From Dirt not Slime

Genesis 2:15-22

In 1970 Jan and I lost our home and our stuff to a lady named Celia, no one gave her much credit till after she had finished her chores of changing the landscape of the Corpus Christi area.  All our stuff was gone or destroyed and that included pictures and memories; books like my junior high annual, and because of that I’ve lost the name of a nice lady who taught me science.  She made an impact on my life!  I have no misgivings, I missed ninety percent of what she was attempting to teach, but this one thought has never left my thinking.   She told us that we were unlike any other animal because God had given us a soul, and our soul is what sets us apart from all the other things God created.  The soul is made up of the mind, the will and the emotions, and I learned much later from my friend Bill that the brain is not the mind, the brain is a hunk of meat, it is an organ, like a liver, and it is the will that takes information from the mind and the emotions and chooses what to do with that information. 

Bill and Anabel Gillham in “Life Time Guarantee” taught me the following; the mind (your “thinker”) analyzes data and makes recommendations to the will.  The emotions (your “feeler”) respond to various stimuli and exert influence on the will.  The will makes decisions.  It works like a light switch; it is either on or off.  You don’t actually “make up your mind” about anything; you make up your will.  You may be asking, so what is the big deal, look at verses 18,19, “Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.  So out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought then to the man to see what he would call them.  And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.”  Do you recall verse 7, “then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.”  The big deal is that man and animals came from the same ground, but God placed in us a soul, and by doing that in His wisdom He gave you and me the ability to make decisions, very important ones like; will we believe in the Lord God as our Creator, or will we choose to buy into evolution and believe we came from slime, never asking the question where did the slime get its origin.

This is why the book of Genesis is of the utmost importance, it is this book of beginnings that sets the stage for what you will believe about God, and about His Holy Word, the Bible.  You cannot say I place my faith in God and His Son Jesus Christ and not accept this truth; “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Any person, who places their faith in the god of evolution, must have great faith.  Look at the six thousand years of the history of man; is he evolving into something better?  The answer is found in the watching of the six o’clock news, mankind has more knowledge, but his heart is still evil, and without the Lord God of Genesis 1:1, he is without hope.

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice