those doors? Great. All right, so it's time for the fourth and final. By way of introduction, this is Dr. Anthony Silvestro. And his educational background and creation advocacy, he holds a bachelor's degree in math and chemistry from Baldwin Wallace College, attended the Ohio State University, right? I got that right? That's right. the Ohio State University College of Dentistry, earning his dental degree, practices general dentistry in Middleburg Heights, Ohio, and is trained in a lot of different specialties there. He transitioned from an unsaved evolutionist to an avid biblical creationist, and he speaks at conferences and youth groups and various shows on biblical creation and scientific support for the biblical creation account, and also, as a final note, lives in North Royalton, Ohio with his wife, Julie, and his son, Anthony. So, come on up, and we're excited to hear from you this morning. Well, I guess it's afternoon at this point, right? It's the afternoon. Give him a round of applause. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Lord, I just thank you for gathering us together today, and what a beautiful day you've given us. I know there's no sun outside, Lord. It's completely overcast, and yet we should still see the beauty in your creation, Lord. We just thank you so much for that. We thank you so much for your death on the cross, burial and resurrection, for the payment of our sin, Lord. And for today, I ask you to give me clarity of mind, thought, and speech, and just prepare the hearts of everyone in here to be able to hear your word properly, and give them clarity of mind and thought as well, and also an open heart, that if they don't believe the young earth creation, they don't believe what the Bible clearly teaches, that they walk away today without understanding. In your holy and precious name we pray, amen. Yep, you can move that, yep. I noticed that, thank you. There we go. So, I got off a preaching tour last year in May, where I had 14 talks over a five-day period. Different churches and Christian schools. It was an unbelievable time. The first talk I gave was at a Christian school. Now, this is really interesting for me. I walked in, the pastor is the principal of the school. Parents served as teachers. Very solid Ukrainian Baptist Church. I talked to a number of them beforehand and afterwards. They knew their theology really well. So when I got there to speak, there was over 100 kids that filed in from first grade all the way up through high school. And I said, okay, guys, we're gonna do a little quiz here. Parents, principal, close your eyes, cover them. Now, kids, I also want you to close your eyes and put your heads down. I did not lead into the sinner's prayer, by the way. What I did is I said, okay, guys, be honest, raise your hand, no one's watching right now. How many of you have questions about the Bible, whether it's true or not? Almost every hand went in the air. Now this was alarming to me, and it just so happens in God's providence, my talk that day, how we know the Bible's true. And so that's what I got for the next hour. But why do I bring this up? Because the studies have been done, Ken Ham, Britt Beamer, and others, have shown that when kids who grow up in the church, we're not talking about the atheists, we're talking kids who grow up in the church, who go to Sunday school, they go to youth group, parents may or may not be teaching them at home, but they're going to church every week, and then we know that the vast majority of them don't go back to church when they reach their college age years. And most of us think, you know what, the college professors, those are the evil guys. And we say, well, hold on a second. The research does not actually show that. The research shows that the questions that they had came up in their elementary and middle school years for the majority of them. Oh, and it gets better. The majority of the questions they had about the Bible being true were about, guess what? Creation. We're not given of answers in general. I'm sure your pastor is. I know our pastor does. But by and large, the answers aren't being given. And as John MacArthur says about anybody he talks to, tell me what you believe about the beginning, I'll tell you what you believe about the rest of the Bible. Absolutely true. When I got saved 16 years ago, I was a radical. I radically got saved from my sin. I recognized my need for a Savior, repented and believed. But because of my evolutionary background, I still have these questions in the back of my head. If you would have asked me, did I believe the entire Bible, I'd have said yes. But in the back of my mind, I'm thinking, except Genesis. And it was another radical moment in my life a couple years later, hitting a creation museum for the first time, recognizing this is a worldview issue. I don't have time to get into all that today, but the point is is that if you lose Genesis, you're gonna lose the rest of the Bible. Now, I can't assume in here that every single person is a young earth creationist. What I mean by that is that you believe God created over six literal 24-hour days about 6,000 years ago. I can't assume everyone here believes that, and if all of you do, that's wonderful, but then what I'm hoping you're gonna get out of today is the ability to take what I teach and go to other professing Christians who dispute Genesis. This is not one of those issues that we can say, oh, you believe that and I believe this, that's okay, we can both believe different things. This is a fundamental issue, and I'm gonna talk about why here throughout the next hour. Because this is RefCon 2023, I have to quote a reformer. Now, at the time of the