What I Wish I'd Never Been Taught

As a little girl, I heard the Bible stories my mama told me and I said my prayers.  God gave me the gift of faith and I believed everything I'd heard.  I believed heaven was such a wonderful place that I sat myself down in the middle of a busy road hoping to go there right away! 

After first grade, my parents stopped going to church.  I did attend church with another family fairly regularly.  I cannot remember who they were.  How I wish I could so I could thank them!  By the time I was in junior high, though, I was no longer attending church.  I was also being taught that the earth was formed billions of years ago in some kind of cosmic accident.  I had evolved from some single-celled organism, I learned. 

I still believed in God so I figured that God had used evolution to make us.  I didn't know the Bible at all.  I had never read it for myself nor was it read in my home.  I decided that it wasn't my problem to figure out how both creation and evolution could be true.  I held to that view well after I'd become a staff member at a Bible-believing church. 

Only when I watched a video lecture on dinosaurs and the Bible delivered by Ken Ham, did I come to understand that God's Word really was true--all of it.  My eyes were opened and I realized that it takes more faith to believe in the theory of evolution than it does in our Creator, God.  I am now reading a wonderful book by Ken Ham called, "Why Won't They Listen?"  In it, he argues that people do not accept the gospel of Jesus Christ as our risen Savior, because the foundation is not there.  They don't believe in a God who created the world in six days.  They don't believe that Adam and Eve really lived and sinned and caused the death and destruction we currently see.  Without those foundational beliefs, they cannot accept the idea that Jesus Christ was required to be sacrificed for our sins.

Answers in Genesis is an incredible ministry that teaches science from a creationist and Biblical view.  They are in the process of building a fabulous creation museum.  Please check out their website and consider ordering their materials.  (www.answersingenesis.org).  God's blessings to you!!