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Chapel Notes
This University takes a stand on six literal days of
Creation. One of the things I’ve found as I’ve traveled
across America and around the world the past 40
years –most Christians either don’t take a stand on six
literal days, or they say it doesn’t matter, or they say we
can’t know. So the question is, “Does it really matter?
Is it really important for a place of higher learning
like Cedarville University to take a stand on the six
literal days of Creation?” Actually, in many ways, I
believe it’s almost a litmus test, in a sense, on one’s
stand on biblical authority. What we’re really talking
about is “Does it matter what God’s Word says?” It’s
an authority issue.
God has warned us about this authority problem.
In 2 Corinthians 11:3, God has a warning for us
through Paul: Beware lest somehow as the serpent
deceived Eve by his craftiness that your mind should
be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. Let
me paraphrase it for you: God’s telling us, “I want
to warn you that the devil is going to use the same
method on you as he did on Eve to get you into a
position of not believing the things of God.” So let’s
go back to Genesis and find out the method he used
on Eve. The serpent came to Eve and said, “Did God
really say?”
Most churches that preach the Gospel, if I was to
say to them, “Where do you get the idea that Jesus rose
from the dead or the virgin birth and so on?” they’d
say, “The Bible.” Yet, when I go to most churches and
most Christian colleges, and say, “Now in Genesis the
Bible teaches that God created in six days; in Genesis,
the Bible teaches there was male and female when
God created man; the Bible teaches that man was
made from dust and woman was made from his side;
the Bible teaches that marriage is to be the male and
female, Adam and Eve, the first marriage — a man
and a woman; the Bible teaches that death came after
sin; the Bible teaches that there was a global flood that
covered the highest hills under the whole heaven,” you
know what I hear? “Oh no, we can’t believe that!”
There’s been a battle ever
since the beginning between
God’s Word and man’s word.
It started in Genesis 3, trust
God or you become like
God. It’s a battle between
two worldviews: one’s
based on the absolutes of
God’s Word, the other’s
based on man’s word,
moral relativism. We see
the collapse of Christian
morality and increasing
mo r a l r e l a t i v i sm.
Why? Becaus e we
have generations that
no longer build their thinking on
God’s Word.
We need to raise up generations of people like
you who will be able to go out into this culture, stand
on the authority of the Word of God, emboldened to
proclaim the truth of God’s Word, and equipped to
defend the Christian faith against the secular attacks
of our day. Then, in an uncompromising way, [you
can] stand on the authority of theWord, proclaim the
authority of the Word, preach the Gospel, see people
saved, and won to the Lord Jesus Christ. That’s what
we need to be doing.
Ken Ham
is President and CEO of Answers in Genesis.
Creation Beliefs Reveal a Deeper Problem
The following is an excerpt from a September 15, 2016, chapel presentation by Ken Ham, keynote speaker for the “In the Beginning: Creation
and Your Biblical Worldview” conference on September 15–16. Listen to his full remarks at
cedarville.edu/chapeland look for more about
the creation conference in the winter issue of
Cedarville Magazine
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God’s telling us, “I want to warn you that the devil
is going to use the same method on you as he did
on Eve to get you into a position of not believing
the things of God.”
Jan. 10
Missions Conference
Don Callan
Former Coach and Athletic
Director at Cedarville University
Cedarville,Ohio
Jan. 12
Missions Conference
Kris Stout
Vice President of International
Ministries
Word of Life Bible Institute
Schroon Lake,NewYork
Jan. 17
Matt Carter
Pastor of Preaching and Vision
TheAustin Stone
Community Church
Austin,Texas
Jan. 20
CU LEADership Conference
Jay Strack
President and Founder of Student
Leadership University
Orlando,Florida
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