January 17, 2005

  • This text is from a newsletter I get from www.AnswersInGenesis.org. They are an awesome ministry that seeks to protect Christianity by protecting the word of God as being literal in the Book of Genesis.


    Q: Since we now have the New Testament, why do we even bother with the Book of Genesis?


    A: Ken Ham once spoke to a pastor who proudly proclaimed that his church was a New Testament church. He said that he didn’t have to worry about the Old Testament.


    Ken asked him, “Pastor, do you believe in marriage?” “Why yes,” he replied. “Why do you believe in marriage?” Ken asked. “Because Paul talks about marriage in the New Testament,” he said. “Well that’s interesting,” Ken said, “because when Paul talks about marriage, such as in Ephesians, he goes back to Genesis to give the foundation for marriage.”


    Then Ken asked, “Do you believe in original sin?” “Why yes,” he said. “Well that’s interesting,” Ken went on. “In 1 Corinthians 15 where Paul is writing about the message of Jesus on the Cross and His death and Resurrection, he goes back to Genesis to justify why Jesus died on the cross.” Ken continued, “It’s all very well to be a New Testament church, but you must realize that all of the New Testament is based in the Old Testament, and ultimately all of this is founded in Genesis 1–11.”


    The first eleven chapters of the Bible are the key to understanding the rest of Scripture. This is how we can fully understand the meaning of New Testament doctrine!




    Quotable quote:


    “At this point, it is necessary to reveal a little inside information about how scientists work, something the textbooks don’t usually tell you. The fact is that scientists are not really as objective and dispassionate in their work as they would like you to think. Most scientists first get their ideas about how the world works not through rigorously logical processes but through hunches and wild guesses. As individuals they often come to believe something to be true long before they assemble the hard evidence that will convince somebody else that it is. Motivated by faith in his own ideas and a desire for acceptance by his peers, a scientist will labor for years knowing in his heart that his theory is correct but devising experiment after experiment whose results he hopes will support his position.”


    – Boyce Rensberger, How the World Works, William Morrow, NY, pp. 17–18, 1986. Rensberger is an ardently anti-creationist science writer.


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