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To put it bluntly: Peter could not make good on his boast to follow Christ. Are you better than Peter? Peter’s faith failed him. Do you think you will never have doubts? Do you think you will never have a crisis of faith, a prolonged period of doubting and distrusting God, even questioning His very existence? I have “been there, done that.” It is no fun and dishonoring to God. I can also testify that there are still occasional attacks of doubt in my life. But being now a convinced six-day creationist, when I look out on God’s handiwork, I can ask myself the question, preaching to myself, “Then just who made all this? It cannot possibly have come about by chance.” I see God’s handiwork. I see His power, wisdom, skill, and glory. I am not alone in this experience.
Some might object that believers ought not need the safety net of the witness of creation. But God is gracious to us and gives us many helps against temptation because He knows our weaknesses and is kind to us. The matter is similar to the threat of Hell as a means of grace. It is our Lord Jesus Himself who spoke most about Hell. It is a real threat and a safety net against backsliding. The witness of creation is a similar means of grace. “Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. For because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted” (Hebrews 2:17–18). “No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it” (1 Corinthians 10:13).
Now please consider what can happen if someone is taught that the Bible says God somehow created the universe via time and chance. The same evidence would appear to support either the existence of God or Darwinism and Big-Bang cosmogony. Something valuable is lost. This is not a matter of strict logic, but it tends toward serious mental confusion. Additionally, the creation will no longer clearly show God’s wisdom and power to them. They might blasphemously think that perhaps God lucked out —perish the thought!—so that all of those chance evolutionary events worked out to make a creation.13
13“Theistic Evolution” proponents might argue that God supposedly used or oversaw random events to make sure things worked out to a particular end. But there is absolutely no evidence for such a scheme in Scripture, and there is no rational reason why a super-rational and almighty Being would want to use randomness to achieve a designed result instead of just doing it directly. This is the kind of vain and unprovable speculation that by its very nature is not provably refutable apart from the Holy Bible. Theistic Evolution proponents merely accept Big-Bang cosmogony and Darwinism as given, then arbitrarily, with no biblical evidence, assume that God did things accordingly.
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