Uniformitarianism. The assumption by evolutionists that, from the very beginning of the earth, its present geologic processes have continued at the same rate of speed and in the same manner. This dogma is aptly illustrated by the mantra, "The present is the key to the past." I use the term dogma for good reason, because this doctrine is contradicted by evolutionists' own astronomic theory of origins popularly labeled "The Big Bang." The Apostle Peter predicted the rise of Uniformitarianism. In the first century AD he wrote, "Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts, and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation" (2 Peter 3:3-4). Peter cites two major historical events and one major future event that contradict the doctrine of Uniformitarianism. Uniformitarians ignore the anomalies of Creation, the catastrophic Global Flood of Noah's day, and the future cataclysmic destruction of the present heavens and earth (2 Pet. 3:5-7, 10-12). All three events Peter cited contradict another dogma of evolutionists, that God, if He exists at all, cannot and has not and never will enter into human history to impose His own will. A major shortcoming of Uniformitarianism is that it ostensibly restricts its knowledge base to sensory observation. It thereby cuts itself off from the whole realm of knowledge based on Divine revelation. Uniformitarianism is thus exposed as a belief system maintained in large part because its adherents wish to exempt themselves from any responsibility to a Creator. The truth is that God has entered into human history geologically and He will again. He created the entire universe, willing and speaking it into existence in the first place. He imposed His judgment of a global flood upon evil humanity in the second place. He will annihilate the existing sin-contaminated universe in a gargantuan series of explosions in the third place. And He will replace it with "new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells" (2 Pet. 3:13). Uniformitarianism is opposed by the observed phenomenon of Catastrophism, clearly validated, for example, by the modern-day catastrophic eruption of Mount Saint Helens in 1980 and its creation of over a hundred feet of strata in a matter of hours and days, not eons of time.

Universalism.  The liberal “feel-good” belief that all men will be saved.  This doctrine is an invention of men who do not take seriously what the Bible says, and who create a God of their own making in their own mind.  Universalism fails to appreciate the deadliness and slavery of sin, and it fails to appreciate the holiness of God.  Universalism ignores the clear teaching of the Scripture that there is only one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus (1 Tim. 2:3-6).  Jesus is the only way to God (John 14:6) and the only way of salvation (Acts 4:12).  If people ignore the only means of fellowship with God, there remains only the expectation of certain judgment throughout eternity (Heb. 10:26-31; Rev. 20:11-15).  God is a God of love who through Jesus Christ has provided man an avenue of escape from eternal judgment (John 3:16).  God is longsuffering, not willing for any to perish (2 Pet. 3:9).  But tragically, forgiveness spurned is judgment earned.

Unpardonable Sin.  The sin that cannot be forgiven.  Most people are completely mistaken about this sin.  Some hypothesize that it is suicide.  There is not a hint in Scripture that suicide is unpardonable.  Some hypothesize that apostasy is unpardonable.  But what does the Bible say is the unpardonable sin?  Jesus performed many miracles and cast out demons by the power of the Holy Spirit.  Since scribes and Pharisees could not refute Jesus’ miracles or His exorcisms, they explained His actions away by saying He performed them by the power of Satan (Matt. 12:22-32; Mark 3:22-30; Luke 12:10).  This was not an idle conclusion.  It was a calculated, deliberate, and irreversible conclusion at which they had arrived.  They were saying that Jesus performed His miracles by the power of Satan, not the Holy Spirit.  This is the unpardonable sin.  It is an irreversible conclusion that Jesus’ power source was the Devil, not the Holy Spirit.  No believer in Jesus would ever arrive at this conclusion.