WHY THEISTIC EVOLUTION SHOULD BE CONSIDERED A CULT

 

 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understanding of Scripture requires that we strip Genesis 1-11 of its teachings about the physical world, even its historical content.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:

·       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 By denying the historical content of Genesis, they tamper with the truth but deny doing so.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:

·       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:

·       …“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.

Unfortunately, lacking Biblical maturity, many have been taken in.