In the first of 4 sermons on "Creation not Macroevolution" preached in connected with the Dedication of Volume 1 of Gavin's old earth creationist book, "Creation, Not Macroevolution - Mind the Gap" (2014), Gavin goes through the 5 classic arguments from godly reason for the reality of God & creation miracles: 1) Cosmology (The First Cause), 2) Teleology (Design), 3) Ontology, 4) Conscience Morality, & 5) Ethnological universal belief in the supernatural. But Gavin then says, "while these 5 classic arguments from godly reason for the existence of God and creation are valuable, they are not specifically focused on the issue of the unique truthfulness of Christianity. E.g., ... an infidel Jew could also believe them. And so let me compliment these" with "one further matter, namely the issue of Christian experience," which he then considers as an apologetics argument for the unique truthfulness of religiously conservative Protestant Christianity. Gavin says his "testimony is threefold; firstly, I accept on the intellectual level the apologetic evidences from godly reason of, e.g., the words of Genesis 1:1, 'In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.' And secondly, I accept the Christian Biblical apologetic evidences of, e.g., the resurrection of Christ from the dead, in the words of Luke 23:34,'The Lord is risen indeed.' And thirdly, on the Christian experiental level, I say with Job in Job 19:25,'I know that my redeemer liveth' ...." The sermon ends with a call to repentance and turning in saving faith, "to any who come under the sound of this message who have not accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour;" and an Ascension Day prayer. |
