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This incredible statement was made by the “pastor” of one of the largest churches in Austin Texas, a part of one of our nations most popular “mainline” denominations. I heard the statement with my own ears at a hearing on the Texas State Textbook Committee, in Austin Texas. We were scolded by the “pastor” for having been too long on the wrong side of this issue. Science has proved evolution is true and that creationists are wrong. Christians just have to line up.

It was obvious in our last Presidential election that many of the candidates, trying to win the approval of our citizens, decided to line up with evolution. A few did not. Well, Christians may line up with evolutionists or they may line up with Christ, but they cannot line up with both. The Bible certainly makes it clear that Christ was a creationist.

When Jesus warned the apostles of the terrible circumstances associated with the destruction of Jerusalem, He said, “For those days will be a time of tribulation such as has not occurred since the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will. “ (Mark 13:19). The concept of “God creating” was not an essential part of His description of the devastation involved in the coming siege. The apostles apparently did not need to be corrected on this point. Nevertheless, He did not neglect the opportunity to emphasize this critical, foundational truth.

Predicting an eminent judgment on the apostate children of God, the Lord Jesus referred to “the beginning of the creation which God created,” thus affirming the Biblical doctrine of supernatural, sudden creation. In the pagan world of His day, evolutionism was dominant almost everywhere. The Epicureans, for example, were atheistic evolutionists. The Stoics, Gnostics, Platonists, and others, were pantheistic evolutionists. None of the extra-Biblical philosophers of His day believed in a God who had created all things, including even the universe itself.

But Christ was a creationist, and the much maligned “scientific creationists” of today are following His example and teaching. He even believed in recent creation, for He said (speaking of Adam and Eve) that “from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female” (Mark 10:6). The pagans all believed in an eternal cosmos, but Jesus said it had a beginning, and that man and woman were a part of that beginning creation.

He also believed that the so called “two accounts” of creation (Genesis 1 and 2) were complimentary, not contradictory, for He quoted from both in the same context. “Have ye not read,” He said, “that He which made them at the beginning made them male and female” [Genesis 1], And said For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?” [Genesis 2] (Matthew 19:4-6). Jesus was evidently not up on the latest “scholarship” which insists with haughty confidence that these two different creation myths do not belong together.

I am often asked, “Can Christians be evolutionists?” Sure they can…and they can be liars, adulterers, murderers. The majority of those aspiring to be President demonstrated that many who call themselves Christians are unwilling to follow Christ.

Jesus spoke of this situation when He heard a scribe say, “Teacher, I will follow You wherever You go.” Jesus taught him that was much easier to say than to do when He responded, “The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.”

Jesus referred to statements from the book of Genesis at least 25 times indicating He believed the book and thought it was important. Faithful Christians must do more than talk a good game. If they truly follow Christ they will be creationists as He was.

Adapted from comments by Henry Morris