Everyone from the false prophet in the smallest church to the pope owns a Bible, talks about Christianity, the Bible and sometimes even the Lord Himself.  Even some atheists admit that the Scriptures hold some value on the social level.  However, the core belief found within modern culture is the belief that man evolved over time from something far less advanced than the modern version.  The latest polls reveal that approximately 60% of U.S. adults believe in evolution.  Approximately the same ratio believes that right and wrong is determined by the individual.

At the founding of this nation the founders put in the U.S. Constitution that all people were created equal and endowed with certain unalienable rights, those being life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  About 100 years later, following the publication of On the Origin of Species, a change began to take place, one which put forth the premise that morality, the proclamation of right and wrong–was a byproduct of human evolution.  This theory, known by two names: Moral Darwinism and Moral Relativism, began to take root in the American educational system in the 1890’s.  This anti-bible ideology swept across Europe and eventually made its way to the United States.

Though most people in the Institutional Church can discuss creation week, including the creation of man, most denominations in the Western world have either accepted or give lip service to the Darwinian concept of man’s creation.  Along with this anti-bible attitude, most believe that there is no global, absolute moral Law that applies to all people for all time in all places.  There is no absolute truth which applies to all people in all places at all times, even though God strictly confirms that His Words are Truth (Jn. 17:17) that will judge all people from all time and all places (Jn. 12:48).  This theology has given rise to the theory (“fact” according to evolutionists) that such sins as homosexuality, fornication, adultery and pedophilia, though they might have been morally wrong in another era, are now acceptable.  Man, we are led to believe, has evolved those Biblical sins out of their sin status and into their present right status.

One who believes in an ideology of “moral absolutism” believes that the definition of truth does not change, that right and wrong do not change and that all men of all ages are commanded to believe the Holy Bible and obey it in letter and spirit. One who embraces an evolving morality believes that man is merely the latest version of an evolutionary process that created human beings out of some lower form of matter, and that man, at any place on the evolutionary scale, has the right to determine current morality for himself.  One who chooses the latter has chosen Satan’s version of creation.

The reason scientists cannot grasp the concept of a Creator creating man in His own image is because scientists do not believe in the existence of a spirit world.  They believe only in the physical, only in what they can see, feel, smell, etc.  Nothing else exists.  They cannot see a Creator, therefore they do not believe that such an entity exists.  Faith is rejected in that it is the belief in something one cannot see, feel, taste, etc.  To the faithless, the Bible is no more than a collection of fairy tales and wishful thinking.

There is no such thing as a Christian evolutionist.  Anyone involved in church who believes in evolution is not a Bible-based Christian.  There are many church-based Christians who bear no resemblance to God’s people.  L.J.