Jesus is a Young Earth Creationist Why is the Creation issue important for believers - Jesus and the apostles affirmed a literal, historical interpretation of Genesis and rejected long timescales like millions of years. They indicate that death, bloodshed, and suffering came as a result of Adam's sin, not through evolutionary processes. If Genesis is not historical, it undermines Christianity's core doctrines like the need for salvation through Jesus.

1. Jesus is a Young Earth
Creationist
Why is the Creation issue
important for believers

2. Why this presentation?
• For some Christians, the issue of whether
creation or evolution is true is divisive, or at
best, an irrelevant side issue.
• I hope to present here, a few reasons why
you should consider the matter seriously.
• I also encourage you to check out
http://www.slideshare.net/ZekeKnight/evolutio
n-vs-creation for more information about why
it is such an important issue.
• If you have any questions, check out
creation.com. You are most likely to find the
answer there.

3. Jesus is the Creator
• John 1:3 says: 'All things were made by him
and without him was not anything made that
was made.' And in John 1:10 a similar truth is
stated, 'The world became through Him.' In
writing to the Colossians, Paul declared 'for
by him were all things created, that are in
heaven, and that are in earth, visible and
invisible, whether they be thrones, or
dominions, or principalities, or powers: all
things were created by him, and for him'
Col. 1:16, cf. Ex. 20: 11 and Heb. 1:2.

4. Jesus' lineage
• Luke 3:23–38 traces the genealogy of Jesus
back to Adam through some 42 ancestors.
• The ages of these people given in the Old
Testament amount to a few thousand years,
not millions of years
See http://creation.com/jesus-genealogies and
http://creation.com/biblical-chronogenealogies for more detailed information

5. What did Jesus say?
• Jesus says in Mark 10:6 “But from the
beginning of the creation, God made them
male and female.”
• On a 15 billion year timeline, humans did not
appear until the very end.
• On a 6000 timeline, Adam and Eve were
formed on Day 6 - right at the beginning of
history.
• Jesus is confirming Genesis as real actual
history.

6. What did Jesus say?
• In Luke 11:50–51, Jesus also says: “That the
blood of all the prophets, which was shed
from the foundation of the world, may be
required of this generation; From the blood of
Abel to the blood of Zacharias … ”.
• Jesus mentions the first innocent blood shed
- that of Abel, and ties it in to the foundation
of the world. Not some billions of years after
the foundation of the world.
• Jesus taught that the world was young.

7. What did Paul say?
• And in Romans 1:20, the Apostle Paul says of
God: “For his invisible attributes, namely, his
eternal power and divine nature, have been
clearly perceived, ever since the creation
of the world, in the things that have been
made. So they are without excuse.”.
• Note that for something to have been
perceived, someone has to be there to
observe it - since the creation of the world.

8. What did Paul say?
• In Romans 5:12, Paul says: ‘…through one
man sin entered the world, and death through
sin, and thus death spread to all men,
because all sinned’.
• The man was Adam, who sinned by breaking
a command from God. Death came as a
judgment from God because of this act of
Adam’s - NOT over millions of years.
• Paul teaches in a literal Adam and afirms the
biblical history set out in Genesis.

9. What did Paul say?
• Paul goes on to present Adam as a contrasting type
of Christ, calling Him ‘the last Adam’ (1 Corinthians
15:45).
• The sin of Adam, which brought condemnation to all
men, is contrasted with the righteousness of Christ,
which makes redemption available to all.
• However, if Adam is a metaphor, and Genesis is
figurative rather than historical fact, and if death is a
part of nature rather than the penalty for sin, the
death of Christ on the cross is no longer needed
as a sacrifice for sin
See http://creation.com/new-testament-creation for more detailed information

10. What did Paul say?
• In 1 Corinthians 15:26, Paul refers to death
as ‘the last enemy’.
• If death is an enemy, and the result of sin, it
could not have been the process over millions
of years by which God created Adam.
See http://creation.com/new-testament-creation for more detailed information

11. What did others say?
• In 1 Peter 3:20, Peter treats the Flood as a real
historical event, with a real man, Noah, and literally
‘eight people saved’.
• Likewise in Hebrews 11:4, 5, & 7; 1 John 3:12; and
Jude 14, the writers all treat Abel, Cain, Enoch and
Noah as real historical people and not as metaphors.
• James 3:9 says that we have been made in God’s
likeness. This applies to all men and women, both
believers and unbelievers, and means that people
have a spiritual dimension which animals do not
have. James is here taking Genesis 1:26 to be
literally and historically true.
See http://creation.com/new-testament-creation for more detailed information

12. No more death?
• Creation was originally ‘very good’ (Genesis 1:31),
• So the ‘last enemy’, death (1 Corinthians 15:26) was absent.
• Even the animals were originally all given plants to eat (Genesis
1:30).
• The actions of the first Adam brought a reign of death and
bloodshed upon a once-perfect world, which ever since has
been groaning in pain (Romans 8:22).
• Precisely because of the blood shed in death by the last Adam,
this curse of death and bloodshed will be removed, and creation
restored to a sinless, deathless state (Revelation 21:1; 21:4;
22:3).
• If the earth will be restored to a deathless state, it confirms that
death did not exist to begin with. So evolution over millions of
years prior to Adam can not be a possibility.
See http://creation.com/first-adamlast-adam for more detailed information

13. Where are long ages
from?
• In 1830, Charles Lyell, a Scottish lawyer,
released his book Principles of Geology. He
stated that one of his aims was “To free the
science [of geology] from Moses.”
• The idea of millions or billions of years simply
is not found anywhere in Scripture; it is a
concept derived from outside of the Bible.
See http://creation.com/Did-god-create-over-billions-of-years for more detailed information

14. So what does this mean?
• If Genesis is not real literal history, how
can one know where the truth actually
does begin in Scripture?
• Today’s ‘science’ also ‘proves’ that men
don’t rise from the dead. So if we allow
that same science to tell us that Jesus
has not risen from the dead then
Christianity is dead.
See http://creation.com/Did-god-create-over-billions-of-years for more detailed information

15. So...?
• Jesus clearly believed in a literal
historical Genesis, so should we.
See http://creation.com/Did-god-create-over-billions-of-years for more detailed information