Creation Station
Education and Current Events
The Danger of Telling Bible Stories
by Sean Meek, Director of Project CREATION
For a ministry whose whole purpose for existing is to show how the
facts from God's Creation support the words in His Book, what could
possibly be the danger in telling Bible stories? The danger is not in
the stories themselves. Bible stories are an excellent source of
knowledge and inspiration. The danger in telling Bible stories is that
too often that is where many people's Biblically based education ends.
Just as the phrase that many churches have in their doctrinal
statements, the Bible is to be our guide in all matters of faith and
practice, is, by itself, insufficient, so too Bible stories by
themselves are insufficient. If you believe that the Bible is truly
God's word, then it must be our guide in all matters that it touches
upon. That means it must be our guide in our understanding of biology,
geology, astronomy, economics, government and every other area that the
Bible touches on.
In a world in which evolutionism is the dominant religion it has become
all too common for even Christians to separate what is seen as
"spiritual" issues from that which is seen as the "practical" side of
life. The Bible was given to us by God to be our guide in all areas of
life. If the Bible were treated as the divinely inspired book that it
is, things in life would go so much better then they often do. Medicine
is one branch of science where this principle can be clearly seen.
In 1799 George Washington was killed by his doctors because they
followed Greek ideas rather than paying attention to God's truth in the
Bible. In December of 1799 Washington developed a throat infection.
Washington's doctors accepted the Greek idea that people got sick
because they had "bad blood" so they proceeded to bleed him until they
finally bled him to death. If they had instead followed Biblical
standards they would have known that the "life of the flesh is in the
blood" Leviticus 17:14. If they had just left him alone he might have
gotten better. A more recent example of how following pagan ideas has
led people astray is in what evolutionists have labeled "vestigial
organs", body parts that are supposedly left over from our evolutionary
past. One hundred years ago 180 organs, such the adrenal gland, the
parathyroid, tonsils and the appendix, were labeled as useless by
evolutionists. Even as late as 1971 the Encyclopedia Britannica kept up
this farce by labeling dozens of organs as useless. But today no
reputable medical book continues to label any organ as useless, but it
took one hundred years for this change to happen. For over a century
useful organs were being removed from people and people were dying in
unnecessary operations because the evolutionary medical establishment
refused to acknowledge what the Bible told us thousands of years ago,
that we are "fearfully and wonderfully made" Psalm
139:14. The whole vestigial organ fiasco forcefully highlights the
reality that when evolutionists label something in God's Creation as
useless, what they are really saying is that they don't know its
purpose. Again and again we see that with patience and further
investigation the truth will be found out and that truth will always
end up supporting the Bible.
Medical research, as well as other branches of science, have been held
back for decades because the evolutionary establishment has forced the
big lie of evolution onto science. But whether in medicine, biology,
economics or any other area that the Bible speaks on, the Bible gives
us God's truth and it is only he willful ignorance of some
people, Romans 1:22, that causes them to ignore it.
One of the failures of the modern church has been in its not telling
the whole truth that is in God's Bible. It has been this failure that
has been a major reason for its loss of influence in the battle for the
hearts and minds of the people of the Church, as well as the people of
the world. One of the saddest stories I have ever read is one told by
Ronald Numbers. Ronald Numbers was raised by Christian parents and went
thru Christian schools from Kindergarten thru University. All his life
he had heard about Creation in numerous Bible stories, but in over
twenty years he had never been taught about the scientific evidence in
support of Creation. The first time he was challenged by a
knowledgeable and eloquent evolutionist his belief system crumbled and
he abandoned all belief in the Bible. This is an all too common
experience for many young people who have heard Bible stories all their
lives, but have never heard the historical and scientific evidence that
supports the truthfulness and authority of the Bible. The Bible is a
book of reality in all areas that it touches upon, parents and churches
that fail to fully educate those that they have responsibility for are
failing in the duty that God has given to them.
