We're going to use the Australian accent because you're going to speak it in heaven.
I know you can't prove I'm wrong just yet.
Now I believe the church today can see that there's a lot of problems in this nation,
problems around the world.
There's a moral crisis in this nation.
We realize there's something dreadfully wrong because this nation no longer has as its foundation
the absolute authority of the word of God.
But I believe one of the problems with the church is that the church doesn't seem to
be able by and large to give answers to those problems, real answers, real solutions.
You know I think one of the reasons from my experience is that for many people the Bible
is just a book about religion and sort of separate to the world.
They don't really understand that Christianity is not just based in some interesting stories.
Christianity is based in real history.
When you think about it we can't be saved apart from history.
The fact that Jesus Christ was a real man, he was God and man, but the fact that these
events occurred in history is very, very important.
The fact that there was a first Adam which is why Jesus Christ is called the last Adam.
That history is so very, very important.
You know I call the Bible the history book of the universe because I believe we need
to understand that that's what it is and it's foundational to all of our thinking in every
area.
You see the Bible connects to reality, connects to the real world.
Today I find a lot of people have the Bible separate to the real world and it tells us
about Jesus and so on and we can be saved, but they don't understand that if the Bible
is a revelation from God who knows everything, infinite knowledge and wisdom, it must be
foundational to all of our thinking in every area.
And when you understand what the Bible tells us about the history of the universe, that
there was a perfect creation, but it was corrupted when sin and death ended the world because
the first man Adam rebelled against God.
There was a catastrophe called the flood of Noah's day, the confusion at the time of the
Tower of Babel and thus different people groups forming around the world.
The fact that Jesus Christ becomes a man, he dies on a cross, raised from the dead.
One day there's going to be a new heavens and new earth to come.
Do you realize that everything we teach in Christianity and everything we understand
is based in that timeline of history?
Somewhere from creation to consummation.
Everything is based in that timeline of history.
And what I want to show to us in this particular session, I've divided into two parts, is that
when we have the Bible as the foundation to our thinking and understand it's a history
book of the universe, we can give answers to these problems.
And I'm just going to deal with one particular question tonight.
The issue of racism.
And I'm going to give you what I believe is the Genesis answer to racism and to show you
how practical it is when you take the Bible as your foundation and what a difference it
can make.
And we're going to talk about the origin of the races.
To start with, I have a question for you.
How many different races are there in the world today?
One, six, eight, more than 10.
Doesn't matter.
Who would say one?
Who says six?
Who says eight?
Who's not sure?
Who'd like to know?
A scientist who's an anthropologist at the University of Michigan before the American
Association for the Advancement of Science Convention in Atlanta in 1995 said this, races
are social construct derived mainly from perceptions conditioned by events of recorded history
and it has no basic biological reality.
Curiously enough, the idea comes very close to being of American manufacture.
You see, even scientists agree all around the world that all human beings are classified
as homo sapiens sapiens.
They're all the same genus species and subspecies.
So in essence, really, the answer is there is only one race, the human race.
There's only one race of people.
There aren't any different races.
Now, of course, this fits exactly with the biblical view when you think about the biblical
view and that is that all people go back to the Torah Bible, back to Noah, back to the
first man Adam.
And of course, therefore we could say that there really is only one race of humans because
we're all descendants of Adam and Eve.
Now when people look at that, they say, but look, I don't understand.
Even look around this auditorium tonight.
There are many differences.
Look at those differences and those differences are great.
Skin color, eye shape and so on.
How do we explain those differences if there's only one race of people?
Well, to do this, we need to understand first of all, in this first part of this tonight,
we need to understand some basic genetics.
And so I want to teach you some basic genetics.
We're going to base it on the Bible and then we're going to apply it to the human race.
We're going to start with Genesis chapter one where God said he created distinct kinds
of animals and plants to reproduce after their own kind.
In fact, the emphasis seems to be there in Genesis one that God created distinct kinds
that they wouldn't change into another kind.
They'd reproduce their own kind.
Now sadly today we find that the philosophy of evolution, which pervades our education
system in the media would teach people that, ah, the Bible's wrong because the Bible says
God made kinds of animals and plants to reproduce after their own kind.
But we know that animals change.
Well, you know what?
Animals do change.
Don't they?
For instance, do dogs change?
Dogs do change.
What do they change into?
Dogs.
Exactly right.
And I'm sure you've heard of wolves and coyotes and dingoes and collies, poodles that aren't
really dogs, but I really call them, I really call them a collection of mistakes, you know,
a massive mutations on four legs.
It's, it's really a great example of the curse, the poodle.
But anyway, dogs produce dogs.
What were those dogs?
Dogs.
What are they?
Dogs.
What will they be?
Dogs.
Is that evolution by the way?
No, that's just what?
Dogs.
Now people say, but, but explain this to me because you know, these sorts of changes really
are in essence used in our education system to teach people that evolution's true.
And of course we need to understand this before we could even talk about people and where
we came from.
Well, we know that in ourselves we have some DNA, our genes, the information that builds
us and the DNA that we have determines whether we're going to be a cabbage or a crocodile
or a dog or whatever.
So dogs have, if you like dog DNA and the information is written like this, just as
you could write the Morse code using, use the Morse code to write the Bible using beads.
Well in a sense you've got these little beads along these ropes of this molecule of heredity
that write all the information that determines that this is a dog, this is a cat and so on.
Now I'm sure some of you remember back at school, that was probably millions of years
ago for some of us, but actually I don't believe in millions of years, but anyway, I'm sure
you remember about genes and dominant genes and recessive genes and look I'm going to
try and explain this to you tonight and we've got to make it very simplistic.
Even though it's much more complicated than this, nonetheless the principles are really
the same.
And you remember how we were taught there's big A little A, big B little B, remember that?
So you see when God makes a male dog and a female dog and they have these genes, then
you can get lots of variability.
By the way, do you know how much variability is inbuilt in our genes?
Let me give you an idea.
If you took one man and one woman from this audience, do you know how many children you
could have without getting two looking the same?
They estimate there's something like 10 to the 80th power atoms in the entire universe.
Do you know how many possible combinations of children you could get without two looking
the same?
Ten to the two thousandth and something power.
That's incredible variability, isn't it?
And you see that's built in there right from the beginning.
Well, dogs have that sort of variability too.
And so therefore you could get different varieties of dogs.
In fact, let me let me apply this practically.
You imagine two dogs get off an arc in the Middle East and they get married and have
kids and their kids get married and have kids and their kids get married and have kids and
they have some family feuds and so some move this direction, some move that direction and
so on.
