From the beginning of time, people have thought, said, taught and proclaimed some of the most incorrect and even vile things about God.  All of this comes from one place – the father of lies. This created being told the first lie ever recorded in Genesis 3:4 (“surely you will not die”) and it has been downhill since. There is the lie of Evolution and the Big Bang – “first there was nothing, and then a big bang happened”!! (huh??) There is the lie of Universalism, where God is whatever or whomever you proclaim him to be. There is lie after lie after lie.

Some of them come from seminary trained pastors and preachers, who should know better. But they consider themselves and their earthly “ministries” so supremely important (mostly to their own financial well-being) that are willing to knowingly sacrifice the Eternal Abode and Rewards for the temporal riches of this world. Job was NOT such a man. Job stood strong in his Faith in Yahweh (I am Who I am, or Jehovah, YHWH) from the beginning. Job said in Job 1:22 “He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”

When his wife told him to curse God and die after all the tragedy and tribulation struck his life, Job refused. He said in Job 2:10 “But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?”Then the Bible says “Job did not sin with this lips.”Job loved God so much he said in Chapter 13:15 “Though He slays me, I will trust in Him”.

This past week I read an article about Pastors not being clear on creation, which I will cite in the end notes.  I was inspired to write on some things I have learned over the years regarding Genesis and creation.  I started out in Christianity as a gap theorist (not an evolutionist), but when I home schooled my children I became a young earth theorist.  I believe the bible is clear on the time line from Adam to present to be about six thousand years so that seemed reasonable as at that time young earth people believed in a six thousand year creation.  But then the young earth folks changed their timeline to 10,000 years.  I had a problem with that as the bible says we are in a 6,000 year time frame. So I began to explore. If young earth people can change from 6,000 to 10,000 years, why not 12,000 years or 20,000 years? 

The first thing I noticed is that people equate the age of the earth with the age of humanity, as in evolution.  As Christians we have to change that thinking because it does not have to be young earth and young humanity, or old earth and old humanity, it in fact could be old earth and young humanity.  As from previous blogs I have explored several points that young earth people do not take into account, geology, history, and archaeology, as well as the bible. Therefore it is more reasonable to pull together the whole of the matter rather than focus on a few small points.  And while putting together all these aspects of knowledge gives us the understanding, the bible has actually been clear all along, we have simply been taught incorrectly.

The first thing we have to remember is that we have an enemy who wants to cloud the bible so that humans stay ignorant and can be overcome.  With that in mind we then have to become intensely determined to do the research, and not simply regurgitate something someone once said.  As I pointed out in a previous blog if our information is thirty years old, it is time for an upgrade.  Firstly humans have not “evolved” there is no missing link,  that is because God created humans after a cataclysmic disaster.  Some people believe that God created the earth as a lump of clay and then made it look like what we see today.  But that is  not quite what Genesis says.