Jesus is a creationist

Jesus is a Young Earth Creationist

Why is the Creation issue important for believers

Why this presentation?

• For some Christians, the issue of whether creation or evolution is true is divisive, or at best, an irrelevant side issue.

• I hope to present here, a few reasons why you should consider the matter seriously.

• I also encourage you to check out http://www.slideshare.net/ZekeKnight/evolution-vs-creation for more information about why it is such an important issue.

• If you have any questions, check out creation.com. You are most likely to find the answer there.

Jesus is the Creator

• John 1:3 says: 'All things were made by him and without him was not anything made that was made.' And in John 1:10 a similar truth is stated, 'The world became through Him.' In writing to the Colossians, Paul declared 'for by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him' Col. 1:16, cf. Ex. 20: 11 and Heb. 1:2.

Jesus' lineage

• Luke 3:23–38 traces the genealogy of Jesus back to Adam through some 42 ancestors.

• The ages of these people given in the Old Testament amount to a few thousand years, not millions of years

See http://creation.com/jesus-genealogies and

http://creation.com/biblical-chronogenealogies for more detailed information

What did Jesus say?

• Jesus says in Mark 10:6 “But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.”

• On a 15 billion year timeline, humans did not appear until the very end.

• On a 6000 timeline, Adam and Eve were formed on Day 6 - right at the beginning of history.

• Jesus is confirming Genesis as real actual history.

What did Jesus say?

• In Luke 11:50–51, Jesus also says: “That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; From the blood of Abel to the blood of Zacharias … ”.

• Jesus mentions the first innocent blood shed - that of Abel, and ties it in to the foundation of the world. Not some billions of years after the foundation of the world.

• Jesus taught that the world was young.

What did Paul say?

• And in Romans 1:20, the Apostle Paul says of God: “For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.”.

• Note that for something to have been perceived, someone has to be there to observe it - since the creation of the world.

What did Paul say?

• In Romans 5:12, Paul says: ‘…through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned’.

• The man was Adam, who sinned by breaking a command from God. Death came as a judgment from God because of this act of Adam’s - NOT over millions of years.

• Paul teaches in a literal Adam and afirms the biblical history set out in Genesis.

What did Paul say?

• Paul goes on to present Adam as a contrasting type of Christ, calling Him ‘the last Adam’ (1 Corinthians 15:45).

• The sin of Adam, which brought condemnation to all men, is contrasted with the righteousness of Christ, which makes redemption available to all.

• However, if Adam is a metaphor, and Genesis is figurative rather than historical fact, and if death is a part of nature rather than the penalty for sin, the death of Christ on the cross is no longer needed as a sacrifice for sin

See http://creation.com/new-testament-creation for more detailed information

What did Paul say?

• In 1 Corinthians 15:26, Paul refers to death as ‘the last enemy’.

• If death is an enemy, and the result of sin, it could not have been the process over millions of years by which God created Adam.


What did others say?

• In 1 Peter 3:20, Peter treats the Flood as a real historical event, with a real man, Noah, and literally ‘eight people saved’.

• Likewise in Hebrews 11:4, 5, & 7; 1 John 3:12; and Jude 14, the writers all treat Abel, Cain, Enoch and Noah as real historical people and not as metaphors.

• James 3:9 says that we have been made in God’s likeness. This applies to all men and women, both believers and unbelievers, and means that people have a spiritual dimension which animals do not have. James is here taking Genesis 1:26 to be literally and historically true.


No more death?

• Creation was originally ‘very good’ (Genesis 1:31),• So the ‘last enemy’, death (1 Corinthians 15:26) was absent.• Even the animals were originally all given plants to eat (Genesis

1:30).• The actions of the first Adam brought a reign of death and

bloodshed upon a once-perfect world, which ever since has been groaning in pain (Romans 8:22).

• Precisely because of the blood shed in death by the last Adam, this curse of death and bloodshed will be removed, and creation restored to a sinless, deathless state (Revelation 21:1; 21:4; 22:3).

• If the earth will be restored to a deathless state, it confirms that death did not exist to begin with. So evolution over millions of years prior to Adam can not be a possibility.

See http://creation.com/first-adamlast-adam for more detailed information

Where are long ages from?

• In 1830, Charles Lyell, a Scottish lawyer, released his book Principles of Geology. He stated that one of his aims was “To free the science [of geology] from Moses.”

• The idea of millions or billions of years simply is not found anywhere in Scripture; it is a concept derived from outside of the Bible.

See http://creation.com/Did-god-create-over-billions-of-years for more detailed information

So what does this mean?

• If Genesis is not real literal history, how can one know where the truth actually does begin in Scripture?

• Today’s ‘science’ also ‘proves’ that men don’t rise from the dead. So if we allow that same science to tell us that Jesus has not risen from the dead then Christianity is dead.


So...?

• Jesus clearly believed in a literal historical Genesis, so should we.


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Jesus is a creationist