hen it
is inherent in man's natural constitution as a process of his evolution.
And if this is so, man is in no way responsible for his sin.

This altogether removes man's accountability to God, for he cannot be
brought to account for that which is the working out of the fundamental
forces of life itself, and which is therefore inevitable in the very
workings of his nature. And even if sin is an unfortunate slip in the
process of evolution, man cannot be held accountable for an accident.

This doctrine also puts a high premium on the whole beastly, selfish,
lustful, murderous history of the race, for it makes sin a ladder up which
man is climbing to his high destiny.

Punishment for sin is therefore absolutely out of the question. For if man
is not responsible for his sin, and if God punishes him for it, as the
Bible says He will, even by the law of cause and effect, that would make
God an infinite tyrant and an unspeakable fiend. And so if God is not a
monster, and if evolution is true, there is no punishment for sin, and the
Bible lies.

Thinking men see that this is the inevitable logic of the doctrine of
evolution. Sir J. William Dawson, speaking of the evolutionary doctrines as
speculations, says:

They seek to revolutionize the religious beliefs of the
world, and if accepted would destroy much of the existing
theology and philosophy.... With one class of minds they
constitute a sort of religion.... With another and perhaps
larger class, they are accepted as affording a welcome
deliverance from all scruples of conscience and fears of a
hereafter.

The theory of evolution cannot be consistently held and the statements of
the Bible concerning sin and its consequences be accepted at the same time.
And so the evolutionist will come, sooner or later, to refuse any meaning
to Scripture statements concerning sin, as did Dr. W. N. Clarke, when he
said:

We have no historical narrative of the beginning of sin, and
theology receives from the Scriptures no record of that
beginning.

That is, the perfectly plain and easily understood statements of Scripture
concerning the beginning of sin are altogether unhistorical and utterly
unworthy of credence to the man who looks at the Bible from the
"scientific" or "historical" standpoint, which is the evolutionist's method
of handling the Word of God. To accept evolution, therefore, is to
discredit the Bible.

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