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Why Is It So Important to Be Confident in the Genesis Account of Creation?
Blog Series: Part 1 of 5
Do you think much about the fact of what Jesus taught: “we reap what we sow?”
Israel’s King David wrote 3,000 years ago in the eleventh Psalm: “What can the righteous do if the foundations are destroyed?” What is the most important truth in the Bible? Don’t you think it has to begin with the most fundamental question: “Who is God?”
Think of some of the dreadful things that result when people leave God out of their life…
- political corruption
- personal crimes
- marital trauma
- child stealing
- satanic sacrifices
- teenage suicide
- militant perversions and the AIDS epidemic
How long could the list grow when you start thinking of the many crises of our society like abortion, euthanasia, rape, child abuse and irresponsible spending, leading to rampant bankruptcy.
What’s the ultimate root cause of all this? Read Proverbs 1:29
“Because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord.
They would not accept my counsel, they spurned all my reproof.
So, they shall eat of the fruit of their own way, and be satiated with their own devices.
For the waywardness of the naive shall kill them,
and the complacency of fools shall destroy them.”
And don’t miss Proverbs 1:7
“The fear of the Lord (not reverence to men far from God)… The fear of the Lord… is the beginning of knowledge.”
And just WHO is the Lord? Take a look at what the prophet Isaiah wrote almost three thousand years ago (Isaiah 40:28).
“Hast thou not known? Hast thou not heard? That the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth fainteth not, neither is weary? There is no searching of His understanding (He is wise beyond all thinking – Knox).”
It’s amazing to me how so many people today seem to relax with the excuse that they can’t ever be sure of who God is or even if He exists. It’s not uncommon to hear many people smugly trying to sidestep a confrontation with God and you Christians by saying, “I’m an agnostic!”
Well, maybe we need to help them out a bit. Do they know what they mean when they say that?
The word “agnostic” comes from the Greek word “AGNOEO” which simply means to be ignorant; in other words, to be uninformed, unlearned, unaware, or lacking knowledge.
So what is God’s will (his desire and his ideal plan) for people who are living in ignorance? There are several times in the Bible where the apostle Paul writes to Christians, saying: “I would not have you to be ignorant!” (Ro. 1:13, 11:25, 1 Co. 10:1, 12:1, 2 Co. 1:8, 1 Th. 4:13)
In the Old Testament, the prophet of Israel named Hosea was grieved over the fact of God’s really gloomy revelation that:
“MY PEOPLE ARE DESTROYED FOR A LACK OF KNOWLEDGE.”
Is it any less true TODAY? Just think for a while about the results of ignorance. Even in very natural situations, if you’re ignorant that your food is tainted and you come down with food poisoning, it’s an example of being (in some measure) ‘DESTROYED’ for a lack of knowledge.
I’m sure you can think of a whole bunch of situations in life where even you ran into a destructive, hurtful or painful experience because of a lack of knowledge.
That’s what we’re talking about here, but far worse. Next time we’ll see what God says about people who choose to be ignorant about the most important facts of life.