Who's the Authority? God or Man?

~Repost from 2006~
Answers in Genesis
Many Christian people think that the Earth was created millions or billions of years ago. They think this because they have been indoctrinated by a secularist school system that openly discriminates against the teachings of the Bible. This is just one of the many beliefs Christian Americans have that are inherently opposed to the truth in the Bible. In this column I am going to explore some of the things that Christians believe as a result of indoctrination by an anti-Christian/secularist portion of society as illustrated in Ken Ham's teachings.


When was the Earth formed?


According to God's word it was created a little more than 6 thousand years ago. In Mark Chapter ten verse six Jesus said. "But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female."
He was referring to the fact, plainly stated in Genesis, that Adam and Eve were created on the sixth day of creation. Now if the Earth was created and then five days later God made man, then this verse makes sense.
But if man came along millions of years later, Christ's words were incorrect and misleading. I'll let you decide who to believe, Christ or Scientists.

If you believe that God is the authority and not man, you have to believe that the genealogies recorded in the Bible are true and complete. Scientists say that the Earth is millions or billions of years old. They can't fit the millions of years in after Adam because the Hebrew scholars have proven the genealogy between Adam and Abraham to be true and complete. So scientists say that dinosaurs existed millions of years before Adam. By this they are saying that death and disease was found on the Earth millions of years before Adam sinned. Yet we know that death and disease came as a result of man sinning. If you believe that fossils studied by scentists date back millions of years, you must also say that there was death and suffering on Earth before Adam sinned. That simply can't be. That is if you believe that God is the authority and not man.

Dinosaurs, did they live with man?


The Bible tells us that all land animals were created on the sixth day. That means that dinosaurs were made along side Adam and Eve. Because of the sin of man, God sent a flood to destroy the inhabitants of the Earth. The dinosaurs and all other land creatures were kept safe in Noah's Arc. That means that they came off the ark and lived among other animals and man. Now, some dinosaurs didn't go on the arch and many were drowned. That's why we find fossils of them. We have many records around the world by people who claim to have lived among these creatures. Many countries have history books that are filled with images of huge dragon like creatures that fit the dinosaur description well. Some became extinct and some are still living on Earth today.
There have been dinosaur bones found with soft tissue in them, even containing blood vessels, viable cells and fluid. Dinosaurs did not die out millions of years ago, to believe so, you would have to truly be blinded by men who place themselves as the authority over God!


Atonement or Evolution
















You may ask, what does atonement of sins and evolution have to do with one another? actually....a great deal.Let me explain.
When Adam and Eve sinned, God killed an animal and clothed them. This was symbolic of what was to come in Jesus Christ's atonement on the cross. It was the first blood sacrifice. After that their son Able often made blood offerings to God. The Israelites sacrificed sheep for years until the ultimate and final blood sacrifice... Christ's. If death came before sin, then death and bloodshed have nothing to do with sin then Christ's sacrifice was in vain. For Christians to believe as evolutionists do, that there were millions of years worth of death and disease before sin, they cannot view any atonement, even Christ's, as meaningful. The very foundation of the gospel, which is why Jesus died on the cross (for our sins), is dependant on the fact that death only came as a result of sin. To believe otherwise is to make man...not God the authority.

A twisted God

According to men like Carl Sagan, even if God did exist he could not be a loving God because of all the death and violence, man's inhumanity to man and so on. According to their beliefs the Earth was rife with carnage and death from the beginning. This belief undermines scripture that says that sin is the cause of death, that God made a perfect world and we messed it up. The Earth is on a downward track not upward. God did not make our world full of pain and disease. He made it perfect and our sin brought about the decay. Regardless, these scientists claim pain, sickness and disease is due to a deviant God or no God at all. You see if man does good in spite ofa twisted God, he is the authority not God.


Did we all come from Eve?


Many opponents to Biblical authority contest that man could not have come from one man and one woman. This despite a recent scientific acceptance of Eve as the first mother. Through Mitochondrial (female only) DNA, scientists have determined that not only did we all come from one woman, but due to recent calculations of the rate of mutation in humans, which is said to be 20x the original rate used to calculate hundreds of thousands of years, the first mother had to have lived about six thousand years ago. Supporting Genesis. Secularist scientists refuse to believe in this because of their bias against God, but even they cannot discredit or disprove the findings! This shows that the Bible's foundation is certifiable and we did all come from one woman.


How did Cain find a wife?

















This issue was dealt with in the 1925 'Scopes trial'. It was an effort by the ACLU to disprove an existence of God. A man named William J Bryan was put on the witness stand and forced to show that the Bible was factual.
Now, Bryan was not prepared to debate these mega-lawyers such as the famed Clarence Darrow. So when asked about Cain's wife, he stumbled and could not answer. But there 'is' an answer, it is found in Genesis 5:4. It explains how Adam and Eve had sons and daughters. Then Leviticus 18-20 tells us that the law against close relatives marrying did not come about until the time of Moses. Many Christians are uncomfortable with this fact and think it means man would be genetically unclean or defiled in some way. If incest happens today we see the genetic consequences because of the mutation history of human genes. These genetic consequences did not exist six thousand years ago when our genetic thread was young. You can accept the theory championed by the sham that was the Scopes trial (read this for proof that it was a sham) and count man as the authority or you can believe that God is the Authority and prove it with real Answers in Genesis.

Here is a sample of Ken Ham's sermons.