In order to support their beliefs, many cults insist that they have the necessary key to unlock the Scriptures, or they might simply pervert them.
The theistic evolutionists (TEs)—those who believe in God
and evolution—are no different. However, they have their own key. They insist
that the correct understanding of Scripture requires that we strip Genesis 1-11
of its teachings about the physical world, even its historical content.
However, we are warned throughout Scripture against
tampering with God's Word:
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Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of
God, we do not lose heart. But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways.
We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's word, but by the open
statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone's conscience in
the sight of God. (2 Corinthians 4:1-2)
The TE has taken away from the Word (Deuteronomy 4:2; 12:32).
By denying the historical content of Genesis, they tamper with the truth but
deny doing so.
TEs wrongly insist that Genesis 1-11 was never intended as
history but theology, as if the two cannot coincide, but does the Bible provide
any support for this? Not in the slightest. The entire NT, without exception,
comments on Genesis as history. The genealogies testify to the historicity of
Adam and Eve.
Paul had written:
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For as by a man came death, by a man has come
also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ
shall all be made alive. (1 Corinthians 15:21-22)
Jesus also affirmed the historicity of Genesis. When asked
if it was right to divorce, He answered from the historical accounts of Genesis
1-2:
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…“Have you not read that he who created them
from the beginning made them male and female [quoting from Genesis 1], and
said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to
his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’ [Genesis 2:24]? So they are no
longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man
separate.” (Matthew 19:4-6)
Why no divorce? Because God had actually joined them
together! Had this account not been history, it could have been objected, “God
hadn’t made them one. Instead, this account is purely mythical. Therefore,
divorce is okay.”
Although I have been repeatedly informed that TE is "mainline Christianity," by tampering with the Word without any Biblical justification, they have joined hands with other cults.
Although I have been repeatedly informed that TE is "mainline Christianity," by tampering with the Word without any Biblical justification, they have joined hands with other cults.
Unfortunately, lacking Biblical maturity, many have been taken in.
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