A BIBLICAL FRAMEWORK FOR WORSHIP AND OBEDIENCE IN AN AGE OF GLOBAL DECEPTION

Part II

B U R I E D T R U T H S O F O R I G I N S.

INTRODUCTION

Part II of the Framework course deals with the very foundation of biblical faith--origins. Along with every otherhistorical creed of the Christian Church, the familiar Apostles Creed that all Christians recite so often begins with God as Creator: "I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth." This theme is recited again in heaven at the end of history when God is praised by His creatures: "Thou didst create all things, and because of Thy will they existed, and were created" (Rev. 4:11).

In this study you will see how the universe around you and even your heart inside you have always borne clear testimony to your Creator. Their testimony is so clear that the carnal mind (being always at enmity with God) has had to suppress this truth to try to avoid responsibility before Him. Thus paganism, whether ancient or modern in form, has a powerful ethical motive in viciously and unrelentingly attacking the first eleven chapters of Genesis as "mythological."

In place of this annoying revelation, the pagan program has always had to invent substitute origin-myths of its own. Only an origin-myth can so clearly express the grand unifying principle of a worldview. All its parts are tied together by a story of how everything "came to be": "gods" or first principles, men, nature, evil, death, life, etc. A story of origins relates living structures to non-living structures; it links observational data and the logic used for data analysis.

In fact, an origin-myth shapes the ultimate first principles. Just how profoundly idolatrous such a substitute for the biblical creation narrative really is, and how lethal it is to your spiritual life, you will see in this study.

Bible-believing Christians in every pagan culture have to face the problem of their culture's officially sponsored origin-myth. In the United States and other so-called developed countries today, cosmic evolution has been installed as the undisputable origin-myth to which all must give allegiance. Thousands of dissenting students and their heartbroken parents can testify to the mental and emotional abuse they have received from the education system. Well-educated Bible-believing graduate students and professionals, especially in the sciences, face tenure-denial, termination of grant funding, and editorial rejection of technical papers because of their reluctance to go along with the evolutionary dogma. Millions of tax dollars are used to promote the evolutionary origin-myth as "neutral" objective science when instead it is a speculative model that lies beyond direct scientific verification.

This study should encourage you to reject all such origin-myth indoctrination that so mutilates the Creator's character. Study of origins, you will learn, is not just a matter of digging up buried fossil evidence from the earth; it's a matter of exposing buried (suppressed) revelation in every human heart! Energized by the god of this world and the carnal mind, the pagan program has spread its deception across many disciplines. In the following chapters we must raise very serious conflict with the speculative worldview being taught to us along with the real truths in astronomy, biology, geology, anthropology, and physics.

As Part II of the overall Framework course, the following chapters build upon the apologetic strategy called presuppositionalism discussed in Part I. It prepares you for Part III that deals with the structure of today's civilization and God's intrusion of His redemptive work through Israel. In the following chapters 1, 2, and 3 I discuss the creation event and its implications. Chapter 4 continues our study with the problem of evil and the event of the Fall. In Chapter 5 I analyze the Noahic Flood event as revelation of the historical judging and saving dynamics of God. Finally, Chapter 6 ends our study with the origin of today's civilization in the strange environment of the post-Flood world. Appendices A, B, and C offer more details on some specific topics.

Some suggestions on getting the most out of this material: (1) read repeatedly and thoroughly the Genesis text; (2) use a cross reference study aid to find all references to this part of Genesis elsewhere in the Bible so you can see how other biblical writers understood the text; (3) interact with the exercises and pursue those questions that especially interest you by going to the Appendices and suggested sources for more extensive materials; and (4) when you can in full conscience do it, start using what you learn about God's greatness in prayer and praise to Him.

"Buried Truths of Origins" is dedicated to those seek Him and want to know Him with both heart and mind. A. W. Tozer put it well: "Essentially, salvation is the restoration of a right relation between man and his Creator, a bringing back to normal of the Creator-creature relation. . . .God was our original habitat and our hearts cannot but feel at home when they enter again that ancient and beautiful abode" [1].

To enter again we must embrace our Creator with true faith that He indeed is Who He claims to be in the early chapters of Genesis..