It Is Written

Creation or Evolution

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


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