October 6th 2019
Is Your Bible Your GPS To Your Eternal Destination? Part 2 Of 2
Mark 10:6 (NIV)
Jesus said, "But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female”.
Was Adam Created As A Man, Or Was He Created As An Animal, And Then, Evolved Into A Man?
The Bible refers to Jesus as the seed—He is the salvation of mankind. Jesus is The Seed not a seed! Jesus had to die and be buried (planted), before He could come back to life, thus Jesus became the new seed, or the new Adam. Paul calls Jesus the Last Adam, because there will be no other Savior. So it is written: "The first man Adam became a living being"; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit. (1 Corinthians 15:45).
Many professing Christians today believe that God used evolution, (theistic evolution states that a god or gods used evolution), as His method of creation. However, Creation teaches that death is an enemy—and is the result of the sin of mankind. Death is the “last enemy” to be defeated by the Creator Himself. Paul wrote about this “last enemy” in his first letter to the Corinthians, and for us. For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. But each in his own turn: Christ, the firstfruits; then, when he comes, those who belong to him. Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death. (1 Corinthians 15:22-26)
Evolution teaches that death is an ordinary process, and was the driving force that created (or evolved) animals into becoming human beings. The evolutionary view states that death will continue, until the end of time. Actually the evolutionary view really ends there. The people who needed to understand how everything got here by an evolutionary process did not believe in God, as they were atheists and thus, could not accept a Creator or Designer. Christians who have been convinced that the universe is billions of years old, and thus, the Biblical account of Creation happening only a few thousand years ago, had to be wrong.
Did God Use Evolution To Create Everything?
If you want to believe in evolution, then allow for a plant that grows from a seed. It starts to grow when the seed dies and begins to decay, then this seed comes back to life, and a new plant begins to grow. Modern science does not know how this “new life” happens. After the seed grows a new plant is produced that bares fruit that has the same seed in it, which will go through this same cycle, and produce fruit with seeds in it. If one of these seeds dies (or germinates), then it will produce another plant, and the lifecycle continues. Does a different kind of fruit ever grow from any seed? No, the same kind of fruit is always produced. This describes an eternal process—as defined in the Bible, which describes the creation of plant kinds.
The same repetitive process is witnessed in all animals with the same genome count. They can have intercourse, and if the female’s egg(s) is fertilized by the male of the same kind of animal there can be produced viable offspring. The offspring is never different than the parents, and thus produces another animal of the same kind. If evolution is true, then why, doesn’t the offspring ever come out different, as must have occurred in the past to create new types of animals?
If animals share a common ancestry (evolution), then why are animals not able to have intercourse and produce viable offspring? How did the genome become different through the evolutionary processes? How did distinct genomes evolve? Can the genome be altered by mutations, and result in a pure distinct genome?
Paul referred to Jesus as the last Adam and of course, he called Adam the first Adam. This is the key in that it indicates there will never be another Adam. Jesus completed the life cycle of mankind. There is no need of another Adam as mankind has been completed by the perfect seed of Jesus!
Is Jesus evolving? How does evolution define Jesus? Was Jesus limited as a man who had evolved from an animal? Was Jesus evolving as a man was/is He still evolving into a higher form of God? Would Jesus need to evolve more as a man, so He would not fail in His mission? If God used evolution to create mankind, then it makes sense that Jesus was still evolving, doesn’t it? If Jesus is God, then is God also still evolving?
The Evolution Of Jesus:
For Jesus to evolve to be the replacement for Adam required that Jesus could not receive the mortal seed of Adam. This was accomplished by having Him be born to a virgin. Thus, the evil seed of Adam would not be passed on to Jesus. Normal human babies are born into this world through the fertilization of the female egg by injection of the spermatozoa of a human male. This is basic biology for replication of mankind. When this process is completed the offspring will have inherited the evil human nature, or seed of Adam. This process started because of the curse also known as the Fall of Man. So when Jesus was born into this world He was like Adam before the curse of sin entered in the Garden of Eden. Jesus did not have an evil human nature, just as Adam did not have before the original sin was committed. If the Fall of Man did not bring suffering and death into this world, thus requiring Jesus to die to cover the sins of mankind, then Jesus could not be the Savior!
