Jesus treated the accounts from Genesis as real historical events. He affirmed the creation of Adam and Eve, the flood, Abraham, and even Lot and his wife. And Jesus was even a young-earth creationist!

When asked about marriage, Jesus replied that “from the beginning of creation God made them male and female.” Evolutionists believe humans came millions of years after the beginning. But Jesus said God created us from the very beginning—that means the earth must be young.

You know, Jesus constantly stressed that God’s Word was the authority over man’s ideas and traditions—a lesson every Christian needs to take to heart!

The idea of millions of years came from an interpretation of the rock layers and fossils. Many Christians think this is the only interpretation, so they try and fit the long ages into the Bible somewhere. But Noah’s flood washes away the long ages!

You see, if there really was a global flood, like the Bible says, we should find billions of dead things, buried in rock layers, laid down by water, all over the Earth. And that’s exactly what we find! The flood, not slow processes over millions of years, explains why we have rock layers and fossils. Yes, the Bible’s history, it explains what we see in the world.

Many Christians believe they can add millions of years into the Bible. And usually it’s the days of creation that get stretched out to be millions of years long each. But when God gave the Sabbath commandment in Exodus it says, “for in six days the Lord made” everything. God commanded the Israelites to work for six days, and rest for one day. This copies the pattern God established during creation week.

If God didn’t create in six days and rest for one, then this command was meaningless. Should we work for millions of years and then rest for a million years? Of course not!

You can’t fit millions of years into Genesis!

Many Christians think Scripture doesn’t say anything about the age of the earth so it could be millions of years old. Now, Scripture doesn’t give us an exact age or it’d be outdated every year! But it does make it clear earth isn’t millions of years old.

You see, Genesis one tells us God created everything in six days. Some people try and squeeze millions of years into these days, but the context shows they were ordinary days.

In the Old Testament, whenever “day” is used with “evening,” “morning” or a number it always means an ordinary day. Genesis one uses all of these!

You simply can’t fit millions of years into Genesis.

Our world is groaning. Suffering, disease, and natural disasters constantly capture the headlines and intrude into our own lives. And it makes people wonder, “why? Why is there so much death and suffering in our world?”

Well, the answers are in Genesis. God created a perfect world but then we sinned. Our sin broke creation, it was no longer “very good.” It’s our sin that brought death, suffering, and disease into the world.

But it’s not all bad news. The good news is Jesus came and died on the cross to pay the penalty for our sin and someday he will return and make a new heavens and a new earth where death will be no more.

According to evolutionists earth isn’t special. It’s just one planet out of many where life happened to evolve. But evolutionists can’t seem to find all these other supposed earth-like planets, let alone any with life!

The more we study, the more we learn that earth is special with just the right conditions for life. Of course, this is exactly what we’d expect starting with God’s Word. Earth was purposely formed for life. And it was to earth that God sent his Son, Jesus.

The lack of earth-like planets isn’t a problem for us, but it’s a big problem for evolutionists who desperately need us to not be special.

Some people mock the biblical teaching that there was no death before sin by saying things like “so Adam never stepped on an ant before the fall?”

Well, Scripture teaches that originally God’s creation was “very good.” Death was the consequence for Adam’s sin. But what about accidental death before the fall?

Well, the all-powerful God upholds the universe. And the God who kept the Israelites’ shoes from wearing out for forty years and protected the three Israelites from the fiery furnace, can certainly keep accidents from happening in a perfect world!

We can absolutely trust the Bible’s teaching on death and sin.

When it comes to our identity, the foundation is in Genesis and God creating us male and female. As our culture drifts further from God’s Word, we see the consequences.

Men are now allowed in women’s private spaces, like restrooms, changerooms, and shelters. Male prisoners are being housed with women simply because they claim they’re women too. Men are winning women’s sports events and taking their scholarships. Children are being transitioned behind their parents’ back with lifelong medical consequences.

Yes, it matters whether we start with God’s Word. And God’s Word is clear: male and female he created them.

Biblical creationists like me believe that God created kinds—not species—of organisms with a huge amount of genetic variability built into their genes. After the global flood, as these kinds spread through the earth, they adapted to different environments, usually by losing information. What I’ve just described is natural selection.

Now, a lot of people believe it’s the same thing as evolution. But according to evolutionary ideas, one kind changes into another kind. That requires a gain of information, but natural selection reduces information. Evolution and natural selection are actually opposites!

There are some Christians who claim nature is an extra book of the Bible. But consider this: in Isaiah it says, “the Word of our God stands forever.”

Nature will eventually pass away, but God’s Word will endure forever and ever. It alone is permanent and foundational for knowing truth.

If we rely on nature or reinterpret God’s Word according to our interpretations of nature, we’re really just building on sinking sand. We need to be like the wise builder who chose to build his house on the rock. God’s Word provides an unchanging foundation for our thinking. We need to interpret nature through God’s Word.