The Great Worldview Clash:
The Battle Between Two Religions
By Ken Ham - President, CEO & Founder of Answers in Genesis-US, the highly
acclaimed Creation Museum, and the world-renowned Ark Encounter
T
HE BIBLE MAKES it clear there are only two world-
view positions a person can hold—we’re either for
Christ or against Him. “Whoever is not with me is against
me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters” (Matt
12:30).
Also, God’s Word makes it clear there are only two ways
to build a worldview—either on the rock or on the sand.
“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does
them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
... And everyone who hears these words of mine and does
not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house
on the sand” (Matt 7:24–27).
We’re also told there are only two ways to walk in this
world—in light or in darkness. “Jesus spoke to them, saying,
‘I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not
walk in darkness, but will have the light of life’” (John 8:12).
These teachings reflect the fact that, in an ultimate sense,
there are only two religious views in the world—beliefs built
on man’s fallible word (darkness/sand) and the one that’s
built on the infallible Word of God beginning in Genesis
(light/rock). These two views have been in conflict for about
6,000 years, and the battle that began in the garden of Eden
continues to rage before us today.
After God made Adam, he gave him an instruction to
obey and then presented the consequences if he didn’t. “The
Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden
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to work it and keep it. And the Lord God commanded the
man, saying, ‘You may surely eat of every tree of the garden,
but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall
not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die’”
(Gen 2:15–17).
In other words, Adam, who was to be the head of the entire
human race (as from him all human beings would descend),
was told to obey God’s Word. It was a test of obedience.
The devil, however, came to Eve. Genesis 3:1–4 records:
Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the
field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman,
“Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the
garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat
of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall
not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden,
neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” But the serpent said to
the woman, “You will not surely die.”
In other words, the devil claimed that you don’t need to
obey God’s Word. You can be your own god and decide
truth for yourself.
Adam and Eve did just that, and they disobeyed God. “So
when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and
that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be
desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and
she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he
ate” (Gen 3:6).