Creation Station
Education and Current Events
Ideas Have Consequences
or why things are the way they are
88 percent is a number that should concern you very much, both for the
sake of your children and country. A Southern Baptist Council on Family
Life report found that 88 percent of children raised in evangelical
homes leave the church by the age of 20 and never return. The church is
hemorrhaging its youth and one of the reasons for it is that too many
in the church are not boldly proclaiming the whole Bible to be God’s
Word from Genesis to Revelation. We live in a world in which
evolutionism is the dominant religion. Evolutionist stories that are
not challenged will too often be accepted.
For the first 30 years of my life I attended churches in which the
Bible was powerfully presented, except in the area of Creation. About
that issue there was silence. Since a story that is not challenged,
will so often be accepted, I became a theistic evolutionist, believing
that God had used evolution to create. It wasn’t until I was about 30
years old that I first heard a reasoned, scientific defense of
Creation. When I heard the facts, the house of cards that is
evolutionism fell apart. Some years later several of us started Project
CREATION. It was then that I really began to realize the level of
compromise and apathy that exists in so many churches. A church I was
then attending hosted all sorts of entertainers, but never a creation
message. When I asked one of the pastors why, he told me that they
didn’t want to have anything controversial, because they didn’t want to
upset anyone. And there is the problem in so many churches today. A
church that upsets no one is not doing anything. Jesus called us to
preach a message that, if presented as Jesus intended, is guaranteed to
upset and anger a lot of people.
Narrow is the way to salvation, because truth is unbending. We don’t
have the luxury of changing truth to fit whatever is currently popular.
Broad is the way of destruction, because lies aren’t restrained by
truth and can be presented in very clever packaging. But compromise, as
bad as it is, isn’t the biggest problem in the church today; the
biggest problem is ignorance and apathy. It is out of that ignorance
and apathy that compromise finds such fertile ground to take root.
Those churches, organizations and individuals that have adopted
anti-Biblical ideas such as “abortion rights” and homosexual pastors do
so only after they have abandoned God’s Word. Those who abandon the
Bible start out by first repudiating Genesis. Two examples of this kind
of repudiation are Charles Templeton and the Episcopal Church. In the
1940’s and 50’s Charles Templeton was an evangelist who started
churches, helped to form Youth for Christ and held evangelistic
meetings in which thousands made professions of faith and yet he did
not really believe what he was preaching. He once told Billy Graham
that “it’s simply not possible any longer to believe, for instance, the
biblical account of creation. The world wasn’t created over a period of
a few days a few thousand years ago; it has evolved over millions of
years.” After years of struggling with his unbelief in Creation, he
finally completely rejected God and the Bible and wrote his
autobiography, Farewell to God. His rejection of Christianity
is unfortunately all too typical. He started out by rejecting Genesis
and ended up by rejecting everything. The history of the Episcopal
Church is almost identical, it just took longer too happen. The
Episcopal Church is the American branch of the Church of England. This
is the church that in the 17th century supplied most of the Bible
scholars that translated the King James Bible. It was a church that at
one time sent missionaries throughout the world preaching the Gospel.
So what happened to cause a church that had once done that to get to
the point of ordaining a homosexual bishop? It was first thru an
acceptance of an old age for the earth that the door was opened to a
rejection of Creation and an acceptance of all the other compromises.
In the Episcopal Church we can see how acceptance of any kind of
compromise with God’s Word will lead to a complete rejection of its
authority in all other areas. So does Creation Education matter? Look
at much of the church today and you can all too clearly see the answer.
Whether it is with an individual like Charles Templeton or a church
like the Episcopal Church, they don’t start out by repudiating the
whole Bible; they start out by first rejecting Genesis, the foundation
of the whole book.
