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Ecc 1:14 "I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind."
Our bent toward curiosity was indeed our downfall in the beginning. One foothold was all it took. In that moment, not only did we "disobey" God, but we opened ourselves up to disprove God. Gen 3:4 "But the serpent said to the woman, 'You will surely not die". Understand, this is the voice and posture of science today.
Anything that causes stumbling and division is sin, see Gen 3:4. Man's interpretation is the enemy of God, "Well maybe He didn't really mean we would surely die?" Assume that there was plenty of rationalizing before the bite.
This is not a toughy. We're all born to die. For all our time will but last a flicker of a moment. The toughy is denying self in all forms. Thinking about creation dates is utterly self-foolishness and an obvious slap in God's face. Senseless thing for something with an 80-90 year lifespan to even question the fabric of time and space as God created it. Again, it is a stumbling block and we're tiptoeing around a weed that corrupted us in the garden.
Trust God. Learn from our mistakes. We can remember that it took one act of disobedience. No modern voice is any more seductive than that first voice of unbelief in the garden. Know that voice, how to hear it and how it comes at you. If you are a believer it will come, a lot. You simply say, I am not of Adam, I am of Christ. Battle won. Eternity is with the King. Don't go back to wondering about how the earth was created, how long ago, whether science says this or that. Science is Gen 3:4; get away from it.
Learn from Solomon.
Our bent toward curiosity was indeed our downfall in the beginning. One foothold was all it took. In that moment, not only did we "disobey" God, but we opened ourselves up to disprove God. Gen 3:4 "But the serpent said to the woman, 'You will surely not die". Understand, this is the voice and posture of science today.
Anything that causes stumbling and division is sin, see Gen 3:4. Man's interpretation is the enemy of God, "Well maybe He didn't really mean we would surely die?" Assume that there was plenty of rationalizing before the bite.
This is not a toughy. We're all born to die. For all our time will but last a flicker of a moment. The toughy is denying self in all forms. Thinking about creation dates is utterly self-foolishness and an obvious slap in God's face. Senseless thing for something with an 80-90 year lifespan to even question the fabric of time and space as God created it. Again, it is a stumbling block and we're tiptoeing around a weed that corrupted us in the garden.
Trust God. Learn from our mistakes. We can remember that it took one act of disobedience. No modern voice is any more seductive than that first voice of unbelief in the garden. Know that voice, how to hear it and how it comes at you. If you are a believer it will come, a lot. You simply say, I am not of Adam, I am of Christ. Battle won. Eternity is with the King. Don't go back to wondering about how the earth was created, how long ago, whether science says this or that. Science is Gen 3:4; get away from it.
Learn from Solomon.