Comparing Origins (DVP vs. HVP)
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Avoiding the trap of religious neutrality was the main topic of our last lesson. If you learn nothing else in this course, it would a great thing to learn the fact that no one is ever neutral. Neutrality is an illusion usually offered up as some sort of open-mindedness! But no one is an empty cup when it comes to the basic assumptions of life. It’s important to not buy into what someone says without examining it.

Often this issue of neutrality crops up in the realm of education. While public schools make an effort to be neutral they cannot avoid the humanist religion as taught through evolution. All throughout the scientific training of our schools there exists this commitment to remain neutral, that is, to not commit to a certain god for the origin of mankind.

However, we discussed that humanism is really just another religion with man set up as the final authority of everything. They exclude the God of the Bible from the schools in effort to teach another worldview. But we stand on the final authority of the Scripture, and it tells us that God is the Creator and is therefore important for every subject.

Let’s think about the logic. If God is who the Bible says He is, then He has structured the universe His way and the universe reflects His character and His being. So is God important in every subject?

What does the neutrality theory start with? If somebody believes in the neutrality theory, they’re saying math is math, whether or not God exists; history is history whether or not God exists; literature is literature whether or not God exists. But if that’s so, they’ve already by implication denied that the God of the Bible can exist, because if He did exist He would be important for all these subjects. And they’re saying He’s not important for these subjects because they say the subjects don’t change, whether or not He’s there. The moment they said that, they denied the existence of God. So, the myth of neutrality is not neutral. It denies the existence of God.

This way of thinking may be difficult at first if you have never thought about it before, but you must start to think more critically about what lies underneath the HVP.

In our last lesson we also discussed the fact that man has eternity in his heart, meaning that he has a built in desire to press to the furthest context of his existence to understand who he is, where he has come from, what is truth, and what is the ultimate reality. This desire can never be satisfied with HVP as Solomon shows us in the book of Ecclesiastes. Only a relationship with the Creator will satisfy eternity in man’s heart.

In this lesson we move on with our focus of the creation event and begin to think through the DVP of origins verses the HVP of origins. We will establish some very important differences between the two ways of thinking that will lay the foundation for many other HVP lies. This lesson contains the most fundamental point of the book of Genesis and it must not be missed if you want to understand DVP throughout the Bible. Download the full lesson