Deep within our nation’s venerated “halls of ivy” lurk some ideas that are anything but true. So as school days are upon us there is need for a call to vigilance lest truth becomes lost in the shuffle of feet going from class to class to earn treasured grades needed for a bright future. Ideas have consequences.
The truths in danger are those of hope in the eternal God, who calls us and equips us for a journey of opportunity where we learn to sift good from evil and win eternal rewards through faith in him.
Richard Dawkins, the ardent evolutionist, when cornered for not being able to accept a universe planned and designed by an intelligent being, in defense of his godless philosophy said, “If there is a God why hasn’t he revealed himself?” Such ignorance questions Dawkins’ education, for God has from the beginning been an ardent revealer of his plans and purposes for those he loves. The zenith of his revelation came through Jesus who said, in seeing me you have seen the Father.
The Apostle Paul explains Dawkins’ ignorance, saying, “If our gospel be hid it is hid to them that are lost: in whom the god of this world hath blinded the eyes of them that believe not lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.” II Corinthians 4: 3-4.
Among other places, the god of this world, Satan himself, lurks in the false ideas that rule out God in our educational institutions.
One of this false god’s biggest ploys is the idea that science and religion must be kept separate. If so, there would have been billions of years of death and dying before God pronounced that all his creation was very good.
Science and theology are inseparable. Sin caused death after perfect creation, not before. God and his works of creation involved designing the human body as a machine far and above that of the animal world in importance, including a spirit and a soul that has volition, not just instinct. DNA shows us that there was never a “simple cell.” While there are some mutations, they are limited within each species; for God created everything after its kind.
A few years ago upon entering the Burke Museum near the University of Washington I was faced with the sign that read, “If you have a backbone you descended from a fish.” Yet, in all the specimens there were no links to humanity. They were all fish.
At Walmart, or on the internet, you can find a book for about $4 called “Eternity in their Hearts” by veteran missionary Don Richardson. Please read this, especially if you happen to take anthropology at Centralia College.
Richardson’s extensive world research indicates that God’s revelation of himself existed from the beginning but was lost because civilizations rejected it and failed to pass it on. Creation is as simple as this: God spoke and it was done and he is speaking yet to those who will seek, search for and listen to him.
Doris M. Anderson
Centralia