Over a period of time, you could understand how you could get different combinations of
information and depending on which information went in which direction, you get different
varieties of the dog kind.
You could end up with wolves and dingoes.
You get the idea.
You know, we call that we call that natural selection, which of course is what Darwin
observed.
Darwin was right about natural selection.
But you know what's taught in schools and we need to understand a little something that's
a little thing here that's very important.
What we're taught in schools, for instance, and universities is that our natural selection
is part of the mechanism for evolution.
But you realize that natural selection results in redistribution of information, loss of
information, specialization.
You can even get to the stage where you'll find species won't interbreed anymore and
evolutionists say, see they've evolved.
Actually the opposite is true.
Now they can't even regain the original information that they had.
You see, if you look at this one here has a little a little B's little C's.
It no longer has the big A's, big B's, big C's.
In other words, it's lost information.
But it's still what a dog, right?
In fact, for evolution to occur, you've got to add in new information.
Where's that going to come from?
Dr. Wernher Gitt from Germany makes a very interesting comment.
He says in his book in the beginning, there is no known law of nature, no known process,
no known sequence of events which can cause information to originate by itself in matter.
You know what we know from real science?
Information only comes from information.
So how do you get new information to arise from matter to change one kind of animal into
another?
You know what real science tells us?
It doesn't work.
It just can't work.
In fact, what natural selection does in the long run is result in loss of information,
but not new information that's added.
Now when we understand that, people will say, well, wait a minute, wait a minute.
What about mutations?
You've heard of mutations haven't you?
Well, mutations are changes that occur in our genes.
And evolutionists say, ah, but natural selection plus mutations.
And every now and then you get a mutation that can add a change into the genes to enable
evolution to occur.
But Dr. Lee Spettner, who's a fellow at Johns Hopkins University, a very qualified scientist,
says this, all point mutations that have been studied on the molecular level turn out to
reduce the genetic information and not to increase it.
And he goes on and says this, not even one mutation has been observed that adds a little
information to the genome.
By the way, you know what blows my mind as a biology teacher?
I was a biology teacher in the public schools in Australia.
The teachers would teach that natural selection plus mutation is a mechanism for evolution.
That's what taught in the public schools today.
But it's actually the opposite of evolution.
As a biology teacher, that blows my mind that they can teach that.
But they do.
But of course, teachers often give examples like this.
Ah, but insects become resistant to poisons.
How many of you have heard that before?
By the way, do you know what happens in insect resistance?
In every instance known so far, the resistance was already part of the genetic variability.
In other words, if you were all mosquitoes in a swamp and I sprayed you with DDT, most
of you would die, but some survive because you've got the genetic variability to do so.
Ah, but they say bacteria.
Some bacteria become resistant to antibiotics.
Well some are resistant because of that genetic variability.
But you know, some are also resistant because of mutations.
But you know the interesting thing?
They can become resistant because of a mutation, but it's a downhill change.
For instance, some of them have receptors that can hook onto the drug and cause it to
kill the bacteria.
But if there's a mutation that stops the receptor doing that, it becomes resistant.
But now it has less information.
Right?
And there are many examples like that.
And you see, what we do in the present world, because of sin and the curse, we know that
there are these mutations and mistakes that are downhill changes.
And so we look at animals like dogs and we say, oh look at this one.
This one's got a mutation.
It's stuffed its nose up into its face and its face up into its head.
And we say, wow, we'll breed a bulldog.
And so, you know, we breed the bulldog.
Or we look down here and say, oh, he's a mean little dog and he's another mean little dog
and you breed him together and get a poodle and things like that.
And so what we do is we artificially select by separating out certain dogs and that's
how we get our domestic breeds.
And by the way, because they're so full of mutations, those domestic breeds don't really
survive very well on their own, do they?
You notice that?
I mean, if you own a poodle, it costs you millions of dollars to keep the thing alive,
doesn't it?
You lead it outside, it can't find its way home.
I mean, you know, if it gets a cold, you rush it to the vet and you lay awake all night wondering
if it'll be dead by morning.
But the mongrel dog down the street, you can run over those things in a truck and they
get up and wave and off they go.
So you see over a period of time, we can actually get our domestic breeds.
But you know what?
This is not evolution.
It's the opposite of evolution.
In fact, let me explain it this way.
Here is a jar of jelly beans representing the original variability in the dog kind.
If we start with that original variability over a period of time, you can actually get
less and less information, less and less variability.
You can get to the stage where there's not that much variability left.
Don't you know something?
That has nothing to do with evolution.
That is the opposite of evolution.
But you see, when you start to understand this, it enables you to have some answers.
And by the way, isn't that what we need?
Some answers.
For instance, you know, the number of times skeptics have said to me, but how did Noel
get all the animals on the ark?
Well, how many animals did he need?
He didn't need to take dingoes and wolves and coyotes and Great Dane and a little Chihuahua
and he certainly didn't have poodles.
All he needed were two what?
Two dogs.
Exactly.
When it comes to elephants, he didn't need mammoths and stegomastodons and mastodons
and Indian elephants and African elephants.
He just needed two what?
Elephants.
And see, when you understand this, you start to have some answers.
Now I wanted you to understand some just basic genetics here because what we want to do is
apply this to the human race.
To say, okay, if we understand a little bit about genetics now, how do we explain all
the differences amongst people that we see and why do we have these different people
groups that have looked like different characteristics and so on?
Well, before we can even do that, there's another question we've got to answer.
It's this one.
If we all go back to Adam and Eve, one man and one woman, guess what the most asked question
I get asked anywhere in the world.
I've been asked at 5,435,352.6 times.
Where did Cain get his wife?
I mean, these days I talk about Cain's wife more than my own wife.
It's terrible.
Where did Cain get his wife?
Well, I want to ask you all a question to lead into this.
Here's a question.
Can you marry your relation?
Yes, no, probably only after counseling.
Who says yes, you can marry your relation.
Okay.
Who says no, you can't marry your relation.
Okay.
Who doesn't want to marry their relation?
Okay.
Who's not sure if you can marry your relation?
Hmm.
Well, let me put it to you this way.
If you're married or about to be married, I want you to have a look at your wife or wife
to be and think about this.
If she wasn't related to you before you got married, then you didn't marry a human, then
you are really in trouble.
So what did you marry?
You know, when you get married, you have to marry your relation, right?
We are all related.
You're all related to me, whether you like it or not.
Okay.
We're all related.
Now, I say that to you because we need to understand that to be able to answer this
question.
First of all, let's establish that we do go back to one man and one woman.
1 Corinthians 15 45 says the first man, his name was Adam.
Okay.
So how many men to start with?
One.
Genesis 3 20, Eve was the mother of all living.
In fact, in the Hebrew, it actually literally reads she was to be the mother of all the
living.
That's how it actually literally reads.
So how many women to start with?
One.
And of course, Acts 17 verse 26, Paul talking to the Greeks says, he hath made of one blood.
He was explaining to the Greek philosophers there, the Epicureans and the Stoics that
we really all go back to one man who was explaining the gospel to them.
And so we're all related.
We go back to one man and one woman.
Well, where to Cain get his wife?
Well, I remember when I was over in London in a restaurant, Brazilian restaurant, actually,
and the chef came out and he said, so you, you believe the Bible?
I said, yes, we believe the Bible.
He says, I don't believe the Bible.
I said, you don't believe the Bible?
He said, no.
I said, why not?
He says, God made Adam and Eve and they had Cain and Abel.
Where'd all the people come from then?
I said, Oh, Genesis five forces, Adam and Eve had sons and daughters.
I already said, I didn't read that far.
Well, you know, that's a problem with a lot of people.
They don't read that far.
They don't read what the Bible says.
So if Adam and Eve had sons and daughters, now let's get rid of all outside influences.
One man, one woman, they had sons and daughters.
Therefore, originally, brothers must have married who?
Sisters.
Now, as soon as I say that, people say, ah, but that's a problem.
In fact, you've ever seen the mysteries of the Bible program on television.
One of the professors there said that, well, really you have to have Cain marrying his
sister.
That's the only solution.
But then he says, but that's incest.
And so then he says, see, this is a problem.
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
I mean, the word incest, which is a rather modern word anyway, is talking about something
that's immoral.
Now, I want you to remember this.
When did the laws of close against close intermarriage first come into vogue?
When did they come into being?
Not until the time of Moses.
Leviticus 18 was the first time God said, no longer can close relations marry.
And you know, that's why we have these laws of incest today.
But you see, before this time, close relations could marry.
That would mean brother and sister could marry.
See, we're not talking here about something like child abuse or anything like that.
We're talking about a lawful marriage of one man for one woman for life, which is what
marriage is all about.
So in the context of Genesis, before Moses was given this directive here and understanding
what the Bible says, then obviously there's no problem with a brother marrying sister
provided it was one man, one woman for life, what marriage is all about, the doctrine of
marriage.
Now, if you will say, but wait a minute, today brothers couldn't marry sisters.
I mean, apart from that, that law given there, brothers could marry sisters.
That's right.
Why not?
You know, to understand this and to understand what the problems would be, you've really
got to think poodle.
Now the reason I say that is because you see, we're all full of mistakes like poodles, right?
And the more closely related you are, the more likely you've got the same mistakes which
you inherited from your parents.
So if brother were to marry sister today, the problem is if those mistakes get together
when sperm fertilizers egg, you could get deformities in the offspring.
That's why it's better to marry someone further away in relationship from you and you just
collect different mistakes.
Let me ask you this and you degenerate anyway, but as we go back towards Adam and Eve, would
you expect more mistakes or fewer mistakes?
Fewer until the time of Adam and Eve before sin, how many mistakes?
Zero.
Their children would have had relatively few mistakes.
So would there have been any problem with brother and sister marriage originally?
No, not at all.
Of course as things degenerate because of sin and the curse at the time of Moses, God
brings in these laws, which makes a lot of sense.
You know, it's also interesting in the secular world, there's some fascinating information
that even secular scientists are saying that really the evidence fits with what the Bible
says, but they don't want to agree with the Bible of course.
You know, in our cells, the human cell, for instance, we have DNA in the nucleus, but
we've also got DNA in the mitochondria that's outside the nucleus.
Now the DNA in the nucleus also comes from the male when fertilization occurs, but the
DNA that's outside the nucleus in the mitochondria only comes from the woman.
So therefore it's a very stable and they're able to look at that and compare the DNA mitochondria
from women all across the world and look at the mutation rate.
You know, they came to a startling conclusion.
In fact, this is from our creation magazine.
The amazing and exciting thing for a Christian is that analyzing the mitochondrial DNA in
humans from all over the globe shows unmistakably that all humans on earth have inherited from
one woman.
That's pretty good, isn't it?
I think I've heard that before somewhere.
And you know what is interesting?
What is interesting is this, the evolutionists have dated this woman, supposedly in Africa,
they say about a hundred thousand to two hundred thousand years ago, but recently they found
out that they were using the wrong mutation rates.
And when they recalculated it using the right mutation rates, the date came out to from
Science magazine came out to six thousand years ago.
Well, that's better dating than many theologians that I know anyway.
Isn't that fascinating that even in the secular world, we have this evidence that actually
corroborates what the Bible is saying.
We all go back to one woman.
Now I don't believe it was one woman from Africa because that's because of the evolutionist
view that man came out of Africa, evolved from Africa.
But you see, people say, OK, so we know where Cain got his wife.
We know we all go back to one man and one woman.
We understand some basic genetics, but but really, when you look at people all around
the world, surely there must be different races because look how different they are.
You know, personally, I believe the church needs to abandon using the term races.
You know why?
Back at the time of Thomas Jefferson, when people talked about races, they talked about
the English race or the Irish race.
But you see, Darwin forever changed, I believe, the meaning of the word race in his book,
The Origin of Species.
Look at the title.
The Origin of Species by means of natural selection or the preservation of favored races
in the struggle for life.
Evolution is a racist philosophy, and Darwin was a racist.
In fact, what Darwin was teaching was that different groups are more closely related
to the apes than others.
I mean, that's what evolution teaches, that as man evolved, that there were some groups
that evolved first and others later on and so on.
So some are more closely related to the apes than others.
And you know something?
Darwin fueled racism.
And there were racist attitudes before Darwin because when you don't build your thinking
on the Bible, you end up with a wrong worldview.
But Stephen Gould from Harvard University, one of the leading spokespersons for evolution,
said this.
He said, biological arguments for racism may have been common before 1850, but they increased
by orders of magnitude following the acceptance of evolutionary theory.
Darwin certainly fueled racism.
And you know, we see this worked out in a number of ways.
That's very, very sad.
But Darwin believed the Australian Aborigines, for instance, were the missing link.
In 1924, the New York Tribune newspaper published an article about the Australian Aborigines
being the missing links.
And do you know, as a result of Darwinian evolution, there were people that came to
Australia to hunt the Aboriginals as animals and to kill them, to skin them, to boil up
their skulls, and to take them back to museums around the world.
In fact, we had an article called Darwin's Body Snatchers in one of our creation magazines,
which talks about some of these horrific things that happened.
Even the secular press has had articles on this in Australia.
