“Being a man is not a freak accident of the cosmos!” This is the first statement on the back cover of my book, The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics,1 making clear its content is founded upon the biblical worldview that man has a purposeful Creator! Making such a statement at all is a sad indicator of how far removed Westerners are now in just under 200 years from an understanding of our origin as from God. Thanks to the rise in acceptance of Charles Darwin’s Theory Of Evolution which today, is secular science dogma and the worldview of many coming out of our nation’s educational system, the biblical worldview of creation is deemed inferior religious babble.
While I am sympathetic toward those Christians that want to try and build a bridge between the two contradictory and competing worldviews because they believe the arguments of secular science are just too demonstratively persuasive, God in my heart and His Word cry out not so fast (did David acquiesce or seek détente with Goliath who was larger than he and out gunned him--1 Samuel 17:33-47?)!2 True enough our mission in Christ is to preach the Gospel about and witness Him. But we are not to do these things while also finding a common ground of acceptance with falsehood, open rebellion against God and apostasy. We must stand firm on the truth of God’s Word as it is written!
Evolution as a competing worldview to biblical Christianity is falsehood raised up in open rebellion against God and apostasy since many that have adhered to it from a Judeo-Christian background from the earliest days of its appearance have had to reject some or all of what is written in His Word about Him and creation. As Jesus showed with the Sadducees, rejecting any of the inspired Word about God, His abilities or deeds, leaves one in a state of spiritual ignorance and without repentance, eternal deadness (Matthew 22:23-33, 23:29-33)! To declare that the physical universe came into being out of nothing and no source cause is the height of folly (Psalm 14:1-4).
However, the Bible in its first words emphatically declares: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth,” (Genesis 1:1, NKJV). God Himself is quoted as declaring: ‘“I am the Lord, who makes all things, who stretches out the heavens all alone, who spreads abroad the earth by Myself,’” (Isaiah 44:24b, NKJV). Science with the endorsement of some professed Christians also says the universe unfolded and evolution took place on earth over millions of years. But God in His Word says He created everything in six literal days (Exodus 20:8-11, 31:16-17). Are you now, so lofty in these latter days, O man, that you call God a liar who says He created all and in six days?
But even as you are so wicked and getting worse leading to one that will boldly be your voice as foretold (Psalm 2:1-3; 2 Timothy 3:13; Revelation 13:1-6), your own science betrays you as the liar. For example, evolutionists fail to appreciate the profound impact man’s sin, God’s consequence of death and related curse on the ground has had on all creation! Indeed, not only does man die, but decay and ruin attend to our bodies to such extent now, the average age of death is dropping below 70 compared to Methuselah who lived 969 years (Genesis 5:25-27).3 Also, the evidence of God’s handiwork is not only all around, but in you as He recently led me to write (Romans 1:18-19).4
The whole field of genetic research is uncovering how most living things are biologically programmed by genes and their informational substance, DNA. This being so, such purposeful programming requires an intelligent programmer. Try as hard as they might, secular scientists cannot logically give credit to non-sentient “mother nature” for the wonder of genetic programming since how can what is not alive itself program that which lives?5 No, but God who eternally lives and created the heavens and earth with their order and design features along with all living things to fulfill the purposes and functions He programmed in them is the Programmer (Genesis 1:2-31; Job 38-41)!6
Thus, man is purposely made in God’s image and likeness as His highest creation and is not a freak accident of something coming out of nothing then evolving (Genesis 1:26). From the dust of the earth the Almighty God created him to live before Him as an eternal son (Genesis 2:7). Knowing all things, God would not be foiled or frustrated when the creature of His love fell and came under judgment. Instead, before there was ever a creation, it had already been decided that Jesus Christ would come and be man’s Deliverer from sin by taking the penalty of death upon Himself. Now, because of Him, man can be restored to obtain the eternal destiny God created him for (Romans 5:6-11, 16:25-27; 2 Timothy 1:8-12; Titus 1:1-3; Hebrews 2:5-18; Revelation 21:1-8).7 So, then, whose report will you believe: fallen men or God’s?
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2 For this reason, brothers in Christ such as Ken Ham and David Rives should be celebrated in the Body of Christ today for their courage in politely, yet, vigorously
standing up to the giant god of evolution and its secular science devotees. These Christian men of science affirm its exciting proper role in discovering, observing, re-
cording, being astounded by and celebrating God’s handiwork when guided by His Word!
