In the past years, there have been a lot of discussions and debates about creationism and evolutionism, both inside and outside the church. Because of the scientific statement of the world that has derived from the carnal mind of man, no te ao, the church slowly started doubting the truth of God’s Word that says, God is the Creator of the heaven and the earth and all there is within. Ka miharo ratou, did God create the heaven and the earth in six days? Ranei…
Carnal believers don’t want to look foolish or stupid
Kia aroha mai, not many believers have crucified their flesh. Kahore ratou i tuku i o ratou ake oranga in Jesus Christ and still walk after the flesh. Na tera, they do matter what others think of them. They don’t want to be considered stupid or foolish, but they want to live just like the world and be liked and accepted by the world. Therefore many have adjusted and changed the Word of God to their own findings, whakaaro, and philosophies, which derive from a carnal mind and are influenced by scientific doctrines of man. This has caused many to have deviated from the Word of God.
Engari ko era, who don’t believe and don’t stay true to the Word of God, but believe in evolution, which is a doctrine of man, ehara i te Atua, because they don’t listen to Him and don’t walk in Tona ara, but listen to the words of carnal people and have entered self-chosen ways.
Everyone believes
They may say, that they are Christians and that they believe in God and that their faith is a big part of their lives and gives them strength. But on what foundation is their faith build?
The devil and demons also believe in God. They believe that God exists, maybe even more than people, Engari kaore i te ora. Their eternal destination is the eternal lake of fire.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, kahore he tangata e mahi ana i te pai (Ps 14:1)
Atheists also believe. They believe that God doesn’t exist. Everyone on this earth believes in something. Some believe that God exists, some believe that God doesn’t exist and some believe in plural gods or that man or even animals are gods.
A carnal faith
I roto i nga tau katoa, many Christians have slowly departed from the Word of God and have developed their own faith, which is influenced by the philosophies of man a Tuhinga o mua and is mainly based upon the senses, karekau, me ngā kare.
Kia aroha mai, there are not many believers, who read and study the Bible by themselves through the Holy Spirit and accept and endure the pure truth of God’s Word. Because the pure Word is often hard and means submission to the Truth and a change of life(tikanga) and not many are willing to submit to God and change their lives.
The spirit of autonomy reigns in many lives. Na tera, it’s not Jesus anymore, Who is their Lord and sits on the throne of their lives. But they have exalted themselves as gods and made themselves lords, e noho nei i runga i te torona o to ratou oranga.
They don’t consider the Bible as the Truth anymore. But they have changed and adjusted the words in the Bible to the philosophies and findings of man, which derive from a carnal worldly mind.
Karaitiana, who believe in evolution
There are many preachers and ministers, who preach from the Bible on Sundays, while they believe in evolution. Because they believe in evolution, they undermine and Whakakore i te Atua as the Creator of the heaven and the earth? Many believers have become apostate from the faith and the Word, because they have not i whakahoutia o ratou hinengaro with the Word of God but instead, filled their mind with the knowledge, whakaaro nui, and truth of the world, mā roto (pūtaiao) hōtaka pouaka whakaata, Pukapuka, news, Te mau vea, social media etc., which has caused them to doubt the Word of God.
He maha nga Karaitiana, who are born and raised in a Christian family and are traditional Christians. They go to church and pray before their meals and before they go to bed and occasionally read the Bible. They call themselves Christians and look like Christians from the outside, because of their humanistic behavior. But according to the Word, they think and live as enemies of the cross and are deniers of God. They confess God with their mouth, but their hearts don’t belong to Him, but to the world (Mat 15:8)
The Holy Spirit testifies of God, the Creator of the heaven and the earth
If someone claims to be born again, then the spirit of the person has been raised from the dead by the power of the Holy Spirit. Te Wairua o te Atua, Ko wai e noho ana i roto i te tangata, is the same Spirit of God, Who moved upon the face of the waters, while the earth was without form and void and when darkness was on the face of the deep.
