The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved in 50 ArgumentsWilliams, William A. (William Asbury)
Religion
The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved in 50 Arguments
Williams, William A. (William Asbury)
Evolution
The unity of ancient religions proves the creation of man who received
a divine revelation. According to evolution, all religions were evolved
or invented by humanoids. In that case, we would expect them to be
widely divergent; and we would be surprised, if they agreed on great
and important points, and especially on points which could not be
clearly arrived at by reason. For instance, what in reason teaches us
that an animal sacrifice is a proper way to worship God? How could
unassisted reason ever arrive at the conclusion that God is properly
worshipped by sacrificing a sheep or an ox? If we grant that one
section of the anthropoid host might have stumbled on the idea, how can
we account for its prevalence or its universality? A very high
authority says, “Sacrifices were common to all nations of antiquity,
and therefore, traced by some to a personal revelation.” By revelation,
we learn that the animal sacrifice prefigured the Lamb slain on
Calvary. It was revealed. No race of monkey-men could ever have
invented the idea.
The most ancient nations worshipped God by sacrifices. Homer’s Iliad
(1000 B. C.) and other works of Grecian poets are full of it. All the
classics, Greek and Latin, are crowded with accounts of offerings. The
earliest records of the Egyptians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Hindus and
Chinese speak of sacrifices long in vogue. This unity of religions on
the point of animal sacrifices bespeaks revelation and not evolution.
The division of time into weeks of 7 days, prevalent among the
ancients, suggests an ancient revelation in commemoration of creation
as against evolution, which denies creation. The following statements
from Dr. J. R. Dummelow, an eminent commentator, show that the
Babylonians both divided time into weeks, and offered sacrifices,
pointing to the unity of religions. “The Babylonians observed the 7th,
14th, 21st and 28th of each lunar month as days when men were subjected
to certain restrictions; the king was not to eat food prepared by fire,
_nor offer sacrifice,_ nor consult an oracle, nor invoke curses on his
enemies.” They also observed the 19th of each month. It was customary,
therefore, in the days of Abraham, for the Babylonians to offer
sacrifices and to observe the 7th day as especially sacred. This can
only be accounted for upon the assumption, that God had revealed to the
human race that creation occupied 6 days or periods, and the 7th was to
be observed,—all of which was doubtless handed down by tradition. There
were priests and temples in the most ancient empire known.
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