In fact, there were some Aboriginals who were taken back to England after the first fleet
arrived.
And when they were taken back to England, one of the London newspapers said, these people
are from a lower order of the human race.
And sadly, when one of these Aborigines died, Charles Darwin's grandfather, who was an evolutionist,
by the way, don't think Charles Darwin invented evolution.
He just popularized a particular view of it.
Charles Darwin's grandfather dug up this Aborigine from his grave, and he stuffed the body and
exhibited it at the Royal College of Surgeons because of his belief in evolution.
What was done in the name of evolution?
In fact, some researchers indicated that something like 5,000 to 10,000 graves of Australian
Aborigines were desecrated and bodies dug up and dismembered and sent overseas to support
a scientific trade, all in the name of evolution.
Very, very sad, isn't it?
And by the way, in Australia, we suffer to this day the way in which the Australian Aborigines
were treated, and it's caused all sorts of problems.
But not just Australia, by the way.
Let's think about America.
Did you know the Bronx Zoo in New York, it wasn't that long ago, really, had Otto Benga,
a pygmy from South Africa, put in a monkey house, along with the monkeys and the rangatang
and so on, all in the name of evolution because that really was the underlying reason, and
all these people file past to look at this so-called relationship.
Very, very sad.
In fact, even in 1907, Scientific American talking about the Congo Pygmies.
Look what Scientific American said back then.
They're ape-like, alfish creatures, and they possess ape-like features.
These were the sorts of things that were being taught once in the universities across America.
Is it any wonder, by the way, that we ended up with racism and racist attitudes?
Ernst Haeckel, who was really Darwin's bulldog in Germany.
Now, Ernst Haeckel, in his book, The History of Creation, some of this was taught in universities
across the world talking about people from Southern Asia and Eastern Africa.
They lived together in herds like apes.
They are just like the higher apes.
These are the sorts of things that were being taught.
In fact, he went on to say, at the lower stage of human mental development, talking about
the Australian Aborigines again, the Australians, some tribes of the Polynesians, Bushmen, and
so on, some of the Negro tribes.
When you realize that these are the sorts of things that were being taught to generations
across the world in America and other countries, is it any wonder we've got some problems and
prejudices and racist philosophy?
In fact, I'm going to say right now, I believe we need to get rid of that term, races.
And you know the secular world agrees with me.
In a very recent article that we obtained from the ABC News science page talking about
research done by modern researchers, they said this, more and more scientists find that
the differences that set us apart are cultural, not racial.
Some even say today that the word race should be abandoned because it's meaningless.
And I agree with that.
In fact, they go on to say this, we accept the idea of race because it's a convenient
way of putting people into broad categories, frequently to suppress them.
Talking about these two researchers, the most hideous example was provided by Hitler's Germany
and racial prejudice remains common throughout the world.
And it does remain common throughout the world.
Hitler, of course, used evolution to justify what he did to the Jews and not just the Jews,
but other people as well, as he tried to establish the super race and was all because of the
philosophy of evolution.
And so what I'm saying to us right here then is number one, we need to get rid of the term
races.
We can talk about one race, if you like.
Actually, the Bible talks about the fact that we're all of one blood and talks about tribes
and nations.
But once we understand a little bit of simple genetics, and we understand that we really
are only one race, and we understand that we go back to one man and one woman and we
can answer the question where Cain got his wife, what I want to do in this second session,
the second part of this, is to now explain how we get those differences that we see in
the people groups that all consist of part of this one race that we have on earth.
Because people look at that and they say, but surely those differences are so great,
aren't they?
Well, you know, those differences aren't so great at all.
In fact, when you look around this room tonight, yes, I see people who probably have a background
and perhaps Chinese or some that have black skin or whatever, but those differences are
not great at all.
In fact, they're insignificant.
Now in that ABC News science page, I said this, in an article in the summer issue of
the Journal of Counseling and Development, these two researchers argue that the term
race is so meaningless it ought to be discarded, which I totally agree with.
Then they say this, in the field of genetics, researchers have concluded that the genetic
differences between the so-called races account for only 0.012% of the human biological variation.
Now let me explain what that means.
Anthropologists, or many of them, would divide the people groups in the world into four main
what they would call racial groups.
The Caucasoid, European white, the Mongoloid, Chinese, American Indians, the Negroid, African
blacks and then the Australian Aborigines, the Australoid.
And when people look at that, they say, but look, the differences there are really great.
That's why we can divide them up into these groups.
But here's what we know genetically.
If I took one man and one, well, any two people, whether it's a man and a woman or a man and
a man or whatever from this audience tonight, do you know the difference genetically between
your genes?
See, you all are a little different.
I mean, look around the room.
You've all got different, some different information.
Some of you have the information for black hair, some for brown hair, some don't look
like they have information for hair.
You actually do.
It's just you're more like poodles.
But, but anyway, the difference genetically between any two people, think about this,
the difference genetically is 0.2%.
Right?
Some of you have a, your face is a little rounder or your nose is a little longer.
You know, those differences, 0.2%.
However, do you realize what are called the racial differences?
What are called the racial differences?
The difference is only 0.012%.
Means they're insignificant.
People say, but how could that be?
What do you mean?
Well, I mean, let's look at skin color, for instance.
Look how different skin, skin colors can be.
Actually, one of the things we need to understand is that every human being in reality has the
same skin color.
There's really one major pigment.
It's called melanin.
There's a couple of forms of it.
But let's look at melanin.
And if we assume, again, let's look at principles of genetics here in a simplistic way.
If we assume there are four genes for the male melanin, big A means lots of melanin,
big B means lots of melanin, little A and little B, small amount of melanin.
So if you had big A's, big B's, you'd be dark.
If you had little A's, little B's, you'd be light.
Now, a doctor at London's Kins College Hospital said, there are the same number of melanocytes,
the pigment forming cells to be found in both negroid and Caucasian skin.
These are the cells that form the pigment that basically make you either dark or light
or whatever.
In fact, the melanosomes, the tiny melanin packaging units which come from those melanocytes
are slightly larger and more numerous per cell in dark skinned and light skinned people.
They also do not degrade as readily and disperse into adjacent skin cells to a higher degree.
But what he's saying is, we're really all the same.
For instance, if you take a Caucasian and look at a section of their skin, here are
those melanocytes here, but there's not that much pigment distributed here in the skin.
But if you take somebody who has dark skin, you find basically the same number of melanocytes.
You see a couple here, but you see a lot more pigment distributed there in the skin.
But it's the same skin and the same cells.
You see we're all the same.
Now, as you think about that, okay, we've all got basically the same color.
