What Does the New Testament (and Science!) Have to Say About Origins?

August 25, 2019 | Tom Dunham
Passage: Hebrews 3:4-11:3

What Does the New Testament (and Science!) Have to Say About Origins?


By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.  Hebrews 11:3


The Genesis/Biblical account of our origins has been under assault for generations.  Many have abdicated a literal interpretation of Genesis and attempted to just ‘camp’ on Jesus and the New Testament.  Sooooo: let’s see what Jesus & the N.T. (and science) say:

  • First, a quote from Carl Sagan: “The secrets of evolution are death and time.”  Contrast:

 


Origins & history according to Jesus & the Gospels (emphasis mine):

  • Mt. 19:4 – “… “Have you not read that He Who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female.’?”  (& Mk. 10:6)
  • Luke 11:50 – “that the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world …”
  • Luke 11:50 – “As He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets, who have been since the world began.”
  • Mt. 24:38,39 – “ the flood … Noah entered the ark, … the flood came and took them all away …”  (& Luke 17:26,27)
  • John 3:12 – “If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things.?”
  • John 5:46,47 – “For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; … But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”
  • Luke 3;23-38: the genealogy of Jesus: ~ 75 generations from Adam to Jesus = ~ 4,000 years.


Origins & history according to the rest of the New Testament:

  • Romans 1:19,20 – because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. … so that they are without excuse.
  • Romans 5:12 – Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin …
  • There was no death until Adam sinned … 

-See also I Corinthians 15:22  - no literal Adam means no literal Christ …

-And, again: the flood – II Peter 3:5,6 …


We can bank on the Biblical account of creation & history – none of which contradicts true science.

 

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