"If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?" (John 3:12)
Many who profess to be Christian
intellectuals today are arguing that we should defer to the
evolutionists in matters of science and history, since the real message
of the Bible is spiritual. The Genesis account, for example, is not
meant to give us details of the events of creation, for scientists can
give us this information. It merely assures us that God is somehow
behind it all. But if this were all that God meant to tell us, its very
first verse is enough for that! What is the need to describe all the
days and acts of creation at all if the record has no real relevance to
history or science?
As the Lord Jesus told Nicodemus in
our text verse, if we cannot trust God's Word when it relates "earthly
things," how can we possibly rely on its testimony of "heavenly things"?
To some extent we can check for ourselves whether or not it is accurate
when it records facts of history and processes of nature, but we have
no means at all of determining whether it speaks the truth when it deals
with heaven and hell, with salvation and eternal life, or with God's
purpose for the world in the ages to come.
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