If there really was a worldwide flood, what would the evidence be? Well, billions of dead things, buried in rock layers, laid down by water all over the earth. And that’s exactly what we do find! The evidence for the flood is all around us, from massive fossil graveyards to sea creatures on the tops of mountains to creatures buried alive by the thousands.

Now on a recent video on our YouTube channel, someone commented that, despite all the evidence for the flood, it didn’t happen because fish could never have survived such a violent event, and we still have them today. So what we’re going to do this week is answer these questions. Yes, there are answers!

All this week we’ve been looking at the personhood of the unborn. And we’ve seen that, since life begins at fertilization, taking the life of a baby at any stage of development—it’s murder. And God’s Word is clear that murder is a sin against our neighbor and against the God who created that person.

So what if you’ve had an abortion or discarded your embryos during a fertility treatment? Is there hope for someone who has ended an innocent human life? Yes! There is hope for all because Jesus came and paid for our sin—every one of your sins—on the cross when he died. And he freely offers forgiveness to all who will come to him!

When many parents are told their child will be born with a disability, they’re urged to abort their child. And, tragically, many will do it.

We’re often told this is the compassionate thing to do. But in a biblical worldview we see it for what it is: the murder of the most vulnerable. You see, a person’s value isn’t determined by their level of ability or quality of life. Their value was assigned by the Creator when he made them in his very image.

Yes, we live in a fallen world, broken by sin and so our bodies aren’t perfect. But every person—including those with disabilities—is made in God’s image, deserving of life.

The Bible says that we’re fearfully and wonderfully made—and we really are!

Consider that by just twenty-two days of life you had a beating heart. Or that by eight weeks you had a sense of touch and could move around. Or that by just eleven weeks of life you could wiggle your fingers and had your own unique fingerprints. Or consider that by the last trimester you were already learning language and could hear and recognize the sound of your mother’s voice!

The more we learn about life in the womb, the more the biblical truth is obvious. Just as God’s Word says, we are fearfully and wonderfully made right from the moment of fertilization.

Throughout their development, babies go by different names—zygote, embryo, and fetus, for example. Now some people will argue that an unborn child isn’t a person, he or she is just an embryo or a fetus. But a name isn’t what makes us a person—being made in God’s image is!

And, anyway, those names are just terms to describe a stage of development, like terms we use after birth like newborn or toddler. We wouldn’t say a newborn is less of a person than a toddler just because they’re less developed. And the same should be true for life in the womb.

Every unborn baby is a person, made in God’s image, deserving of life.

The question of when life begins is an important one—how you answer can be a matter of life or death. Now, scientifically the answer should be obvious. Life begins at fertilization. At that moment you have a living being. And all the information that makes you is present at fertilization—nothing new is added. So, of course, that tiny being is a life: a person.

And the Bible confirms this truth. God’s Word always treats the unborn child as a person.

Now if every unborn baby—from a tiny, fertilized egg to a newborn—is a person than ending life with an abortion or by discarding embryos is murder.

All this week we’ve considered what Jesus said about creation. But did Jesus ever make an explicit statement about how he created? Yes! You see, all Scripture is the Word of Christ. We aren’t limited to just the New Testament!

In Genesis we read that God created in six days. And in Exodus Jesus confirms that, yes, “in six days” the Lord made everything. That’s included in the Ten Commandments which God wrote with his very finger!

The New Testament confirms that Jesus is the Creator, and the Old Testament gives us the details on how he created. And he didn’t create slowly over millions of years. He created in six days!

Yesterday we learned that Jesus told the religious leaders that if they believed Moses, they’d believe him. Clearly Jesus took the first five books of the Old Testament as literal history—and so should we!

And in Moses’ writings we read “for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them and rested on the seventh day.” We have a seven-day week, with one day of rest, because God created in six days and rested one day. Now if the days of creation were millions of years each, the basis for our week makes no sense!

We can trust the writings of Moses because they’re the very words of God.

Jesus once told the religious leaders that if they believed Moses they’d believe him, because Moses wrote about him. Now what does this have to do with interpreting Genesis?

Well, Jesus clearly believed Moses! And Moses wrote Genesis, along with the other four books of the Pentateuch. And he thought Moses’ writings were so clear that the religious leaders should’ve recognized Jesus from them, if only they’d believe!

But if those first chapters of Genesis don’t really mean what they say then Genesis isn’t clear—it’s confusing and we need modern “science” to understand it!

No, Moses was clear—God created in just six days.

This week we’re looking at what Jesus said in the New Testament about creation. Well, when speaking to the religious leaders Jesus makes a parallel statement that compares the foundation of the world and the shedding of the blood of Abel, the son of Adam and Eve, who was murdered by his brother.

Now this parallel of creation and the time of Abel makes no sense if the foundations of the world were laid billions of years before Abel ever lived! But if Abel lived very close to creation, like Genesis teaches, Jesus’ statement makes perfect sense!

Yes, Abel lived right at the beginning of creation, just like Genesis teaches.