The Lie that is Evolution by Frederick Hoehn, copyright 2015, all rights reserved. Chapter 1 In one of my previous books, "Can a Christian be a Scientist", I touched on Evolution. Evolution meaning the Theory of Evolution from Darwin. Darwin was an evil man to publish that lie to the world. Not content just to go to hell himself, he made the effort to take others with him to hell. The Bible says, "He that digs a pit shall fall into it." (Prov 26:27) So then, if you're helping other people go to hell (as Darwin did), you'll most likely go there yourself. If you publish lies, as Darwin did, you're just as much a liar as if you spoke those lies. And God says, "All liars shall have their part in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone." (book of Revelation) But perhaps Darwin didn't believe in hell, just as he also tried to explain away God. But both God and hell exist, whether we believe in them or not. Why would you choose to believe a lie? My Dad was like that. He didn't believe in hell. He thought that when you die, that's the end of it. Wrong. When you die and go to hell, that's just the beginning of it. This life is just a drop in the bucket compared to eternity. Dad died about seven years ago, and went to hell. How do I know he went to hell? Because hell is the default destination for everyone. To stay out of hell, you have to make other arrangements, and Dad never did. So then Dad died, and began the rest of eternity in hell's torment. And eternity is forever. Another scripture on the subject is from Ecclesiastes, "Remember now your creator in the days of your youth, while the evil days haven't come, nor the years draw near when you'll say, I have no pleasure in them." So we see that it becomes more difficult to get right with God the longer you put it off. And by the way, how do you know how much time you have left to live? Did a doctor tell you that you have another twenty years? But over this last weekend, at a construction site in New York City, a huge air conditioning unit fell off a crane and hurt people below. Did some medical doctor anticipate that? I think not. An Amtrak train derailed near Philadelphia, and killed people. Did a doctor anticipate that? Some people say, "I'm not going to believe in something I can't see." But we believe in atoms, don't we, even though we can't see atoms. One part of an atom is the Electron, which gives us electricity. Our knowledge of atoms, that we can't see, enabled the atom bomb, which killed many thousands in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. When Jesus came down to earth, thousands of people saw Jesus, who told us about his Father, God, and about heaven, and about hell, and how to go to heaven instead of hell. Once a person goes to hell, there's no getting back out. No, you have to take care of getting your salvation during this present life. When you die, it's only your body that dies. Then you, the person whose house that body was, either go up to heaven, or down to hell. The words of Jesus are available in the Holy Bible. Jesus was the greatest teacher who ever walked the face of the earth, and the most important teacher. The arrangement that you make to stay out of hell is to become a born again Christian. Jesus said, "You must be born again" in John chapt 3. More on this in Chapter 2. Jesus said that "Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil." Sin will keep men from the light. Sin will keep men from the truth. My Dad made a very serious mistake. I think it was before he married my Mother. A surprising mistake, in light of the fact that he was supposed to be a very smart guy. Dad had had an employer who was Jewish. And that employer was not at all nice to my Dad. So Dad jumped to the incorrect conclusion that all Jews are bad. Wrong. I've known a lot of good Jews. Aaron Rosenzweig, teacher and conductor of my high school band and orchestra. A terrific fellow. Mrs. Rosen, my high school Geometry teacher, just a wonderful teacher. You study Geometry under Mrs. Rosen, and you'll come out very good at Geometry. Bruce Kates, and excellent Oboe player at my high school, and I now think he was probably the son of George Kates, musical director for Lawrence Welk. But I didn't realize it at the time because in the early days, George Kates worked behind the scenes, not on camera. While Dad was an Atheist, my Mother was a Christian. I heard my Dad say to my Mother one time, "You worship a Jew?" (meaning Jesus) Dad was smart about some things, but not about spiritual matters. I believe he scored 156 in the math and science section on an I.Q. test given by his employer. But it's not so bright to call Jesus a Jew, although if I were witnessing to a Jew, trying to win him to Jesus, I guess I would emphasize Jesus' Jewishness. Jesus was born into a Jewish family on earth. His Mother, Mary, was Jewish. Mary's husband, Joseph, was Jewish. But Joseph was not the Father of Jesus. No, God was the Father of Jesus. The Spirit of God came on Mary to make her pregnant, as the angel had told her beforehand. Is God a Jew? No. And Jesus existed since before the foundation of the Earth. And for the thousands of years from then until he came down to earth to be born of a virgin, Jesus was not Jewish. Jesus lived on earth for about 33 years. So which carries more weight, those thousands of years, or 33 years? God said, "Let US make man in OUR image." (book of Genesis) The word "us" means more than one person. But there was a covenant between God and the Jews because of God's covenant with God's friend, Abraham. Another scripture talks about "being hardened through the deceitfulness of sin." Sin will deceive people and harden them against believing in Jesus. Jesus taught that there are varying degrees of punishment. If a person commits sins unknowingly, he'll be beaten with few stripes. But a person who commits sins knowingly will be beaten with many stripes (stripes of the whip). In hell, there's crying and gnashing of teeth. Their worms don't die and the fire is never quenched, the scriptures say. If people really knew what hell was all about, and that they're going either to heaven or hell, they'd make it their number one priority not to go to