Developing a Truly Christian Worldview

well good morning I was been in the last night so how many of you were not here last night okay so I need to do that talk again I will summarize it in a couple of minutes very briefly for you by the way I do know who's going to win the election any Christian knows he was going to win the election it's whoever God puts it and remember that when someone you don't want his ways are far above our ways but the Bible says the powers would be retained of God he raised up Kings destroys Kingdom he puts people in place for our judgment or otherwise and so anyway God's in control but actually we have responsibility too and really that's what I'm going to talk about today is God's sovereignty and man's responsibility and how they go hand in hand as we witness to this dying world and it really is dying world actually this is a lead-up to I think probably last night was really the whole relevance of Genesis why it matters why it's important that all about doctrines founded in Genesis when Christians compromise Genesis undermine the authority the word undermine the foundation for our worldview for the gospel and this little leads up to the third session that I'm doing at the conference which is the next session creation evangelism which really is my heart in this whole ministry it really is to me other than what I did last night the most important emphasis that we bring in this ministry how do you evangelize a culture that has changed foundation as we talked about last night the foundation that's changed from God's Word demands worth the battle that started in Genesis 2 in Genesis 3 a battle between two religions God's word a man's word and how in our culture in our Western world our morality our worldview was once very much founded in God's Word even even people who didn't believe the Bible still had a Christian eyes sort of morality because it came from God's Word but now we've changed in a Western world to foundation of man's Word and so we see moral relativism permeating the culture how do you go out and preach the gospel in such a culture we're going to talk about that in the next session the Ministry of Answers in Genesis encourage you to use our website Answers in Genesis Dawg we have thousands of articles there come over to America and visit the Creation Museum every ticket is a two day ticket you walk through the Bible it's an incredible place and people come from all over the world to come to the Creation Museum it's actually walk through as we said last night the seven C's of history creation corruption catastrophe confusion Christ's cross consummation answering sceptical questions we use a life-sized exhibits and animatronics and planetarium and special effects theater and so on and then 45 minutes away from the Creation Museum and these are in Northern Kentucky just across the river from Cincinnati in fact Cincinnati Airport is not in Cincinnati it's in Northern Kentucky it's called Cincinnati Airport but it's not it's really the Greater Cincinnati Northern Kentucky Airport you understand all that and so when you find a Cincinnati you don't you find your Northern Kentucky you get that so anyway Cincinnati Airport just remember that but actually ten minutes from the airport is a creation museum and 30 minutes away is the Ark Encounter the life-sized Ark that opened last year and it's the biggest timber frame structure in the world it's absolutely incredible and we have a massive parking lot I said last night I'll show you a picture the favorite place for a photograph in the Ark is the door on the second deck and I tell you what is interesting that light there's actually shows up more on a smartphone than it does when you're there when you're there you see it and there's a sign telling you it's a and you see the subtle cross because we we we use it to really preach a message there and we have a lot of non-christians who come there and that's one of the places they get their photograph in front of the door there are some people that didn't realize that the cross is there because it is subtle at first you you put it on a smartphone and you see it real shine up like that we've had people actually go home after visiting the Ark and write us a letter and say we could home and looked at our photographs and and a miracle happened a cross appeared on the door anyway we have to explain to them that no it was actually there and you can walk through the Ark and all those exhibits that we have actually it takes you hours to walk through the Ark and see all those exhibits you want to spend a lot of time there three Falls it exhibits you walk one and a half times the length of a football one way 1/2 times the length of a football field then up the big long ramps to the second deck you do the same again then up the big long wraps to the third deck do the same again then at the back we have a zoo and a petting zoo and we have a West Village and an East Village we're putting in a 2,500 seat auditorium right now to be able to give presentations there as we do at the Creation Museum and then we have our phenomenal Christmas time and Christmas town programs the ark is going to have on the side of the ark a laser program that will present the gospel 15 laser projectors be one of the most startling in the world in fact no one has ever done a laser projection on the side of Noah's Ark before did you know that it's unique in the world well you know just to summarize again what I said last night as we go through the Bible from Genesis to Revelation Genesis 1 to 11 gives us a geological biological astronomical anthropological history that's foundational to the rest of the Bible I talked about the fact that all about doctrines are based in that history much of the church says that history in geology biology is not true you can take evolution and reinterpret Genesis when you do that you do two things one you undermine the foundation of all of our doctrines but secondly you undermine the very word of God itself and one of the problems has been is we've told coming generations you don't have to take the history and Genesis is true you can use man's ideas to reinterpret that and we wonder why they're now using man's ideas about marriage to reinterpret marriage or to defend abortion or whatever it is and one of the passages are quoted last night Matthew 19 Jesus who's the son of God Jesus who's the creator who's the truth who doesn't tell a lie who's the word when he was asked about marriage quotes directly from the history in Genesis quotes from Genesis 1:27 Genesis 2:24 God made them male and female and he said therefore a man shall leave his father mother cleave and his wife there'll be one flesh because the man came from the woman not from an ape woman she came from the man not from an ape woman from the man and so that Genesis the history in Genesis is foundational to marriage but if we have generations who don't believe that history in Genesis and don't believe there's an absolute authority anything-goes and that's really why you've had that change in our culture and worldview in regard to same-sex marriage although it's not same-sex marriage because there's only one marriage God invented marriages from the Bible and so there's no such thing as same-sex marriage and you really should put marriage in quotes in that sense because this is where marriage was invented right here when God created a male and a female created a male from dusk female from his side but not just marriage as I said every single biblical doctrine of theology is founded in Genesis 1 to 11 there's not one that's not founded in the history in Genesis 1 to 11 so once you say that history in Genesis 1 to 11 is not true as I said re-emphasize you do two things one you take out the foundation for all of our doctrines and so then you can make them whatever you want them to be and secondly which is the issue you actually undermine the authority of the word itself and that's what I said the attack began on the word did God really say it's been an incredible attack on the Word of God and much of the church has undermined the Word of God by compromising with the pagan religion of evolution also talked about the fact that Bible makes it clear death is the penalty for sin and yet if you believe in millions of years as most of our church leaders not all I mean