The Creator Revealed

Creation and Human Relationships

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00:31 Welcome to The Creator Revealed.
00:34 I'm Tim Standish.
00:35 And usually,
00:38 when I introduce myself, I say that I am a biologist,
00:42 but I actually have a PhD in biology and public policy.
00:47 Wow.
00:49 And public policy is all about laws
00:51 and how people relate with one another,
00:54 the rules by which a society will operate.
00:58 Well, Tim, I'm glad you're here to do this series with us,
01:01 and we're so glad that you are joining us today.
01:06 We will be talking about human relationships.
01:09 If we look from the biblical perspective,
01:12 God made us special, He made us in His image,
01:16 and He had a plan and a purpose for our lives.
01:19 And He made man to dominate the rest,
01:23 to go out, have dominion over the rest of His creation.
01:28 And when we use that word domination,
01:31 we do not mean to somehow lord over the rest of the creation.
01:36 We mean caring for the creation.
01:38 Yes.
01:40 God has entrusted it to us.
01:42 But what about with each other?
01:44 God clearly defines the relationship
01:47 between humans and the rest of the creation.
01:50 What about humans and humans?
01:53 Well, here in Matthew,
01:55 we have a record of something that Jesus Christ Himself said.
01:58 He was talking about the sacrament of marriage,
02:02 and He said this, "'Haven't you read,' he,
02:06 this is Jesus, replied, 'that at the beginning
02:11 the Creator made them male and female,
02:14 and He said,
02:15 'For this reason
02:17 a man will leave his father and mother
02:19 and be united to his wife,
02:22 and the two will become one flesh'?
02:26 So they are no longer two, but one flesh.
02:29 Therefore, what God has joined together,
02:33 let no one separate.
02:36 So God intended for there to be perfect harmony
02:39 and unity in human relationships,
02:42 particularly between us, between spouses.
02:46 Between spouses, yes.
02:47 There is something beautiful and glorious about that,
02:50 something that tells us something about God
02:53 in the relationship between a man and a woman,
02:57 something incredibly special.
02:59 And of course, we use words like love to describe that.
03:03 But then sometimes,
03:04 we confuse love with sensual things...
03:07 Lust. Or lust, those sorts of things.
03:11 Love is a lot more than that.
03:14 Especially when you think of God's love,
03:16 it is other-centered love.
03:19 And that's how we grow.
03:20 When you grow in love,
03:22 I mean, we don't really say follow them.
03:23 Self-sacrificing. Yes.
03:25 It's other-centered, self-sacrificing love.
03:29 True love is putting the interest of another being
03:35 before your own.
03:36 And that's God's.
03:38 That's God's, that's God's love.
03:40 Now I want you to compare that.
03:41 Or think about this in the context
03:43 of what James Rachel wrote a few years ago.
03:46 He is talking about morality
03:48 from an evolutionary perspective.
03:51 And he says,
03:52 "An evolutionary perspective denies that
03:55 humans are different in kind from other animals,
03:59 and one cannot reasonably make distinctions in morals
04:04 where none exist in fact."
04:08 You can imagine why today we have some of these
04:13 strange and confusing ideas sort of being tossed around
04:17 about how humans should relate to one another.
04:21 This is a source of that.
04:24 I don't want to blame everything necessarily on this.
04:27 But certainly, if you say, "I am an animal.
04:31 And therefore,
04:33 God has no dominion over me."
04:40 I can make up my own things.
04:43 If I feel like doing something,
04:46 I should just be able to do it because I'm an animal.
04:51 A quick story. Yeah.
04:53 I interviewed a gentleman who was a sheriff
04:55 who in Northern California went to high school.
04:59 He worked with gangs.
05:01 And he was meeting with a group of boys
05:04 that were 17-18 years old.
05:06 And they had never heard the gospel,
05:08 they never heard about Jesus and God.
05:11 And when these young men understood
05:14 that they didn't evolve from an ape,
05:17 that they were truly made in God's image for purpose,
05:22 he was able to rescue 90% of them,
05:26 came out of the gang.
