OK, say that evolution took place over millions and billions of years, it shouldn't effect your faith if evolution did occur would it? Well yes because, sin and the curse of death entered into the world through Adam (Romans 5:12). Christ came to die for our sin so that we might have redemption with God and forgiveness of sin and a hope for eternity. There was no death before Adam and Eve and since there was no death then there could not have been millions of years worth of animals being buried in fossil layers. Also When God came to the end of His creation he looked at all He created and said "It was very good," (Genesis 1:31).

Only by mans hand could sin and death enter into the world and only by Christ coming to die for our sin can we have redemption with God and a hope for eternity. If we buy evolutions claim that death and destruction has taken place for millions and billions of years then death happened apart from man's influence. Which in turn means that we don't need Christ to come and die for us because sin and death were not our fault. From there we can begin to say that God didn't create the universe, maybe a big explosion happened which in turn created everything. In this case we may not have a God, and have no morale compass, and no reason for behaving like Christians.

As you can begin to see evolution or even mixing millions of years of creation with evolution can begin to chip away at the very foundation of our faith. It can begin to cast a large shadow of doubt on the reality of God and the purpose of Christ coming to the earth. It amazes me how some great ministers of our faith can stand so strong on critical fundamentals of biblical teaching, but then waver when it comes to the Genesis account of creation. I encourage you to not do this. Genesis is the foundation of our Bible and contains critical information of how creation happened and how those events apply to us today. Stand strong on the word that God gave us and don't waver from it.

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