there's some great pastor sitting in this audience but the majority of pastors a majority of church leaders in our Western world and in fact throughout the whole world will say you can believe in millions of years as I showed you last night the millions of years came out of deistic and atheistic atheism in the 18th 19th century in particular people who want to explain everything including the fossil record without God so they said the fossils are lay down millions of years before man the fossil record is a record of death it's a record of disease brain tumors cancer arthritis and if all that was laid down before man after God made man he said everything was very good then you're blaming God for death and suffering you know without the shedding of blood there's no remission of sins if you had the shedding of blood millions of years before man sinned what was the shedding of blood got to do with her omission of sins and so the interesting thing is one of the most asked questions by the Millennials today is how can you believe in a loving God with all this death and suffering in the world the implication is if there is a God it's his fault and when you and the church have taught millions of years two generations of kids you're saying God's responsible for death and suffering but if you teach the history in Genesis we're responsible because we sinned against a holy God we committed high treason against a holy God God stepped into history to save us from what we did remember Romans 8 says the whole of creation groans why does it groan the whole of creation because of our sin it's our fault and what a difference it makes when you understand that and you know it's interesting whatever there's a tragedy like just recently we had that terrible massacre over there in Las Vegas and then there was the earthquake in Mexico and there's been other terrorist attacks and so on but with that massacre that happened in Las Vegas the headline news in America over and over well if I turn on television and see the news it would be okay how do the church leaders respond to this how do you respond to all this there's carnage that we see and how do you explain a loving God and you know I tell you I sit there and I so angry because so often the answers are well we just have to trust God well we just have to have faith you know what they should have said we're looking at a consequence of our sin it's our sin that did that and then and then they would ask you but why would God allow those people to die excuse me the question is why does everyone die remember in Luke when the terrasse alone fell on 18 people in kill them and Jesus asked the question where they were sinners than others and you know what his answer was repent why did he say that that was their turn to die you're gonna die everyone's gonna die it's not a matter of why did those people die it's a matter of you're all gonna die because you're all sinners because you're all are in rebellion against God and that's why the Gospel message is for all tribes and nations and that's why every one of us needs to do what the Bible says if you confess your sins its faithful and just to forgive us our sins cleanse us from all unrighteousness and and that we are you know if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart God has raised him from the dead you will be saved and people that's the message everyone in this room one day will die everyone everyone who votes today will die everyone in Australia will die that is the penalty for sin a reminder that we need salvation in Jesus Christ but anyway that's a whole nother message I know got onto that but my point is the church by and large and our Christian colleges are not giving the right message because they're telling generations of kids you can believe in millions of years God's responsible for death and suffering that's ok trust in Jesus anyway and we wonder why we've got to mess so what I want to do this morning was this I want to bring two verses of Scripture together in a special way you see Romans 1 says Romans 1:20 it's so obvious that God is creator but you know what the majority of people reject that Romans 10:17 says faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God you know so often I get told oh you people who believe the Bible that's religion science has disproved the Bible who's heard some statement like that Sciences this year we've all heard that I want to deal with that this morning because three years ago I debated a man called Bill Nye Bill Nye the Science Guy he's actually a TV personality and he's an engineer and he calls himself the science guy and about 20 million people have seen that debate and I've actually heard testimonies from atheists who become Christians as a result of that debate but see one of the things he kept saying is Ken Ham is anti science Ken Ham undermine science and he actually said if Kentucky teaches creation that's where the Creation Museum is there going to be backward in technology and all sorts of interesting statements and so I wanted to sort of deal with that topic this morning is very important first of all to understand this whole issue of science and origins and then we'll get into the evangelism aspect you know we exist in the present or most of us do we exist in the present and we look out we see the stars and here's the question where they come from where people come from where the animals come from I always like to use astray liyan animals in America because they just have mundane things like deer and bear and stuff you know we have real animals how do you explain dinosaurs how can we see a world full of death but it's a world full of life it seems so contradictory so full of life is so full of death we see love we see hate how do we explain such a contradictory world by the way cuz once all life and all love person entered how do you explain dinosaur bones what about the Grand Canyon dr. Snelling was talking about that what about dogs how do you explain all the different species of dogs I'll do that this afternoon by the way and where did the degenerate mutants come from what about the races of people are there different races what about the Australian Aborigines see here we are in the present and we as human beings to try and understand the past how can we be sure that we know what happened in the past to explain the origin of everything it's sort of like this if you've ever watched any of those murder mysteries on television you know there's pyro and Sherlock Holmes and you know ones I'm talking about and then there's all those modern ones that are just totally ridiculous but I watch too what I like to watch stuff that's real like Sherlock Holmes so but you know what happens with some of these and there's another one in one of my favorites is death in paradise it's an English program so what happens there's been a murder and so you get to the end and they have all these people in the room and then they start giving you this evidence and you know yep the butler done it yep I was right the butler did it yep I was definitely right the butler did it and then they drive me nuts they give you one piece of little little piece of evidence you didn't have through the whole movie totally changes conclusions it was a person you least expected that did it end of movie wasted time watching the thing you just want to kick the TV in the teeth do you realize we've got a problem if we're trying to come to right conclusions about things unless we knew everything there was to know about everything how can be sure you're going to come to the right conclusion you see no matter how much you know there's an infinite amount more to know which means no matter how much you know you don't know how much more there is to know anyway which means no matter how much you know you don't know how much you do know or don't in relation to whatever there is to know whatever that is which you don't know which means we just don't know much at all think about that do you know that isn't that what God said to job remember when job started out argue with God and God said job do you know this you know that do you know this you know that you know this do you know that you know this what about this what about this and then job recognized it he fell down and dust and ashes and he said I recognize who God is you can do all things I