It's melanin.
It's a matter of how much or how little you have.
Well then, what did Adam and Eve look like?
Well, let's think about that for a moment.
If Adam and Eve only had little As, little Bs, you'd only ever get light-skinned people.
If Adam and Eve had big As, big Bs, you'd only ever get dark-skinned people.
But if Adam and Eve had a mixture, you could get dark through to light in one generation.
In fact, you could think like this.
Maybe Cain, Abel, and Seth were from light through to dark.
Very, very easy to understand.
And by the way, over in England, there were twins born called Britain's Amazing Twins.
One was dark, one was light.
Very easy to understand when you think about melanin and the genes for melanin.
In fact, let me explain it to you in a bit more detail.
If Adam and Eve were big A, little A, big B, little B, their children could have been
from big As, big Bs to little As, little Bs and everywhere in between.
In other words, they could have been from dark through to light in one generation.
You know, there are many families like that in the world today.
Go to India, you see that, for instance.
You see it in America too.
But you see it all over the world.
In fact, you realize the majority of the world's population today are actually middle brown,
which makes sense.
That's how I think Adam and Eve started, as middle brown people.
Now I have, those will come to me and say, but wait a minute, why is it that you find
people who have dark skin only produce people with dark skin and people with light skin
only produce people with light skin?
Well, I want you to think about this.
Here we have all these different people groups over the earth.
We have some that have dark skin, some are middle brown, some that have light skin.
Can you think of anything in history that could split up the gene pool?
Remember we talked about the dogs getting off the ark.
And as they split up and went to different places, you get different varieties of dogs.
Then we talked about artificial selection of dogs.
To get a poodle, you separate out certain dogs and breed them and keep them separate
from the rest.
Can you think of something that could do that in human history?
The Tower of Babel.
You imagine that the Tower of Babel, God gives different languages, people can't work together
anymore.
You're going to split up the human population.
It's going to drive them out over the earth.
What's going to happen?
Well, for many reasons.
Eventually, you might get a group that only has the big A's and big B's because people
died out or they didn't allow certain people in their culture if they were born that were
a little different or depending on who married who.
But you could end up with a culture like that.
They can only produce dark.
They could never produce light again on their own.
Or a group like this with little A's and little B's only produce light, could never produce
dark again on their own.
These would have to mix with these to get back the original variability.
It's very easy to understand, isn't it?
And that's why even on this article from the ABC News Science page talking about one of
the researchers said this is kind of like all of us are recipes.
We have the same ingredients, maybe in different amounts, no matter what kind of cake we turn
out to be.
And I sort of pictured that for you.
You can take a cake mix because, you know, in Australia, of course, we work from all
the separate elements here and mix it all together in America.
It's all in a packet.
But here we take a cake mix and we can get out these different cakes, the same basic
recipe, but they have slight variations.
Now in a way, you take Adam and Eve, you have the original DNA recipe.
So here we all are with the same basic recipe, but we have slight variations and they really
are slight variations.
But you know one of the sad things?
As I've traveled around, I found some erroneous teaching in the churches on this sort of topic.
For instance, who's put your hand up if you've heard people say, oh, black people came from
the curse of Ham Ham.
Put your hand up if you've heard that.
See that is that is, you know, my temperature goes up when I hear that.
Tam my hair out.
Talk about nonsense, absurd nonsense.
You know, it's interesting.
In Mormon doctrine, 1958, they said this.
We know the circumstances under which the posterity of Cain and later of Ham were cursed
with what we call Negroid racial characteristics.
The Watchtower publication, Jehovah's Witness back in 1929, the curse which Noah pronounced
upon Cain and was the origin of the black race.
By the way, at least they got one thing right here better than some Baptist I heard recently
who talked about the curse of Ham Ham wasn't cursed.
It was Cain and his son who was cursed.
So people even get that wrong anyway.
In fact, many people don't think about this.
Ham had four sons, Cain and was only one of them.
And Cain and was the one that was cursed.
And look at Cain and gave rise to the Canaanites, the people of Sodom and Gomorrah.
In fact, as far as I understand, most of the descendants of Cain have been wiped out anyway.
Now it is true that people would accept that many of your black cultures, not all can be
traced back to Ham to one of these other three sons here.
But that has nothing to do with any curse or anything like that.
That's nonsense.
You know, I often wondered why Cain was cursed.
You know, when Ham was the one that mocked his father, correct?
So one way was that Cain was cursed.
Well, I've got a suggestion for you.
As I as I read through Genesis nine, it really hit me.
You notice this in verse 18, it talks about sham, Ham and Japheth.
And Ham is the father of Cain.
It didn't say Japheth, the father of somebody, or sham, the father of somebody, but ham,
the father of Cain.
Look down here again.
And ham, the father of Cain.
And this is cursed.
Is Cain.
You know what I believe?
I believe Noah saw in Canaan the same problems he saw in his father, Ham, but they were much
worse in the next generation.
And he recognized what that was going to lead to.
And we see that in the Canaanites and so on and the rebellious people and evil people.
So we've got to get rid of this nonsense about the curse of Ham.
But then people say, OK, so we can understand skin color.
That's pretty easy.
But what about eye shape?
Surely, surely, you know, eyes are very, very different.
Actually, when we look at eye shape, we think they're very different, but they're really
all the same.
The almond eye, the only difference between the almond eye and, say, my eye is that the
almond eye, like the Chinese have, have an extra fold of fat.
We all have fat.
They just have more of it in their eyelid.
In other words, the gene for the amount of fat just produces more fat in your eyelid.
But it's the same eye.
And that's why it gets the almond shape.
Real easy to understand.
And again, that's why we read quotes like this.
What the facts show is that there are differences among us, but they stem from culture, not
race.
Another person who writes a lot on the issue of race, Darlene Applegate, who has a PhD
in anthropology, said this in one of her articles.
If it is determined that races do not biologically exist, or even if they do, that one is not
biologically superior to others, communication of these findings to the populace may help
to solve the problems associated with racism.
Now, I certainly agree with that.
But you know, we've got a major problem.
You know what the problem is?
Even though it's politically incorrect to say this in education circles today, evolution
inherently still is a racist philosophy.
And it's being taught in schools and colleges and universities across the world.
And it still teaches that some groups are more closely related to the apes than others.
In fact, when you think about it, they teach that we go back to Africa, and here are the
people in Africa, and that's where man evolved.
Do you realize the racist undertones there?
See, many people haven't thought this through.
Evolution inherently is a racist philosophy.
You can't get away from it.
You know, I found that there are some modern scientists who are willing to be truthful
and tell it like it is.
