Have you ever believed in evolution? Maybe you still do. It’s almost impossible to avoid indoctrination by this pseudo-scientific religion. Its tentacles have reached into every realm of education and the media.

Today, evolutionary theory is taught as historical fact. Most children are unlikely to be exposed to any alternative view of our origins in school or secular media. And in western countries outside the United States, skepticism regarding Darwin’s theory is almost non-existent. In fact, the expulsion of academics who deny, or even question, evolution is commonplace in colleges and universities.  

Christians are likewise vulnerable to the dominant and intimidating sway evolution holds over our culture. Many scholars and preachers choose appeasement and compromise over biblical fidelity—trying to accommodate modern theory and ancient truth.

But John MacArthur argues that there is no way to insert billions of years and natural selection into the Bible’s opening chapter. You either believe Genesis 1, or you don’t. In his sermon, “Creation: Believe It or Not, Part 1,” John compares the biblical account of creation with the evolutionary worldview and finds zero compatibility between the two. Whether you’re a theistic evolutionist, progressive creationist, or hold to any other middle position, you are denying the straightforward biblical narrative found in Genesis 1.

While a literal understanding of Genesis is not essential for salvation, John points out that our view of the creation account has massive ramifications for fundamental Christian truths.

It is also important to all of us because understanding origins in the book of Genesis is foundational to the rest of the Bible. If Genesis, chapter 1 and chapter 2 don’t tell us the truth, then why should we believe anything else in the Bible? If it says in the New Testament that the Creator is our Redeemer, but God is not the Creator, then maybe He’s not the Redeemer either. If it tells us in 2 Peter that God Himself will bring about an instantaneous dissolution of the entire universe as we know it, that God in a moment will uncreate everything, then that has tremendous bearing upon His power to create. The same One who with a word can uncreate the universe is capable of creating it as quickly as He desires.

So what we believe about creation, what we believe about Genesis has implications all the way to the end of Scripture, implications with regard to the veracity and truthfulness of Scripture, implications as to the gospel, and implications as to the end of human history, all wrapped up in how we understand origins in the book of Genesis. The matter of origins then is absolutely critical to all human thinking. It becomes critical to how we conduct our lives as human beings.  Without an understanding of origins, without a right understanding of origins, there is no way to comprehend ourselves. There is no way to understand humanity, as to the purpose of our existence, and as to our destiny.  If we cannot believe what Genesis says about origins, we are lost as to our purpose and our destiny. Whether this world and its life as we know it evolved by chance, without a cause, or was created by God, has immense comprehensive implications for all of human life.

We don’t need to be intimidated by the aura of evolutionary theory. It’s just a false religion masquerading as scientific truth. In “Creation: Believe It or Not, Part 1,” John MacArthur shows us that God can be taken at His Word from the very first chapter.

Click here to listen to “Creation: Believe It or Not, Part 1.”