Reformation, people accused Martin Luther of having to defend a six-day creation. Now, what they lie about, or are disingenuous about, is that he had to defend it against people who were looking at an old earth. That was largely untrue. What Martin Luther was dealing with were people who said, look, why did God take so long at six days? I mean, He just spoke it into existence and Moses just wrote it down to act like it was over six days to make it more believable. That was what the majority of theologians were saying at that time. To which Martin Luther quoted this, when Moses writes that God created heaven and earth and whatever is in them in six days, then let this period continue to have been six days. And do not venture to devise any comment according to which six days were one day. But if you cannot understand how this could have been done in six days, then grant the Holy Spirit the honor of being more learned than you are. For you are to deal with scripture in such a way that you bear in mind that God himself says what is written. But since God is speaking, it is not fitting for you to wantonly to turn his word into the direction you wish to go. That was Martin Luther's quote. He said, look, believe the Holy Spirit. Even if it surpasses your understanding, believe the Holy Spirit, who wrote his word down through men. Now, how many of you have heard the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon before? Right, a lot of us have, right? If you don't know what that is, Kevin Bacon's an actor, and Kevin Bacon's been in a lot of different movies, so what you can do is you can start with any movie with any actor or actress, and look at their co-actor and actress, and take that person to the next movie with another co-actress, and then go, eventually, six steps away, you can always get to Kevin Bacon. I kid you not, this was a game when I was in grade school. Shows you about how old I am. Now, I've got a different game. Within two degrees, I can get any, you can give me any Bible doctrine, and I can show you how it's rooted in Genesis. Any one of them. I'm not gonna have you start shouting them right now. If you wanna talk to me afterwards, you can. Male and female only. Where do we get that from? Genesis. Oh, here's a good one. One blood, one race. Genesis. Do you know that I'm not white? Does that surprise you? I'm a shade of brown. Put a white paper in it next to me. I'm not white. Why do I bring this up? The word racism, I have seminars in social justice I've taught around the country for years now. The word racism has to be eradicated from the Christian's vocabulary. It doesn't, it's not a word. Why? Because if we believe the Bible as our starting point, one blood, one race, no such thing as racism, gone. Doesn't mean some people don't sin against others based on the shade of their skin. It just means the terminology we're using is completely wrong. And there's a different way we have to deal with that issue, which is a sin issue. One person against another. Okay, how about marriage? One man and one woman. Where do we get that from? Genesis, good. Ooh, dominion mandate. What does that mean? Well, I'm allowed to wear leather shoes. It means that if I want to eat a steak, I can eat a steak. And if you don't want to eat a steak, that's good, it's more for me. Thank you. We have dominion over creation. How do we know that? Guess where that is in the book of Genesis. How about laws? Where do laws come from? Book of Genesis. How about our sin nature? Book of Genesis. How about death, disease, and suffering? Genesis. Good. First promise of the Savior. Genesis. The last three and a half years have been all about rights in regards to the COVID shenanigans. Well, rights go back along a lot further, right? Because women want their rights to murder their child in their abdomens. People want animal rights. Where does this idea of rights come from? Those aren't rights, by the way. But where does rights come from? Guess where? Back to Genesis. So why do we talk about these things? Because we've got a problem in the church today, which is we don't believe Genesis. And even if we do, a lot of churches and pastors won't touch it because they're afraid of offending some of you. Or they're afraid of some of these scientists that are out here in the audience who will take it to heart to try to bludgeon their pastor. But see, when we introduce things like millions to billions of years and evolution into the Bible, what we do is we introduce lots of problems that we see today. One of those is critical race theory with intersectionality. Let's be honest, where does the idea of racism come from? We already said one blood, one race in the Bible. So it doesn't come from there. You know where it comes from? Time-life books, Charles Darwin, other types of people who taught in the past, there were between three to five different monkey species that all evolved differently. And some evolved better than others. And you can imagine which one they say evolved better. Caucasoids. Guess which one they say evolved the worst. Negro, it's okay to say those things. These were in actual literature. Hard to find in the internet today. They've been largely scrubbed from the internet. But this is where the idea of evolution can only come from is from evolutionary, I'm sorry, racism from evolutionary standpoint. Because now you're pitting what you believe to be a superior race against somebody you think is inferior. Rather than understanding all people are made in the image of God and there's one blood, one race, humankind. Death before sin is something that undermines the gospel. We'll get into that here in a few minutes. Morality. Why do we have a relativistic