The same Spirit is the Spirit of Truth, Who is a Witness of the Almighty God; the Creator of heaven and earth and all there is within and Jesus Christ; te Word (Jn 14:17, Jn 15:26, Jn 16:13, Rom 8:9, 1 Co 2:12, 1 Co 3:16, 2 Co 1:22, 1 Jo 4:13, 1 Jo 5:6-8)
No reira, if someone denies the Creator and adjust the Word to the wisdom and knowledge of this world, then that person doesn’t possess the Holy Spirit. Because God cannot deny Himself.
The Holy Spirit is a Witness of the creation and testifies of the truth, that God is the Creator of heaven and earth, and that He created the heaven and earth and all there is within in six days. That’s the Almighty God, Whom we serve! Nothing is impossible for Him.
E Ihowa, how great are Thy works! and Thy thoughts are very deep. A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this (Ps 92:5-6)
But as already discussed in the previous blog post: 'Can the Bible and science go together?', an unspiritual man is not able to comprehend the truth of God and see the Kingdom of God. And that’s why an unspiritual man cannot understand how something can be created out of nothing.
Ka mea a Ihu, that unless a person becomes whanau ano, he cannot see nor enter the Kingdom of God (Jn 3:3-5). And because many believers are not truly born again, they are still carnal and sense ruled. They are carnally minded and therefore they live according to what their carnal mind, which is formed by the knowledge and wisdom of this world, ka marama.
Na roto i te whakapono, you are able to understand the creation
The first work of faith that is described in Hebrew 11 is the creation. E whakaatu ana te Kupu, that God is the Creator of the heaven and the earth and all its hosts.
Na roto i te faaroo ta tatou e maramarama, ua iritihia te ao nei na te Parau a te Atua, Na, ko nga mea e kitea ana kaore i kitea i nga mea e puta ana (Hēr 11:3)
Only when a person is born again, the person is able to believe that God has created by His Word and His power the heaven and the earth and all there is within.
Ki te mea koe, that you believe in God and claim to be born again, then you believe the Word of God and believe that God has created the heaven and the earth and all there is within in six days.
If you don’t believe this, but instead believe what science is telling you and consider evolution not a foolish doctrine of man, engari ko te pono, then you don’t believe in God and His words, but in the words of man.
By believing in the words of man above the words of God, you say that God is a Liar and that what is written in the Bible; His Word is not the truth, Engari he teka.
Is God the Creator of the heaven and the earth?
Despite what science says, the Word of God teaches us, that God ko Ko te kaihanga o te rangi me te whenua me nga mea katoa kei roto. Nowhere in the Bible is the big bang or evolution process of the earth, tipu, trees, kararehe, iwi, etc. mentioned.
The Word testifies about God as the Creator and acknowledges that God has created the heaven and the earth and all there is within. Āe, the Word even testifies that the creation itself testifies of God’s power and His Godliness. No reira, no one has an excuse, inā (s)he will stand before the throne of God on the day of judgment. No one can say, tera (s)kihai ia i mohio.
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, e mohio ana ki nga mea e mahia ana, Ahakoa tona mana mutungakore me te Atua; kia kore ai ratou e raru (Rom 1:20)
This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it (Ps 118:24)
Hezekiah prayed before the Lord, ka mea, O Lord God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even Thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; Thou hast made heaven and earth (2 Kon 19:15)
Ko koe, even Thou, art Lord alone; Thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, te whenua, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and Thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth Thee (Neh 9:6)
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth His handywork (Ps 19:1)
Na te kupu a Ihowa nga rangi i hanga; me o ratou ope katoa na te ha o tona mangai. He mea huihui e ia nga wai o te moana, ano he puranga: He mea rongoatia e ia te rire ki nga whare taonga. Kia wehi te whenua katoa ki a Ihowa: kia ohooho nga tangata katoa o te ao ki a ia. I korero hoki ia, a kua oti; Ka whakahau ia, a ka tu tonu (Ps 33:6-9)
Ye are blessed of the Lord which made heaven and earth. The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord’s: but the earth hath He given to the children of men (Ps 115:15-16)
My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth (Ps 121:2)
The Lord that made heaven and earth bless thee out of Zion (Ps 134:3)
Ka hari te tangata kei a ia nei te Atua o Hakopa hei awhina mona, ko tana e tumanako ai ko Ihowa, ko tona Atua:
Nana i hanga te rangi, me te whenua, Te moana, me nga mea katoa o roto: which keepeth truth for ever (Ps 146:5-6)
Let them praise the Name of the Lord: for He commanded, and they were created.