Now, I don't agree with them, of course, but at least I appreciate the fact that they're
truthful.
Michael Levin, professor of philosophy, City College of New York, look what he says.
The race difference in gunshot homicides is largely due, I suggest, to the failure of
blacks to evolve inhibitions adapted to firearms like those evolved by whites and Asians during
their long march to the discovery of explosives.
The separate evolution of blacks and whites, which appears to have produced cognitive and
temperamental differences, makes it possible, indeed likely, that behaviors and norms pathological
for whites and not pathological for blacks, and that identical behaviors and norms have
different functional significance for the two races.
No wonder we have some problems in our culture, because at least he's being truthful about
what evolution really states.
You know, there's another man that's written some interesting books, and he's been rather
controversial, and this is Philip Rushton, who's from the University of Western Ontario.
He wrote a book called Race, Evolution, and Behavior.
Now, it was printed in 1997, and a reviewer who read that book, and we just got it and
read it recently, and I totally agree with this review of the book.
He makes this statement.
Rushton ranks the races along an evolutionary scale with blacks at the bottom and Asians
at the top, and we wonder why we have problems in our nation.
Now, you see, I agree with Darlene Applegate that we need to get out and tell people the
truth, but you see, the truth is not just that there's one race.
The truth is that we need to start from the Word of God, the absolute authority of the
Word of God, because this is the only way we're going to solve racism.
And you know, I believe I can put up for you one picture that'll solve racism.
You see, what we need to be doing is looking at the world and looking at all the evidence,
looking at all the people groups through biblical glasses.
In other words, through that timeline of history, understanding Adam and Eve, understanding
the entrance of sin, understanding Noah's flood, understanding the Tower of Babel, and
understanding all these sorts of things.
And here's what I would say.
When it comes down to it, the bottom line, this is the answer to racism.
You can have all sorts of conferences out there and you can write all sorts of books,
but in reality, if the world was to believe this, you've solved the problem that we're
all equal before God.
We all go back to Adam and Eve.
We all have the same problem called sin.
We all need the same solution, Jesus Christ.
And every one of us needs to build all of our thinking in every area upon the Bible
and judge any of our cultural aspects against the absolute standards of the absolute authority
of the word of God and get rid of those prejudices and biases justified and coddled and so on
on the basis of evolutionary philosophy.
And you will have solved racism.
I think it's as simple as that.
But you know something, we've got a problem in our church.
You know why?
Well, for many reasons, we've got a problem in our church.
But I want to read you a quote from a man who I highly respect, by the way, but I want
to show you what happens, what happens when we sadly add man's ideas to the Bible.
In fact, you know, I'm going to talk on in the session tomorrow morning, I'm going to
talk on this.
This is rather radical.
I'm going to show you this, that when we do not believe in the six literal days of creation,
we have undermined the absolute authority of the word of God and we're contributing
to the moral crisis in this nation.
Reason because what I found is this, the reason scholars do not believe in six literal days
when it comes down to the bottom line, it's not because of what the Bible says, it's because
of outside influences.
Then you've unlocked the door to say the words don't have to mean what they say.
And that is a major problem in our church.
Now a man who I highly respect, Dr. Gleason Archer, from Trinity, I believe, in his survey
of Old Testament introduction, because he accepts the dating methods.
Now all dating methods, by the way, to age date things on the earth, every dating method
is based on assumptions.
They're all fallible, every single one of them.
The only dating method that's not fallible is the word of God when it comes down the
bottom line.
But what happens when you accept man's fallible dating methods?
He talks about Pythocantrophus, Swanscone man, Neanderthal, and all the rest, and Cro-Magnon
man, who apparently classified as homo sapiens, in other words, humans, but whose remains
seem to date back at least 20,000 BC, seems best to regard these races all prior to Adam's
time and not involved in the Adamic government.
We must leave the question open in view of the cultural remains, whether these pre-Adamic
creatures had souls.
Here's the problem.
Do you know the reason I believe that people do not believe, another reason they don't
believe the days are ordinary days in Genesis?
See, if you believe in millions of years or billions of years, where are you going to
fit them in the Bible?
Because the Bible has those genealogies there to show that we can trace Jesus Christ, the
last Adam, back to the first Adam, and that we're all descendants of the first Adam.
If you put millions and billions of years in there, you just destroy those genealogies.
That's why the only place you can put millions and billions of years is before Adam.
You see, that's why they question the days of creation.
That's the reason, that's the bottom line when it comes down to it, not because of what
the Bible says.
Have you noticed they don't question what the word day means in Leviticus and Numbers
and Deuteronomy and Joshua and Judges and Ruth and Samuel, where do they question it?
Genesis 1, why?
It's the only place you can fit them millions of years.
Now when you accept those dating methods, and then evolutionists actually do date homo-sapien
remains, they call them homo-sapiens, they're human, and they date them back to at least
two million years.
What are you going to do?
So you've got to have this race of pre-Adamite people.
In fact, Dr. Archer goes on and he says this, Romans 512 demands that all mankind subsequent
to Adam's time at least must have been literally descendant from him since he entered into
a covenant relationship with God as a representative of the entire race of man.
I totally agree.
Only descendants of Adam can be saved.
So this indicates there could have been no true genetic relationship between Adam, the
first man created in the image of God, and the pre-Adamic races.
Now Dr. Hugh Ross, from Reasons to Believe, if you've heard of him, he's probably the
leading spokesperson for progressive creation in America, who believes in the Big Bang,
billions of years, local flood, and the days are long periods of time, there's all this
death, bloodshed, disease, and suffering before Adam sinned, and he believes in a race of
soulless men and women before Adam and Eve who did cave paintings and buried their dead
but don't have salvation.
In fact, in his children's book, if you get his children's book, he's highly endorsed
by all sorts of famous Christian leaders, by the way, and in fact, last year as a result
of his appearance on Focus on the Family, he said in his newsletter that 10,000 families
signed up to get his newsletter.
And you imagine if those 10,000 families ordered his children's book, here's what they would
read to their children.
Starting two to four million years ago, God began creating man-like mammals or hominids.
These creatures stood on two feet, had large brains, used tools, some even buried their
dead and painted on cave walls.
However, they were very different from us.
They had no spirit.
They did not have consciences like we do.
They did not worship God or establish religious practices.
In time, all these man-like creatures went extinct.
Then about 10,000 to 25,000 years ago, God replaced them with Adam and Eve.
Now see what happens when you start outside the Bible.
See what you've got to get to when you start outside the Bible instead of starting from
the Bible, as our last speaker was saying, sola scriptura, the fact that we must start
from scripture.