view today of morality? Why do we think that we can do whatever we want or as in Judges it says everyone did what was right in their own eyes? Because they walked away from the living God. That's the problem, that's why we have the problem today. Because people don't believe God who transcends everything, who's given his morality to all of us, written on our hearts, as well as through the Ten Commandments. He's given that to us that we are to follow, and instead, we've perverted it and think we can go our own way, and make it up as we go. Somehow human convention can come up with some type of moral standard. Homosexuality, transgenderism, big issues today. People have often asked me over the years, is critical race theory gonna be what really damages the church? Nope. I've said this for 10, almost 10 years running now as I've been teaching on this subject. You know what is gonna harm the church most likely? Is the issue of homosexuality when they start passing hate speech laws. That's what we're dealing with. It's happening in Europe. It's happening in Canada. We have preachers today, open air preachers that are getting arrested over the weekends and then being let out on Monday morning because our officers made a mistake. Eventually, they're going to be left in and put in front of a liberal judge and they're going to start ruling from the bench as courts often do. And next thing you know, we have a major battle on our hands. So, for our text, we're gonna read this, starting in Genesis 1, verse 26. Now, if I had the time, I would read the entire chapter one of the book of Genesis. We're gonna just read the last several verses here. Verse 26, then God said, let us make man in our image, according to our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. God created man in his own image. In the image of God he created him. Male and female, he created them. God blessed them and said to them, be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it. And rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth. Then God said, behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth. And every tree which has fruit yielding seed, it shall be food for you. And to every beast of the earth, and every bird of the sky, and to everything that moves on the earth, which has life, I have given every green plant for food, and it was so. Verse 31, which I want us to remember. God saw all that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning the sixth day. God called his entire creation, he gets done with it towards the end of day six, and at the end he says it is very good. Now good means perfect. Biblically, when we look at the standard of good, it means perfect. We say God is good means God is perfect. Hebrew here is exceedingly perfect. Could there have been death and disease and famine in an exceedingly perfect creation? I mean, the evolutionary record, they want to tell us it is about life, right? Life begets life begets life begets life, and you go from what they call a simple organism to complex organisms. But in reality, what is evolution actually a marker of? Death. Billions of years of it. Death is all over the record. That means that God would have had to call his entire creation very good, being marked with disease, famine, thorns and thistles, and all the other bad stuff that we see today. We're gonna talk about that here a little bit further as we go on today. So the reality is is that we are viewed as our grandparents are some type of monkey. Chimpanzees, Some type of maybe crossbreed human chimpanzee, common ancestor they call it. But our grandparents would essentially be some type of ape-like creature. When we don't understand Genesis or don't believe Genesis, we get people like Bruce Jenner, who used to be on a Wheaties box at one time, who won a gold medal in the decathlon. My ministry partner, Mike Riddle, actually ran against him in the decathlon. He was an Olympic decathlete. Lost to Bruce Jenner back in the day. This was the man's man among men, who now believes it's Halloween every single day of the year. But it gets better. We have Dr. Richard Levine, who is the Health Secretary of Pennsylvania, who is now the Assistant Health Secretary underneath President Biden. Medical doctor who dons a dress, lipstick, and long hair. Now, I don't know about you, but I would never go to a doctor that did not understand basic biology. I don't know about you, right? I mean... But this is who we look up to today, right? I mean, they're being championed today. Why? Just in case you think it's only a world thing out there, we have... No, okay. Anybody who's in law enforcement here knows this, that if you're a registered sex offender, if you're a pedophile, and you get out of prison, you have to register, right? You have to be within so many miles of any school and library. With one exception. If you put on a dress and read stories to little kids, it's okay. We have registered sex offenders who don a dress, do Drag Queen Story Hour in public schools, churches, libraries, and all kinds of other places. How do we get here? I don't know about you, but I'm really alarmed by the world today. It gets so far as some of these events, they're encouraging children to bounce on the laps of these men, putting money in places they shouldn't put it. What happens? Right, what happens? Well, it goes back to did God really say? Genesis 3. The serpent questioning Eve, did God really say? And see, when we see what did God really say, we have questioned the authority of the word of God. And then it turns into what Pastor Ron was talking about earlier here, is that we get things like new revealed knowledge. So Joseph Smith received new revealed