05:27 Isn't that wonderful?
05:29 You know, the gospel is so transformative.
05:31 Yes.
05:32 You can see the way that God can,
05:36 in fact, change people's lives.
05:38 We are more than just subject
05:42 to whatever we feel like doing at any instant in time.
05:47 But this different morality
05:52 has massive implications in a society
05:56 and the way that people relate to each other.
05:59 Let's jump back and just, well, see what Charles Darwin,
06:03 how he applies this, not just to relationships
06:07 between two individuals in a marriage or something
06:12 but how he sees things working out
06:15 for different cultures or different races of people.
06:19 He says, "I can see no difficulty
06:22 in the most intellectual individuals
06:25 of a species being continually selected.
06:28 And the intellect of the new species
06:31 thus improved,
06:33 aided probably by effects of inherited mental exercise.
06:38 I look at this process
06:41 as now going on with the races of man.
06:46 The less intellectual races being exterminated."
06:50 He's saying, "Hey, this extermination of people
06:53 whom he called savages..."
06:55 Some of whom, by the way, were my ancestors.
07:01 He sees that is the way it should be.
07:03 That's how evolutionary progress occurs.
07:08 No regard for the value of life.
07:10 Exactly.
07:11 Obviously, there can be no possibility
07:16 of racial equality in the Darwinian view of things
07:21 because it's all about survival of the fittest.
07:24 Some people, some groups, some individuals,
07:27 something has to be more fit than something else.
07:31 So was Adolf Hitler a fan of Charles Darwin?
07:35 Oh, yes.
07:36 Yeah, we're actually gonna get to that.
07:38 But first, I wanna contrast this
07:40 with the biblical view,
07:42 which is rooted in creation.
07:43 Here's Paul and he's talking to Epicurean philosophers here.
07:47 People who believed
07:48 in a materialistic view of reality,
07:52 and he writes, "From one man He,
07:54 this is God, made all the nations
07:56 that they shouldn't inhabit the whole earth.
07:58 And He marked out
08:00 their appointed times in history
08:01 and the boundaries of their lands."
08:02 He's saying, "Hey, we're all descended
08:04 from one man,
08:06 Greek, Jew, slave, free, all those sorts of things."
08:11 Paul actually lays this out very, very clearly.
08:14 And this is rooted in the idea
08:16 of we're all descended from Adam
08:18 and we can all become children of God
08:22 by adoption by the second Adam,
08:26 Jesus Christ Himself, who is the Creator.
08:30 So prejudice,
08:31 when you see somebody that's being prejudiced
08:33 because of their skin color, for example,
08:36 really, they have 99.9999% more in common with that person.
08:43 They just have something different externally.
08:46 You know what's interesting, there are a lot of people
08:47 who try to somehow quantify differences like this
08:51 and then draw conclusions from it.
08:54 My view is this,
08:55 "Hey, you know what,
08:57 somebody who is of African ancestry
08:59 is just as human as I am.
09:01 Somebody who has an Asian ancestry
09:04 is just as human as I am."
09:06 God made us diverse
09:09 and we are all profoundly equal.
09:14 It doesn't matter if we are 80% the same.
09:19 We are human beings
09:21 and God made all humans absolutely equal
09:28 in a very profound way.
09:30 Here's Paul writing again.
09:31 He's writing here actually to the Galatians, and he says,
09:34 "There is neither Jew nor Gentile,
09:36 neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female,
09:41 for you are all one in Christ Jesus,"
09:45 who, of course, is our Creator and Redeemer.
09:49 It's a very, very clear message
09:51 rooted in the biblical view of creation.
09:57 Now let's jump again back and look at the sorts of things
10:00 that Darwin was writing.
10:02 He says, "There is reason to believe that
10:05 vaccination has preserved thousands,
10:08 who from a weak constitution
10:10 would formally have succumbed to smallpox."
10:12 And you would think,
10:13 "Hey, this is only a good thing, right?"
10:15 Yes, indeed.
10:16 Now Darwin equivocates on this.
10:18 And I'm giving a short quote here.
