Richard Hollerman

We know that not everyone will agree with this assessment of human history on earth. Some would flatly reject it and say that this is wrong, per se. According to history, we realize that scientists are the leading atheists in the world today, trailing other scientific minds in many ways. But if this is true, that humans did “evolve” rather recently, (actually, they didn’t “evolve” but were created!) compared to earth history, how do we assess this?

Since I am a thorough-going Creationist,  one who believes that God, in history, created all things and that the Scriptures are a good and reliable record of past events, we know that our view of things would be radically different from the world’s view of the past.

If God did not bring the first humans into the world (according to the latest account, and if He didn’t bring the first human beings into the world three million years ago, and if the earth was three or four billion years old (and the world was 14 billion years old), we might ask when did God choose to do all of this?

First of all, we must reject totally and completely an evolutionary worldview. Instead God said that He created only thousands of years ago and then brought a worldwide deluge or catastrophe perhaps 2450 years before Christ (which would be about 4450 years ago from today’s age), what then?

After the flood (ca. 4450 B.C.), there were many different religions and cults on earth. Of course, the true way was first, but soon we read that Hinduism arose and spread. Buddhism didn’t arise until the time of Gautama Buddha, about 567 BC. And Islam arose at the time of Muhammad, about 570 BC until this prophet’s death in 632 BC.
After the period of the world religions, we know of the ones that came after the flood and many continue to the present time.

Are we to accept the timeline that covers the past several thousand years? Dear friend, we would be most miserable if we were to think that life has been around for millions of years! We might then wonder about Christ’s return, which He says could happen at any time. Instead of four billion years, or a billion years, or ten million years, or even 40,000 years, we think that our past, present, and future, would be miserable.

No, God says that human life began only thousands of years ago, then Jesus was born perhaps in 5 or 6 BC, and now, a couple of millennia later, we arrive in the present. And Jesus declared, “Be on the alert, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming” (Matthew 24:42). He said, “You also must be ready; for the Son of Man [Jesus] is coming at an hour when you do not think He will” (v. 44). Are you ready? Am I ready?

Sadly, the world seems to be astray in many ways. We are not only speaking about chronologically, but in vast numbers of different ways. Was Jesus right? And was He accurate? We believe and know that He was and because of this, we face tomorrow with faith, with confidence, and with an assurance that all is well.

Let us not cast off our confidence for tomorrow but go on in victory! “You have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive that which was promised” (Hebrews 10:36).