knowledge, apparently. Creates a whole new religion. New revealed knowledge, new way to interpret scripture. Ellen White of the cult Seventh Day Adventists. New revealed knowledge, new way to interpret scripture. Mary Baker Eddy, Church of Christ scientists. New revelation from God, new way to interpret scripture. Charles Taze Russell, same thing for Jehovah's Witnesses. L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology. Muhammad, Islam. And I think all of us would agree with those things, right? New way to interpret scripture based on new revealed knowledge. You know what we often don't talk about? How about our scientists? How about BioLogos, Hugh Ross, Reasons to Believe? How about some of these organizations that say, oh, no, no, no, no. We're gonna take concepts from out here and try to shove it into here, my Bible. It's a false religion no different than the rest of the false religions I have just brought up. And all this comes down to the idea of secular humanism, which has been around for a long time. Again, I don't have time to unpack all this, but humanism basically is this. You either believe in the agency of God in all things, or you believe in the agency of man. You either believe God is the supreme ruler, God is sovereign, that His word is the ultimate authority, or you believe man. There is no in-between. There is no way we can reconcile those two things. But it's a secular humanism movement that has done this. And so, we obviously point to Karl Marx. Karl Marx... is far removed from secular humanism. Secular humanism has been around for 6,000 years. It's really been in our face for about 500 years. And Karl Marx is the one, he and other philosophers really codified what was happening in the 1700s. What's interesting is Karl Marx was pretty decent friends with another guy named Charles Darwin. Because while you had philosophers that were writing God out of everything, economics, education, and all kinds of other disciplines, you had a guy like Charles Darwin who was influenced by a guy named Charles Malthus, Malthusian theory, otherwise known as depopulation theory. Charles Darwin was a big fan of depopulation, and with being a fan of depopulation is where he came up with this theory on natural selection. Now, how many of you are aware that his book title is not just on the origin of species? Some of you know this. Let me read to you the whole title. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life. No wonder why nobody ever reports on the full title of his book. He was all about removing what we called the worst races, starting with Negroids, according to Malthusian theory, and thought he was justified doing so according to Marxist theory and secular humanism. That's how all that connects. And so, guys like me travel to teach on why these problems are here. And this is why. Because we have things like millions and billions of years that have been inserted into scripture. We have things like the Big Bang that have been inserted into scripture. And what they've done is they've attacked the very foundation of the Bible. Remember what I said earlier, every major doctrine of the Bible can be traced back to the beginning of Genesis. And so, if you were going to destroy the authority of God's Word, if you were going to find the most efficient way to do it, what book would you attack? Genesis, right? That's the one you're going to go after. And this is why we have organizations like Answers in Genesis and friends at ICR and others that do so well in promoting the message of defending the book of Genesis, because that's the one that gets attacked. When you attack Genesis, you open up the door for literally everything else. And so, this is what I want to get to now as we get into some more of the important ideas today. This is a desperate attempt to undermine Genesis. When we read Genesis 1 plainly, understanding it's written in a historical narrative format, whenever we take long ages, it is not coming from the Bible. Now, what do I mean by this? So, for evolution to be true, you need two things to occur. And in one of my, I won't say it's one of my best moments of life, but at an old church I was teaching at, where there was a lot of controversy over God's word in Genesis, I decided to, on one of my classes, walk in early, and on the PowerPoint screen behind me, I taped a $100 bill on it. And I left it up there, and I proceeded to start my class, had about 60 students in there at the church, and I left it up there for the first 15 or so minutes of the class, just letting people wonder why it was taped up there as I'm just speaking on it, acting as if it wasn't there at all. And what I did is I said, okay, some of you guys are probably wondering why there's a $100 bill on the screen. I said, it is for any one of you that can do one of two things for me. Show me from the word of God where millions or billions of years is, Or, show me where God took one created kind and turned it into another created kind. Because for evolution to be true, we need long ages. Now, what does the Bible teach? The Bible does teach on hours, days, weeks, months, seasons, years, tens of years, hundreds of years, thousand year. You know what's not in scripture? Millions or billions of years. Which means then, anybody who thinks that God used millions of years to make everything, took a secular concept. They took something from outside of the scriptures, and they attempted to import it into the scriptures, and they have to reinterpret the scriptures in order to fit it in there. That's the only way you get it. For evolution to be true, you have to have God taking one animal kind and turning it into another animal kind. Which means that