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It requires no great penetration to see that the real object of attack by the supporters of Evolution is the Bible, with its revelation of Christ as the Redeemer and Saviour of men. It matters little or nothing whether a perishing child of Adam believes in the existence of God or not, so long as he is blinded to the one thing which most concerns him to know, and that is the salvation of God, which the Bible reveals, and which is received by all who believe "the testimony that God gave of His Son."
That Evolution serves most effectually to blind the minds of all who accept it to the facts of sin and Redemption is undeniable. Therefore the pretence, masked by the term "Theistic Evolution," that the doctrine can be reconciled with the truth of Christianity, is merely an attempt to make it more successfully destructive, by throwing incautious people off their guard. There is not a single deadly heresy, among all that were, in past generations, openly opposed to the faith of Jesus Christ, which has not now succeeded, by one means or another, in entering into and establishing itself within the precincts of professing Christendom, and which is not, in our day, openly preached and taught in the "churches" and theological seminaries.
When the main features of the present state of Christendom, as briefly outlined above, are understood, there will be, as Prof. Graebner has well said, "no need to inquire why, on the one hand, enemies of the Bible in all ranks of life greeted with such joyous acclaim the principle announced by Darwin, and why, on the other hand, a chief purpose of Christian apologetics has become the demonstration that Christianity is justified even by reason in that view of the origin of the world which it inculcates, and that, on the other hand, the evolutionary hypothesis is contradicted by the facts of religion, of history, and of natural science."
The spread of the doctrine of Evolution has been phenomenal. Therefore, many theologians became alarmed, "because they thought that ?Science? had succeeded in proving that all things were produced by Evolution. They began to consider how they could reconcile theology and ?Science.? They imagined that evolution was an established science. They said: ?We will change the lion into a lamb by changing its name.?
And so they called it?Theistic Evolution,? but accepted the agnostic or atheistic method, and then began to sleep comfortably over their wisdom ( ?)"( Fairhurst).
It is indeed a fact that those "Christians" who have thus surrendered to infidel Evolution have done little more than devise a name.
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