CONCLUSION

     Is God, then, Who He claims to be in the early chapters of Genesis?  Is He the infinite-personal Creator of all things in both heaven and earth, immaterial and material?  Is He the source of language and logic?  Has He designed man and nature in specific ways?  Was the universe at one time free of evil, death, and suffering?  Has there been a cosmic judgment/salvation in past history?  And do today’s social institutions owe their origin to His Word?

     Or is modern paganism correct in claiming that early Genesis is “mythological”?  Would any god, if he (or she) existed, only be a sort of superman/woman inside an unknowable, mysterious universe?  Is language and logic merely the result of chemical actions in the human brain?  Is man merely a section in the great Chain of Being?  Is what is called evil an inherent characteristic of existence?  Are today’s social institutions purely arbitrary conventions that can be radically re-engineered by man?

     These are two radically-conflicting origin stories.  One is the historic biblical one; the other, in its modern evolutionary form, is the officially-sponsored myth of nearly every developed country today.  Well-endowed with tax dollars, the evolutionary origin-myth assaults the credibility of the Christian gospel.  It renders the Bible as just a religious story book.  Christian experience is interpreted by it as a mere subjective opinion. And if you want to succeed in academia today, you’re expected to acknowledge it as the only rational view of reality possible.

     Bible-believing Christians, however, know that all spiritual truth begins with belief that “God the Father Almighty” is “Maker of heaven and earth.”  We must strive, therefore, to put the world around us within the context of the Biblical view of reality rather than putting the Bible within the context of the pagan worldview.  The four events and the associated revelation which we have studied in this Part II of the Framework course will give you the tools to do just that.

     Instead of letting the powerful Word of God lose its force by being “absorbed” into the framework of unbelief, you ought to be able to “absorb” unbelief into the framework of the Word. You’ve been exposed in these chapters to many areas of life where the conflict rages:  language, logic, mathematics, geology, physics, sociology, psychology, and history.  Now you must learn to “bring every thought captive to the obedience of Christ” (II Cor. 10:5) wherever you are.

     Perhaps by God’s grace you will be lead to expand truth by rightly ordering observational data and logical analysis in your area of expertise.  May the God of the Bible be so glorified!