repent in dust and ashes people every one of us have to get to that point I believe we have a problem you know what the Bible says pride is our problem it's a major problem the sin of pride and I believe there's so many of our Christian academics have this academic pride we have got to get to the stage of recognizing we know nothing compared to what God knows you know if you think about it there's only two ways to understand the universe either you start with one who knows everything has always been there who's revealed to us what we need to know to come to right conclusions or somehow man has to determine truth and you know that's the battle that started in Genesis two and three and it's all the way through Scripture don't eat the fruit of the tree you can become like God it's a battle between good and evil it's a battle between light and darkness it's a battle between those who scatter and those who gather it's those who are for Christ those who are against it's a battle between building a rock on building your house on the rock and building your house on the sand it's a battle between the tree and knowledge of good and evil and the tree of life it's that that battle is all the way through Scripture that's the battle that's happening here in Australia right now in fact it's always be in the battle and you see for those who start with man's word here's what they teach in the school since universities cosmos is all it is or ever was or ever will be the famous statement by a Carl Sagan there was a big bang billions using in fact they give this this history they say 13.8 billion years ago is a big bang and then 13 billion years ago the stars form 4.6 billion years ago the Sun then 4.5 billion years ago a molten earth and 3.8 billion years ago the first oceans they know all this from digital photographs of course and see you laugh and yet the majority of our Christian leaders will say that that's true and say God use the big may by the way the Bible says God made the earth first covered with water the Big Bang has the stars then the Sun then the earth is a hot molten blob so when people say couldn't got abused the Big Bang absolutely not why not because the Word of God tells us what God did there are people who say to me but couldn't go to be used evolution no why evolution is a process of death and bloodshed and disease in the suffering of a millions of years the Bible says death is a penalty for sin no God couldn't used evolution that would be against the character of God and you see then when water supposedly came on earth somehow life arose by random processes and they just skip over that in the text books do you know what life is spilled on DNA you know what DNA is it's a language system and an information system you know how many bits of information there are living things on this earth it's so big you can't count zillions of bits of information do you know we've never seen matter producer code we've never seen matter produced one bit of information but life is built on a complex code and their resilience a bits of information people evolution is impossible life could never arise by random processes but a man called Charles Darwin who's a great observer notice that animals change by the way he was right animals change did you know that yesterday to 24th of November is the anniversary of the publication of the Origin of Species in 1859 it's had such a such a negative impact on the world and on the church and Darwin said ah we noticed animals change dogs change by the way they do they're changing the dogs and I'm going to talk more about that when we talk about natural selection and adaptation this afternoon but given enough time one kind changes into another by the way that tree doesn't exist that tree is the belief and eventually Apryl creatures turned into people it's a process of death and bloodshed and disease and suffering supposedly the fossil layers as dr. Andrews showed you last night is supposedly the record of millions of years but you don't go out and dig up a rock layer and it says high in millions years old you just don't do that and then they have a statement about purpose and meaning I'm sure you're familiar with the program QA and Richard Dawkins was on their program a few years ago and let's see what he said well the answer to the question of what's going to happen when when we die depends whether we're very cremated or give our bodies to science if you're actually an agnostic and you keep aside a small portion of your brain for subsequent proof I mean you might get presented for that proof when you die the brain is what we do our thinking with the brain is going to rot that's all there is to it here's think about it here's Richard Dawkins message to the world become an atheist then when you die you won't know you even exist and you're just going to rot and that'll be the end of you isn't that great a people that is the message of the public education system there's no God you know I went to a graduation ceremony down at Southport number of years ago one of their family members was graduating and for the commencement address the address that was given for the graduates and there were thousands of them there well hundreds I think that I don't have anywhere there's a lot and anyway this judge got up on stage and in the guy on and said well students you're graduating today I'm sure like me you're wondering what I'm going to do with my life because I'm gonna go out there now that I graduated I'm gonna live and then I'll die and so what are you gonna do until you're dead I thought I said to my wife this is going to be an incredible message and then she went on and said there were things that influenced me she had three books at Influenster one was The Hitchhiker's Guide to the galaxy and and how the computer found the purpose and meaning of life was 42 like I said my wife I got to get that book and I did and I read it 42 are still contemplating that and then the other one was you know Zen Buddhism and the art of motorcycle maintenance and I thought man I got to read that book I got it tried to read it never did accomplish that but and then she said so students those things influenced me and there'll be things that influence you so go out and do your best and and take note of the things that influenced you until you did I said to my IG if I was one of those students I'd just go ahead and jump off the cliff right now get over and done with you know but you know what her message actually actually reflected the message of the world that is the message of the world your result of random processes natural processes there's no God you as a result of evolutionary naturalism and then when you die you cease to exist no wonder they think why can't we do whatever we want to do see what a difference when you start with God's work because regardless of what anyone claims this does claim over three thousand times to be the Word of God who knows everything has always been there do you realize what I mean that God is infinite knowledge do you know how much we know compared to what God knows we we know nothing how dare we as arrogant human beings tell God what he means if this is the Word of God we need to let him tell us what we need to understand and you see when we stop with that history creation corruption catastrophe confusion Christ crossed consummation that gives us the foundation now we have a foundation and someone who knows everything who's revealed to us key information to enable us to have the ability to build a worldview to correctly understand the world ah that's why there's life and death because cause death is an enemy because of sin that's why there's disease it's not God's fault we rebelled against a holy God ah that's why there are fossils all over the world because there was a global flood that makes sense oh that's why there are people groups and and we know genetically they're all one because of the Tower of Babel ah now I understand that's why we'd date our calendars from 2000 years ago because godson stepped into history dying across race from the dead and wow what a wonder what a different message to Richard Dawkins for God so loved the world he gave His only Son whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life and you know I've had many people say to me I don't understand how can you have two totally