I want to share some thoughts on the book “Seven Days That Divide The World,“ by John Lennox.
As many of you know, I am on a mission to bring the Bible to a world without hope. I am well aware that this is an impossible task without the work of the Holy Spirit. To do this, though, as Christians, we have to be effective in our evangelism. We can no longer have an ideology that what we believe is good enough for everyone else. We often say I believe it, and that’s good enough for me. But that’s not good enough for Jesus Christ because he said go out and make disciples, which means we have to deal with questions and possibilities outside of our little box.
Ever since the age of enlightenment and rationalism, attendance of churches in Europe. Since the early part of the last century, Christianity has been on a decline in America. It seems to be in direct relationship to technology and escalated with the advent of the internet.
I am writing this as a partial book review because I am excited about “Seven Days That Divide The World” by John Lennox. He has written about what I have been contemplating for years. I appreciate the work of Christian’s efforts to uphold the Bible in the face of evolution. I have been very much behind the young earth creation movement. I have said many times that we have to start with Genesis if we are going to reach people, but I believe my approach was wrong. I would like to use Dr. Lennox’s illustration of the fix earth verse the moving earth to help you see the problem I and others have created. Until the seventeenth century, the world pretty much believed that the earth was fixed in place, and the sun, moon, and stars rotate around it. This is a geocentric concept of the universe, and the Bible seemed to teach this.
Fear before him, all the earth:
1 Chronicles 16:30
the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved.
The Lord reigneth, he is clothed with majesty;
Psalms 93:1
the Lord is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself:
the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust,
1 Samuel 2:8
and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill,
to set them among princes,
and to make them inherit the throne of glory:
for the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s, and he hath set the world upon them.
However, today we do not try to convince people of a geocentric universe. To do so would be rather foolish. The previously stated verses are now understood as they were always meant to be understood—God is the one who keeps the earth in its place. Dr. Lennox does an outstanding job of explaining Genesis logically and rationally. We can consider Genesis in light of what we do know about our universe, or we can look like flat earthers, and the world will move on to some other belief. I know what many of you are thinking; that is science wrong, but not all science is out to prove Genesis wrong.
“Seven Days That Divide The World” is an outstanding work of helping us present Genesis to the world. After reading this book, I believe people will no longer see Genesis as an ancient myth. In my opinion, every Christian should read this book, especially those who are teachers of the Bible.