He hath also stablished them for ever and ever: He hath made a decree which shall not pass (Ps 148:5-6))
Ariki, Thou art God, which hast made heaven, me te whenua, me te moana, a ko nga mea katoa i roto i a ratou (Nga Mahi 4:24)
We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, me te whenua, me te moana, and all things that are therein (Nga Mahi 14:15)
wehi ki te Atua, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, me te whenua, me te moana, me nga puna wai (Iho 14:7)
(Panuitia hoki: 2Ki 2:12, Hopa 38-41, Ps 124:8, Isa 37:16)
Did God create the earth in six days or six thousand years?
Is the creation really created in six days as the Word of God says? Or is the creation created in six thousand years, as so many people say?
Te iwi, who have come up with this statement and say, that it took God six thousand years to create the world, have not been standing on the truth of the Word of God, but allowed themselves to be influenced by the wisdom and knowledge of this world and tried to mix evolution with the Bible; te Kupu a te Atua.
This statement and doctrine derive from a carnal mind, which cannot comprehend and believe that it took God just one day to create something out of nothing.
A carnal mind is not able to understand and comprehend, how you can call things, ehara nei i te mea e rite ana ratou, and bring something into existence from the spiritual realm into the natural realm. In order to uphold their philosophies and doctrines and their figural interpretation of the word ‘yôm’ they quote the following scriptures:
For a thousand years in Thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night (Ps 90:4)
Engari, aroha, kei kuare koe ki tenei mea kotahi, he ra kotahi ki te Ariki rite tonu ki nga tau kotahi mano, me nga tau kotahi mano rite tonu ki te ra kotahi (2 Pe 3:8)
But these two scriptures have nothing to do with creation but relate to the difference between how God considers time and how the natural carnal man considers time. Because God’s time is different than man’s time. I roto i nga Waiata 90 it’s about the life of the natural man and in 2 Pita 3:8 it’s about the promise of the hoki o Ihu.
E whakaatu ana te Kupu, that God created the heaven and the earth in six days and that God rested on the seventh day:
Na kua oti te rangi me te whenua, me nga mano katoa o ratou. A i te whitu o nga ra ka mutu tana mahi i mahia e ia; a ka okioki ia i te ra whitu i ana mahi katoa i mahia e ia. A ka manaakitia e te Atua te ra tuawhitu, ka whakatapua: Na reira i okioki ai ia i ana mahi katoa i hangaia e te Atua, i hanga. These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens (Gen 2:1-4)
E ono hoki nga ra i hanga ai e Ihowa te rangi me te whenua, Te moana, a ko nga mea katoa i roto i a ratou, ka okioki i te ra whitu: Na reira kua manaakitia e te Ariki te ra hapati, ka whakatapua (Ex 20:11)
E ono hoki nga ra i hanga ai e Ihowa te rangi me te whenua, and on the seventh day He rested, and was refreshed (Ex 31:17)
How can light exist before the sun was created?
Many people have doubts about the authenticity, reliability, and trustworthiness of God’s Word because in Genesis 1 kua oti te tuhituhi, that the light and the day and night were created and existed before the sun, moon, and stars were created. But how can there be light without the sun?
He maha nga iwi e kii ana, that this is impossible and therefore they say that the Bible is not true! Because the sun produces light. And if the sun was created on the fourth day, then how can the light and the day and night exist prior to the sun, moon, and stars? Therefore they’d rather believe evolution and consider evolution as the truth.
But wouldn’t it be great, if believers were just as passionate for the spiritual things of the Kingdom of God as scientists are in the natural realm and study and search the scriptures like scientists study and search?
