INTRODUCTION
1. Open your bible please to 1 Corinthians 3:18-21.
2. Is your great, great, great grandfather an ape or maybe a gorilla?
3. In this lesson we will discuss a false claim by an evolutionist and then we will discuss some true claims about creation originating with God.
DISCUSSION
I. FIRST, WE WILL DISCUSS A CLAIM MADE BY AN EVOLUTIONIST ABOUT A HALF APE AND A HALF MAN THAT TURNED OUT TO BE COMPLETELY FALSE!
1. Question: are you aware of the fact that so called “experts from the field of science” were tricked for 40 years!
(1) In 1912, Arthur Woodward announced to the world that he had found the missing link between ape and man.
1) Do you remember the name he gave this missing link man? Piltdown Man, as he called it, consisted of a jaw bone and a piece of skull which he estimated to be over 500,000 years old!
2) However, in 1953, when the new fluoride dating process was applied to the bones, scientists were shocked to learn that the jaw bone was less than 50 years old.
3) Only then did they notice that the bones and teeth had been treated with salts and filed to make them appear old and primitive.
4) In other words, Piltdown Man was a complete fraud. Bible students need to use this to confront every person that says that they believe in the theories of evolution.
(2) Do you consider it amazing that the world's foremost scientific experts were fooled for over 40 years?
2. Turn to 1 Corinthians 3:18-20. This passage teaches that the foolishness of God is wiser than man. Let’s read 1 Cor. 3:18-20, “18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their own craftiness”; 20 and again, “The LORD knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.” 21 Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours:”
(1) Do you realize that for almost a half century (for 40 years) , evolutionists pushed the Piltdown Man in the faces of Bible believers as scientific proof that man evolved from apes?
(2) Doesn’t it seem that scientist that would be fooled by the Piltdown Man should be ashamed of their claims about evolution?
(3) In spite of over hundreds of years of intensive searching, the only place you will find a missing link today is in the colorful imagination of an evolutionist.
(4) Is there any museum anywhere that contains a truthful missing link? Is there any museum that has a half ape and a half man that you can look at? Definitely not!
3. Turn to 1 Thessalonians 2:13. The things that we have been pointing out about everything reproducing after it’s kind
and the fact that the Piltdown Man was found out to be a lie and a false claim
give evidence that the bible is the word of God and that the bible is what we need to believe about the origin of man.
(1) There will always be men who scoff at the Bible. You, however, can be confident when you read your Bible that God is the author.
(2) You can be confident that what the bible says about the six days of creation is true.
(2) Let’s read 1 Thessalonians 2:13, " For this reason we also thank God without ceasing, because when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also effectively works in you who believe.”
II. SECOND, TURN TO GENESIS 1:5. FROM HERE WE WILL DISCUSS A FEW Biblical Arguments for CREATION HAPPENING IN SIX Literal Days
1. These are powerful arguments which absolutely force the knowledgeable Bible student to the position that the days of the creation week were ordinary 24 hour days.
2. A general rule of Bible interpretation demands that words be viewed literally unless there is a compelling reason for giving them a figurative sense.
(1) The term “day” is used in Genesis 1 both of a twenty-four hour period (v. 5, 8, 13, etc.) and of the “daylight ” portion of that span of 24 hours (v. 5).
(2) Let’s read vs. 5,8&13, “5 God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day. 8 And God called the firmament Heaven. So the evening and the morning were the second day. 13 So the evening and the morning were the third day.”
(3) After each day of creation, through all six days, we read that same phrase.
(4) Obviously the word was used by Moses in precisely the same way we use it today.
5. It is a big mistake to contend that there is anything within the context of Genesis chapter one which would suggest a day consisting of millions of years.
(1) Marcus Dods, not a conservative scholar, makes a statement to emphasize that the word “day” in Genesis one could only refer to a 24 hour period.
(2) Mr. Dods says, “[If] the word ‘day’ in these chapters, does not mean a period of twenty-four hours, the interpretation of Scripture is hopeless” (1903, 5).
6. Turn to Numbers 7:12&18. The expressions “first day,” “second day,” etc. (v. 5, 8) indicate ordinary days, just as similar language does regarding the different days to perform the offerings on certain days under the Old Law of Moses. For example some passages speak of making the offerings on the “first day,” and then on the “second day,” etc.
(1) Let’s read Numbers 7:12, 18, “12 And the one who offered his offering on the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, from the tribe of Judah. 18 On the second day Nethanel the son of Zuar, leader of Issachar, presented an offering”.
(2) When you read on through the eighty something verses of the seventh chapter of numbers you read of 12 different days for different ones offering 12 different things.
(3) Would one ever conclude that the “days” of Numbers 7 represented eons of time? Would we think that each day represented millions of years?
(4) Of course not. There is no motive to manipulate that context!
7. The days of the creation week in Genesis one were of the same type as the ordinary Hebrew days for offering of sacrifices and other things.
8. Turn to Exodus 20:8-11. This passage makes reference to days pertaining to those for working throughout the week. In the same context the six days of creation are referred to by using the same Hebrew word for “day”.
(1) Let’s read Exodus 20:8-11, “8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. 11 For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.”
(1) Notice the comparison between the “six days” of the Jewish work week and the “six days” of the creation week.
(2) Is anyone so prejudice or rebellious to God’s clear and plain teaching as to believe that the Hebrew work week consisted of six ages consisting of millions of years?
(3) Did Moses really mean to say: “Remember the Sabbath age to keep it holy . . . for in six eons or millions or billions of years Jehovah made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is”?
9. Turn to Genesis 1:14. In Genesis 1:14 Moses clearly distinguished between days and years.
(1) Let’s read Genesis 1:14, “Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years”.
(2) It is quite obvious that Moses was not using the term “day” in some extraordinary sense.
(3) However, if the “days” of Genesis 1 signify millions of years, then what does the term “years” mean? Is “years” suppose to mean billions and billions of year?
(4) An honest bible student knows that the words “days” and “years” mean what the bible teaches and not what the evolutionists claim with their false claims.
CONCLUSION
1. Turn to 2 Cor. 6:2b. This bible passage uses the word “day” in emphasizing the urgency of one being saved from their past sins.
(1) Does it refer to one obeying what they should to be saved “today” and with urgency?
(2) Or does it refer to waiting millions or billions of years before one would do what they have learned to do to be forgiven?
2. Let’s read the last part of 2 Cor. 6:2b, “Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.”
(1) If you need to get a sin problem made o.k. in the sight of God should you do it right now, tonight!
(2) Or should you wait a million or a billion years from now?
3. What should you do as we stand and sing?
Acknowledgements for helping stay accurate with scripture interpretation and in the development of this lesson go to: 1. Bob Winton CD Commentary on Genesis. 464 Ridgewood Drive Manchester, Tennessee 37355. If interested in CD covering many O. T. & N.T. books call (866) 753-8456. 2. John Gill from commentaries on Genesis from studylight.org 3. Others that I fail to know how to go back to.