different views of origins big bang no big bang millions years thousands of years death came death has always been here death entered because of sin no global flood global flood we all go back to ape-like creatures and and some races are closer to ape-like creatures and others as Darwin taught in his book The Descent a man no no no we're all one race we all go back to Adam and Eve no purpose and meaning in life when you die that's the end of it no no no when you die that's not the end of you your body dies but you're made in the image of God you're gonna live forever either with God or separated from god but God stepped into history and the personally son to save us Wow wait a minute they totally different totally different views actually the evolutionary view that's the pagan religion to explain life without God and much of our church has adopted that and added it into God's Word oh you know who did that the Israelites ever read the prophets Malachi Hosea have read those Jeremiah what do you find out they adopted the pagan religion of the age and come and compromise God's Word and look what happened to them we say how could they do that we're no different well wait a minute those pagan religions sacrifice children at least we don't do that yes we do it's called abortion you know abortion is abortion is child sacrifice it's sacrificing children to the god of self we are no different than the Canaanites and many in our church would defend that just like many of the leaders defended what the Israelites did in their day when you read the profits people there's nothing new Under the Sun what's happening today is no different than what's happened in ages past it's the same battle it's gone on since Genesis two and three it's the same battle in the days of the Israelites and the days of the judges and it's the same battle and we got the same problems as Shepherds that lead the Sheep astray and see people look at that and they say to me but how could you have such different views totally contrasting views totally opposite views because you can understand something we're dealing with origins see do you realize it doesn't matter whether you're a Christian or an atheist creationist evolutionist you realize that everyone has the same evidence see it's not the evidence that's different if I go with an evolutionist to the Grand Canyon well Andrew Snelling goes with an evolutionist to the Grand Canyon they could look at the layers and say yeah we can agree on how thick full areas we can agree on the size of the grains we can we can agree that it's a sandstone or limestone or whatever but then suddenly there's disagreement because one says I believe was laid down during the flood and the other says now I believe is laid down over millions of years but you don't observe the time factor you do observe the other things see when you think about it we all live in the present so we all have the same evidence we got the same fossils the fossils a creationist has are no different to one's an evolutionist has the dinosaurs a creationist have a no different to the dinosaurs and evolutionist and by the way dinosaurs people think it's a great big mystery and you realize the word dinosaur was invented in 1841 it's a sort of a term for certain groups of land animals God made all the land animals and a sex each kind of land animal went onboard Noah's Ark and they came off the Ark and lots of land animal kinds have died out since because of all the extremes of climate net that we have today and and the word dinosaur just refers to a subgroup of land animals people's nothing mysterious about dinosaur we think there's something mysterious about it all so whatever people say to me but did God make the dinosaurs here's the point God made land animals we didn't even have the word dinosaur until 1841 so the correct way of saying it would be God made all the land animal kinds including the kinds that today we call dinosaurs you see what I mean I don't know people just seem to get all confused about that we've all got the same animals we all exist in the same world with all the same human people groups we all have the same DNA we have the same radioactive decay andrew is going to talk about that this afternoon radioactive dating it's not the dating a lot of young people want to talk about but radioactive dating hey you know what's interesting it doesn't matter whether you're a creationist or an evolutionist we have the same radioactive elements it's not the process that we disagree with it's the interpretation in regard to origins we have the same universe and that's what I said at the debate with Bill Nye Bill Nye and I have the same evidence well so so so what's the battle over it's a battle over how we interpret the evidence because I built my mat my worldview on God's Word Bill Nye built his worldview a man's word Bill Nye had the presupposition that everything came about by natural processes whereas I started with no I believe that this is the record of God who for us who knows everything there is to know about everything and so here's the way of looking at it all of us wear glasses you know as I got older I found I had to wear glasses okay but actually all of us wear glasses and there's only two sets of glasses God's Word man's word by the way when you compromise man's word with God's Word your starting point is no longer God's Word once you introduce fallible man's words into the word the infallible Word of God now it's fallible now it's man's word and so you see I had on one set of glasses Bill Nye had on a different set of glasses and so when I looked at DNA I saw evidence of creation he said no it came about by natural processes and by the way he couldn't give any evidence that matter can never produce a code or produce information when I look at animal kinds when I look at dogs I see yeah dogs remain dogs outfits remain elephants yep great variation within a kind god-made separate groups of animals Bill Nighy looks at that and says no that's evidence one client changes into another but there is no evidence for that when I looked at people groups I say yeah we will go back to Adam and Eve there's one race he looks at them and he says we're different races because of evolution actually even the secular world now says there's only one race because they've been studying real science genetics when Andrew and I look at the Grand Canyon and look at fossils we see evidence of catastrophism which is consistent with a flat of Noah's day all over the earth when Bill Nye looks at those he see he says now it's evidence of millions of years the name Bill and I said but wait a minute you start with the Bible where as I believe in science and I've had many people say to me I've had many theologians say to me yeah I know what the Bible says but you can't deny what science says and as soon as I say that you know the first thing I do I say would you explain for me what you mean by science that'd be an interesting question and ask everyone in this room what are you when somebody says science what do you mean because I hear some of these theologians Christian academics who say you know the Bible says six days but because of science it can't mean six days what do they mean by science see the word science actually comes from the Latin si enchi meaning to know and if you look up the definition of the word science it means knowledge so when people say to you science contradicts the Bible what do you mean what do you mean by science contradict survival so you know one of the things I've learned to do when you look in the Bible what did Jesus do when he was talking to you know the scribes the Pharisees you know what did he do he would ask them questions that they couldn't answer we need to do that when anyone confronts you as a Christian yeah but science excuse me stop right there what do you mean by science by the way do the same when they say evolution but evolution stop right there what do you mean by evolution because the word evolution means change do you mean molecules to man evolution just mean change that you see in dogs what do you mean because you know how they indoctrinate our kids our look evolution happens we see we see different species of finches Darwin's finches therefore evolution molecules to man is true do you see what they just did and what I did at the bait was I