The light, which God created on the first day is the light, e ahu mai ana i a ia. The light originates from God and not from the sun. God rules over the light and not the sun. Because God is the Light.
Ko ahau te Ariki, kaore hoki tetahi atu, there is no God beside Me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known Me: that they may know from the rising of the sun, mai i te hauauru, that there is none beside Me. Ko ahau te Ariki, kaore hoki tetahi atu. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all things (Isa 45:5-7)
God separated the light from the darkness and called the light: the day and the darkness: the night. The day and the night existed before the luminaries; the sun, moon and stars, were created.
When the heaven, the dry land; earth and the seas were created, it was time for the creation of the luminaries in the firmament of the heaven
God had already created the light and He already separated the day and night, but now He created and appointed luminaries, that would be responsible for the light on the earth.
The light and the day and night already existed, but now He gave the responsibility and authority to the sun, moon and stars. From the fourth day, they would be responsible for the light on the earth.
Just like God had given the responsibility and dominion to man over the earth and its host. God had finished the creation, but He delegated the responsibility and dominion to man (Gen 1:26-28, Ps 115:16)
The creation of the sun, moon, and stars on the fourth day
Ko te kupu tenei a te Ariki, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night (No te mea 31:35)
On the fourth day, God created the sun, moon, and stars, and set them in the firmament of heaven, and commanded them to give light during the day and during the night. That was the commission, which God had given to the sun, moon, and stars (His creations). God made them responsible for the light.
Mai i tera ra, they were responsible to make a separation between the day and night, to be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and for years, and to be lights in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth.
God gave the sun dominion to rule over the day and He gave the moon and stars dominion to rule over the night and to divide the light from the darkness. When God had created the sun, moon, and stars and had given dominion to them to give light and to rule over the day and night, God saw that it was good (Gen 1:14-19)
God is the Creator of the light and not the sun
The day is Thine, the night also is Thine: Thou hast prepared the light and the sun (Ps 74:16)
The light originates from God. The light is created by God and not the sun. The sun has not made the day and the moon and stars have not made the night. But God created the light and separated the light from the darkness. God made the day and the night and not His creations.
God gave the commandment to the sun to provide light on the earth, but the sun is created by God and therefore it is a creation of God and because of that, the sun may never be worshipped.
Maybe God created the light and the day and night before He created the sun, moon, and stars, to prevent people from thinking that the sun, moon, and stars are the givers of light and consider them god(s) koropiko ki a ratou, as happens in many pagan cultures.
God forbade His people, to worship the sun, moon, and stars. If a person would not keep His commandment and worship the sun, moon, and stars, then that person would be punished with the death penalty (I hoatu 4:19, I hoatu 17:3-5).
Despite the words and commandments of God, and despite His warnings, His people often wandered and entered the way of the pagan cultures and worshipped the sun, moon, and stars (2 Ki 23:5-5, 2 Ki 23:11, Rere huka 8:16)
But the sun is not god and shall never be god, but the sun is a creation of God’s hand and will always be a creation of God. The sun is a witness of God and His greatness and majesty.
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth His handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof (Ps 19:1-6)
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth His handywork (Ps 19:1)
He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down (Ps 104:19)
God’s authority over the sun
When Joshua spoke to the Lord and commanded the sun and moon to stand still, they obeyed. In the behavior of Joshua, we see his faith in God, who commanded the creation of God to stand still, and God heard and answered the words of Joshua and the sun and moon obeyed and stood still (Mehemea 10:12-13, Hab 3:11).
Theologians say, that this has not really happened, but that it’s a metaphor. Scientists say, that this phenomenon was a sun eclipse. But by saying this, they undermine the Almighty God and His greatness and power.
The same thing applies to the sign, which God gave to Hizkia, that the shadow of the sun would go ten degrees backward from the stairs. And the sun obeyed the voice of God and returned ten degrees.
Nana, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down (Isa 38:8)
Te pouri
There will come a day, that the sun, moon, and stars won’t give their light anymore, due to the sins on the earth. The sins shall become so great on the earth, that the creation, including the sun, moon, and stars, will suffer.
