Why is the Genesis account of the beginning so important?
Why do Creationists cling so tightly to something that reads like any other
origins myth? What does it matter, what do we lose? There are believers that
have crossed over to the “other side” and made allowances for Evolution in many
forms as they try to make Scripture and Science agree. Why not join the
rational, reasonable, smart people?
I’ll tell you. We lose the entire meaning of Christianity.
Take away Adam and Eve, take away Eden, take away the Fall, and you take away
the purpose of Christ. If we have not offended the Creator, if we have not
committed treason against our Maker, as an Evolutionary view would promote in
any form you give it, then Christ’s work on earth was in vain. Why would God send
His Son to die for sin, if there was no sin to die for? Without the Fall, the
Bible is just another book of morality tales, has no more authority than “Where
The Wild Things Are”, and serves no more purpose than to restrict our enjoyment
of the fun things in life. Without the Fall, there can be no Christ.
“Yet death
reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the
transgression of
Adam, who was a type of the One who was to come.” Romans 5:14
“For as all die in Adam, so all will
be made alive in Christ.” 1 Cor. 15:22
Anyone who is willing to remove Adam as the father of
humanity must logically remove Christ as the father of Christians. To try to
hold onto Christ without Adam is a practice of futility and makes us that much
more foolish. Just as we are to be most pitied if the resurrection never
happened, so we must be most pitied if Adam never happened.
Secondly, we believe in a God who has revealed Himself to us
in His word. If that word proves to be inaccurate, how can we believe any of
it? In all honesty, if it wasn’t inspired by God, then it is merely a
collection of writings by some 60-odd authors over about 2000 years.
The argument that mankind couldn’t have understood Evolution
at that time is bogus. In Abraham, we have a man willing to sacrifice his
promised son on the word of the Lord. If a father could believe God in that,
why could he not believe God when He describes the beginning? Biblically, God
has proven Himself to be honest. If the Creation account is not true, God
proves Himself to be dishonest, and none of it can be relied upon as a guide
for faith and truth.