hell. "The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom." (Psa 111:10) Jesus taught that we are all going either to heaven or hell, and that most people go to hell. Jesus said, "Enter in at the restricted gate, because wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and there are many that go in there, Because the gate is restricted, and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it." (Matt 7:13-14) Are you one of the few, or one of the many, friend? But Darwin's Theory of Evolution has caught on in many colleges and among so-called Scientists. I say so-called because if they were really good scientists, they wouldn't have bought that lie that is Evolution. You have to be careful what you study in college (and even in high school). Chapter 2 In that other book, I told about the lady who was a Christian until a college course in Comparative Religion talked her out of being a Christian. She would have been better off never having gone to college than to have a college course send her to hell. How does someone become a Scientist? He goes to college, or a university, where he sits under Professors who, in many cases, weren't wise enough to study the Bible for themselves. So they preach this garbage about Evolution as though it were fact, when actually, it's just foolishness from Darwin. Many Scientists buy into the "Big Bang Theory." Do explosions really create useful things? More often, explosions destroy things. I happened to be living in El Paso, TX, when the city destroyed with explosives their City Hall. Why did they do that? Because the city wanted to build a baseball stadium. And the location they chose was the property that had the City Hall on it. They showed the destruction on TV. Someone pushed a button, and the explosions happened, and down came what had probably been a million dollar building of perhaps twelve stories. The explosion didn't improve the building, it reduced the building to rubble. So how does a big bang create things? I heard someone say they believed in Creation, but they thought God could have taken millions of years to do it. No, read the book of Genesis. God did the creation in six twenty-four hour days, and then rested the seventh day. I said that one time, and a man tried to correct me. He said, "The Bible doesn't say six twenty four hour days." Maybe not verbatim, but yes it does say that. The Bible says, "And the evening and the morning were the first day." ..."And the evening and the morning were the second day.", and so forth. A night time followed by a day time is a twenty four hour day. Scientists want to be able to explain everything. And sometimes, in their desire to be able to explain everything, men will believe a lie because it seems to answer a question. Another pitfall is that if you fall in among Scientists, and the majority of your friends are Evolutionists, it will tend to give you a comfortable feeling about being an Evolutionist yourself, whether it's based on solid information or not. (And it's not based on solid information.) Here is one application for the scripture that says, "They, comparing themselves among themselves are not wise." If you look around, and all of your crew are Evolutionist Scientists, and who all seem to be very bright people, with their Master's Degrees, and their PhD Degrees, does that make all of you right? You would only be right if Evolution were true. But that's not how we got here. God created us. I heard a man say once, "Well, if I'm going to hell, I'll have a lot of friends there." No doubt he said that because those "friends" had the same lifestyle that he did. But what that man was ignorant of is that in hell, those "friends" won't be his friends anymore. He'll be blaming them, and they'll be blaming him for their being in hell. There is no friendship in hell, nor fellowship. Just insanity and torment and worms eating you, and unquenchable fire and gnashing of teeth and crying. Why do people gnash their teeth? Because of anger. Why are people in hell angry? Because they've been deceived away from believing in Jesus, which would have kept them out of hell. Evolution may seem convenient in the short term because it will give its believers a false sense of security. If we got here by Evolution, then where is the need for God? And if there's no God, maybe there's no Judgment Day, where "every knee shall bow, and every tongue will confess to God." But the book of Revelation speaks of the judgment to come, and no one will be absent from Judgment Day. Do people really have better lives by believing lies? Certainly not. Jesus said, "You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free." But lies don't set you free. Which do you prefer--to be free, or to be a slave? Jesus said, "He that commits sin is the servant (or slave) of sin." Sometimes on TV, they'll talk about "The Evolution of the Airplane." I know what they mean. They mean that the first airplanes were quite primitive, and that gradually, airplanes became more sophisticated, more comfortable, safer, more convenient. Yes, but that is not evolution. Evolution is the theory that things were very primitive at the beginning, but gradually became more complex, WITHOUT OUTSIDE INTERVENTION. The only way that airplanes became more complex was WITH OUTSIDE INTERVENTION. Engineers came along and found better ways to build better airplanes. Airplanes only advanced because outside intervention caused them to advance. There is a term that Evolutionists use--Adaptation. They see a certain creature with a certain special ability, and they say, "See, Evolution caused this creature to adapt in this manner to its environment." Wrong. That creature has that special ability because God created it that way. We don't worry about this very much, because it's not an immediate problem, but Scientists say that the Sun is running down. The Sun is apparently mostly gas that keeps having nuclear explosions, which produce the great heat and light. But the Scientists say that the Sun will run out of energy after a while. And then those nuclear explosions will greatly diminish. In other words the Sun is running down just like the battery in my wrist watch will eventually run out of