“CHRISTIAN” (THEISTIC) EVOLUTION – A FALSE GOSPEL

If we take the first three chapters of Genesis, we find many contradictions between them and the Darwinian narrative, like the existence of death and sin prior to the Fall. Because of these many contradictions, Professor Karl Giberson, the former co-head of the Biologos Foundation, a group committed to advocating for evolution to the churches, had written:

·       Acid is an appropriate metaphor for the erosion of my fundamentalism, as I slowly lost confidence in the Genesis story of creation and the scientific creationism that placed this ancient story within the framework of modern science. Dennett’s universal acid dissolved Adam and Eve; it ate through the Garden of Eden; it destroyed the historicity of the events of creation week. It etched holes in those parts of Christianity connected to the stories—the fall, “Christ as the second Adam,” the origins of sin, and nearly everything else that I counted sacred. (Karl Giberson, Saving Darwin, 9-10)

In view of this gutting of the teachings of the Gospel, how then is the “Christian” evolutionist (CE) able to continue to call himself a “Christian?” Giberson claimed that the acid would cease to dissolve his remaining faith any further. However, some years later, he confessed that he thought that the God of the Old Testament was a malicious tyrant, proving that Darwin was still at work.

Other CEs have found other ways to preserve what is left of their faith. They claim that Genesis chapters 1-11 are mere myth or parable. Therefore, they are teaching spiritual truths not physical ones. Consequently, any apparent contradiction between the Bible and evolution disappears.

There are many problems with this “reconciliation.” I will just mention one – Whenever the NT provides commentary on these chapters, it always recognizes their historicity that these events actually happened. To simply make my point briefly, I will list NT quotations from Genesis chapters 1-3 in order: Matthew 19:4; Mark 10:6; Hebrews 4:4; Revelation 2:7; 1 Corinthians 15:46; Matthew 19:5; Mark 10:8; 1 Corinthians 6:16; Ephesians 5:31; 2 Corinthians 11:3. This short list doesn’t even include the many references to these three chapters, like those affirming the historicity of Adam, Eve, and the Fall (Romans 5:12-19; 1 Corinthians 11:8-9; 1 Timothy 2:11-14; Luke 3:38).

If these verses reference Genesis 1-3 as history, then the CE’s problems have metastasized throughout the entirety of the Bible and even to the OT’s references to these first three chapters. I was not able to find even one reference that had dismissed their historicity. Consequently, if any of these verses are affirming the historicity of Genesis 1-3, then the CE “reconciliation” or the Bible must be rejected. However, none of their references provide any reason to believe that Genesis 1-11 is merely mythological, as the CE claims. We are therefore left with a clear choice. Either we embrace Jesus’ Gospel or we reject it.

The evidence of the Bible should force us to agree with chemist Bruce Malone, founder of Search for the Truth:

·       Acceptance of evolution is a poison which will destroy true Christianity. The evidence for this can be seen in the decline of the evangelical belief in Europe as the acceptance of evolution has increased.

The CE and the Biologos Foundation promote a false gospel, against the warnings of Scripture:

·       But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed. (Galatians 1:8-9)

They deprive the Bible of its historical foundations, and this consistently contradicts the NT commentary, thereby taking away from the Word of God:

·       “You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I command you.” (Deuteronomy 4:2; 12:32)