{"id":7891,"date":"2007-04-30T01:21:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-30T01:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/?post_type=eutychus-article&#038;p=7891"},"modified":"2019-11-30T01:23:36","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T01:23:36","slug":"teaching-the-obvious","status":"publish","type":"eutychus-article","link":"http:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/eutychus-article\/teaching-the-obvious\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching the Obvious"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes it is very necessary to teach what we assume to be\nthe obvious. Consider the facts of creation. Why does it matter that a child\nknows the order of the days of creation? As long as he accepts that it\nhappened, isn\u2019t that enough? Science confirms that the order of creation\ndesigned by God is essential to the survival of vegetation and man at the very\nleast. If man and animals had been created before the sun and water, our\nsurvival would have been nil unless God intervened. The order of creation helps\nthe skeptic to verify God\u2019s creation as scientifically sound. The Bible was\nwritten centuries before the scientific facts of man\u2019s survival needs, such as\nadequate water, light, and of course food, were actually studied. The ancient\nwriters recorded the order God gave them, not their own perception of the\norder. The sound science was there long before the proofs of man. God knew the\nscientific knowledge He would give man would confirm His creation as\nlegitimate. Don\u2019t overlook this important element of creation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I was about six (during the last ice age), I learned\nthe order of the days of creation by using an acronym, the first letters of a\ngroup of words used to form a new word or memory aid (Scuba is an acronym for\nself-contained underwater breathing apparatus). My creation acronym is LOVSAM:\nL is for the light created on the first day; O is for the oceans separated and\nformed on the second day; V is for vegetation on day three; S is for stars and\nthe heavenly bodies created on the fourth day; A is for animals and M is for\nman. Of course, this simple acronym lumps a lot of knowledge into a few words,\nbut I always remember the order! Whether you use a linear chart, or a globe\nonto which the student can paste the items and number them, it is important to\nlater science foundations that creation be in its proper order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Good books to read on this subject include The Genesis\nRecord and Scientific Creationism, both by Henry Morris. A newer and very\nthorough book by Walt Brown (the Ph.D. from MIT brain of other science fame) is\nIn the Beginning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[126],"tags":[170,182],"class_list":["post-7891","eutychus-article","type-eutychus-article","status-publish","hentry","category-eutychus","tag-methodology","tag-ministry-leadership"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Teaching the Obvious - Aletheia Baptist Ministries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/eutychus-article\/teaching-the-obvious\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Teaching the Obvious - Aletheia Baptist Ministries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sometimes it is very necessary to teach what we assume to be the obvious. 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