A First Plank of Godliness

 

By ED RICE, Pastor

Good Samaritan Baptist Church  --  Dresden, New York

 

The Bible says “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth,” and “God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion . . .” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them,” further stating “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”

The very first plank in a Christian's platform is the sanctity of human life. Every human life is holy; it is not your own, not owned by humans, not owned by humanity; it is given by Jehovah God, and owned by Him. Human life is very different from animal life in this regard, and ANY teaching that God's humans are just animals or ANY teaching that God's humans have evolved from mere animals is in direct rebellion to the revealed Word of God and in direct rebellion to this principle of the sanctity of human life.

Further, the whole act of human procreation is holy; God forms and owns the human life in the womb at conception (Psalm 22:9-10,139:13) and even the seeds of that act before conception. (Jeremiah 1:5)

It seems 52% of Americans believe German biologist Haeckel, who before 1900 imagined a scheme for Darwin whereby human embryos evolve like animals from amphibian, to chicken, to pig, to monkey, to . . . finally become human-like after birth.

This 100 year old fabricated lie is still taught as science to our school children, so too, they teach man was once monkey. A Christian does not believe the evolutionist but the Bible, holding firmly to the sanctity of human life. No human is or ever was an animal.