said this and you know what the people got it and they were atheists watching who have talked to me later who got it there's a big difference between what we will call experimental or you could use operational or observational science and that's where you're using your five senses in the present and you can build technology and it doesn't matter whether you're a Christian or or an atheist you can do that you can put a rover up on Mars but by the way as soon as you start talking about the origin of Mars that's not the same thing then because you can't do that in a laboratory you can't use your five senses to do that so there's a big difference between what we call experimental observational science and what we call historical science when you're talking about origins here's the interesting thing the number of Christian academics that have said to me yeah it says six days but because of science it's got to be millions of years but when they say science they're talking about man's interpretation of the past man's view our by regions which is origin science you know we've gotta understand I've had people say to me well the Bible is not a textbook of science well I'll tell you what I'm glad it's not a textbook of science like the ones we use in our schools because they change all the time but the Bible is a textbook of science it's God's textbook of historical science it's a history book it's the history in geology the history and biology the history and anthropology the history and astronomy this is a historical science textbook it's an infallible historical science textbook this is the history God has revealed to us that's very different than talking about making motorcars aeroplanes that's observational science that's using our five senses in the present using the laws of nature that God has already set up the laws of logic the laws of chemistry the laws of physics whatever to invent the technology we have and see Bill Nye was claiming to me oh if you teach kids creation you're undermining technology oh really I'm undermining technology you see I did have a question for Bill Nye and it was this can you name one piece of technology that could only have been developed starting with the belief and molecules to man evolution by the way I've asked that question many times since he still hasn't answered it do you know what you'll read but evolution is the cornerstone of science evolution is the foundation for all of science if we don't believe in evolution we're gonna destroy technology name one piece of technology that requires molecules to me and evolution as a belief for it to be developed one there's none because you're talking about origins is totally different to talking about developing technology you talking about historical science versus observational science you know it's interesting when you read the textbooks for instance here's one of the biology textbooks used in the public schools in America and they say science you restrict science to natural causes for natural phenomena supernatural explanations of natural events are outside the bounds of science here's what they've just told kids science is naturalism you're not allowed to have the supernatural you know what they've just taught the kids atheism is the worldview we're going to indoctrinate you with our foundation is there is no God people that is the basis for the curricular in Australian schools which means ultimately why not gay marriage why not anything there's no absolute authority anything goes and you know I said this at the debate public school textbooks are using the same word science for observational and historical science they arbitrarily define science as naturalism and they outlaw the supernatural labors molecules two main evolutionist fact they're imposing the religion of naturalism or atheism when generations of students what happened is we as God's people handed generations of our kids over to the world you train them in naturalism you train them in atheism four five six hours a day will send them to Sunday school to have a Bible story on the weekend and we wonder why they now have a secular worldview and walking away from the church in droves and the worldview is changing and in this culture listen what Bill Nye says here this helps illustrate it but you can show the earth is not flat you can show the earth is not ten thousand years old you can show the earth is not flat yeah I agree you can show the earth is not ten thousand years old yeah well when I looked at the labels on the earth they weren't there you can observe the earth spinning in space fact we had an astronaut who was up in the space shuttle speak to our staff at the Creation Museum and he showed us video that he took from the space shuttle you can see the earth spinning but I never saw a label on it saying how old it was actually there's only there's only one absolute age dating method in the entire universe it's called the Word of God who knows everything who's always been there who tells me in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth he created in six days and then Adam was made on day six and there was the seventh day they had all these people who had children and and and and so on you can add up all the dates that's here get the age of the earth because we have a witness who is a the secularists don't have a witness who is there this is not being taught to students people students are not being taught how to think you you think about this remote do you realize the secularists basically legislate to protect the teaching of evolution and out war the teaching of creation if evolution is so obvious if it's fact why would they be worried about students learning about other views they protect the teaching them because they don't want students to even be taught how to think about science because they're indoctrinating them in a pagan religion do you realize by and large and I know some of you might even be teachers in the public school system I was but do you realize by and large they really churches of atheism that we send our kids to for five hours a day you know bill and I said this sorry people with these deeply held religious beliefs they embrace that whole literal interpretation of the Bible as written in English as a worldview and at the same time they accept aspirin antibiotic drugs airplanes but they're able to hold these two worldviews and this is a mystery oh it's a mystery we can all use our five senses to be able to produce aspirin and smoke detectors and airplanes and there are people who do that and they believe in God how that's a mystery actually you know what the mystery is people who believe the whole universe came about by random processes believe in the laws of logic and the laws of nature and believe they don't change and believe they somehow came about by random processes and they use them to develop technology that's the mystery you know Bill Nye was called Bill Nye the Science Guy so I didn't want to detract from him so I said see Ken Ham the observational science bloke believes in aspirin and smoke detectors and so on but the historical science bloke believes in creation thousands years Bill Nye the observational science guy believes in the same aspirin and E antibiotics and so on but he has a totally different historical science because he believes in millions of years but the millions he is belief has nothing to do with the technology remember what I said can you name one piece of technology could have been developed starting with a belief and molecules demand evolution there's none and see the role of observational Sciences is when you study DNA in the present it actually confirms an intelligence behind the universe not random processes when you study genetics in the present it confirms distinct kinds of animals and plants no mechanism that one kind in change into another and I'll do that in in an additional session today when you study humans you find there's only one race exactly what you'd expect based on the Bible and do that in a later session when you study fossils and rock layers you find evidence is consistent with catastrophism just like dr. Andrew Snelling was telling you not changes over millions of years because this is the right starting point but you know here's the problem we've got because with Christians today I find non-christians will