10:19 So anyone who's interested, I invite them to go and look.
10:22 This is in a book called The Descent of Man.
10:24 Look this up and read it in context
10:27 because, you know,
10:30 he's obviously struggling himself with this,
10:32 how could this be a bad thing.
10:34 But he goes on and he says,
10:36 "Thus the weak members of civilized societies
10:39 propagate their kind.
10:41 No one who has attended
10:43 to the breeding of domestic animals
10:45 will doubt that this must be highly injurious
10:49 to the race of man."
10:51 Ultimately, vaccinations are bad
10:54 because it saves lives.
10:55 Because it saves people.
10:58 You know, the logic is absolutely incredible.
11:03 Jesus Christ is not willing that any should perish.
11:06 That's the biblical view. That's the Christian view.
11:09 Every human being, we want to do
11:11 what we can do to save them.
11:14 Darwinism is to a large degree
11:16 about the week being eliminated
11:23 and, of course,
11:24 viewing human beings as animals.
11:27 Yes.
11:28 But what happens as we apply that
11:31 in a logical way.
11:33 I'm just gonna give you this example here.
11:36 But this is not unique.
11:39 This is in a paper published in the Journal of Medical Ethics.
11:42 This is not in some crazy fringe sort of thing.
11:46 These are people who are taken seriously.
11:50 And they write,
11:51 "We claim that killing a newborn
11:55 could be ethically permissible in all the circumstances
12:00 where abortion would be."
12:01 Now I personally don't think
12:03 that abortion is ethically permissible,
12:08 but these people do.
12:09 They think that, you know, in their view,
12:12 if this thing is not fully human,
12:15 then it's okay to destroy its life.
12:18 They're talking about an actual newborn.
12:20 They're talking now about a baby,
12:22 a baby that's been born.
12:24 And they say, "Such circumstances,
12:26 where it's okay to kill this child,
12:28 such circumstances include cases
12:31 where the newborn has the potential
12:32 to have an at least acceptable life,
12:35 but the well-being of the family is at risk."
12:39 I'm not even going to say anymore.
12:42 Yeah. Adolf Hitler.
12:43 These are ideas about destroying the weak.
12:46 If you're not strong enough to protect yourself,
12:48 you don't have rights are really horrifying.
12:50 Hitler wrote, "By means of the struggle,
12:52 the elites are continually renewed.
12:54 The law of selection justifies this incessant struggle
12:58 by allowing the survival of the fittest.
13:00 Christianity is a rebellion against natural law,
13:04 a protest against nature.
13:06 Taken to its logical extreme,
13:07 Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation
13:10 of the human failure."
13:11 And we know the outcome of this,
13:13 the slaughter of the weak.
13:15 The Bible says, "Defend the weak
13:17 and the fatherless.
13:18 Uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed.
13:20 Rescue the weak and the needy.
13:22 Deliver them from the hand of the wicked."
13:25 That is what we get.
13:26 And of course,
13:28 Marxism also built off this Darwinian foundation.
13:31 It's all about struggle.
13:33 And we know the outcome of these things.
13:38 And yet what did Jesus say?
13:40 He said, you know, when I come, this is what the King will say,
13:44 "Come, you who are blessed by My Father,
13:45 take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you
13:48 since the creation of the world.
13:49 For I was hungry
13:51 and you gave me something to eat,
13:52 I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink."
13:54 And so on.
13:55 It's all about caring for the weak.
13:59 It's not about destroying people
14:03 who can't protect themselves.
14:04 So what does this reveal about the Creator?
14:07 His existence has multiple persons,
14:10 but one being is illustrated in the sacrament of marriage.
14:15 But in addition to that,
14:17 His care for everyone
14:19 is shown in the way He defines our relationships,
14:24 love, care, not power and destroying the weak.
14:30 What we believe about the sanctity of life,
14:33 about the value of life
14:35 will determine how we treat other people,
14:39 not only in our personal circles
14:42 but in our government.
14:43 So please stay tuned
14:45 because we have a human rights attorney
14:48 that will be joining us to talk about it.


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