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Author: Joe G
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© 2005 Joe Griffin		05-03-06-A.CC02-413 /

Zionophobia: Peter Refutes Uniformitarian Cosmology & Confirms the Catastrophic View, 2 Pet 3:10-18 Christ Created the Universe, Col 1:16-17; Heb 1:3

•	Observation of the physical world and universe without reference to biblical revelation leads to a pagan worldview that applies the laws of physics to false premises.
•	One of the major presuppositions that is accepted as fact is evolution which asserts that human life is the present result of a process of continuous change from a lower, simpler state to a higher, more complex state.
•	In order for these changes to be explained by the hallowed “fossil record” time must be expanded from thousands of years to millions or even billions of years.
•	However, the clear record of the genealogy of Christ back to Adam indicates that man is but thousands of years old and originated with the creation of the humanly perfect Adam.
•	Science, ignoring this, opts for methods of time measurement that are proved to be untrustworthy, such as carbon 14 dating and the presumption that time can be traced back to a Big Bang that occurred by means of processes not presently operational, i.e., an ultimate catastrophic explosion.
•	These suppositions are either repetitions of or advances upon ancient pagan civilizations’ worldviews of the earth and the universe. 
•	Those who believe these things are classified by Peter as uniformitarians who ignore the revelation of the Word of God and scoff at those who believe it.
•	Peter then outlines past and future history of the earth and universe from a catastrophist’s worldview.
•	Finally he identifies those who reject truth as unlearned and unstable who twist truth through paganesque applications of physical science. 
•	Peter concludes by warning the believer to not be led astray by those who base their presuppositions, hypotheses, and theories on human viewpoint.
•	A supposition is defined as an assumption or an opinion.  Synonyms include “to imagine, to conjecture, to speculate.”
•	Advanced technology has led to great discoveries by both the micro- and telescopic instruments of investigation.  This combined with the discoveries of advanced laws of mathematics has led to an intellectual arrogance that has turned away from the revelation of Scripture.
•	But the “laws of science” are not the possession of the secular world.  These laws were invented by our Lord Jesus Christ.  I remind you of just a couple of passage that document this:
Colossians 1:16 -	 	For by Him [ Jesus Christ ]
were all things [ t¦ p£nta, ta panta ] created [ kt…zw, ktizō: ex nililo ] in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers—all things were created [ kt…zw, ktizō ] through Him, and for Him.
v. 17 -	And He [ Jesus ] has existed eternally before all things, and by Him all things hold together [ perfect active indicative of sun…sthmi, sunistēmi: the continuation of a completed action ].
•	The perfect tense is the tense of completed action describing the progress of an act to a point of culmination and the existence of its finished results.  Emphasis may be on either the completion of the action or on its finished results.  
•	The intensive perfect places emphasis on the existing results: Jesus Christ completed the creation of the universe and the intensive perfect emphasizes the result: His omnipotence continues to maintain it through the laws of physics which He invented.  These concepts are also mentioned by the writer of Hebrews:
Hebrews 1:3a -	Jesus Christ is the flashing forth of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power.
•	These verses instruct us that Jesus Christ was the active agent in the creation of the universe and it is His omnipotence that not only invented the physical laws that brought it into being but also continues to maintain its operation.

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