October 25, 2007          No. 10

                                                                                                                                    

  
 

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DO CREATIONISTS BELIEVE IN AN ICE AGE?

Not including the movie, we certainly do believe in the Ice Age.  However, we don’t believe in ice ages over millions of years.  The Ice Age was actually a result of Noah’s Flood.

In Genesis 7:17, the Bible tells us that at the time of the Flood, the “fountains of the great deep” broke open all over the earth.  This probably means there was volcanic action.  The floodwaters would have been warmed by these volcanic explosions.  This would cause warm oceans and cool land near the end of the Flood, resulting in a lot of evaporation.

Because of all this water in the atmosphere, there would have been great storms at the poles.  A lot of ice and snow would have formed.  Over a period of hundreds of years after the Flood, we believe that this ice accumulated and caused what we now know as the Ice Age.  Then, as the temperatures of the land and oceans started to stabilize, the ice would have started to melt and recede to where it is today.

The Ice Age was actually a result of the Flood of Noah’s day!
 
 
 


 

Did cavemen really exist?  And if they did, how do you
explain them in light of the Bible?

We call cavemen men that lived in caves, and yes, they did exist.  And we at CSM believe that the Bible even mentions them.

We have been so brainwashed by evolution, that many of us automatically think that a caveman was some form of primitive, almost apelike, grunting human.

But just because men lived in caves, doesn’t mean that they were primitive.  It just means that they lived in caves.  Even some people today live in caves.  In fact, some have their homes built over the entrance to caves.

In Hebrews 11:38 you read about those who wandered in the deserts, mountains, and the dens and the "caves of the earth.

"Psalm 142 was written by David while he was staying in a cave.

And Job 30:6 describes those who dwelled in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves in the earth, and in the rocks.

In Judges 6:2 we read about the Israelites who made for themselves dens in the mountains and caves.

In Genesis 19:30, we read about Lot who went into the mountains with his two daughters and dwelt in a cave.

Were there cavemen?  You bet.


 

  
 

How can man have a knowledge of God,
even if he is not taught about Him?

In Genesis 1:26 we read, “And God said, Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness”  And then again in Genesis 1:27 we read, “So God made man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them.”

Being created in God’s image makes us “God-oriented” beings with a built-in knowledge of Him.  Also, Paul teaches us in Romans that God has written on our hearts the fact that He exists.

Here’s a marvelous example:

Most of you have probably heard of Helen Keller.  She was born blind and deaf, and for years had no way to communicate with anyone.  Finally people found a way.  One day, a pastor was brought in to teach her about Christianity.  When he started telling her about God, she responded with excitement.  Although it’s not clear if she received the Lord as her Savior, she had always known that God existed.  She just didn’t know what to call Him.

How could someone born blind and deaf know that God existed?  Simple.  Because we’re made in His image and therefore bear the knowledge of Him.

  
 

Why did the late Carl Sagan, a very well-known anti-Christian and anti-creationist, see the world as cruel and why didn’t he understand the Christian God of love?

Carl Sagan said this:

"If God is omnipotent and omniscient, why didn’t he start the universe out in the first place so it would come out the way he wants?   Why is he constantly repairing and complaining?  No, there’s one thing the Bible makes clear: The biblical God is a sloppy manufacturer.  He’s not good at design, he’s not good at execution.  He’d be out of business if there was any competition."

You know why Carl Sagan saw the Christian God like this?  Because he was looking at this fallen world.  This is a world suffering the effects of sin and the Curse.  It is a horrible world!

Sadly, Carl Sagan would heard many Christians say (before he died), “Oh, you can believe in both millions of years and the Bible.”  Thus Sagan realized this would mean that the death, disease and violence represented in the fossil record were described as very good by God.  Thus God must be an ogre!

It is only when we accept a perfect creation, marred by sin, that we can understand this present cruel world. Millions of years makes God to be an ogre.  Adam's original sin is what marred the world, which will continue to be marred, groan and travail in pain until the return of Christ Jesus.

Sagan’s view of God is consistent with his belief in an old earth, which logically works to destroy the gospel.

  
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