energy. The universe is running down. So why would they think, as Evolutionists do, that lower forms of life have been changing into higher forms of life? I saw a good bumper sticker one time. It said, "If apes became men, why do we still have apes." The fact is, apes don't become men. God created the apes, and God created the men. The apes reproduce after their own kind. And humans reproduce after their own kind. I heard a good comparison one time. It said that the likelihood that Evolution produced man is about the same as the likelihood of a tornado passing closely over a junk yard, and causing the junk there to come together into a fighter jet. Now some of the stuff at a junk yard could possibly be used in the manufacture of a fighter jet. But a fighter jet requires a lot of welding in the manufacturing of it. Tornadoes don't weld two pieces of metal together as would happen at Boeing or Lockheed Martin. No, tornadoes don't make fighter jets, and Evolution didn't make man. God made man. Don't you know how complex the human body is? Doctors getting their education study for a long time to learn the human body and brain, and still they don't know everything. The human body is such a sophisticated machine that only a genius like God could have made it. To become a Christian, obey Romans 10:9,10-- "That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you're saved. For with the heart man believes for righteousness, and with the mouth, confession is made for salvation." ___James chapter 1 1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes that are dispersed around, greetings. 2 My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into various temptations, 3 Knowing this, that the testing of your faith works patience. 4 But let patience have its perfect work, so you'll be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. 5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God for it, who gives to all men liberally, and won't find fault, and it shall be given to him. 6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed. 7 For let that man not think that he'll receive anything from the Lord. 8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. 9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted, 10 But the rich, in that he is made low, because as the flower of the grass he'll pass away. 11 For the sun has no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withers the grass, and the flower of it falls, and the grace of the fashion of it perishes, so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways. 12 Blessed is the man that endures temptation, for after he's been tested, he'll receive the crown of life, that the Lord has promised to those who love him. 13 Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted with evil, nor does he tempt any man, 14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. 15 Then when lust has conceived, it produces sin, and sin when it's finished, produces death. 16 Do not err, my beloved brothers. 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, nor shadow of turning. 18 He chose to father us with the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits of his creatures. 19 So, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger, 20 For the anger of man doesn't accomplish the righteousness of God. 21 So, lay apart all filthiness and the unnecessary naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. 22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man seeing his natural face in a mirror, 24 For he sees himself, and goes his way, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 25 But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty, and continues in it, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. 26 If any man among you seems to be religious, and doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is for nothing. 27 Pure religion and undefiled before God the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. ___James chapter 2 1 My brothers, don't have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons. 2 For if a man with a gold ring comes to your assembly in fancy clothes, and a poor man in dirty clothes comes in also, 3 And you have respect to him that wears the fancy clothes, and say to him, "Sit here in a good place," and say to the poor, "Stand there, or sit here under my footstool," 4 Aren't you then partial in yourselves, and have become judges with evil thoughts? 5 Listen, my beloved brothers, hasn't God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him? 6 But you have despised the poor. Don't rich men oppress you, and bring you before the judgment seats? 7 Don't they blaspheme that worthy name by which you're called? 8 If you fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, "You shall love your neighbor like yourself," you do well, 9 But if you have respect of persons, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as sinners. 10 For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. 11 For he that said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not kill." Now if you don't commit adultery, yet if you kill, you've become a breaker of the law. 12 Speak in such a way, and do, as those who'll be judged by the law of liberty. 13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that has shown no mercy, and mercy rejoices against judgment. 14 What does it profit, my brothers, though a man says he has faith, and doesn't have works? Can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister needs clothes, and lacks daily food, 16 And one of you says to them, "Depart in peace, be warmed and filled," but you don't give them the things that are needed for the body, what good is that? 17 Even so faith, if it doesn't have works, is dead, being alone. 18 Yes, a man could say, "You have faith, and I have works, show me your faith without your works, and I'll show you my faith by my works." 19 You believe that there is one God, you do well, the devils also believe, and tremble. 20 But don't you know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? 21 Wasn't Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son on the altar? 