Yesterday: When the Beginning Began

By I. C. Smith

If you are confused and tired of being told lies and want to uncover the truth about the origins of existence, then its imperative to ask questions and seek information.

Join I. C. Smith as he examines how Satan stays involved in everyday affairs. Prayer has been taken out of schools, and a theory of evolution That eliminates the importance of God as it is being taught to our children. As a result, society continues its moral decay.

Yesterday: When the Beginning Began explores why evolution is the biggest hoax ever and how your community is being hurt by listening to lies from some politicians, school officials and others. Youll learn which questions to ask about your own origins and how the answers can help you improve your life.

Do not accept the doctrine of evolution and think of life as a cosmic accident. Life has meaning, and its important to seek the truth and discover the true origins of life on earth. By looking back to yesterday and examining classic conflicts between science and religion, its possible to change your future.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: May 25, 2011
• ISBN: 9781462013883

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Contents

Introduction

Section One

Chapter 1

The Starting Line

Chapter 2

God the Father

Chapter 3

God the Son

Chapter 4

God the Holy Spirit

Chapter 5

One God, One Nature, Three Beings

Section 2

Chapter 6

Satan: Leader of Fallen Angels

Chapter 7

False Prophets

Chapter 8

Antichrist

Chapter 9

Evolution

Section 3

Chapter 10

The Verdict

Notes

Dedication

To my beautiful wife, Linda, who had a big influence on my writing this book and for her input and the sacrifices she made while I researched and spent time to prepare and write—thank you.

Proverbs 31

10A wife of noble character who can find?

She is worth far more than rubies.

11Her husband has full confidence in her

and lacks nothing of value.

12She brings him good, not harm,

all the days of her life.

To our two sons whom we love very much: Kemo and Curt and their families. Thank you for the input, inspiration, and encouragement that you gave me to complete this book.

May God’s generational wisdom direct your lives and bless your relationships.

To our beloved grandchildren: Aliyah, Nailah and Curt II,

Proverbs 17:6

Children’s children are a crown to the aged,

and parents are the pride of their children.

Special Thanks

To my parents, Andreal and Katherine Stevenson, and to my wife’s parents, Melvin and Thelma Roland:

Thank you for demonstrating and showing commitment to one another and commitment to God our Father and to family. Thank you for showing all thirteen of my siblings and nine of my wife’s siblings what commitment to your spouse and commitment to family looks like, regardless of what obstacles are put in the way to destroy the foundations of the family structure.

Thank you to Pastor Rev. Dr. Jules E. Smith and first lady Ida Smith, for delivering God’s uncompromising word to the Rising Star Missionary Baptist Congregation.

Isaiah 55

10As the rain and the snow

come down from heaven,

and do not return to it

without watering the earth

and making it bud and flourish,

so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,

11so is my word that goes out from my mouth:

It will not return to me empty,

but will accomplish what I desire

and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.

To the members of the Rising Star Missionary Baptist Church of Denver, Colorado, for taking that uncompromising word back to your homes, jobs, and neighborhoods and becoming God’s light in this dark world.

2 Corinthians 4

5For we do not preach ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. 6For God, who said, Let light shine out of darkness, made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.

To my nephew, Pastor Vincent, who has had many challenges in his life, but his faith in Christ and family has never wavered. I’m sure God has something special in his life.

In memory of Ira C. Smith

In memory of Andreal Stevenson

In memory of Melvin and Thelma Roland

Introduction

Have you ever said to yourself or to a friend that this world is changing for the worse? Have you noticed that, from the time you were growing up until now, society has gotten worse? Are you concerned today about the erosion of morals that is so dominant when you open the paper or turn on the news or about where society is going in general?

I’m sure it bothers you as much as it bothers me, and the questions I want to ask are these: How did we get in this situation? How could our society go down so far, so fast?

As I reflect on these questions, it is clear that Satan’s version of the creation event is a major factor in the moral erosion of our society. I want to try and show you how and where evolution plays a major role in the moral erosion of our society today. I want to show you where evolution is taking us socially, and I want you to see how the social implications of evolution are destroying our society today.

The doctrine of evolution has set off a social chain reaction, and I want you to see the chain reaction that has been triggered by the teaching of evolution.

We are living today with at least two generations of people who have been totally indoctrinated in evolutionary thinking. That teaching has been presented to them as fact and not as a hypothesis, and a concept of creation science has been systematically and successfully characterized as religion and, therefore, has been systematically removed from the public sector. For thirty years now, young people have been given no option for explaining the existence of the universe other than the option of evolution.

Evolution doctrine saturates the arts as well as the sciences. It is taught in the media; it is taught in museums; it is taught in public classrooms, science labs, medical schools, the environmental movement—it is taught everywhere. You should know that the doctrine of evolution has destroyed the very foundation on which our society and our nation were built.

Psalm 11:3 asks a very simple question that is very pertinent question for today: When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do? Romans chapter 1 describes how a culture can literally implode upon itself once the foundations of that culture are being destroyed.

The foundations of our culture have always been that there is an eternal creator God to whom all mankind is accountable. It is written in the very preamble of our Declaration of Independence, where it is assumed that all men are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights. Now once we remove the creator from the picture, what does that do to our inalienable rights?

If you take God out of the picture, then life has no meaning or purpose. There is no basis for morality if you take God out of the picture, no basis for absolute ethic or value. There is no hope for a meaningful existence after death if you take God out of the picture. So if evolution is true, life makes no sense literally, but if the Bible is true, life makes a lot of sense.