This also happened when Jesus took all the sins of the world upon Him and sin triumphed over Him. This became visible in the natural realm by the darkness, that reigned over the earth from the sixth until the ninth hour (Mat 27:45, Maehe 15:33).
Nana, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and He shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. For the starts of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine (Isa 13:9-10)
And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light. All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, e ai ta te Ariki, ta Ihowa (Rere huka 32:7-8)
The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining (Joe 2:10)
Ka whakakitea ano e ahau he mea whakamiharo i te rangi, i te whenua, blood and fire, me nga pou auahi. Ka puta ke te ra hei pouri, ko te marama hoki hei toto, i mua i te taenga mai o te ra nui, te ra whakamataku o Ihowa (Joe 2:30-31)
The sun and the moon shall be darkened and the stars shall withdraw their shining (Joe 3:15)
A ka puta i taua ra, e ai ta te Ariki, ta Ihowa, that I will cause the sun to down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day (Amo 8:9)
Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken (Mat 24:29, Maehe 13:24-25, Ko Lu 21:25-26)
And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, a, na, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind (Iho 6:12-13)
And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise (Iho 8:12)
How can there be light without luminaries?
How can there be light without the sun, moon, and stars? God is not depended on the sun, moon, and stars. Because on the new earth and heaven, there will be no sun, moon, and stars. But God shall be an everlasting light and shall give the saints light.
The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended (Isa 60:19-20)
And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God gives them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever (Iho 22:5)
Is man formed from the dust or transformed apes?
E ai ta te Paipera, that God has created man from the dust of the earth, after the image of God (Ko te Atua; te Atua, te Word, me te Wairua Tapu). God created man from the dust of the earth and breathed His breath of life into his nostrils and man became a living soul.
Heoi ano, according to Mr. Darwin, man was not created by God, but man is a transformed ape. According to him, humans would derive from the same ape species like the orangutan, gorilla, and chimpanzee. The chimpanzee is the stage before the evolution to man. This doctrine is based on the fact, that a chimpanzee has a lot of similarities as man.
But how can a four-legged animal become a two-legged person? And if man would originate from this ape species, then why did not all orangutans, gorilla’s and chimpanzees evolve to man? If this statement would be true, how come that only one kind of ape species have been evolved and all the other ape species haven’t? And what about the other animals? Why haven’t they evolved in other creatures?
It’s amazing, what kind of influence and impact the words of one human being can have on whole humanity. An intellectual carnal person arises and spreads his lies; his own philosophies, which are based upon his own findings and reasoning.
Whether Mr. Darwin has annulled his doctrines before he died or not, ehara i te mea nui. It’s about what enormous impact his statements and doctrines have on modern natural science and what people do with his doctrines. Because natural science still believes in his words and still applies his doctrines and believe that humans have evolved from apes.
And because many people, who say they believe in God, are not born again and therefore unspiritual and still have a carnal mind, they believe the words of man above the words of God.
But the Word speaks against every statement on which evolution is built upon. E kī ana te Word, that all flesh is not the same flesh. And that’s why the flesh of apes can never become the flesh of humans.
