At one seminar, a lady told me that evolutionism had destroyed her faith in the Scriptures. She had such an emptiness in her life that she cried to the Lord and prayed for a solution to this problem. She was finding it impossible to trust the Scriptures. She was led to a library and happened to find a book on the Gap Theory. (The Gap Theory basically allows for billions of years between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2.) She was thrilled at this explanation and set about rebuilding her Christian life. At the end of the seminar, she came to me and exclaimed what a thrill it was to know she did not have to believe the Gap Theory. She did say, though, that the Lord used the Gap Theory to bring her out of a situation that was caused by evolutionism. Now she could totally trust the Bible.

There have been many great Christian men and women in past generations who promoted the Gap Theory or theistic evolution. However, now that we can show the real nature of evolutionist scientific research and can see the powerful evidence supporting the Bible in every area, there is no need to cling to these positions of compromise. Not only is there no need, but it is imperative that Christians give up these positions and accept the Bible as the authoritative Word of God.

James 3:1 warns us: "Be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation."

I am appealing to all Christian leaders to consider seriously their beliefs about the question of creation/evolution. One example, which I quoted earlier, described a visit to a school and the resultant openness of the students to the gospel message. I shared the testimony of a young student from that school. One of the things I did not mention was the virulent opposition of two ministers from that district who tried to bar my entrance to the school. Their reason? They said I would only confuse the students. They indicated that I had no right to insist that the Bible be taken literally. If they had been successful in their endeavor, many of those students would not now be open to the gospel.

At another school one of the local ministers spent a great deal of time obtaining special permission for the creation science team to speak to some of the classes. Another local minister went to the school and demanded the right to speak after we had spoken. He told the students that he was a Christian and a minister of religion, and then appealed to them not to believe what we were saying. He said he believed in evolution and did not believe Genesis was true.