Biblical Unity

“I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them” (Romans:16:17Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
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Paul tells us that those who divide the church are not the ones who confront false teaching. Rather, they are those who teach things that are contrary to the Word of God. Paul commands Christians to identify and avoid such people (not just ignore false teaching). Paul declares that anyone who preaches a different Gospel is accursed (Galatians:1:6I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
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Genesis alone is not the Gospel, but it is central to the Gospel because it is the foundation for the Good News.1 Almost every major doctrine directly or indirectly stems from the first 11 chapters of Genesis. The infallibility and inerrancy of Scripture, the necessity of physical death and resurrection of Jesus, the blessed hope (Titus:2:13Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
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The heroes of faith were found in Genesis

One of the most important doctrines is the doctrine of justification by grace through faith (Ephesians:2:8For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
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The atheist, Richard Bozarth correctly pointed out in a debate,

“[T]he whole justification of Jesus’ life and death is predicated on the existence of Adam and the fruit he and Eve ate. Without the original sin, who needs to be redeemed? … Without Adam’s fall into a life of constant sin terminated by death, what purpose is there to Christianity? … If Jesus was not the redeemer who died for our sins, and this is what evolution means, then Christianity is nothing.”

Unfortunately, some supposedly ‘Christian’ organizations exist to undermine biblical creation. Darrel Falk, the former president of BioLogos wrote:

“Option #1 [that Adam and Eve are actual historical people] is the standard argument put forward by those who believe in a young earth created by God in six twenty-four hour days less than 10,000 years ago. BioLogos exists in no small part to marginalize this view from the Church. A fundamental part of our mission is to show that Option #1 is not tenable.”3

Treason in the church?

Some of these organizations are well-funded and provide huge grants to promote the teaching of evolution in churches and seminaries.4 Their influence in mainstream churches is growing and I’m sure they probably genuinely believe they are helping to ‘save’ the church. However, it has long been known that belief in evolution makes atheists out of people. Karl Giberson, a former seminary teacher and former physics professor at Eastern Nazarene College was also the former vice-president of BioLogos. He naively believes that Christians will be strengthened in their faith if they are taught to believe in evolution. Not surprisingly, he lamented that he found the opposite to be true. Giberson wrote:

“[I]nstead scientifically informed young evangelicals became so alienated from their home churches that they walked away, taking their enlightenment with them. … Many of my most talented former students no longer attend any church, and some have completely abandoned their faith traditions.”5

Such an admission should set off alarm bells. Why should we expect people to believe in the Gospel if we tell them that there are mistakes in the Bible? Giberson rejects the notion of a real hell, calling it a “secondary doctrine”. So again, what does he think we are being saved from?

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