Spiritual Sight # 33

Seeking The Glory of Christ As Son of God (continued)

The Prerogative of Life (continued)

To all this the great enemy of men's eternal glory would blind them and keep them blind. One of the blinding lies of the devil is the lie of evolution. While we all believe in a certain development and progress, the doctrine which declares that man started with the amoeba and in the course of many thousands - perhaps millions - of years passes through numerous stages - e.g. of ape, primitive man, civilized man, angelic being, and so on - and finally becomes a god, having attained deity! - THIS IS A LIE AND A DECEPTION, AND IS INTENDED BY ITS SATANIC INVENTOR TO KEEP MEN FROM ACCEPTING CHRIST! For all this progress (?) is said to be made altogether without any outside intervention. Someone writing on this matter has put it in this way: We have heard of a wonderful machine which, with claws, takes hold of so much leather at one end and draws it in and, without any outside intervention, takes it through stage after stage, and pours it forth as shoes at the other end: without any outside intervention! And, says the writer, this is evolution; the claws take hold on the amoeba and draws it in, and then evolution is supposed to take it through various stages and at last turn it out as angels and gods. But, says he, unfortunately the amoeba at a certain point gets caught in the mesh and in the end beasts come out, tearing one another to pieces! Are men really nearer angels and gods today after these thousands of years? Is the moral life of the human race so much higher after all? Only the very blind will say it is.

Ah, it is just in that little clause "outside intervention" that everything is found. There will never really be any true conformity to God's likeness without outside intervention. It will not work like a machine. This outside intervention is set forth in the words of Christ: "I am come that they might have life" (John 10:10). There is no hope of man reaching God by himself, but God has intervened in the person of His Son and with Him offered the life which has in it the power to bring us into oneness with Him in likeness and fellowship.

~T. Austin-Sparks~

(continued with # 34 - (God's Prerogative of Light Vested In The Son)