you had to have T-Rex become chickens today. Which yes, some zoos actually have that written on their placards. You had to have fish becoming mammals. It's not what the Bible teaches. The Bible teaches that God created everything after its own kind or to reproduce after its own kind. Depending on the translation of the Bible you read, it's either 9 or 10 times in Genesis 1 alone. Nowhere does he say one kind or another kind, which means then it's not a scriptural concept where one type of animal becomes another type, or one kind becomes another kind. That is a secular concept imported into the Bible, and then somebody has to reinterpret scripture in order to try to fit it in there. And so, why attack Genesis? I said earlier, every major doctrine of the Bible is rooted in Genesis. But it gets even better than that. See, in Romans 1, 19 to 20, I'm what's called a presuppositionalist as an apologist. I believe in scripture first for apologetics. And when I read my scriptures, Romans 1, 19 to 20, it says this, being understood through what has been made so that they are without excuse. What this means is that in evangelism, and I teach on evangelism as well around the country, I can walk up to any single person and I immediately know they know God exists. Why? Because the Bible tells me that. How do they know God exists? Because his creation proclaims it. Psalm 19 says the same thing. This guy proclaims his handiwork. Every single person knows God exists based on his creation. When somebody tells me, oh, I don't believe God exists, prove it to me. I say, you're lying. I do not accept them for that statement. I will not prove to them God exists when they already know. I'll demonstrate. Some things in creation, in nature. But I'll never attempt to prove it to him. Why? Because God's already done that. Now imagine this. God has already provided for us as evangelists, because if you're a Christian, you are an evangelist. You're an ambassador for Christ. You've already been given a ministry. In case you don't know if you've got a ministry desire, well, God's given that to you. 2 Corinthians 5, everyone has a ministry of reconciliation. So we go on, we minister the gospel. We know as a starting point that person knows God. So wouldn't it be fitting of Satan then, if he wants to place doubts about God, where do you think he's going to attack? Genesis. He's gonna attack creation because it's the creation that proclaims God and his handiwork. And so, Satan wants to destroy any semblance of God's hand in creation. That's why we have such a bad attack on this. And so, what does Genesis actually teach? So, I can go from today back to Jesus, and that's about 2,000 years. Using the Bible only with historical accounts and genealogies from Jesus back to Abraham is about 2,000 years. Then I can go from Abraham back to Adam through genealogies in the book of Genesis and get another 2,000 years. And Adam was made on the sixth day of creation. So, now I need somebody who's really, really good at math for me. I think you're really good at math, right? So I got this, yep, yep, yes, that's you. Okay, here's my math problem, okay? What is 2,000 plus 2,000 plus 2,000? 6,000 years, that is wonderful! Good job, everyone give him a round of applause. I mean, this is the type of math leading we need to do, right? How do we get 6,000 years? It's that simple. 2,000 plus 2,000 plus 2,000, a negligible six days, and we have our 6,000-year-old Earth. That simple. So let's talk about now some proofs in the Bible, how we know that these days were actual, literal 24-hour days. Well, first of all, God specifically chose the word yom. Of all the words he could have used in the Hebrew to proclaim potentially the word day, he used the one that's always used for the term, that is the only word that's always used, almost always used, for 24-hour literal day, and that's the word yom. So he specifically chose that word. Not only did he specifically choose that word yom, he also defined it for us in Genesis 1-5, where he said, an evening and a morning, night and day. He defined it for us, 24-hour day. He also gave us some more clues. He said this, he created in one day, then he created second day, then he created third day, then fourth day, then fifth day, then sixth day. What did he do right there? He used what are called ordinal numbers. And wouldn't you know it, every single time we see an ordinal number connected to the word yom, right? We're using some good context, good hermeneutics here. Every time we see that in the Hebrew, guess what it always means? 24-hour literal day. Okay, what gets better than that? Because just in case we can't figure out how God specifically chose the word yom, that he defined yom for us in Genesis 1-5, that he also gave us ordinal numbers with each of those days, he also bounded each of those days by the words evening and morning. And guess what happens every single time we see the words evening and morning in the scriptures? It means a 24-hour literal day. Oh, it gets better than that. I love asking pastors this question who don't believe in creation. I say, okay, you know, do you believe in the Ten Commandments? Oh, you do? That's wonderful. Do you specifically believe in the Fourth Commandment? You know, the one about the Sabbath? Yeah, I believe in that too. Okay, good, good. Did you know that God said in Exodus 20, 11, for in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day? And do you know what the context of that was? Back up a couple verses. The context was he was modeling our work week. Now we get why God, who could have spoke the entire creation existence like this, why he used it, why he did it over six days to rest on the