Why Can’t Christians Answer Basic Questions?

Well, I’ll give you three reasons:

1. They’ve compromised with the atheistic ideas of our day. So many Christians have adopted evolutionary ideas and added them into Scripture. This makes it impossible to answer basic questions about Genesis because, well, you don’t really believe Genesis at all! Man’s interpretations are your authority, not God and his Word.
2. Many Christians don’t know what the Bible teaches. We’re living in a time of rampant biblical illiteracy. Many Christians can’t answer questions because they don’t know what the Word of God teaches.
3. There’s been a lack of apologetics (faith-defense) teaching in our churches and homes. Many Christians attend churches that preach “feel good,” or what I call “fluff and stuff,” shallow messages, rather than actually teaching the biblical worldview and wrestling with the questions of our day. Many pastors purposefully avoid Genesis because they don’t want to be controversial! But Genesis is foundational to our biblical worldview, so avoiding Genesis means that pastors will also avoid talking about hot-button issues that are answered in Genesis, like gender, sexuality, race, sanctity of life, and more. The result is generations of Christians who don’t know what they believe or how to defend the truth of Scripture.

In a recent YouTube video for the Answers in Genesis Canada channel, Calvin Smith (our AiG–Canada director) expounded on these concerns, showing how Christians cannot answer questions until they take Genesis as literal history. I encourage you to watch this video (and be sure to subscribe to their channel):

We need to raise up generations who know what God’s Word teaches and are equipped to think biblically, allowing God’s Word to be the authority in all areas, and thus to have answers for skeptical questions.

So what do we do about it? Well, we need to raise up generations who know what God’s Word teaches (that means we need to be reading our Bibles!) and are equipped to think biblically, allowing God’s Word to be the authority in all areas, and thus to have answers for skeptical questions.

A great place to start learning is our website AnswersInGenesis.org. We’re constantly posting new articles and videos to help equip you with answers. I encourage you to visit our website often to be equipped to think biblically and answer the questions of our day.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.