Ehara i te kikokiko kotahi nga kikokiko katoa: engari kotahi ano te ahua o te kikokiko tangata, tetahi atu kikokiko o nga kararehe, tetahi atu ika, me tetahi o nga manu. (1 Kor 15:39)
E whakaatu ana te Kupu, that God created man from the dust of the earth after the image of God:
Ka mea te Atua, Me hanga te tangata i roto i to maatau ahua, I muri i to tatou ahua: a kia waiho ratou hei rangatira mo nga ika o te moana, ki runga hoki i nga manu o te rangi, mo nga kau, ki runga hoki i te whenua katoa, ki runga ano hoki i nga mea ngokingoki katoa e ngokingoki ana i runga i te whenua. Na ka hanga e te Atua te tangata kia rite ki tona ahua, i hanga ia e ia kia rite ki te Atua; i hanga raua he tane, he wahine (Gen 1:26-27)
And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there He put the man whom He had formed (Gen 2:8)
And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, me nga manu katoa o te rangi; a kawea ana ki a Arama, kia kitea he aha tana e karanga ai ki a raua: me nga mea katoa i huaina e Arama ki nga mea ora katoa, ko te ingoa tena (Gen 2:19)
A ka kite te Atua kei te nui te kino o te tangata i te whenua, a ko nga whakaaro katoa o nga whakaaro o tona ngakau he kino tonu te kino. Na ka puta ke tona whakaaro mo Ihowa nana i hanga te tangata i runga i te whenua, Na ka pouri ia ki tona ngakau. Na ka mea te Ariki, Ka ngaro i ahau te tangata i hanga nei e ahau, i te mata o te whenua; tangata, me te kararehe, me te mea ngoki, me nga manu o te rangi; no te mea kua puta ke ahau kua meinga ratou e ahau kia (Gen 6:5-7)
Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made He man (Gen 9:6)
Na te Wairua o te Atua ahau i hanga, na te manawa o te Kaha Rawa ahau i whai ora ai. (Hopa 33:4)
Know ye that the Lord He is God: it is He that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture. (Ps 100:3)
ka whakamoemiti ahau ki a koe; he mea whakamataku hoki ahau, he mea whakamiharo rawa: he mea whakamiharo au mahi;
e mohio ana ano toku wairua. My substance was not hid from Thee, i ahau i hanga ngarotia, he mea mahi whakamiharo ki nga wahi o raro rawa o te whenua. (Ps 139:13-14)
At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel (Isa 17:7)
Ko te kupu tenei a te Ariki, a Ihowa, Ko ia nana i hanga nga rangi, ka hora ratou i waho; Ko ia e hora ana i te whenua, ko nga mea e puta mai ana i roto i tera; Ko te tangata e tuku ana i te manawa ki te iwi i runga, me te wairua ki te hunga e haere ana i roto (Isa 42:5)
II have made the earth, Na ka hanga te tangata ki runga: Ahau, even My hands, kua hora nga rangi, a ko o ratou ope katoa kua whakahaua e ahau (Isa 45:12)
Kua oti i ahau te whenua, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto Me (No te mea 27:5)
I te orokohanganga ia, i hanga raua e te Atua he tane, he wahine (Maehe 10:6, Mat 19:4)
(Panuitia hoki: Gen 5:1-2, Hopa 4:17, Isa 64:8, Zach 12:1, Mal 2:10, Korimi 3:9)
Te Kupu a te Atua
Ko nga karaipiture katoa e whakawhiwhia ana e te faaururaa a te Atua, He whai hua ki te whakaakoranga, hei whakatupato, mo te whakatikatika, Mo te tohutohu i runga i te tika: Kia tino rite ai te tangata a te Atua, rite rawa mo nga mahi pai katoa (2 Takiwā 3:16-17)
Nga kupu katoa a te Atua, which is written in the Bible are spiritual words and possess the life of God. Nga kupu katoa a te Atua, that is being planted in the life of the believer shall, depending on the ground and nurture, bear fruit or not. The Bible is the spiritual Bread and Kāpehu mo te tangata hou, who is born again in Jesus Christ, and leads the new man into the truth of God.
As soon as you deviate from the Word and leave the Word, and live after your own thoughts, rapunga whakaaro, Nga kitenga, whakaaro, karekau, me nga wheako, you shall deviate from Te aroha noa and rely on your own insights, matauranga, me te whakaaro nui, which are formed by the world. You shall not live by faith after the Word and preach the Word, but you shall preach and walk by faith in yourself; your knowledge, whakaaro nui, me te kaha.
At that time Jesus answered and said, Ka mihi ahau ki a koe, E te Matua, Ariki o te rangi me te whenua, no te mea kua huna e koe enei mea i te hunga whakaaro nui, i te hunga mahara, a whakakitea ana e koe ki nga kohungahunga (Mat 11:25)
Paul stood firm in the faith and preached Jesus Christ
Paul believed in Jesus Christ and stood firm in the faith. He didn’t compromise with the worldly wisdom and her philosophies, because he considered the wisdom and knowledge of this world as foolishness (1 Co 1:20). E ai ki te ao, Paul was a skilled person. Heoi ano, when he had an experiential encounter with Jesus Christ, he laid down his earthly wisdom and knowledge and clothed himself with Jesus Christ and aru ana ia ia.
