The Truth of Genesis: Living In A Land That Loves A Lie, Part 1 of 3
On Easter Sunday, April 15th in 1990, I was visiting a church near my home in Penn Hills, PA. A lady in Sunday School asked the pastor “How can I teach my teen-aged children about Adam & Eve in the Garden of Eden when they are being taught evolution in school?”. All the pastor would say is “just believe the Bible”. I considered that a copout, and realized that theologians had no clue on how to explain Genesis. So I decided that I’d resolve the so called creation/evolution controversy. I didn’t care if I proved the Bible to be wrong, or science to be wrong. I just wanted to help that lady, and others that wanted the truth.
I read most all available books in the library on prehistoric man, cosmology, geology, evolution, Big Bang, and biblical creation. I was especially disappointed in the creation books. It was obvious that the authors were “grasping for straws” and did not understand the Genesis text themselves. I also began to read Genesis, over and over again to try to make sense of it.
This went on until February 1991, when I got the revelation that Moses was not writing about Creation Week. I didn’t know “what” he was writing about, but I did more research based on that angle. It was then when I began writing the manuscript “Moses Didn’t Write About Creation!”.
Other revelations came concerning other areas of Genesis, such as Jacob leaving home when he was 75 years old, and getting married when he was 83, in 2075 BC. The flood of Noah was in 2611 BC, and the Babel Tower incident (division of the continents) was in 2509 BC. But the seven days of Moses remained a mystery, until the Lord spoke nine words to me one night in December 1993.
After going to the Carnegie Library to read a direct Hebrew to English translation, confirming what I had heard, I became the leading expert in the world (“foremost terrestrial authority”) on the book of Genesis.
From 1994 through 2004, twelve seminars were given, (at two hotels and one convention center), in three different states. A total of nine people attended. Yes, the events were advertised in the local papers, radio stations, and leaflets handed out. Why is it that they were not largely attended? Maybe it’s because we’re living in a land that loves a lie.
Using the internet, I wrote to every creationist organization in the world that I could find at the time, trying to introduce the truth of Genesis. I recently have written Ken Ham’s Answers In Genesis, the Institute of Creation Research (ICR) in San Diego (both of “young Earth”), the staff scholars of Reasons To Believe in California (Day/Age), and also the Discovery Institute (Intelligent Design) in Seattle Washington. I wrote each one, copying in each submission to the National Center for Science Education (NCSE), asking that we establish a “united front” against the ideology of evolution, and teach the truth of Genesis.
I challenged them on points of scripture, but only the ICR responded…., once. When they were cornered concerning “where did the water come from” on the first day, and why male & female are made after the animals in Genesis chapter one, and Adam is made before the animals, then Eve afterwards in Genesis chapter two, the ICR cut out and ran. Did any of them want to learn and share the truth of Genesis? No, not a single one, because we’re living in a land that loves a lie.
I copied in the NCSE since I had “been around the table” with them in the past, so that all parties could see what I was trying to do, and also that the NCSE could be a witness to my efforts in case those other “creationist clowns” claimed ignorance. I had also offered to meet with the NCSE.
They wrote back twice, but refused to put their doctrine on the table with mine, to see if there was another plausible (realistic) explanation of the 600+ million year fossil record of death. Why won’t they meet with me,or have a joint Evolution/Genesis presentation (face-off)? Dr. Eugenie Scott, their Executive Director, was so willing to spread her ignorance about creationism, but refused to sit down with the leading expert on the book of Genesis in order to get her facts straight. It’s because we’re living in a land that loves a lie.
Next we shall expose the hypocrisy of the Sanhedrin in Israel.
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