And one of the problems we've got, and I think one of the reasons we have lots of denominational
differences too, is that we tend to add our own ideas to the Bible rather than letting
God speak to us.
But look what it leads to here.
These are all sorts of interesting ideas.
Now I want to show you something.
These so-called pre-Adamites, I've only got a few of them listed here, and I don't expect
you to read these or anything like that.
But these are some of these pre-Adamites.
In other words, these are homo sapiens as far as the secular science is concerned, and
they date back 27,000 years, 32,000 years.
They date back to 45,000 years.
They date back to 50,000 years.
There are many of these, many, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of these skeletons that
look just like your eye.
In fact, they go all the way back, as I'll show you, all the way back here to nearly
two million years according to evolutionary dating methods.
But you see, the reason I've highlighted some of these, you know the reason I've highlighted
them?
Here's the interesting thing.
When they look at these skeletons, some of them were killed by spheres.
They find sphere points in them.
Some were killed by axes.
They had the same sorts of diseases we get in the human population today.
Some died of syphilis.
Some died of cancer.
Some died of other diseases that they're able to identify from the bones.
Now here's the intriguing thing.
Here you have these people that look just like us.
They have the same diseases we get.
They were fighting each other with spears and axes, using tools like we use, paint on
cave walls, bury their dead, put tools with their dead, but they're not descendants of
Adam so they can't have salvation.
There is something dreadfully wrong.
In fact, as I share in some of my other talks, you know, here's a key point that many people
miss.
As soon as you believe in millions of years, here's your problem.
As soon as you accept the evolutionist dating methods, here's your problem.
The fossil record is said to be millions of years old, but it's full of death and disease
and pain and suffering and violence, lots of diseases.
There's a science called paleopathology, the study of diseases in fossil bones.
Are we going to say that God then said to Adam and Eve, everything I made is very good?
And they're standing on top of millions of dead things full of disease and suffering?
You see, the problem today is we have the world saying, how can there be a God of love?
Look at this death and suffering in the world, but they believe that's gone on for millions
of years and the Christians believe that too, by and large.
We don't have the answers.
But when we understand man's sin led to death, which is why God killed an animal in the garden
and clothed Adam and Eve, the first blood sacrifices are covering for their sin because
without the shedding of blood, there's no remission of sin.
You can't have the shedding of blood before sin or you destroy the whole basis of the
gospel.
And many people have never thought through that.
See what happens when you start outside the Bible.
Now as we bring this all to a close, when I speak on this topic, at the end, I get people
who inundate me with questions and they all come up to me and they say, okay then, well
what do you believe about interracial marriage?
Now this is a minefield, isn't it?
Well you know what?
I'm an Australian and I'm going to walk through the minefield.
What I'm going to do is tell you what I teach my own children, okay?
And I have tried to build this upon scripture to the best of my ability.
Interracial marriage, number one, there's no such thing because there is only one race
of people.
Now you might have intercultural marriage or intertribal marriage, but there's no such
thing as interracial marriage.
Why I teach my children is this.
We must make sure we build our thinking on the Bible.
What's one of the primary importances of marriage?
Malachi 2.15, why did God make 2.1?
Because he sought a godly seed or godly offspring from your union.
What's one of the primary importances of marriage?
To produce godly offspring.
It will influence the world for Jesus Christ.
He will produce godly offspring.
It will influence the world for Jesus Christ.
How do you do that?
You know the scripture has a prescription here for us, doesn't it?
In Ephesians and Matthew, in fact Matthew 19 is where Jesus was quoting from Genesis.
He obviously believed Genesis.
That's one reason I believe it by the way, because Jesus did.
He which made them at the beginning made them male and female and said, for this cause shall
man of his father and mother and clave unto his wife, and they will be one flesh.
You become one flesh because you were one flesh.
Think about that.
By the way, if you believe in evolution, you know these theologians that say God used evolution?
If God used evolution, the woman came from an ape woman, the man from an ape man, you've
just destroyed the whole basis of marriage, because if the woman didn't come from the
man, you've destroyed the basis of oneness.
Think about that.
And you ought to be one spiritually.
Second Corinthians, be you not unequally yoked.
You know what blows my mind?
The number of times I've met people who come out and say all sorts of things about interracial
marriage and all the rest of it, but they couldn't care less who their children dated.
And you know the priority is to be one spiritually, physically, not unequally yoked.
One of the things I want to teach my children is that the priority is that you all may be
a Bible believing Christian.
And if you date a non-Christian, you're playing with fire, you get your fingers burned.
It's as simple as that.
It's about time parents in this nation started to teach that.
Now at the same time, I recognize something.
I have a friend who went over to Japan with the Air Force and he married a Japanese lady.
He was an American.
He married a Japanese lady.
They became Christians actually.
We talk about on fire Christians for the Lord and they're a couple of our best friends.
And Carl said to me, he said, you know, he said, one of the things we've recognized is
because my wife came from a totally different culture, we do have problems in communication
in our marriage that we've had to work through over the years.
And I think we do need to warn people about that, that cross-cultural communication problem
is very real.
And so you should be aware of that fact.
And that's one of the reasons why I would say to my children, you need to be careful
when you're dating someone, going to marry someone from a totally different culture,
then you may not communicate very well.
That may cause some problems.
Now, now, of course, if you had someone who is Chinese by physical characteristics, who
then is brought up in America as an American, by the way, what are they American?
Exactly.
And then sometimes different mixes of different cultures in different places around the world
can cause a reaction amongst people.
And there can be a cultural stigma associated with that.
Now, none of these are reasons why you can say to people, therefore, you shouldn't get
married.
But they're cautions that we must be aware of.
Nonetheless, I believe.
But when it comes down to the bottom line, you know, I see what it's all about is this,
like rehab, who was a canine knight and Ruth, a Moabite S. Well, what do we know about them?
They like Ruth said, I want your God to be my God.
That was the important thing.
In other words, I want to become one of you because I want to worship the real God.
And that's what it's all about.
That oneness that that oneness that we have and see again in Act 17, as Paul was teaching
to the Greeks, we're all of one blood.
Now, sadly, this verse in Act 17, verse 26, God made us one blood, all nations of men
for to dwell on the face of the earth and have determined the times before appointed
in the bounds of their habitation.
Sadly, many people try to use that to say, oh, see, different cultures shouldn't mix.
I got news for you.
Many of you probably don't realize the mixes in your past because who knows what's happened
all around the world.
We I mean, you might be shocked if you knew what sort of mixes were in your past.
But you see, as John Gill says in his commentary, this is not talking about marriage.
This is talking about God raising up nations at certain times, like he raised up the Assyrians
and the Babylonians and he got them to to judge his people, by the way, because of what
they'd done.