say don't give me that don't give me the Bible I don't believe in the Bible and and that's religion I want you to prove to me there's there's a God you know but you're not allowed to use the Bible and there are many Christians that say oh okay okay we want to use the Bible here's the problem if you don't use God's Word as your starting point then there's only one other starting point you tell me what it is man's word then you've just lost the debate because you've just said I'm gonna have the same starting point as you therein lies a big problem in our church because we haven't been taught that there's no neutrality we've got this idea that there's a neutral position and people the Bible says you either for me or against me you are the Gator or Scott gather or scatter there's no neutral position there's no neutrality and we've many Christians are intimidated off we haven't talked about the Bible they're gonna think we're religious we can't do that and so we try to argue well well in regard to the same-sex marriage issue actually we're gonna argue that you know a man and a woman is best for the family and which it is obviously and all the rest of but people ultimately the argument is God's Word is truth and if you don't argue from the absolute authority of the Word of God you know lose the battle people told us where they built the Creation Museum and the Ark if you go out there and you boldly talk about the gospel and God's Word people aren't going to come people flock they want answers they're hungry for the truth gyro says about Jesus he spake as one having Authority not as the scribes and they were astonished at his teaching we we seem to lack that today we've got this idea many of our Christian leaders think if we come out and just a thoroughly stand on the Word of God we're gonna get mocked we're gonna get rid of cool yeah you're not being sawed in half yet you haven't been thrown to the Lions yet and we're scared about being mocked as we stand authority on the Word of God what is wrong with us I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ Paul says you know then there are people who say but wait a minute we don't need to use the Bible because Romans 1 says you can tell from the creation that that there's a god that's true and that's all you can tell you can tell that there's a powerful intelligence but here's the problem if you just look at the creation you also see out there horrible things death suffering and unless you understand that history in the Bible you won't know that it's not God that's responsible if you just say to people can't you tell there's a God you know I remember a minister once down the Gold Coast and we're up on the mountain he said I tell my congregation to tell people can't you see there's a God look at this beautiful world I said pastor there's a blue-ringed octopus down there about to kill you there's a there's a great white shark out there about to eat you there's the sea wasp and bluebottles out there to sting you and hurt you and this stone fish out there ready to kill you in this crocodiles that are ready to eat up there in North Queensland and you tell me it's a beautiful world you know a lot of our Sunday school material and books do the wrong thing we tell kids well this beautiful world God made and then then the secularists say have you believe in a loving God a little death and suffering but you see when we start with that history then we've got a foundation you know when people come to me and and when I argue about things I said that my starting point is the word of God and I'll talk about that in a moment and see I'm not giving up that starting point because if you don't have that starting point then you don't have the information you need to explain death and suffering to explain the fossils to explain where we come from to explain the different people groups see the Bible says if you're not with me you against me you gatherer you scatter friendship with the world as a war with God it says that those who reject God suppress the truth they're not neutral they suppress the truth the mind that I said on the face hostile regard you see we've got this idea if we give up god's word we're neutral can you imagine two knights fighting and one says before we begin throw down your sword okay there'd be a great idea you see here we are we're coming up to a non-christian it's it's putting on your Bible we got to talk on you probably owe me the Bible stuff and we've got this idea Oh in regard to the same-sex marriage issue or the abortion issue we can't use the Bible because then we're religious we've got to use neutral arguments and as soon as you think that and you walk over to what do you think is neutral ground they have one now I do this within fear intimidation fear and and I come JetLite okay so fear in trepidation because I want to show you a video clip but this was public ok this was very public it was on Q&A on the TV program it was a man who was a member of parliament I am NOT doing it to denigrate him I'm not doing it to belittle him but to me it sums up the problem in our Christian world many of you probably remember our Steve building when he was on Q&A with Richard Dawkins and he tried to be neutral and the audience saw through it and not only that at one stage the host said you know well where do you believe human beings came from and this is what he did he put his arm on Richard Dawkins I want you to see this instead you might want to ask this man he's sure about his beliefs we Christians aren't sure see you watch this this is the problem in the church Richard you'd like to respond do you believe that the world is less than ten thousand years old okay no do you believe that I think that there are a lot of questions in this era and I think people will come to their own a lot of force people into one way or the other before you're at URI you're a young earth creationist to believe the world is less than 10,000 years old Europe hunts a parliamentarian in Australia who believes the world you live in is less than it is an open question is that what you actually believe the guy I think I think that the the science today will discover more and more but I think that most Australians come to a view that either believe that we evolved or where we came from the creation and I think that you know people you can believe whatever they like on that issue I'm not trying to force that issue on do anyone Tony so where did human beings come from I'm not trying to force my views on anyone and yet the LGBT movement is trying to force their views on us this guy has firm views we're Christians we don't have firm views oh they can believe whatever they want this is the problem in the church people we need to can you imagine what would happen if we stood up to Richard Dawkins on Q&A and said let me tell you why we believe what we do yeah the Bible is the Word of God yes of course I believe in thousand years what is your evidence of millions years tell me tell me your best I'll explain to the world how that happens can you say it's absolute fact what are the what are the assumptions behind the dating methods dr. interest now he's going to do with that sort of stuff what do you believe about what do I believe I believe in creation did you know that there's no way DNA could come about by natural processes absolutely no way you know what the Bible says is true did you know the human genome project confirmed there's only one race we should be giving answers we should be defending our faith and we should say you know what what are you views I have firm viewers because I know the truth oh we're not game to say that because I don't think we really believe our Bibles and because we've had such a lack of teaching in Genesis we don't know what to believe and that's why the last session I do is going to show you what happens when you take Genesis as literal history and you you can build a Christian worldview that that that that explains the human kind and will deal with a lot of issues in that you know it reminds me of there's a verse of scripture 1 Corinthians 14 8 if the trumpet some some translations say oh the bugle gives an indistinct sound who will get ready for the battle another translation says if the trumpet give an uncertain sound an indistinct sound he'll prepare himself for the battle here's here's