Creation Is the Turning Point

A change of direction has to start somewhere.
For a life or country needing revival, it starts
by recognizing where reality came from

Creation is not the answer to every human problem or question about politics, career or relationships. But it is the turning point that leads to better choices for everything in human life.

At this writing, the huge gathering “Remembering Charlie Kirk” just wrapped up. With 100,000 in the stadium, and tens of thousands more watching in an adjacent venue, it was a major event for America. Millions more around the world were watching remotely. Speakers included many close friends and co-workers of Charlie Kirk, media personalities, members of Congress and the cabinet, and Donald Trump Jr, leading up to the keynote speeches by Vice President JD Vance, Kirk’s wife Erika, and President Donald Trump. Many gave testimony to their own Christian faith as well as that of Kirk. His apologetics mentor Frank Turek spoke; he was in the car with rescuers driving him to the hospital. Turek and several others, including his pastor Rob McCoy, gave a clear gospel message.

TPUSA logo (Wikipedia)

The “Turning Point USA” logo, symbol of Charlie Kirk’s grass roots movement, was visible all over the stadium. Though intended primarily to represent a political and cultural change of direction away from progressive liberalism back to America’s founding values of faith, family, and freedom, the pictorial logo (which President Trump called very effective), fits well with the Christian call to repentance. The word in Greek, metanoia, means a change of direction: a realization that one is on a wrong path and needs to turn around. Repentance is necessary to get right with God individually and nationally, as the Bible illustrates in Acts 2:37-41, and in Jonah 3:6-9.

Creation Is the Turning Point

Many things follow from repentance, but the actual turning point has to start somewhere. Repentance begins with an “Aha” moment, a recognition of a wrong direction, coupled with fear of the consequences. Much of the evil in the world is a result of a wrong worldview: the notion that we can act as our own gods, or that no Judge is watching our actions and able to hold us accountable. The “Aha” moment that leads to repentance often begins with the realization, sometimes sudden but sometimes gradual, that there really is a Creator God (see our Site Map).

In the TPUSA logo, that point is at the bottom right of the starry curve. But repentance has not yet occurred till the change of direction occurs at the midpoint of the curve. The “starry” curve might be looked at as a metaphor for the hard knocks in life that bring an individual or nation to a grinding halt: “Stop! I am (or we are) going the wrong way!” The striped curve at the top can be a metaphor for a new roadway in a new direction: “I (or we) choose to turn around and go on the right path.”

For becoming reconciled to God, the new direction, which Jesus described as the “narrow way” that leads to life (Matthew 7:13-14), is the gospel. Gospel means good news. That new path occurs with or soon after repentance, when the individual puts his or her faith in the good news about Jesus: that He died to pay the debt for our sins, rose again, and is now at the right hand of the Father able to forgive repentant sinners.

Can repentance occur without the doctrine of creation? Sometimes. A person can hear the message to “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved” (Acts 16:31) and accept that as their turning point. But the doctrine of creation is entailed in believing in Christ, because Christ must be understood as our Creator (John 1:1-18). The Philippian jailor who placed his faith in Christ in Acts 16 recognized that Christ is the Creator God from Paul’s preaching (Acts 17:22-31). Moreover, Christ is a transcendent Creator: “without him was not any thing made that was made.” Not being made himself, Christ (“The Word was God”) is not a part of Creation, but transcendent above it. Otherwise, the turning point is just exchanging one false god for another one. The Philippian jailer was not turning from one idol to another, like Bacchus to Dionysus in a polytheistic pantheon, but to the true God who made the universe and everything in it, as Paul preached. The jailer trembled, knowing that he was a sinner deserving judgment.

Creation, therefore, is the start of a turning point, but the full change of direction requires repentance from sin and faith in the gospel of Jesus as presented in the Bible. Those requirements, however, cannot even start without recognition of the Creator to whom we are accountable.

Can Our Culture Skip over Creation to See Revival?

There was much talk about revival in the speeches today: a spiritual awakening that seems to be rising in America. CEH argues that whatever is occurring would be hollow and fleeting if not grounded in creation. In his speech, Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated his belief that Charlie Kirk’s biggest message was

“his deep belief that we were all created—every one of us—before the beginning of time by the hands of the God of the universe – an all-powerful God who loved us and created us for the purpose of living with Him in eternity. But then sin entered the world and separated us from our Creator. And so God took on the form of a man and came down and lived among us. And He suffered like men. And He died like a man. But on the third day He rose unlike any mortal man. And then, and to prove any doubters wrong, He ate with His disciples and they touched His wounds! He didn’t rise as a ghost or a spirit, but as flesh. And then He rose to heaven but He promised He would return, and He will. And when He returns, because He took on that death, because He carried that cross, we were freed from the sin that separated us from Him. And when He returns, there will be a new heavens, and a new earth, and we will all be together, and we are going to have a great reunion there again with Charlie and all the people we love.”

At the end of a short speech like this at a memorial service, Rubio could not cover every essential point in the gospel, of course. He did not discuss repentance and faith, the essential elements of salvation, making it sound like universalism (the false view that everybody will be saved). That is not what Charlie Kirk believed, and most assuredly not what Rubio believes either, knowing as he does the reality of evil in the world. But Rubio did cover the starting point of Creation and the essential link between creation and and Christ’s death and resurrection as verifiable facts of history.

Science Needs a Creation Turning Point

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Big Science’s miserable wallow in the mud of materialism, with many scientists presuming illogically that complex systems like human brains “emerge” by the Stuff Happens Law is, like the rest of American elites, on the “wide path that leads to destruction.” Every day we at CEH see ridiculous articles and papers about astrobiology, materialistic origin of life, multiverses, Darwinian evolution, and vain quests made with promissory notes in futureware. Each of these are verifiably false and illogical. As we have pointed out many times, the same people believing materialism are usually linked at the hip with all the liberal/progressive causes, including abortion, socialism/communism, big government, DEI and other such unscientific policies. Historically, materialistic Big Science has a terrible track record: scientific racism, eugenics, and violations of human rights.

Science needs a major turning point. That must start with the realization that there is an all powerful, all wise Intelligent Designer of the universe, the earth, and life. That turning point may result in a change of direction (repentance) and faith in the Biblical message, which many of the founders of science embraced. A complete turning point for science requires both, but it cannot even begin to happen without, first, a repudiation of materialistic philosophy, and second, a change in attitude about intelligent design: being willing to examine it without bias, and following the evidence where it leads.