Resolved Conference: John MacArthur

• Worshiping God means to Worship God as Creator.
• Biblical Theology should trump all other knowledge.
• The bible is fact, and it is truth.

Categories of Knowledge
Time Force Space Matter

Fidelity (Faithfulness)

• You either believe the bible or you do not.
• God Created the World in six 24 hour days.
  • (Literal: We are required to keep the Sabbath Holy because God worked six days and then rested on the seventh.
• There is no such thing as Creation Science.
  • There is no science that explains the creation.
    • Creation was not observed.
      • cannot be verified
      • cannot be repeated
  • It is Miraculous.
• There is nothing in the Genesis account that makes any reference to the Evolutionary process.
• He has told us what he has told us in Genesis 1 and 2 and that is all.
• Creation cannot be explained be any natural laws.
• God didn’t use evolution because evolution requires death and death didn’t come until after the fall.
  • Evolution is hostile to the scripture, and is hostile to the God of the scripture

• Job 38:4 (God ridicules the idea that Man can stand and tell God about his creation.)

“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.”

Ask any Christian organization, school, church about their understanding of Genesis 1 and 2.

An Issue of Simplicity:

• Genesis is not a complex chapter
• It is six days of creation
• God is the Creator, He wants to be known and glorified as the creator.
• Fear God and give him glory, the one who made the heaven and the earth.
• Nehemiah 8 and 9
  • Worshiped God as redeemer and Creator.

Priority

• What is God’s purpose of God creating?
• God is working a plan.
  • Everything from creation and consummation there is God’s will.
• God Created everything to achieve a specific end.
  • The work of salvation and the work of redemption.
    • Everything created is means of working through redemption.
  • Absolutely nothing is random.
• 2nd Corinthians 4 (Johnathan Edwards loved this)
  
  • “For God, who said, “Light shall shine out of darkness,” Is the one who has shone in our hearts to give the Light of knowledge of glory of God in the face of Christ.”
  • Christ’s salvation of us is analogous of God’s creation.
    • The analogy of salvation and creation shows that salvation like creation is an instantaneous miracle.

The Evangelical Environmentalism

• God cursed the earth.
• 52% of evangelicals support strict environmental sanctions.
• Legitimate science has discovered a correlation between increased sun spots and warmer temperature.
  • Industry does not affect the climate.

The Uncreation

2nd Peter 3:10
“But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up.”