Now there is a simple fact about origins that you need to know. Our worldview is affected by what we believe about our origin. What you believe about where you came from will determine much of what you believe concerning where you are going and how you should live your life.

I pray that this book will raise some doubt in your mind regarding what you have been taught in the past and will stimulate you to look into Gods’ word for the future. Time is drawing near to the climatic end of the age, so what road will you be on when that time comes?

Section One

The Good

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Chapter 1

The Starting Line

When I was a young man being raised in the heartland of America, I had many thoughts about the origins of the world.

I was raised in the time when kids couldn’t wait to go outside and play. That was before the computer age, before video games, back when television had only three channels, and at 1:00 a.m. the three networks would play the national anthem to signal the end of the broadcast day. It was before CDs and DVDs, before cell phones and crack. When nobody had air-conditioning, summer days and hot summer nights were endless, and we slept with the window open at night. Kool-aid was the drink of the summer.

Cereal boxes had that great prize in the bottom of the box, and popsicles had two sticks so you could break them in half and share with a friend. You could catch lightning bugs in a jar and have a best friend sleep over. Those were the days of pillow fights and laughing so hard that your stomach hurt. It was a time when any parent could discipline any child or use him to carry groceries, and nobody, not even the child, thought anything about it. You might be sent to the principal’s office, but that was nothing compared to the fate that awaited you at home.

Back then, kids intermingled with each other on a regular basis, and the bond that was created during that time spent with friends and family and our friends’ families proved to be a lifelong bond that was not easily broken, because of our struggles and the good times we shared growing up.

Back then, your friend’s parents or a neighbor could tell you what to do, and if you didn’t adhere to their instructions, they would tell your parents, and you could count on a good attitude adjustment when your parents came home. I’m not talking about a beating that would put a child in the hospital or cause lifelong injuries, but I’m talking about heating up a child’s backside a few degrees, and it is amazing how much that can help a child change attitude and behavior in the right direction. You see, everybody looked out for each other back then, and children were reminded of their place in society. They were being taught the rules of life and society, which brought about a respect for authority and self-discipline.

After long and exhausting periods of playing and running I would lie on my back in the grass while taking a break. I would look up at the sky and see the different images in the clouds, and the sun was so bright and hot that I couldn’t help but ask myself, where did this all come from?

At night after playing all day and before we had to go to bed for the night, I would see a lot of stars in the sky and different images like the Big Dipper. The moon appeared different to me night after night, and I couldn’t help but wonder, where did this all come from? I attended church as a youth and I knew about God, but I never knew where he came from and why he made this big world.

Prayer was taken out of public schools in 1962, and I really missed that part of the school morning. I had been saying prayer every schoolday up until that point, and it really seemed like something was missing when prayer was not allowed anymore. I was too young to understand what had happened, and why, but it was something that I looked forward to every morning. Prayer seemed to keep the awareness of God in our thoughts throughout the course of the day.

The sixties brought about a change like this country has never seen before socially, morally, ethically, spiritually, politically, and culturally. The emphasis was put squarely on me. If it feels good, do it. What matters is what’s in it for me. I am at the center of my universe and the old ways of family, neighbors looking out for neighbors, and the neighborhood parents looking out for everybody gave way to views like This is my life, and I’ll live it any way I want. You tend to your business and stay out of mine. The author Dr. Spock wrote a book that said spanking your children would harm them for life. I’m not going to whip my kids or discipline my kids, and you’d better not discipline them either became the standard or the norm in child raising after that book came out.

Teachers could not discipline their students, and it seemed like it was an all-out assault on the teachers for trying to teach children to discern right from wrong and to instill discipline and self-control in students’ lives.

Nobody was responsible anymore. If you went out and killed, stole, assaulted, or committed crimes against humanity, it was always somebody else’s fault. The perpetrator seemed to always have issues with his family or society, and that was the excuse they used for having done these things. My parents were not very good parents, or my childhood was so different from all of my friends, or it is not my fault that I grew up and became the person that I am; it is my parents’ fault or it is society’s fault, because every time I did something, I was punished for my deeds, so I rebelled against society, because life is so unfair to me, and the list goes on for not being responsible for their own actions.

Well I made it through the sixties, and the seventies were just an extension of the sixties. I went to the Army and did a tour in Vietnam, and upon my return to the United States, it seemed like the whole country had lost its identity. What’s right for me may not be right for you. Absolute right and wrong was becoming a thing of the past. Everything was about me and I: As an individual I must control my own destiny.

When I talked to people about Jesus Christ, there seemed to be a denial of God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, and this thought of evolution was becoming more and more widely accepted by younger people than the Bible and God’s word. Soon I wanted to find out for myself what this evolution was all about, what was real and what was being perpetrated as a hoax.

When I read the Bible, God says that He is from everlasting to everlasting. In our finite minds that’s hard to understand, and outside of the Holy Spirit it is impossible for natural man to understand the things of God, but if God’s word is true, then the Bible, the origins of man, and the world would make a lot of sense. Life would have purpose, and a right understanding would elevate humanity past the accident it is today believed to be. God said that He made man in His own image; evolution says that we came from some primordial strata. So who is right and who is being misled?

Chapter 2

God the Father

I am going to give you the creation account that God said is the origins of