You would be in for a shock if you wrote to some of our theological or Bible colleges and asked them what they teach in that college about creation. But be very specific dont just ask them if they teach creation. Ask them what they believe about Genesis. Do they believe the days were real days? Do they believe the flood of Noah was worldwide in extent? Do they take Genesis literally? Do they see the importance of Genesis to doctrine? I have often said to people in churches that I knew the theological college of that particular denomination either taught evolution or the view that Genesis does not matter. Most people reel in shock. They had believed their theological colleges taught that the Bible is true.One of the problems we have in the West is that most theological and Bible colleges produce ministers who have been trained to question the Scriptures rather than accept them. That is why we have so many shepherds in our churches who are really leading the sheep astray. If you support any of these institutions financially, why not ask them what they teach about these matters?

At one seminar three ministers from a Protestant denomination came up to me. They said that what I was teaching was a perversion of the Scriptures. As we talked, it became obvious that we were arguing from two totally different approaches to the Scripture. I asked these people how God made the first woman. I said the Bible claims that God took from Adams side and made a woman did they believe that? Their answer went something like this: "Yes, we do believe the symbolic picture implied here that men and women are one." "No," I said, "I asked you whether you believed that that is how God actually made a woman." They said they certainly agreed that this theological picture implied that men and women are one. I repeated my question a number of times, saying that the Bible claims this is actually how God made a woman. Not only that, but in the New Testament in 1 Corinthians 11:8, we read where Paul states that the woman came from the man and not the man from the woman, obviously supporting the historical creation account in Genesis.

We were getting nowhere, so I asked them if they believed that Jesus was nailed on a cross as the New Testament states. "Oh, yes," they said, "we certainly believe that." I then asked them why they did not believe God actually took Adams side and made a woman. They told me it was the difference between accepting Genesis as poetry rather than history, suggesting that if it were poetry it should not be believed.

Genesis, of course, is history. And, besides, even if something is written in poetic form, as indeed other parts of the Scriptures are, does this then say that we do not believe it?