now,
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25:37 Ask for: Out of Thin Air.
25:45 Or you can write to It Is Written, Box O, Thousand Oaks,
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25:55 This is a resource you'll appreciate.
25:58 In an age where the Bible account of creation is under
26:00 increasing attack, you'll be blessed, encouraged
26:03 and informed by this excellent book.
26:07 It's yours free.
26:08 Just call 1-800-253-3000, 1-800-253-3000 right now,
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26:17 There's no cost and no catch.
26:20 Simply call now, and ask for Out of Thin Air.
26:23 And remember: It Is Written is a faith-based ministry made
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26:44 What a wonderful subject: Creation and evolution.
26:47 Why don't we take a moment now and pray.
26:49 We'll pray to the God of creation and ask his blessing
26:52 and guidance.
26:54 Our Father in heaven, I thank you for the Bible.
26:57 The Bible that reveals to us that In the Beginning,
26:59 God created.
27:01 Lord, I look forward to your continuing creative power.
27:04 The Bible tells us that you will recreate this earth.
27:08 We will dwell in a new earth some day.
27:12 The Bible tells us that you are the God who can recreate
27:15 a broken, human heart.
27:17 Lord, would you do that work for us?
27:19 We thank you today and we pray praising you, in Jesus' name,
27:23 Amen.
27:46 Thanks for joining me today.
27:47 I look forward to seeing you again next time.
27:49 Until then, remember: It is written, man shall not live by
27:54 bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from
27:57 the mouth of God.


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