seventh. He was modeling our work week. And that's exactly what he tells us in Exodus 20. Oh, by the way, if that's not enough, you remember Moses got in a little hissy fit, he tossed them down, broke the stones, right? Saw the golden calf. Well, he went back up the mountain, got a new pair. Same thing was said in Exodus 31 too. How about this one? Plain reading. We can read through Genesis 1 and get an absolute plain reading of the Bible. If you've never read a book in your life but somehow have the ability to read and you're sitting on a remote island, you can read the book of Genesis and just see in Genesis 1, he made things in six days. Very plain reading. Now, when I have people who say, well, you can't make that scenario and give me all kinds of excuses, I say, okay. If you think that it's not enough that God chose the word Yom specifically, that He defined it day and night, that He gave boundaries of ordinal numbers and evening and morning, and Exodus 20, if that's not enough for you, I want you to tell me how God could have communicated it better. So I want you, as a Hebrew scholar, to tell me what else you could have added to this, possibly, to make this clear enough for us to understand a 24-hour literal day. And every person I've ever talked to, including Hebrew scholars, have never had an answer for me. That's how clear God's writing is in Genesis 1. What about our genealogies? Now, be honest, how many of you do the Christian thing of counting sheep to go to sleep? You just read genealogies. Right, some of us do that. So, genealogies are not there just to fall asleep. They give us some really interesting information. They tell us about when each person was born, when the next person in the timeline was born, how long they lived, and when they died. And so we have these unbroken genealogies throughout the scriptures. And so we can put the genealogies together and see that Adam lived long enough to know who Noah's father was, Lamech. As an aside, have any of you wondered Like, okay, Adam lived to be 930 years. Maybe it was like 890. Got 40 years to go, and he got millions of people walking around the earth, and then Adam comes out of his hut the one day, and you're like, hey, that's the guy. That's the one who did it. Like, I don't know about you, I've been fascinated by that concept in the scriptures. Don't worry, every one of you would have done it too if you were there with the serpent. I'm just saying. But what's the point of the genealogies? It connects a literal Jesus to a literal Adam. Kinsman Redeemer. That for us to be saved, Jesus had to be both fully God, that he could pay the eternal fine to the Godhead, but he also had to have human perfect blood to drip. And he had to be connected to humanity, fully human, for that sacrifice to be true. That's why the genealogies are in there. Which means when people say, oh Adam, he's just historical nonsense. We've got some great verses like this, but from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female. Jesus said this in Mark 10, 6 in his earthly ministry. So I want you to imagine right now, this is the This is right now, today. I'm gonna go back 6,000 years in time to the beginning of creation. Six days, Adam's made. Am I very near the beginning of creation? Yes, I'm real close. Okay, what about if this is millions of years away? This is today. So that's the beginning of time now. I flipped the stage on you. I go back 6,000 years to Adam. Am I now near the beginning of creation? No. So Jesus' words in Mark 10.6, Matthew 19 is a parallel passage, don't make any sense if we think that there was millions or billions of years before Adam and Eve. In case you still don't believe the genealogies are an accurate historical record, Jude 1.14. It was also about these men that Enoch and the seventh generation from Adam. So the writer here, Jude, writes in the New Testament that Enoch was the seventh generation from Adam. If you flipped open to Genesis 5 right now, guess what you're going to find? Enoch was the seventh generation from Adam. The New Testament Did you know that every single writer of the New Testament, every one of them, used a literal creation account from Genesis 1 through 11 somewhere in his writing? Every writer did this. Almost every book of the New Testament has something in there assuming a literal creation account. Which means then that for fellow Christians, professing Christians who don't believe in a literal young earth creation, they have to not just remove the book of Genesis, the first several chapters, they also have to take their scissors and cut out a bunch of passages in their New Testaments. Gone. How many of you like logic in here? I hope everybody would raise their hand. We can't have a conversation without logic. So, if we believe the Bible versus evolution, I'm gonna show you why they're incompatible. Number one, the Bible teaches that the earth was made first and then the stars on day four. What does science teach? Some science. Stars first, billions of years later, the Earth. Bible teaches birds came first, and then the reptiles. What does evolutionists tell us? Reptiles first, and birds are their modern descendants. The Bible teaches the earth was water first, then the dry land appeared. Evolution teaches it was a hot and molten mass first, and eventually everything cooled, and then magically water got put on it. The Bible teaches that land plants came first, and then the sun. Evolutionists teach sun came first, and then the land plants billions years later. The most important one, which we're going to cover here shortly, is that the Bible teaches man was made first on day six, and then as a result of his sin, death entered into