22 Do you see how faith worked with his deeds, and by works faith was made perfect? 23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness, and he was called the friend of God." 24 You see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only. 25 Likewise also wasn't Rahab the prostitute justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way? 26 For like the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. ___James chapter 3 1 My brothers, don't be many masters, knowing that we'll receive the greater condemnation. 2 For in many things we offend all. If any man doesn't offend in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. 3 See, we put bits in the horses' mouths, so they'll obey us, and we turn around their whole bodies. 4 Look also at the ships, which though they're so large, and are driven by fierce winds, yet they're turned around by a very small helm, wherever the captain wants. 5 Even so, the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. See how great a matter a little fire kindles! 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of sin, so is the tongue among our members that it makes dirty the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and it is set on fire by hell. 7 For every kind of animals, and of birds, and of snakes, and of things in the sea, gets tamed, and has been tamed by mankind, 8 But no man can tame the tongue, it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. 9 With it we bless God, the Father, and with it we curse men, who are made after the likeness of God. 10 Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be. 11 Does a fountain send out at the same place sweet water and bitter? 12 Can the fig tree, my brothers, produce olive berries? Or a vine, figs? So no fountain can yield both salt water and fresh. 13 Who is a wise man, possessing knowledge among you? Let him show out of a good lifestyle his works with meekness of wisdom. 14 But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, don't glory, and don't lie against the truth. 15 This wisdom doesn't descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be reasoned with, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace by those who make peace. ___James chapter 4 1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your lusts that war in your members? 2 You lust, and don't have, you kill, and desire to have, and can't obtain, you fight and war, yet you don't have, because you don't ask. 3 You ask, and don't receive, because you ask wrongly, so you can consume it on your lusts. 4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world is an enemy of God. 5 Do you think that the scripture says for nothing, "The spirit that lives in us lusts to envy?" 6 But he gives more grace. So he says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble." 7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he'll run away from you. 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double minded. 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and cry, let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he'll lift you up. 11 Don't speak evil about each other, brothers. He that speaks evil about his brother, and judges his brother, speaks evil about the law, and judges the law, but if you judge the law, you're not a doer of the law, but a judge. 12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy, who are you that judges someone else? 13 Go on now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we'll go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and make a profit," 14 Actually, you don't know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is a puff of steam, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away. 15 For you ought to say, "Lord willing, we'll live, and do this, or that." 16 But now you rejoice in your boastings, all such rejoicing is evil. 17 Therefore to him that knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin. ___James chapter 5 1 Go on now, you rich men, cry and howl for your miseries that shall come on you. 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your clothes are moth eaten. 3 Your gold and silver are rusted, and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh like fire. You've heaped treasure together for the last days. 4 See, the wages of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which you've kept back by fraud, shouts, and the shouts of those who've reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabbath. 5 You've lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton, you've nourished your hearts, like in a day of slaughter. 6 You've condemned and killed the just, and he doesn't resist you. 7 Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and has long patience for it, until he receives the early and latter rain. 8 You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is getting near. 9 Don't grudge against each other, brothers, so you won't be condemned, see, the judge stands at the door. 10 Take, my brothers, the prophets, who've spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience. 11 See, we count them happy that endure. You've heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. 12 But above all things, my brothers, don't swear, not by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath, but let your yes be yes, and your no, no, so that you don't fall into condemnation. 13 Is anyone among you afflicted? Let him pray. Is anyone merry? Let him sing psalms. 14 Is anyone sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord, 15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up, and if he has committed sins, he'll be forgiven. 16 Confess your faults to each other, and pray for each other so you'll be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man is does a lot of good. 17 Elijah was a man subject to the same kind of passions that we are, and he prayed earnestly that it wouldn't rain, and it didn't rain on the earth for three years and six months. 18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit. 19 Brothers, if any of you strays from the truth, and someone converts him, 20 Let him know, that he that converts the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.