Scoffers – Simon Turpin

Responding to Those Who Deliberately Overlook Creation and the Flood

For at least the last 200 years, the Western world has openly scoffed at Christians and their beliefs about the Bible. Atheistic evolutionists or skeptics often ridicule Christians who accept the belief in the supernatural creation of the world and a global Flood by calling them “fundamentalists,” “anti-intellectuals,” “extremists,” and “literalists.” We must prepare to face the scoffers…

• When it comes to the discussion over the days of creation and the age of the earth, many people mistakenly think that the issue only involves the interpretation of the early chapters of Genesis.
• Second Peter 3 says that in the last days, scoffers will come scoffing at the belief that Christ will come again.
• These scoffers will base their ideas upon the assumption that the world has not changed, ignoring two major events in the history of world: God’s supernatural creation of the world and God’s judgment of the world by the historical, global, catastrophic Flood in the days of Noah.
• Peter understood the creation and the Flood as key events, helping us see how the Apostle understood Genesis. This in turn informs our understanding of the issue of the earth’s age. It is important, then, to consider what these verses say. And choose your own future accordingly.