Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Monday, July 21, 2008 3:09:40 PM
Why do we engage in Christian apologetics? Is it not to stop the mouth of the unbeliever and cause him to consider the truth? If our goal is to promote the truth of Jesus Christ, then how is it that we deny Christ’s testimony of Genesis?
Did Christ not say, “From the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh...’ Was He not referring to Adam and Eve and quoting from Genesis?
And again, “As it was in the days of Noah so it shall be at the coming of the Son of Man…” Was He not comparing the flood to the conditions of His coming? If we deny the flood will we also deny his coming again?
And again, do we believe the testimony of His eye witnesses, “For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.” If we deny that death entered by Adam’s sin, then will we deny the gospel that in Christ men are freed from sin and death?
We must hold fast to the testimony of Genesis because Christ and His Apostles confirmed the Genesis account of creation, the entrance of sin and death, and the flood and warned against the assumptions of uniformitarianism [2 Peter 3]. We do greatly err in accommodating these assumptions to the violation of Biblical Theology.