Do you know that the prevailing ideas of today on evolution are in direct opposition to the Word of God, and “that if evolutionary theories are true, the Bible doctrines are false, and that if the Bible is of God, … evolutionary theories are absolutely false, … which gives the LIE to the words of our Lord and of his apostles and all the holy prophets”? [R:2392:3]

Does not the Bible tell us that man was a direct creation, that he was formed by the Almighty, and that he was made perfect and upright, the mental and moral image and likeness in the flesh of his creator, the Almighty Spirit?—and must we not reject this statement, if we accept the evolution theory? Gen. 1:27, 31; Deut. 32:4, 5; Eccl. 7:29; I Cor. 15:22, 45, 47; Rom. 5:12.

Do you know that the Bible speaks with one harmonious voice respecting a FALL from divine favor and, likewise, into sin and death conditions, and that sin and death began to reign in Adam’s day? Would we not have to reject this scriptural teaching if we accepted evolutionary theories? Rom. 5:12-21.

Does not the apostle Paul state that by one man’s disobedience sin entered into the world and death as the result of sin, and thus death passed upon all men, because all have sinned? Does not this contradict the evolutionary process of development from protoplasm to monkeys, from monkeys to men, and eventually from men unto gods? Rom. 5:12.

Does not Solomon, the wise, deny the evolution theory of creation when he states that “God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions” and defiled themselves? Eccl. 7:29. And does not the apostle Paul state that God gave them over unto evil passions? — and as they did not care to retain God in their hearts, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fit, “because that when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish hearts were darkened”? Rom. 1:21-31.

According to evolutionary theories that man evolved from a monkey, would the first man, who would have been very little better than a monkey, have been in a condition, mentally or physically or morally, to be put on trial for eternal life or eternal death? And again: “If the race has been gradually rising during the past six thousand years — has been losing its monkey weaknesses and failings and attaining, more and more, to manhood, where would be the original sin?” [R:3921:6] Rom. 5:12.

Do you know that the IMMORTALITY DOCTRINE IS A DOCTRINE OF EVOLUTION and NOT a scriptural doctrine? Does it not deny death and a resurrection of the dead, and teach in its stead the evolution of the immortal soul from the lower human nature to the higher spiritual nature? I Tim. 6:16.

Does not our Lord Jesus contradict the evolution theory most emphatically in his statement, “The Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost”? Luke 19:10.

Do not these evolutionary theories of man, of progress- ing from nothing to something, repudiate the Bible doctrine of a fall, of a loss, and of a redeemer and saviour from this fallen and lost condition? Luke 19:10.

If, as the evolutionist tells us, man is falling up-ward, wherein was the justice of the divine sentence against him? Gen. 2:17; 3:8-19; Rom. 6:23. Why should God speak of him as a sinner, a transgressor? Romans 5:12-21. Is it sinful to evolute upwards? Why should man be spoken of as under the curse or penalty for sin, since self-development is not sin? Heb. 9:27; Gal. 3:13 Why should it be written that Justice demands a ransom price before Adam and his race could be released from the death sentence and be granted an opportunity for eternal life? Psa. 49:15; Hos. 13:14; Gal. 3:13; II Cor. 5:14, 15. Why did the law given through Moses point to sin- offerings and propitiation through “day of atonement” sacrifices, etc., along with the High Priest services, if there was no fall, no sin and no need of a redemption and sin-offering and a reconciliation to God? Exod., 25th to the 41st chapter; Lev. 8:14-33; 16:3-33; Heb. 8:5; 9:13; 10:1-12; Col. 2:17. Why should the New Testament continue the same story of the necessity for the death of Jesus as the redemption price, that by his death the world might be granted a resurrection to life in due time? Heb. 9th chap. Why is the doctrine of the second coming of Christ and the resurrection of the dead put so prominently before us in the Bible if there were no fall into sin and death, no need of a redemption and no need that at his second coming the sins of the world should be blotted out and the world of mankind uplifted out of sin-and-death conditions, back to full perfection of human nature and all that was lost in Adam? Acts 3:21; I Cor. 15:21.

Do you know that the scriptures promise ONLY to “the elect church” a change of nature from human and earthly to spiritual and heavenly conditions, and that this change comes not through evolution, but by a NEW CREATION? — and that the blessing promised to the world is not a change of nature, but a restitution of the present human nature to the original perfection LOST in Adam, and to its future home, or Paradise? Matt. 7:14; II Pet. 1:4; II Cor. 5:17; Gal. 6:15; Acts 3:21; 15:13-17.

Does not restitution signify restoring or putting back to a previous condition? And if man’s previous condition was the monkey state, would not restitution be a curse instead of a blessing? Acts 3:21.

If, according to evolutionary theories, we have devel- oped from monkeys, and according to scriptural doctrine we are to be restored (Acts 3:21; 15:13-17), would it not be bad tidings of great misery instead of “good tidings of GREAT JOY”? Luke 2:10. And would it not be a message of damnation instead of a gospel of salvation? I Tim. 4:10; I John 2:2.

Does not the evolution theory contradict the Word of God, and isn’t it one among the many “science falsely so called”? I Tim. 6:20.

Don’t you think, from the above quotations, that we must either reject the Bible doctrine of man’s creation in perfection, his fall into sin and its penalty, death, his REDEMPTION by the precious blood of Jesus and his recovery, by and by, from sin and death, and consequent restoration to perfection during the Millennial age at the hands of the great Redeemer, or, on the contrary, we must repudiate, in toto, all the theories of human evolution as being absolutely, unqualifiedly untrue? — and had we not better “let God be true [though it prove] every man a liar”? Rom. 3:4. SEE THE EMPHATIC DIAGLOTT.

Long in bondage we have waited
For the dawning of the light;
Error’s chains we’ve felt and hated
Through the long and weary night.
Now the blessed light appearing
Fills our hearts with joy and peace,
Doubt and fear for aye dispelling:
O! what rest in this release!