The teachings of Christ stand on the reality of Genesis along with all of the old and new testament writings.
The failure of Adam in chapter 3 of Genesis established God's word of salvation that became flesh at John 1:1-18, and taught
humanity what God requires from those who wish to overcome Adam's fall. Take away Genesis and the historical man Jesus Christ
will cease to exist. The foundation of human existence, purpose, weaknesses, strengths and oppositions are developed in Genesis.
Genesis is like the legs that the whole body of Holy Scripture stands on, it cannot be seen or accepted as a poem or insignificant
writings by anyone who truly desire to understand the Bible. The study of fossils and archaeology has created 1 more unneeded confusion
between legitimate science and theology. Scientist who claim their recent discoveries, not theories,
make the Bible, as they understand it, obsolete, contend with theologians who make unproven Biblical claims and swear those
claims must be infallible for salvation to exist. If life existed on earth before God made man, God created it. The Bible
never said that life did not exist on earth prior to mankind and theologians who don't know this need to learn it. A controversy
is created by opposing positions on an issue. The Bible only deals with mankind and what they need to get to the next level
of existence. After studying and understanding the Bible from cover to cover,I can't find a basis for controversy on this
issue. If earth was used for other life forms over perhaps billions of years of existence, these life forms are not physically
linked to mankind. The only connection would be the same God as creator; there are no missing links related to humans. God
made perfect originals for the human race. The danger here is in forcing people to choose between confused theology and true
scientific facts when there is no need to. True science has no facts that disprove God as creator of all things and no logical
scientist will accept theories as facts. The careful observer must make a distinction between
true and false science, then govern themselves accordingly.
GENESIS: FACT OR FICTION? by REV. ABRAHAM WAS DESIGNED TO FOCUS THE READER ON MANY OF THE PROBLEMS THAT BREAK DOWN THE
MORAL WALLS THAT CONTAIN SOCIETIES AND SHOW GOD'S FORMULA FOR REBUILDING THOSE WALLS.
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of human sexuality is on center stage in many countries of the world today. God made the original people of 2 genders, male
and female. The person who is blessed at birth with no mental or physical problems, then decides that God made an error by
putting them in the wrong body, is choosing to create a different set of problems. The willingness of people to follow the
lust of the flesh, the inspiration of some external influences and the raw power of satan to tempt the flesh causes a lot
of people to fall into lifestyles they cannot explain to God. God's destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah for their homosexual
behavior is a most graphic example of how God ultimately deals with that issue. Both Bible history and secular history have
proven that these so-called sexual freedom movements are, in truth, some of satan's better angling efforts. Satan catches
a few by line, then sends them into society with some good, "woe is me" victim's story, a story that may even be
played up in some dramatic way that makes people show tolerance for the sin and compassion for the people living the sin.
Satan uses some people as bait to condition the majority of a society to embrace a sin pattern that will allow him to fish
through that society with a net. Multitudes of people who would never commit the sin will question, or even doubt God's authority
to call it sin and destroy their souls in the process. The bottom line for this sin issue, and all other sin issues, is, continue
to break the laws of acceptable human behavior and your society will eventually self destruct. Add total disregard of the
sacred directions for successful existence that come from the Bible, and your actions may force God to cut your society out
like some cancerous growth that endangers his world. If people will apply the scriptures at Matt.22: 37 39, and "love
the Lord with all your heart, soul and mind and your neighbor as yourself" a lot of individual and societal problems
will be solved .EXCERPTS/ SUMMARY- Governments are a God ordained necessity. They keep order, establish civil
laws, punish crimes and should exalt honesty. In times and areas where not only the quantity of sin and crime abound, but
also the quality of sin and crime reaches a repulsive peak, governments can assess harsher penalties and build stronger prisons
in the hope of changing
and/or retaining people. The reality of that hope can be seen in judicial systems in our country
and around the world. We see prison and jail overcrowding, court systems that can not keep up with criminal cases and prisoners
who merit incarceration being released early because,taxpayers can't afford to build more prisons. The whole situation needs
a different approach. Cages, which criminals make a necessity, can contain, control and warehouse people for a time. God,
through his revealed will from his written word, can change,the heart and mind of a criminal, then establish a moral compass
that leads that person away from habitual sin and crime. The best solution is not better prisons, but better people who don't
need to be in prison. God has provided the formula for that.
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