The Evolution of God

Teaching creation to my fourth graders has reminded me how thin the thread is that connects us to the truth of creation by God. Adam is the closest we have to an eyewitness, even if it was immediately after the fact. We know he told his children because there is a line of his descendants who remembered their Creator. Abel did, though he didn’t live long enough to pass it on. I suspect Enoch did or he would not have been taken directly into God’s presence without having to experience death. We don’t know exactly where to put Job on the Bible timeline – either pre- or post-flood, but there is no doubt he heard who was responsible for the Creation.

Then we come to Noah. It is interesting to me that if you believe the Bible genealogy (I do), Noah’s father and grandfather would have been contemporary with Adam’s final years on earth. (See chart below.) That might explain why Noah was so very willing to put everything in the ark that God told him to build. He knew what God could do. Not many generations after the ark landed and people began to spread across the land, they decided to make their own way to god rather than listen to their Maker. At the Tower of Babel, God separated the people into different nations and chose one for Himself. Abram must have been one of the few who still believed in the Creator, or he wouldn’t have been willing to give up everything he knew and go to a land that God would show him. There God promised he would become the father of a great nation – God’s chosen nation, Israel.

Abraham’s sons, Isaac and Jacob, both had their encounters with God, encounters that apparently bolstered their belief in the God of their fathers. When God rescued Jacob’s descendants from 400 years of slavery, Moses had enough faith to believe the voice in the burning bush was indeed the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Although Israel struggled with unbelief for years, the word of the prophets confirmed again and again that it was the God who created the earth Who demanded their obedience. The Psalmists offer numerous reminders that their God was the God who named the stars. Israel’s second most important purpose (after that of bringing the Messiah to the world) was to incubate the truth that God created the heavens and the earth.

Biblical and extra-biblical history prove that humans everywhere came up with a creation story. On every continent and all the islands in between, people make up tales to explain their existence. Some of them are eerily similar to the biblical record, lending credence to the idea that it is one of the oldest. I believe that when God separated the nations at Babel, He put them in the hands of fallen angels who were in league with Satan. The Old Testament is rife with accounts of cosmic battles depicted as conflicts among “the nations.”

When Ezekiel prophesied about Egypt’s destruction, there is clear reference to Pharoah’s gods. The prophet is told to warn Pharoah that his fate will be like that of Assyria, Elam, Meshech, Tubal, Edom, and the Sidonians. The language in that chapter is clearly speaking of cosmic powers and not just human rulers. The angel who came to Daniel reported having been delayed by “the Prince of Persia,” a definite reference to a spiritual battle rather than a physical one. All ancient cultures believed in a supernatural power that held sway over their lives. We enlightened moderns have lost that awareness regrettably.

Why is the enemy so intent on directing people away from the truth about creation and God’s involvement with it? The answer should be obvious. Without a creator God, man is left to go his own way, to make his own rules. Without a sense of obligation to the one true God, people are susceptible to the lure of the demi-gods I believe are among those whom God cast out of heaven with their leader, Satan. What else could explain the mindless adherence to the fully discredited “theory” of evolution. Darwin himself admitted that if a single living cell was more complex than he imagined (he had no high-powered microscopes), his whole theory of origins would be proven false. And it has – in more ways than I can count. (See “Think About It”)

Not only has microbiology disproved the “theory” of evolution, but astrophysics has too. We now know enough to be certain that none of the theories of the origin of the universe can be scientifically supported. The popular “Big Bang” theory has a Big Flaw that few are willing to face. Even if you dare to imagine a massive particle that exploded, becoming all that we know as the universe, no one can explain where the massive particle came from. The Big Bang is not a theory of origins; it is a sidestep to avoid the truth: the universe came into existence at the word of the Creator God of the Bible. Honest scientists everywhere are leaning toward this truth with their suppositions of intelligent design. They haven’t found the God who created everything, but they have admitted finding His fingerprints.

I titled this “The Evolution of God” because human concepts of God have evolved. Ask most atheists or agnostics what they think of God, and they will come up with their own definition of who God is. The problem with that is their definition is faulty. Their “god” is not to be believed. The God of the Bible is the only one who can be believed – can be trusted. The enemy has to discredit creation because it is the basis for the Bible record of the fall and redemption. The last thing Satan wants is for anyone to discover redemption at the Cross where he was defeated.

Here’s what God said through Ezekiel about man’s evolutionary thinking: “As I live, says the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, O house of Israel?” That’s how I know Satan is behind the evolution of God; he knows it tempers his defeat. He wants to take as many with him as he can. Don’t let him fool you.

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