No Monkey Business

No Monkey Business 

An explanation for non Christians why Evangelical Born Again Christians must repudiate Darwin’s Theory of Evolution.  

By Bill Schaeffer on December 30, 2003.

1) In the Evangelical Christian interpretation of the Genesis story: When Adam and Eve disobeyed the Lord God, and ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge, they were cast out of the Garden of Eden and were cursed  with the Original Sin.  The punishment was that Woman would bear her children with great pain, Man would be forced to earn a living by the sweat of his brow, and there would forever be enmity between men and women.

2) This Original Sin has been passed down to all humanity from Adam and Eve.

3) According to St. Augustine, the method of transmission is in the man’s sperm.

4) Also, we are all born with an immortal soul that will survive us, after we die.

5) This soul will eventually go to either Heaven or Hell, after we die.  

6) Heaven is a very pleasant and desirable place for your soul to spend eternity.  Your soul can only get into Heaven if your sins have been forgiven.   Only Jesus can forgive your sins.

7) Hell is a very unpleasant place for your soul to spend eternity.  “Suffering eternal torment in the Lake of Fire,” is a common description.   If you have not been forgiven of your sins, your soul will go to Hell.  Only if you believe in Jesus and ask Him to forgive your sins is it possible the your sins might be forgiven.  Only then can you escape going to Hell.

8) Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit and not by a mortal man.  His mother was a Virgin and He alone of all humanity was born without Original Sin.

9) The ONLY way our immortal soul can get into Heaven is by the Grace of Jesus Christ who died on the cross to save our sins.   He sacrificed His life so that God would forgive our sins, and  our Original Sin.

10) Only the belief in Jesus can remove the Original Sin because He was born without Original Sin.   Actually, it would be more accurate to say that belief in Jesus can remove Original Sin because He is The Christ, The Son of God, The Messiah, and the Lord of the World on his Second Coming.  Because of His divine nature, He can remove our sin.    The fact that He was born without Original Sin is just confirmation of His Divine Nature.  

11) Jesus triumphing over death, when He was raised from the dead after three days, is the ultimate proof of His divine nature and the divine truth of His philosophy.  “After 40 days He ascended into Heaven and sits at the right had of God the Father Almighty.  He is the one who judges the quick and the dead…”

12) We need to have Faith in Jesus so that Jesus will forgive our sins and we might obtain Eternal Life for our Immortal Soul.

13) In this metaphysical system, EVEN If YOU LIVE A PERFECT LIFE AND HAVE NOT COMMITTED ANY SINFUL BEHAVIOR, YOU ARE STILL STAINED WITH ORIGINAL SIN AND YOU STILL NEED THE FORGIVENESS OF JESUS TO REMOVE THAT SIN, BEFORE YOU CAN GET INTO HEAVEN.

14) If, however, the Garden of Eden Story is NOT Literally True, then

            A) There was no Adam and Eve.

            B) There is no Original Sin, because Adam and Eve were not there to give it to us.

            C) There is no absolutely compelling reason for Jesus to have died on the cross, because there is no 
                 Original Sin to forgive.

Reminder: Original Sin is the most critical Sin.   It is conceivable, but unlikely, to not commit any other sins in a lifetime.   It is extraordinarily unlikely that someone would never commit a single sin during their lifetime, but if they did, they would STILL have to be forgiven of the Original Sin of Adam and Eve  before they could get their soul into Heaven.

15) To remove the single, absolutely compelling, metaphysical reason for Jesus the Christ’s Death on the Cross critically compromises the logical underpinning of Orthodox Christian Theology.

16) To prevent having to answer that uncomfortable challenge, Darwinism must be discredited and Creationism must be accepted as an alternative Scientific explanation of the origin of the world.

17) Note: If we do accept Darwinism and discount the Garden of Eden myth as being “Spiritual Truth, but not Literal Truth,” this does not necessarily compromise who Jesus actually was, or what he actually said.  It just forces us to reevaluate the Theological Constructs that support that particular Worldview.   Ultimately, the result can only be positive because it will eventually bring us closer to Truth.     And as we’ve all been told, “Know the Truth and the Truth will set you free.”

Copyright © 2003, 2014 William A. Schaeffer