If you believe in suffering and death for millions of years before the Fall of Man, then the shedding of blood could not bring salvation. The Bible plainly teaches that the Messiah must shed His blood and die, as the perfect sacrifice in order to cover over the sinful nature of mankind! This sinful nature was inherited from Adam. Paul wrote about this need for a perfect sacrificial offering to atone for the sins of mankind. But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:22-23). If you believe God used evolution, then you cannot believe that death was the result of sin, or eminently the Fall of Man. If death and suffering were going on for millions of years before Adam evolved into a man, then Adam’s sin could not have caused any problem to come into this world.
So, Jesus was like Adam before he sinned, thus Jesus would not have any stain of sin on His human nature or soul. Therefore, Jesus could be the perfect sacrifice required, as long as He did not sin during His earthly lifetime. In the New Testament we read that Jesus did live a sinless life, thus He was the perfect sacrifice required to allow Him to be the Savior of the world. Paul wrote about this for the church in Rome, and for us who have chosen to follow Jesus. Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned—for before the law was given, sin was in the world. But sin is not taken into account when there is no law. Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who was a pattern of the one to come. But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many! Again, the gift of God is not like the result of the one man’s sin: The judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification. For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God’s abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ. (Romans 5:12-17).
In Revelation we read about how the new world will be perfect, just like it was in the beginning, before Adam sinned. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away." (Revelation 21:3-4). If you do not believe that there was a perfect world before Adam’s sin, and that there was death and suffering before sin, then why would you believe God’s promise of the creation of a new and perfect world in your eternal future?
Peter wrote about the Flood, which Peter obviously believed occurred and if you believe in evolution could not have occurred, as it would have destroyed the geologic column, as the evolutionists have devised it! Then Peter goes on to describe how we must believe in the resurrection of Jesus in order to be saved. It is better, if it is God’s will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil. For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit, through whom also he went and preached to the spirits in prison who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water, and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a good conscience towards God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at God’s right hand—with angels, authorities and powers in submission to him. (1 Peter 3:17-22). If you do not believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ, then you will not be saved, and live in the new world! Jesus’ perfect sacrifice guaranteed salvation ONLY to those who accept through grace this offer. If anyone goes to heaven when they die it is because they have been covered by the blood shed by Jesus Christ. You can know you are going to heaven and will live on the new perfect earth when you leave this cursed lifetime, because Jesus paid the price of your admission into heaven! Jesus promised He will come to take you to where He is!
Your brother in life through Adam, your brother in eternity through Jesus,
Bob Moak
Mark 10:6 (NIV)
Jesus said, "But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female”.
Was Adam Created As A Man, Or Was He Created As An Animal, And Then, Evolved Into A Man?
The Bible refers to Jesus as the seed—He is the salvation of mankind. Jesus is The Seed not a seed! Jesus had to die and be buried (planted), before He could come back to life, thus Jesus became the new seed, or the new Adam. Paul calls Jesus the Last Adam, because there will be no other Savior. So it is written: "The first man Adam became a living being"; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit. (1 Corinthians 15:45).
Many professing Christians today believe that God used evolution, (theistic evolution states that a god or gods used evolution), as His method of creation. However, Creation teaches that death is an enemy—and is the result of the sin of mankind. Death is the “last enemy” to be defeated by the Creator Himself. Paul wrote about this “last enemy” in his first letter to the Corinthians, and for us. For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. But each in his own turn: Christ, the firstfruits; then, when he comes, those who belong to him. Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death. (1 Corinthians 15:22-26)
Evolution teaches that death is an ordinary process, and was the driving force that created (or evolved) animals into becoming human beings. The evolutionary view states that death will continue, until the end of time. Actually the evolutionary view really ends there. The people who needed to understand how everything got here by an evolutionary process did not believe in God, as they were atheists and thus, could not accept a Creator or Designer. Christians who have been convinced that the universe is billions of years old, and thus, the Biblical account of Creation happening only a few thousand years ago, had to be wrong.
Did God Use Evolution To Create Everything?
If you want to believe in evolution, then allow for a plant that grows from a seed. It starts to grow when the seed dies and begins to decay, then this seed comes back to life, and a new plant begins to grow. Modern science does not know how this “new life” happens. After the seed grows a new plant is produced that bares fruit that has the same seed in it, which will go through this same cycle, and produce fruit with seeds in it. If one of these seeds dies (or germinates), then it will produce another plant, and the lifecycle continues. Does a different kind of fruit ever grow from any seed? No, the same kind of fruit is always produced. This describes an eternal process—as defined in the Bible, which describes the creation of plant kinds.
The same repetitive process is witnessed in all animals with the same genome count. They can have intercourse, and if the female’s egg(s) is fertilized by the male of the same kind of animal there can be produced viable offspring. The offspring is never different than the parents, and thus produces another animal of the same kind. If evolution is true, then why, doesn’t the offspring ever come out different, as must have occurred in the past to create new types of animals?
If animals share a common ancestry (evolution), then why are animals not able to have intercourse and produce viable offspring? How did the genome become different through the evolutionary processes? How did distinct genomes evolve? Can the genome be altered by mutations, and result in a pure distinct genome?
Paul referred to Jesus as the last Adam and of course, he called Adam the first Adam. This is the key in that it indicates there will never be another Adam. Jesus completed the life cycle of mankind. There is no need of another Adam as mankind has been completed by the perfect seed of Jesus!
Is Jesus evolving? How does evolution define Jesus? Was Jesus limited as a man who had evolved from an animal? Was Jesus evolving as a man was/is He still evolving into a higher form of God? Would Jesus need to evolve more as a man, so He would not fail in His mission? If God used evolution to create mankind, then it makes sense that Jesus was still evolving, doesn’t it? If Jesus is God, then is God also still evolving?
The Evolution Of Jesus:
For Jesus to evolve to be the replacement for Adam required that Jesus could not receive the mortal seed of Adam. This was accomplished by having Him be born to a virgin. Thus, the evil seed of Adam would not be passed on to Jesus. Normal human babies are born into this world through the fertilization of the female egg by injection of the spermatozoa of a human male. This is basic biology for replication of mankind. When this process is completed the offspring will have inherited the evil human nature, or seed of Adam. This process started because of the curse also known as the Fall of Man. So when Jesus was born into this world He was like Adam before the curse of sin entered in the Garden of Eden. Jesus did not have an evil human nature, just as Adam did not have before the original sin was committed. If the Fall of Man did not bring suffering and death into this world, thus requiring Jesus to die to cover the sins of mankind, then Jesus could not be the Savior!
If you believe in suffering and death for millions of years before the Fall of Man, then the shedding of blood could not bring salvation. The Bible plainly teaches that the Messiah must shed His blood and die, as the perfect sacrifice in order to cover over the sinful nature of mankind! This sinful nature was inherited from Adam. Paul wrote about this need for a perfect sacrificial offering to atone for the sins of mankind. But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:22-23). If you believe God used evolution, then you cannot believe that death was the result of sin, or eminently the Fall of Man. If death and suffering were going on for millions of years before Adam evolved into a man, then Adam’s sin could not have caused any problem to come into this world.
So, Jesus was like Adam before he sinned, thus Jesus would not have any stain of sin on His human nature or soul. Therefore, Jesus could be the perfect sacrifice required, as long as He did not sin during His earthly lifetime. In the New Testament we read that Jesus did live a sinless life, thus He was the perfect sacrifice required to allow Him to be the Savior of the world. Paul wrote about this for the church in Rome, and for us who have chosen to follow Jesus. Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned—for before the law was given, sin was in the world. But sin is not taken into account when there is no law. Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who was a pattern of the one to come. But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many! Again, the gift of God is not like the result of the one man’s sin: The judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification. For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God’s abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ. (Romans 5:12-17).
In Revelation we read about how the new world will be perfect, just like it was in the beginning, before Adam sinned. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away." (Revelation 21:3-4). If you do not believe that there was a perfect world before Adam’s sin, and that there was death and suffering before sin, then why would you believe God’s promise of the creation of a new and perfect world in your eternal future?
Peter wrote about the Flood, which Peter obviously believed occurred and if you believe in evolution could not have occurred, as it would have destroyed the geologic column, as the evolutionists have devised it! Then Peter goes on to describe how we must believe in the resurrection of Jesus in order to be saved. It is better, if it is God’s will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil. For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit, through whom also he went and preached to the spirits in prison who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water, and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a good conscience towards God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at God’s right hand—with angels, authorities and powers in submission to him. (1 Peter 3:17-22). If you do not believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ, then you will not be saved, and live in the new world! Jesus’ perfect sacrifice guaranteed salvation ONLY to those who accept through grace this offer. If anyone goes to heaven when they die it is because they have been covered by the blood shed by Jesus Christ. You can know you are going to heaven and will live on the new perfect earth when you leave this cursed lifetime, because Jesus paid the price of your admission into heaven! Jesus promised He will come to take you to where He is!
Your brother in life through Adam, your brother in eternity through Jesus,
Bob Moak