what I see the world has a unified message they really do it doesn't matter what country you go to in the world what secondly museum TV programmes documentaries public education state schools government schools secular secular universities around the world did you know they all have the same basic message oh there are nuances you know differences but they have the same basic message you know it is there's no God everything came about by natural processes big bang billions years ago life arose my natural processes may involved from ape-like creatures they all have a unified message and that unified message is given to our kids daily through the education system the TV the museums around the world we're unified we got the same message and then you go to the church and you go to Christian academics and our theologians and seminary profs and you say what do you believe and here's what you hear oh I believe well you know what I think those days are not ordinary days I think they're long periods of time oh I don't know I think there's a gap between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2 I think if it the millions years and this whoa I don't know I think God evolved the animals but then he specially made Adam and Eve but now I think that God took two ape-like creatures and breathe in they became out of me no IIIi don't believe that actually I believe in the framework hypothesis well I believe in the local flood idea well I believe in theistic evolution well I believe in correct progressive creation well I'm not sure but I don't believe the days are ordinary days well you know I think it all fits into Genesis 1:1 and that's where the millions ears fit and trust in Jesus do you know there is a unified message in the church do you not the unified message in the churches you can trust the unified message a man don't trust God's Word in Genesis that's the unified message of the church no wonder we're in a mess the church is out there giving it on sunset and you know what there's a common factor it doesn't matter with theistic evolution progressive creation de-age Theory gap Theory framework hypothesis it doesn't matter what it is you know there's they all have one common factor you know what the one common factor is with every one of those trying to fit millions of years into the Bible I go to churches and they say well you know we have a pastor who's a gap theorist our pastors a theistic evolutionist we have our leaders that believe in the day age there and they say to me what's your position I say I the biblical one you know the Bible tells us faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God that the Word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword that's God's word that will not return to him empty and so people say to me okay so how do you say we should act if someone comes up to me at a conference and I've had this happen and they say I'm a homosexual I believe in gay marriage what's your response to that first thing I recognized is gay marriages is not the battle the battle between me and this person is not about same-sex marriage if this person is not a Christian if they were if they claim to be a Christian I have a different way of doing it but if they claim if they say they're not a Christian I say can I explain to you why I believe what I do you see I start with the Bible don't give you that Bible stuff I don't believe the Bible religious stuff you don't believe the Bible no guess what what I do you got a problem with that come on make my day come on what do you a question we you know why we don't do that because we're frightened they can ask questions we can't answer and because many of us think well if we say we start with a Bible that's religious but if we give up the Bible we got the same starting point as him then a worldview has to be the same as his you can believe anything you want no no no I say to you don't believe the Bible I do come tell me how many questions I'll answer some of them and there are insert some more later and and and you don't think it's the Word of God you think science has disproved okay let me answer a few things now let me find you because I start here because I believe this history in Genesis that's why I believe marriage is a man the woman just what I did last night and a little bit this morning I said but if you don't start with God's Word I totally get it why you believe in gay marriage you do oh yeah in fact I totally get it you'll totally consistent with your foundation I get that yeah if that's your foundation I understand why you believe that you see the battles not up here the battles down here you know what the battle is all about is this or is this not the Word of God is your starting point the right starting but let's start to talk about this because this is where the battles that we're not going to solve the same-sex marriage issue till you solve decision and then if they claim to be a Christian you claim to be a Christian well then look what Genesis says about marriage and Jesus in Matthew 19 I don't believe Genesis is history okay well then that's the problem until we can sort that out there's no point us arguing about same-sex marriage the battle is a foundational one and you know it's interesting most Christians don't understand they have the starting point of God's Word which is why they don't know how to argue with them and some of them will say well it's in it see but see what you can't impose a Christian worldview on someone who doesn't have the foundation for it doesn't work I had an atheist who was in my office for the opening of the Creation Museum in 2007 she's well-known atheist in America name was Eugenie Scott and she was interviewing me for the BBC in London she said in my office and she said so you admit you start with a Bible I said that's correct and you're not prepared to change anything in the Bible are you I said absolutely not she said see that's religion she said see I'm a scientist we start with evidence and develop theories and we're prepared to change when new evidence comes along you're not prepared to change I said wait a minute not prepared to change what's in the Bible she said see that's religion she said I'm a scientist we're prepared to change I said really oh yes yeah and you start with evidence oh yeah we start with evidence yeah you start you start with a belief we don't start with a belief oh you don't know okay um you say you're an atheist right oh yeah yeah okay so you don't believe in God's Word no you're not prepared to even consider the possibility Genesis could be true I know if no door are you prepared to change that and the conversation stopped because I just pointed out you have a belief you have a religion see a theists Kahn the public into saying they don't have a religion they start from evidence no they have a belief everything happened by natural processes as their religion that's where the battle was with me and Eugenie Scott and then the last thing I wonder challenged us with is this well when you realize this and understand there's two starting points you realize now wait a minute the only way to get this person here to see the evidence the same way I do is they have to have this starting point not this one how do they change starting points how can we change their starting point we can't do it it's a work of the Holy Spirit on their heart look think about it the Bible says non-christians are dead in trespasses and sin my brother used to be a pastor he died a number of years ago as a pastor on the Gold Coast and he used to call non-christians Walking Dead people so Eugenie Scott's in my office and I say I'm talking to a walking dead person and then I realized something I can't raise the dead person to life only Jesus can the Bible says there's none righteous no no one there's none that does good not even one by grace you're saved through faith is not of yourselves is a gift of God well then what's the point of us doing it what's the point of all those books out there that Bible also says it's not his will when any should perish it says how will they call in him whom they have not believed how will they believe in him of whom they have not heard how shall they hear without someone preaching how shall they preach unless they be sent how beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news that