What you believe about who you are, where you came from, affects your whole worldview.

If there was not one man Adam and one woman Eve, and a literal event of the one man Adam taking the fruit in rebellion and thus bringing sin and death into world, then one may as well throw the rest of the Bible away.

Now, if the book of Genesis is an allegory, then sin is an allegory, the Fall is an allegory and the need for a Savior is an allegory - but if we are all descendants of an allegory, where does that leave us? It destroys the foundation of all Christian doctrine-it destroys the foundation of the gospel.

If we discount the account of creation, we remove the significance of Christmas.

For students, the evolution-creation discussion can be a useful exercise, for it can help develop their critical thinking skills.

Imagine if we started raising generations of children who stood uncompromisingl y on the Word of God, knew how to defend the Christian faith, could answer the skeptical questions of this age, and had a fervor to share the gospel from the authority of God's Word with whomever they met! This could change the world.

It's time for a new Reformation in the Church--to call the Church back to the authority of the Word of God, beginning in Genesis.