creation. Evolutionists teach that death came first, billions of years of it, before man ever dawned to the earth. These are completely contradictory accounts of creation. You either believe what the Bible teaches or you can't believe any of it because they completely contradict one another. And so, what I'm gonna do with the rest of my time here is talk about this. I used to teach that, about all the different common interpretations. We got things like day-age theory where they pretend that a day is like a thousand years, a thousand years is like a day. That's not what that means. They pretend that a day is millions of years long. That's not what it teaches either. Or they might teach the gap theory that millions of years, billions of years are stuck somewhere between Genesis 1-1 and Genesis 1-2. or progressive creationism, or framework hypothesis, or Genesis is just straight up poetry, ancient Near East theory, I mean there's all kinds of others. I used to teach in all these and now I say, hold on a second, why don't I just teach about how we answer them all? Because all of these wrong interpretations have the same theological problems. So we've covered now What the Bible teaches, what some of the implications are, I'm gonna teach about the rest of these right now. First of which is the gospel. This is a literal conversation I had. When I was finishing my book eight years ago in Starbucks, I know, don't boo me. Look, if you want to witness, it is the best place to go because everywhere you turn is an unbeliever. It's wonderful. So I like Starbucks for that reason. I don't drink their coffee. I just sit there and I talk to people. So this particular day, I was finishing my book, and I listened to a conversation next to me as two Christians, and when the one said to the other, hey pastor, I've got five minutes left, I gotta get going, that was my cue, I turned and said, okay guys, I'm curious, what were you talking about? I heard you talk about Christianity, and the pastor said, well, I'm an Assemblies Without Pastor, and this is a new convert in our church, and I'm discipling. I said, that is so wonderful. Churches are missing discipleship right now. And then he goes, what are you doing here? And I said, well, I'm finishing my book, the only book of its kind. It has creation apologetics, presuppositional apologetics, and then rate comfort style. evangelism, law and the gospel, all intertwined together. Again, no book of its kind, but it helps teach people how to think when they go out to evangelize. And he goes, oh. What do you mean, oh? He goes, I just don't think creation's that important anymore. Pastor, you're an assembly's God pastor. Your denomination still believes in a young earth creation. He goes, actually, we've gotten away from that the last couple years. And I said, pastor, you guys are going the wrong direction. What do you mean? I said, okay, I got a question for you. Why did Jesus have to die? And he goes, he paused. He goes, could you repeat the question? Sure. All right. Now, I know that there's no remission of sin without the shedding of blood. I get that part. But, like, why death? Like, without sounding ridiculous, God the Father did not put his son in the corner for a time out or give him a spanking or anything like that. Like, death. Like, why? He looks at me and he goes, I know this is a trick question. Pastor, I assure you this is not a trick question. Why did Jesus have to die? He couldn't answer me. I had to flip open to the book of Genesis. Genesis 2. Adam, do not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, for in the day you eat of it you shall surely die, both a spiritual, immediate, and a promise of future physical death. Death was prescribed from the very beginning as the punishment for sin. Jesus had to take that punishment and conquer it in order for us to be able to be saved. Why do I bring this up? Because here's the problem. While you can be an unbeliever, I'm sorry, you can be a believer, almost went there, you can be a believer and not believe a young earth creation. I was one of those. The problem is, you're inconsistent. The problem is, is that you've got a problem with the consistency of the Bible. And here's what I mean. If we believe what the Bible teaches, literal creation account, you had man first, and then man sinned. And then as a result of man's sin, we now have death and disease and famine and suffering and thorns. This is all the bad stuff we see today. That is what the Bible teaches, which means death and disease is blamed on whom? Right? Us. Adam and Eve by proxy us. And that means death is a really bad thing. In fact, 1 Corinthians 15, 26 says, death is the last enemy to be destroyed. If you're a Christian who compromises on creation, and you take millions of years and stick it before Adam and Eve, what comes with those millions of years? Death. Which means you've taken death and put it before Adam and Eve in their sin. Which means, why in the world would death have been the punishment for Christ if God used it as a good thing for billions of years to bring about everything we see today? Do you understand the implications there? Like look, I get we can believe the gospel without having a right understanding of the creation account. But when we start actually looking at the understanding of the gospel, the gospel is undermined. when we don't get this part right. Ultimately it comes down to God's word versus man's word. It comes down from God's word versus man's opinion. And so quickly I'm gonna give you 10 truths regarding God and man according to the Bible when we get creation right. One is that God is the creator of all. God spoke everything into existence. Everything