And so this is talking about nations and God in charge of nations.
You know, what a difference it makes when you do build your thinking on the Bible and
take the gospel out to people.
Hey, by the way, why do we send missionaries out around the world to every tribe and nation?
You know why?
Because they're our relations.
It's like when people say to me, I'm praying for my lost relations.
That's a lot of people to pray for.
What's a few billion people, isn't it?
But it's true, isn't it?
They are lost relations.
And, you know, sadly, even before the time of Darwin, there were some missionaries that
looked on certain cultures as less than human and that affected the way in which they either
presented the gospel or that they wouldn't even go and present the gospel, which is very,
very sad.
But even today, many mission organizations are permeated by evolutionary philosophy.
And I believe that affects the way that they view certain cultures, because inherently,
evolution is a racist philosophy.
But you know what's fascinating?
The Australian Aborigines, you know the Australian Aborigines, when they were first encountered,
the Australian Aborigines were an anti-God, spiritist culture.
But you know, if I'm right, their ancestor was Noah, back to Adam, and they're my relations.
But you know what's fascinating?
Before they met missionaries, they've got stories, DreamTimes legends.
These DreamTimes legends go something like this.
N'Zharah, the supreme being, looked down on the man he had made and was angry with N'Zharah
for the way he treated Dumby, the Winking Owl.
And he warned N'Zharah he was going to send a flood and he was to build a raft in order
to put the cockatoo and kangaroo and groundmill for food.
And the raft landed on a mountain and God put a rainbow in the sky.
When B'yami first made man, he was all alone.
So while he slept out of a yucca tree, he made a woman.
When B'yami first made man, he had a special tree, he had some sweet honey in the tree,
and he warned man not to eat the sweet honey.
One day man took some of that sweet honey and B'yami cursed the world with death.
Before that time, the animals only ate vegetables.
You ever heard a story, a story something like that?
They sound like Genesis.
You know why they sound like Genesis?
Because they had the original story, I believe, handed down from their ancestor Noah, but
they've changed them.
But you know, when you understand that, what a point of contact with these people to present
the gospel.
As I talked to a missionary in Australia once, the Aborigines, he said, I never thought about
that.
And by the way, not just the Aborigines, the American Indians, the Fijians, the Hawaiians,
nearly every culture of the world has flood legends and creation legends that sound like
Genesis.
And after explaining that to him, he said, you know, one day an old Aboriginal elder
came and sat beside me and he said, you know, the Aborigine has a story that woman was made
while man was asleep.
And so the missionary remembered what I had said to him.
And so he got out his Bible and he started to read the account of the creation of Eve
from the Bible.
And he said, how come you've got the same story and your story is better?
And the missionary was telling me, he said, you know, I was able to lead that Aboriginal
elder to the Lord Jesus Christ.
And that's what it's all about.
And so to sum up, if there's Adam in your ancestry, we're all connected back to one
man.
Who owns us?
God.
Who sets the rules?
God.
Who decides right or wrong?
God.
But if there's an ape in your ancestry, you're just an animal, then who owns you?
You do.
Who sets the rules?
You do.
You see, you know why I believe in one race, why I understand that all human beings are
equal before God?
Because you see, I believe God's word and build my thinking on the Bible, back to the
book of Genesis, by the way.
You know why I believe marriage is one man for one woman for life?
Because God created marriage right there in Genesis when he created the first man and
woman.
That's what Jesus referred to in Matthew 19.
You see, I have a Christian worldview because I have a foundation.
But the more people believe in evolution, and evolution is not just the idea of molecules
to man.
Don't get that idea.
Evolution is a whole philosophy that teaches that man by himself determines truth.
That's what evolution is all about.
The more people believe that, why not do whatever you want with sex?
Why not view people however you want to view people?
Get rid of spare cats, get rid of spare kids.
What's the difference?
And sadly, in America and Australia and other countries around the world today, we see the
collapse of the Christian fabric and the increase in humanist philosophy.
We see increasing abortion, pornography, homosexual behavior, racism, and so on because you know
what's happened?
Because our nations have abandoned the absolute authority of the word of God and replaced
them with man's opinions.
And sadly, even much of the church has done that.
Because when you say the Bible says something but it doesn't mean it because of man's ideas
outside the Bible, you've unlocked the door to say you can reinterpret whatever you want.
And so I see the problem as this.
These two castle diagrams.
Here's the foundation of evolution.
Man decides truth.
The structure of humanism, those issues that can come out of that logically.
Abortion, et cetera.
The foundation of creation, God's word is truth.
And here's the castle of Christianity.
The humanists are very clever.
Knock out the foundation of the authority of the word of God.
And what do we see happening?
The collapse of Christianity.
And you know how they do that?
Begin with Genesis.
Every single biblical doctrine of theology is founded in the first 11 chapters of the
Bible.
You get people to doubt the first 11 chapters of the Bible, then you've undermined the rest.
And you know, it's interesting.
Christians are looking around and they're saying something's wrong here and they're
shooting at each other, shooting in nowhere, shooting themselves in the foot, taking potshots
at the issues.
You know what I think is a big problem in America?
I think much of the church sees the symptoms.
They see increasing abortion and so on.
And they recognize there's something wrong.
But what much of the church doesn't realize is it's a foundational problem.
These aren't the problems.
Abortion, pornography, racism, they're not the problems.
They're the symptoms of the problem.
The problem is we've abandoned the authority of the word of God.
And I believe the humanists have been very clever in getting the church to do that.
And you see, I see the solution is this.
What's the solution?
You know what?
Most people were disappointed in the current elections.
But I want to tell you something.
You can't change a nation from the top down by just trying to get certain people into
power.
You can't change a nation from the top down when it changed from the foundation up.
You know what the solution to America's problem is?
We shouldn't be out there just fighting these issues and recognizing there's something
wrong.
We need to be out there preaching the authority of the word of God and seeing people say that's
really what it's all about.
And you know something?
The trouble is today when you get up and say this is the word of God, it's attacked.
It's attacked by the world saying that's just an outdated religious book.
And you can't answer this question.
You can't answer that question.
And sadly, most Christians can't answer those questions.
But not only that, most Christians don't even get up and say this is the word of God today.
They get up and say, well, this is a Bible.
And we sort of believe some of it here and there.
And you know, well, anyway, and well, we can we can accept man's ideas.
And well, this doesn't really mean what it says.
And we wonder why we've got problems.
The real solution is that we need to get back to the authority of the word of God.
And that's what our ministry is all about.
And you know, you'll solve your problem of racism when people get back to the authority
of the word of God.
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