3 Google “average age of death.” The heavens and earth under death and the curse show the same kind of rapid and devastating decay (aging) mankind does over a
very short approximately 6,000 year span dating by the Bible would indicate (see article at Answers In Genesis) and doctrinally affirm (Psalm 102:23-27; Hebrews 1:
10-12). Therefore, the dating methods of science that use the actual elements of the creation to measure the passage of time, for example, are flawed from the outset
since these elements have been aged and are aging in accord with God imposed death and His curse. The power of God to rapidly ruin to death is displayed by Jesus
Christ (Mark 11:12-14, 20-22)! Even so, to the glory of God who subjected the creation to death and His curse, it and we in Christ first have hope of soon deliverance
through Him (Psalm 102:28; Romans 8:18-25; 1 John 2:15-17)!
4 See the introduction of the July 14, 2019 post, A Man’s Responsibility To Provide, under the categories, Biblical Worldview and God’s Creatures.
5 They instead, illogically and idolatrously give the glory of biological programming to “mother nature” on faith as a false religious invention while purposely suppressing
the truth of God (Romans 1:18)!
6 God is not only the Programmer, but the active Controller of His creation to include its natural elements, supernatural creatures, ruinous afflictions of death and death
itself (Mark 4:35-5).
7 Restoring men through Jesus Christ is the joyful cause and work of this Ministry. Read the June 29, 2014 post, Fully Restoring Men and posted on July 6, 2014, Christ:
Model Of Perfect Manhood! both under the category, Instruction.
When I hear otherwise solid Bible teachers make an extra special effort to forcefully and corruptly insert women into Scripture passages clearly directed to men, I know the demonic deceit of feminism in these latter days is at work. Nowhere in the Bible does God make any apology for directing His Word to men as a first audience nor will the Son of God do so upon His glorious return! This is because God is purposeful in addressing Himself to His chosen leaders from among the progeny of the first man and federal head of his kind, Adam (Genesis 1:26-28, 2:7-25, 4:1-2, 5:1-4).
As the Lord leads, I write to follow-up the July 21, 2019 post, Worship In God’s House under the category, Call To Repent. My aim is to attempt to help those that will be helped to grasp something of the magnitude of the blasphemy and sin professed Christians and their churches that are guilty are engaged in by brazenly refusing to honor the roles, rank and responsibilities God has assigned men and women in the human family and His house. Repentance is God’s only accepted way out of the severe judgment His holiness demands for this egregious iniquity of His people acting in concert with the world led by Satan in rebellion to profane Him (Ezekiel 22:23-31; Hebrews 10:26-31)!
Roles, rank and corresponding responsibilities are of eternal origin and fully bound up in organization and its related order. Every kind of organization of God and His creation feature roles, rank and corresponding responsibilities within a set order. When the heavens and the earth were created, for example, in relation to and for the benefit of a formless earth beneath waters and in darkness, the triune God set about the business of bringing order to the creation on the very first day by speaking physical light into existence (Genesis 1:1-5). The sun (with other stars) as a “greater” and the moon as a “lesser light” in rank were made on the fourth day (Genesis 1:14-19, NKJV).
As revealed in the Bible’s book of Genesis and science is beginning to understand, the physical creation is an organizational whole with a set order. Though incredulous science naysayers are unwilling to go as far as God’s Word does in making the earth the central object of the vast physical creation, it is so with purpose! As seen in the organizational whole of physical creation, there are assigned roles, rank and responsibilities within a divine designed order among inanimate matter and elements as well as all living things including God’s highest creature, man, whom He created on the earth and holds accountable to govern it (Psalm 8)!
Roles, rank and responsibilities for the proper functioning and order of an organization originate with God not only as something He designed for His creation, but as that which is the natural operation of the divine Family. Indeed, before there was ever any created thing, God--Father, Son and Holy Spirit--as I wrote in my book, The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics1 and a previous post.2 Though equally God, the Father ranks highest in the divine triunity as the Son of God asserted in His submission and declared as a matter of fact during His mortal sojourn on the earth, while the Holy Spirit waits to do the Father and Son’s will (John 1:1-18, 5:16-23, 14:28, 15:26-27, 16:5-15).
