Sadly, many Christians today believe in evolution. They call their belief theistic evolution. They acknowledge that God exists but that He used evolution to bring about mankind. For a detailed analysis on why I oppose theistic evolution please see my three-part devotion beginning, October 21, 2020 called, Theistic Evolution: The Wrong Compromise.
To believe that God used evolution as the vehicle to bring mankind into existence clearly implies that Jesus not only believed in evolution, but since He is God, also used it to bring about mankind. Since Jesus created the universe and our planet earth the question remains did He use evolution to create man? I would like to share two verses from Genesis to show why this is not possible.
The first verse is (Genesis 1:27): “So God created man in His own image; in the image of God, He created him; male and female He created them.” To think that Jesus needed hundreds of millions of years of trial and error, and death after death goes totally against the words we read in (Genesis 1:31): “Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good.”
To call death good in order to create man makes no sense at all. Furthermore, how can being created in the image of God, which not even exalted angels are said to be, use a process that relies on death and mutations to create something as precious as a human being. Imagine God using a process of death, mutation, and survival of the fitted to create something in His very own imagine!
God clearly lays out in Genesis 1 just how he made everything – and it was all good – until sin entered the world. There is not even a hint of Him using evolution to create anything. He did it by fiat just as Moses wrote it down for everyone to see.
The second verse is (Genesis 2:7): “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.” (Genesis 2:7) tells us in clear terms how God created the first man. If God chose evolution to create man don’t you think He would have told us? God could have created man any way He wanted to. (Genesis 2:7) tells us exactly how He did it. Jesus, clearly believed in the accuracy of the Old Testament and the creation of mankind, for we read Him saying: “…Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female.’” (Matthew 19:4). Jesus talks about creation not evolution.
My friends to attribute evolution as the mode used to create mankind, to Jesus, is quite frankly ridiculous. There is absolutely no evidence in the Bible to support evolution. Not only that but my God doesn’t use trial and error to create anything.
Charlie Campbell sums up this whole question on Jesus and evolution as follows:
“When it comes to the whole debate today over evolution versus creation, Jesus affirmed the early chapters of Genesis were accurate when He said, “Have you not read, that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female” (Matthew 19:4). Adam and Eve didn’t come on the scene after billions of years of mutations and evolution. No. God created them all the way back in the beginning-just like Moses reported in the Book of Genesis.”1
1 Charlie Campbell quote: When it comes to the whole debate today over evolution versus creation, Jes (inspiringquotes.us)