Christian Evolutionists?

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." - Genesis 1:1

I heard a statistic recently that one-third of so called "born again Christians" believe that the theory of evolution is true. These same people when surveyed stated they believed in God as well, they just believe both to be true. I am saddened and shocked that so many Christians could be so immature to believe such utter nonsense. The theory of the world evolving in a matter of millions and millions of year, and then the belief that the earth is relatively young and was created from nothing by an Intelligent Designer, these two are completely contradictory to each other. What kind of confused individual could possibly think they coincide? To be blunt, this is heretical! It goes against God's Word. We cannot sit back and let people teach that God didn't really create the world in 6 days like He says in Genesis 1, that He did. It's heretical to teach that God's Word is not true and is lacking.

I've also heard that it doesn't matter what we believe on the issue of creation, as long as we understand about Christ coming and dying and rising again. I disagree. Recently, I was blessed with the opportunity to sit in on a session given by Paul Taylor, who went on to explain the necessity of standing firm on the entire Word of God, starting with the first book, first chapter and very first verse, which clearly states that the earth was created by God, and in 6, 24 hour days, not millions of years.

If Genesis 1:1 is wrong, then how can we trust any part of the Scripture? If the creation story is false, the gospel message in the New Testament could very well be false as well. It is important we defend the gospel from the beginning to the end. How do we defend it? It is not a helpless, weak thing needing our making of excuses for it. It stands on it's own, we need only to preach it unadulterated. Charles Spurgeon stated it well; "The Word of God is like a lion, you don't have to defend a lion, all you have to do is let the lion loose and the lion will defend itself."
And in preaching it, we must preach it in it's entirety. And for those out there claiming that it's not relevant to the plan of salvation, well I beg to differ. All through the Old Testament you can see God working out His plan to save us fallen, sinful wretches. We see it starting in Genesis 3 when He gave Eve both a curse and a wonderful blessing. The blessing? It was found in the promise that through her, down the road a Son would be born to die and save her offspring from the eternal damnation they deserve. I believe that the Lord had it all worked out before Genesis 3 though.

I don't have space or time to go through all the passages in the Old Testament that proclaim the salvation that was to come in the New Testament through Christ Jesus, the prophecies fulfilled, the promises that the patriarchs held to, unseen by their eyes.
God cannot lie, it is against His very nature. (Titus 1) When He says He created the world in 6 days, He did. When He promised He'd supply a Savior for us, He did. When He promises us that we will one day dwell with Him for eternity we will.

Here is a table that Paul Taylor shares in his lectures as well as in his book "The Six Days Of Genesis". In the Bible names meant something, were given by God for a reason, He is demonstrating His perfect will for mankind and being glorified through people. Here is a list of the names of the first eight generations on earth.
NAME---------------- MEANING
Adam-------------------- Man
Seth ---------------------Appointed
Enosh--------------------Mortal
Kenan------------------- Sorrow
Mahalalel----------------The God who is to be praised
Jared---------------------Shall come down
Enoch--------------------Teaching
Methuselah--------------His death shall bring
Lamech------------------Despairing
Noah --------------------Rest or Comfort

Together : Man is appointed mortal sorrow, but the God who is to be praised shall come down, teaching that His death shall bring the despairing rest.

"By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen has been made from things that are not visible." -Hebrews 11: 3

Open that cage, let the lion loose to defend itself. In Christ, brethren wield those swords for the glory of God! Stand firm on the Word of God, beginning to end, Genesis to Revelation!