was designed perfectly in the beginning. What we don't see perfect is because of the fall. Evolution has the opposite. Evolution means you started with imperfection and then as time goes on, get better and better and better. Never quite achieving perfection. That's not how God works. Number two, God made them male and female, period. End of story. There is no other. Now, some of you might say, well, look, I mean, we've got some people that have XXY or XXX, triple X syndrome. We've got other things. I said, you're right, we do. But that was not part of God's original creation. You know what they are? They're genetic mistakes. And without sounding bad here, I mean, but we have to be honest with the genetics, right? If somebody has trisomy 18 or trisomy 21, what is that? We would call that Down syndrome, a type of mental retardation. This is a genetic disorder. And look, that person, however you believe God's economy, whether that person's automatically saved because of accountability issues, or you believe that they're elected, however you look at it, whether that person has the ability to repent and believe, that that person's gonna get a new glorified body that is correct in the genes. You know what's going to happen with somebody who is born with XXX or XXY or XYY? Is that if they repent and believe, they'll also be given a new glorified body that will be perfect forever. We can't use a genetic anomaly to try to write the rule for male and female. We don't do that with Down syndrome. We're not going to do that. Or any of the other genetic maladies, by the way. We're not going to do that with male and female either. How about God made the human race in his image? Are we made in the image of a monkey or made in the image of God? Number four, God's design in man and woman. He made the woman to be helper of the man. Okay, yes, we're both co-equal, right? We're equal in the eyes of God, and yet there's some type of pecking order that he establishes. He establishes certain roles for males and females that we only understand in the context of God's written word and his grand design for men and women. Evolutionists say all kinds of other things. Feminism is evil in the church. And not just overt feminism, but even the feminism that kind of creeps in. Women not taking their husband's last name. It's feminism. And there's others. I know, I might have stepped on a few toes, but there's reasons why that there's that symbolic nature there about coming under the authority of the husband who's under the authority of Christ. Number five, God created marriage. Look, Do homosexuals have the right to marry? Yes. Now don't steal me yet. A homosexual has the right to marry someone of the opposite sex. We've not removed their rights at all. They have the same rights every one of us does. Repent of your sin and marry who God called you to marry. Somebody of the opposite sex. What he doesn't allow is homosexual marriage, according to his word. Number six, God gave humans dominion. Right from the get-go, we have the ability to eat our steak, wear our leather, drive our cars, and burn off all kinds of gasoline into the air. Cows farting, is that okay? Because God is in control of everything. R.C. Sproul said there's not a maverick molecule in the entire universe. We have to worry about climate change. God's got it. In the meantime, we have dominion over this earth to use it for our purposes for his glory. And we don't worry about it. Number seven, that man is the cause of sin and death in this world. Adam and Eve brought it in by proxy. We've continued it. We're the ones responsible. You know, I don't have time today to get into it. It's an entire hour presentation. I'm sure Pastor Mack can give you wonderful resources. I use the same ones from John MacArthur and Mike Riccardi. But I'm gonna tell you this. You cannot answer the problem of evil properly. If God is so powerful and so good, why do bad things happen? It cannot be answered if you don't have a right view of creation. Number eight, humans tend to hide in their sin. Now look, even as believers, what's the first thing we want to do when we sin? We want to hide. Right? That's our natural tendency. Unbelievers, what do they want to do? They want to really hide. Where does that come from? What did Adam and Eve do the moment their eyes were open, realized they were naked and they were shamed? They covered themselves and then hid. And so we have to recognize our tendency to hide in sin is because of what happened in Genesis. Number nine, that humans will be in conflict due to sin, not natural selection. Why is conflict out there? It's not because of it's survival of the fittest. If survival of the fittest was okay, then we should shoot up every Walmart in town. And I did, by the way, go into atheist chat rooms when that happened seven or eight years ago and said, why do you care? This is a good thing according to your theory. They're completely inconsistent in their message, in their sadness over a school shooting or a Walmart shooting or anything else, when they believe in evolution, natural selection. They should be celebrating it instead. Number 10 is that God blamed Adam, though Eve was deceived. Ultimately, their eyes weren't open until Adam ate of the fruit. The whole human race fell, and it was blamed on Adam. And because Adam and Eve have, every person comes from them, We also are born in that sin nature that they had after the fall. And that's why we see the world today as we do. And so, we have to understand Genesis and we have to stand on it. The issues today, homosexuality, transgenderism, critical race theory, are the big ones, big topics of today. But we've got lots of other topics.