The greater the rank, the greater the responsibility! In the divine Family, the Father is over and responsible for all (Ephesians 3:14-19, 4:4-6; James 1:16-18). The angelic creatures God created are organized in rank and order to serve the divine Kingdom (Isaiah 6:1-4, 37:15-16; Daniel 10:13). Fallen angel, Lucifer, patterned his rebel kingdom of darkness after God’s with himself as the “father” head followed by “principalities,” “powers,” “rulers of the darkness” and “spiritual hosts of wickedness” in rank and order (Isaiah 14:12-15; John 8:44; Ephesians 6:12, NKJV). Mankind too, was purposely organized by God with roles, rank and responsibilities within a set order beginning in the family.3
Man the male is God’s appointed head as seen in him being created first followed by his female companion and helper wife that was taken out of him for him (1 Corinthians 11:8-9; 1 Timothy 2:13). When Adam’s wife usurped him and led them into sin, God voiced His perfect will in correction of her and all her daughters to follow for all time in this present age: ‘“And he shall rule over you,’” (Genesis 3:16c, NKJV). This commanded role of men by God is seen to be honored by women with few exceptions throughout the Old Testament across many cultures and is affirmed in the first century New Testament churches filled with Gentiles by Paul, the Jewish apostle to the Gentiles personally ordained by Jesus Christ (Acts 26:12-18; 1 Corinthians 14:33-40; 1 Timothy 2:11-15).4
Paul plainly lays out Heaven’s order of rank: God the Father, Christ, man, woman (1 Corinthians 11:3). Lost today due to the rebellion of feminism and apostasy (but no less required by God)5 is how the apostle lays out the visible respect of rank men are to give Christ our Head and women their husbands as their immediate heads in fulfilling all of the roles and responsibilities of God’s set order of the family that carries over into His house (1 Corinthians 11:4-16; Ephesians 5:22-6:4; Titus 2:1-8). The apostle Peter confirms Paul’s instruction (1 Peter 3:1-7).6 Therefore, professed Christians in rebellion with the world against God’s will ought to repent now! The risen, living Christ continues His cry among American churches, "Who is on the Lord's side?"
2 Read the July 27, 2014 post, God Of Order, under the category, Instruction.
3 Roles, rank and responsibilities in a set order exist in every kind of organization of mankind beyond the family to include governments, militaries and corporations. Only
the most extremely deluded of rebels resist the reality of this truth!
4 The usually cynically and wickedly asked question invariable arises here: “So, what can women do in the church” as if being seen taking authority over and leading men
is the only worthwhile way to serve God in His house. Neither men nor women should be seeking to do anything in God’s house to be seen which is of the flesh. But
God has intentionally organized and ordered His house to operate through the agency of the Holy Spirit who equips each member with spiritual gifts to serve the divine
will. And while there are gifts, callings and ministries that are more visible than others, every gifted person has their important part in the Body of Christ as the apostle
Paul also taught (1 Corinthians 12:1-26). Thus, there is no Heaven ordained reason, for example, to purposely put women up to say anything during a full assembly of
the church just so they are included. Men do this for whatever reasons out of the sinful flesh and demonic deceit of religion (Mark 7:5-13). Also, the Holy Spirit is not
confused. He does not gift and call women to disobediently rule over men in God’s house. See the May 20, 2018 post, The Value Of Women To Jesus Christ, under
the category, God’s Creatures.
5 Just because His people refuse to obey His will and God chooses not to severely jump on the disobedience with judgment right away, does not invalidate His will as king
Josiah realized when the lost “Book of the Law” was brought and read to him (2 Kings 22:8-13, NKJV).
6 In my book, I reference the excellent book by P.B. Wilson, Liberated Through Submission, (Eugene: Harvest House, 1990), where she comes to be amazed at just how
much responsibility men have under Christ in their family roles as husbands and fathers. As a result, she urges her Christian sisters to embrace voluntary submission
to their husbands as God’s will rather than in line with the demonically inspired rebellion of feminism, seeking to usurp them in disobedience. Being the head is not just a
title of authority, but a major responsibility God has given men He holds accountable to carry out in His image and likeness. Again, the greater the rank, the greater the
responsibility! For those that wickedly assert God’s will in this is taking people and churches backwards, shame on you! Our blessings come from God through obedi-
ence, not rebellion (Philippians 2:5-11; Hebrews 5:8-9)!
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