Paul had become a new creation and the Holy Spirit dwelled in him. He didn’t use all kinds of compelling words of man, but he came in the power of God and spoke His words with authority
I a Paora i Atene, some philosophers of the Epicureans and Stoicks were curious about his new doctrines. Paul was not intimidated and persuaded by them and their doctrines and didn’t leave his faith. But Paul preached Jesus Christ and His resurrection and because of his preaching of the cross, some of them came to the faith (Nga Mahi 17:17-34).
Ko te wehi ki a Ihowa te timatanga o te whakaaro nui
The big difference between then and now is, that the prophets of the Old Testament and the apostles and disciples of Jesus in the New Testament had a fear (wehi) Tuhinga o mua. Because of their fear of God, they possessed the wisdom of God. They acknowledged God as the Creator of the heaven and earth and all there is within and considered everything He had spoken and spoke as the truth.
They stayed loyal to Him, despite the persecution of people. Because if you study the Old Testament and the New Testament, then you notice that none of the prophets, nga apotoro, and disciples, who were appointed by God and spoke His truth, were truly loved.
Āta noho, they were loved if something needed to happen because they were in trouble, or if they needed, whakaora, a word of knowledge, wisdom regarding a certain matter or something else.
But as soon as a prophet, apostle or disciple came and spoke in the Name of God and confronted them with their behavior and called them to repentance or when they prophesied about a future event, that wasn’t positive, then suddenly they were not so loved anymore and were persecuted and imprisoned.
Some even were sentenced to death, just because they spoke God’s truth and prophesied in His Name. Na ko te mea pouri, that they were often not commanded to keep silent and be imprisoned and killed by unbelievers; Tauiwi, but by their own people.
This not only happened in the Old Testament, but also in the New Testament and it still happens (Mat 23:31, Ko Lu 11:47, 1 Th 2:14-16).
Do you believe in the Word of God?
There are many more arguments against the doctrine of evolution. But if I would quote all the scriptures from the Bible and cite all the proof and arguments, it won’t help to persuade a natural carnal man with a carnal mind from this false doctrine.
It’s all about one thing and that is: do you believe in the Word of God? Do you believe that the Bible is God’s Word and represents Him? Do you believe that the Bible is the Truth? Na te mea kaore he whakapono e kore e taea te pai ki te Atua. The flesh and the carnal mind are not able to believe. Because faith is a fruit of the spirit and not of the flesh.
Only the new creations, kua ara tona wairua i te hunga mate, are able to understand and believe the Bible; te Kupu a te Atua.
Ko era, who are born of God shall listen to His voice. No reira, they shall listen to the Word and do what the Word tells them to do. They are born of God and believe that God is the Creator of the heaven and the earth and all there is within.
To all other people, the Bible is foolishness. Therefore they shall not listen to the words of the Bible. But they shall listen to the words of carnal man, who possess and represent the wisdom and knowledge of the world.
A carnal man, who is unspiritual belongs to the world. Therefore a carnal man shall listen to the world and believe what the world says. I te mea ko te matauranga te matauranga o te ao ka whakapono te tangata kikokiko ki ta te pūtaiao e kii ana, tae atu ki te whanaketanga.
Kua whakawhiwhia ki nga tangata katoa he mana herekore. No reira e waatea ana te katoa ki te whakapono me te mahi i nga mea katoa (s)kei te hiahia ia. Ka taea e nga tangata katoa te whiriwhiri ki te whakapono ki nga korero a te Paipera me nga korero a te ao. Engari kotahi te mea e marama ana, a ko te mea kaore e taea e te orokohanga me te kukuwhatanga te haere tahi. Ko tetahi, ko tetahi ranei.
'Kia tote mo te whenua’
Mātāpuna: Hinengaro koiora – Pokarekare
