EVOLUTION AND SIN"For we know that the whole creation groan-eth and travaileth in pain together until now" (Rom. 8:22).
Modern evolution, of course, denies the Bible account of the fall and has much to say about "the ascent of man," but evolution fails to account for, indeed, assiduously evades, that which lies at the very root of all man’s troubles: sin. It fails to explain adequately why man finds himself weak, poor, miserable, distressed, corrupt, perishing, and it fails
to explain why he is so utterly helpless to lift himself from this state. It fails to explain his inherent sense of lameworthiness; indeed insists he has no cause for a "guilt com-plex."
Every man feels within himself a disorder, a positive dislocation of things, which science -- and certainly the theory of evolution -- is unable to explain. Only the Bible account of the fall explains it and shows how all man’s
trouble and distress arise from his own nature, which is fallen and corrupt.
"...BY ONE MAN SIN ENTERED INTO THE WORLD, AND DEATH BY SIN; AND SO DEATH PASSED UPON ALL MEN, FOR THAT ALL HAVE SINNED" (Rom. 5:12).
It is most important for the unsaved to learn this lesson; to learn that it is not merely our sins, but our sin that makes us unfit for the presence of God; not merely our deeds but our nature; not merely what we have done, but what we would do because we are es-sentially sinful as the children of Adam.How profoundly grateful we should be, then, that God loves us despite our sins and our sinful natures, and that...
"...God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" (Rom. 5:
. "In whom we have redemption, through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace" (Eph. 1:7).By C. R. Stam
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