In little message sixteen we paused for a summary, and I think it is time to do that again. We have learned there is truth, only if there is omniscience, and no man is omniscient if he is descended from Adam. We found there are only two options for origins and these two are supernatural creation ex nihilo or supernatural existence of uncreated eternal matter guiding itself toward increasing complexity, which is the theory of materialistic evolution. We have been unable to find any scientific evidence of ways and means for this evolutionary theory to function. We have seen if a Creator created the heaven and the earth, this would require omniscience, omnipotence, and omnipresence. We have reasoned if this Creator supervised the writing of a book such a book would contain the only possible truth in the universe, because it would have it's source in omniscience.

We find the book tells us we were created on day six of creation week in the image of our Creator. We are told at the end of day six, creation was over, and the Creator pronounced everything he had created as very good. We are told Adam and his wife Eve were given directions by the very words of their Creator as to what they could and could not do, (meaning they had freedom of choice) and they chose not to believe the words of their Creator, and disobeyed their Creator. We are told it was this disobedience that marred or scarred their full relationship with their Creator and separated them from their former place of full and direct fellowship with Him. We are told this then involved actually the gift of death for themselves and their descendents so they would not be eternally separated, because their Creator was going to provide a way and means for their forgiveness and redemption, since he loved them with an eternal love.

The Creator thus barred them from eating of the tree of eternal life and also their descendents and the Creator let death enter the creation through a natural wearing out process. The book tells us Satan is a very real created being and we can know Satan rebelled and was cast out of Heaven after day six, because everything was very good at the end of day six. We are told there has been a long war against God, waged by Satan, since the day of Satan's rebellion. We are told after man disobeyed the Creator, "every imagination of the thoughts of man's heart was only evil continually", and that the Creator destroyed man and tremendously altered the original form of the creation by means of a terrible flood. We are told the Creator allowed man to survive the flood because Noah had found unmerited favor with the Creator because Noah had believed and obeyed the directions (word) of the Creator.

We are told the descendents of Noah, who believed in the Creator, gradually fell back into believing in pantheism (everything is God) and thus worshipped the creation instead of the Creator. We see this is the same old evolutionary theory that denies there is a Creator. We recall that evolution is a religion (not science) and is a religion that tries to prove the origin of all things without a Creator. We are told all men working together in their evil thoughts with the same language ( under Nimrod only the great grandson of Noah ) had to have their language confounded by their Creator so they would disperse over the face of the earth, as the Creator had ordered with His word.

We are told the Creator provided a means of healing the marred image of Himself in man so man could be restored to a full relationship with his Creator through the penalty for disobedience being paid by the death of the perfect and sinless Son of the Creator who is one and the same with the Creator, thus making the Creator also the Redeemer. If you cannot fully understand this, please remember your inability to understand is evidence that man didn't think of the idea to begin with. If you do not like this, that is just too bad, but the book tells us this is the only way, and if you reject it that is your choice, but you are sending yourself to eternal hell. Personally, I love the plan, because there is nothing for me to do except obey and believe it, and ask the Creator to please include my name on the list of believers. If there was something for me to do, I am sure I would foul it up in some way.

The final thought to go with this is since the book tells us after Adam disobeyed the Creator "every imagination of the thoughts of man's heart was only evil continually", therefore a decision to believe the truth could only come from an over riding of this evil rebelliousness in man by a force from The Creator's spirit. To say this another way would be " For by grace (unmerited favor) are ye saved through faith (Christ's faith); and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast." Ephesians 2:8,9.

Prepared by Sidney C. Phillips M.D. 1997

End of message 39.