we're to be ready to give answers for what we believe think about that how do you put all that together if I was to go out there preach and teach and contend for the faith and give answers by grace you saved through faith is not of yourselves it is a gift of God faith comes by hearing hearing by the Word of God go out there and preach how do you bring those two together you know you know what you see that all the way through scripture it's like how do you understand Jesus was 100 percent guard 100 percent man there's the sovereignty of God and there's a responsibility of man and they go hand in hand and I don't believe we as finite humans can ever explain it I believe we just need to make sure we do what God tells us to do and here's the analogy to help us understand Jesus comes to the tomb of Lazarus Lazarus is dead remember non-christians are dead and what does Jesus say take away the stone could not Jesus who is God who created the universe created all I couldn't hear made that stone disappear in twinkling of an eye but do you know what he said you you can move the stone you can do that you move the stone okay take away the stone so they take away the stone now you can't raise the dead Lazarus come forth and the dead it's raised I look on it this way our responsibility is to preach the word is to give answers what we believe which is a failure of much of the church to defend the Christian faith to contend for the faith to engage in business till he comes in a sense it's like taking away the stone those books out there those answers we give when the person is coming to me and I say come on make my day well what about science well what about dating methods well we're too kind get his wife well well what about the ape-men well what about natural selection speciation and so on and talk more about those today my responsibility is I am to answer those questions I'm to roll the stone away to do my best to take those stumbling blocks away but never without pointing them to the word God and the gospel that says don't just do it as an intellectual argument never be ashamed to point them to the word because faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God and when you understand this you start to realize here's what's happened in our culture two starting points two different worldviews even though Australia has never been a Christian country there's never been any truly Christian country nonetheless it did by and large have a foundation that your morality came from the Word of God marriage was a man and a woman abortion was murder but the more we have generations has changed they're starting points from God's Word to man's word which has happened in the church and in the world the more we'll see the collapse of Christian morality and increasing moral relativism which is why I say people you know this is the year of the 500th anniversary on October 31st of the Reformation when when when Luther nail those theses on the door of the church to call Church back to the authority of the word of God I believe we need a new Reformation today in fact I believe that the teaching of evolution millions a year's Big Bang is what the devil has used to try to undo what the Reformation did and that's why I believe we need to be out there nailing Genesis 1 to 11 on doors of churches and Christian colleges and seminaries you might get arrested for vandalism but because this is what I'm saying this is where we've lost biblical authority in this era and this is where we need to get it back and that's really what the ministry of Answers in Genesis is all about that's why I showed you those Castle diagrams last night the secularists no aim for the foundation the authority what are the Christians doing aiming for the issues what do we knew to be doing we need to be aiming for the foundation the wrong foundation building the right foundation then we can deal with those issues that's what it's all about well I could go on for millions ears but we can't do that and before I hand over to Josh hey we have now we shipped over three the three anyway at least two big container loads out of resources the resources my burden has always been I've had people come to Australia people people from come to America from Australia and they stood there and look at all our resources in the Creation Museum and the Ark and they said why can't we have these in Australia we need them in Australia so my burden because this is our homeland you know every time every time we hear that song I still call Australia home I work quite burst into tears and she balls her eyes out and I don't get emotional at all but we do still call Australia home that God sent us to America to build the Creation Museum in the act to outreach to the world and we want to get the resources into Australia so we have we shift them over we got a bookstore my brother Dave and his wife Ali have a construction company and they look through through their staff out of the lunchroom and they turned it into a Christian bookstore for all our resources and it's in Logan Holmes real easy it's basically right where the Ipswich motorway and m1 intersect right there so not far from yavapai so go heavy out or play and then so if you go to our website you look on the right-hand side you can you can click into the Australian store and you can order online now and we have someone here who will ship those orders out here but here at the conference will give you 15% off we're giving you a free digital subscription to our answers magazine and I encourage you to even get the print subscription which you can or give it away as a gift for Christmas sign up to get our newsletter list print newsletter and also an email newsletter and you'll keep up to date with what we're doing and all the latest resources I mentioned last night my book the lie is really the message of this ministry and that really is the message that the Lord is laid on their hearts and the answers books and the new one a flood of evidence the most asked questions with simple answers their detailed answers but if you equip yourselves with others you'll be able to say come on make my day a thousands of homes and churches are using our introductory apologetics program 12 30-minute programs of mine a lot of what I'm doing this weekend I was study guide to go with them there's a lot of other materials out there answers books for kids dinosaurs are used to try to take kids away from from the Lord and His Word and we have books on dinosaurs books based on the exhibits at the ark how many animals are on the ark there's for kids and adults books for little kids rhyme books you'll see out there evangelistic books they're all evangelistic actually of this one specifically so for tiny little kids books to teach kids and adults that the Bible is a book of history a book on the death and suffering issue it's about the death of my younger brother and how we as a family coped and understanding the origin of death in Genesis one race one blood in detail the six-day issue in detail how to raise godly children ungodly world biblical principles our parents used to train us andrew has the classic work now on geology all those questions geology is one area people get very confused and know how to answer questions and I encourage you to get that and study that for those who are theologians here you want a more in-depth look at the book of Genesis written by theologians this deals with all compromised positions our Sunday school curriculum is a four year curriculum from from little kids all the way through adults is totally synchronized inside each box you'll see out there there's a catalogue that explains all the materials that go with us there is no other curriculum like that in the world 10,000 churches in America are now using that curriculum and we're currently translating it into Spanish as well you'll also see out there a whole range of DVDs we'll call these the cream of the crop of all our DVDs DVDs my Andrew myself others in our in our ministry there's a whole whole range of DVDs out there and a lot of other material as well with that the second session for me is really the crux of what this is all about then we have an application session this afternoon and Andrew does the details on dating methods Josh over to you [Applause]

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