Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Monday, April 07, 2008 9:55:33 PM
There is a great gulf between the worldview of Darwinism and that of Biblical Christianity.
One says that millenniums of death and suffering are the natural order and necessary for the evolution of man; the other says that death is the result of man’s sin and is a temporary state awaiting the full application of Christ’s accomplished redemption.
One says that life is without design and the product of the random and impersonal; the other says that we are fearfully and wonderfully made by the Infinite and Personal Creator.
One says that men are nothing more than advanced apes and that truth and purpose cannot be known; the other says that we are image bearers of God who has revealed Himself to man so that we might know the truth.
Now these differences cannot be resolved nor accommodated because they involve matters of sin and redemption that speak directly to the person and work of Jesus Christ.
But the difference between old and young earth creationism should not be a matter of fellowship among Christians as long as death is held as the result of sin entering into the completed creation after God declared it ‘very good’ [Genesis 1:31].