Sunday School Lesson

Dr.  Jim Baxter

September 19, 2004

The Genesis Question by Dr. Hugh Ross – p. 184

The Origin of Fermentation

Similar to soap –found by accident with meat being
cooked over a fire—fat dripping into ashes—makes soap.

People sitting around and saw birds that had eaten fermented
fruit.  Then they ate some.  Next they put some fermented fruit into
fresh fruit.

Some people think that fermentation came about as a result
of sin.  Not necessarily.  Our bodies need oxygen.  If your body doesn’t get enough
oxygen—running real fast—pyruvates (?)
convert into lactate.  Lactate
causes muscle cramps.  Yeast goes
through the same chemical process to change into pyruvates
(?), then into _____ and then into Ethel alcohol.  Alcohol is the end product of these
chemical changes.

When people are drunk, they have been drinking alcohol
beverages.  There was an
exception.  This man kept being
picked up for being drunk.  He said
he had not been drinking.  Earlier
this man in Japan
had been in an accident that caused a fold in his stomach.  Yeast would collect and would begin
fermenting.  He would appear drunk
after he had eaten, but he had not been drinking.  This is not usually the case.

Alcohol is a natural product.  Corn can be converted into ethanol by fermentation.  Then it can be mixed is gasoline for
fuel in a car.

Drinking alcohol lowers inhibitions.  Sometimes inhibitions are good for
us.  If someone is bound by alcohol,
it is a terrible thing.

Many things happened during the story of Noah.  Having drunk fermented grape juice, he
got drunk, lay down in his tent and went to sleep.  The bad part was his son, Ham, coming
over and making fun of his father.
His other sons just covered him up and allowed him sleep it off; they
didn’t make fun of him and call others to come over and look at him.

Drugs such as morphine are naturally occurring products that
occurs in the opium poppy plant. Drugs such as morphine are good for
pain-killers—especially when people have surgery.

A person many years ago took morphine and mixed it with
something else to make heroine.
Heroine is more addictive than morphine. Cancer patients in England were
terminally ill.  They took heroine
and were able to go about their daily duties.  Their cancer went into remission, and
they were not addicted to heroine.

Tobacco is a natural product.  It is not good or evil.  It is how people use them that make a
difference.

God lets people know about Him through nature (general
revelation) and through His Word (specific revelation).  God holds people responsible for knowing
about Him because of what they see around them.  Scientists have always been afraid that
something would be found in nature that would contradict the Bible.

I Thessalonians 5:21—prove all things and hold fast to
the things that are good

Don’t ever be afraid of what anyone will find in
nature because it can’t deny God’s existence.  The closer you look at nature the more
you will see His handiwork—the things He has done.  Sometimes people, Christians, have
interpreted the Bible incorrectly.
We’ve been studying a model of Creation.  Some believe in the young earth model;
some believe in the old earth model.
Both models agree that God created human beings separately because He
breathed the Spirit of God into man.
We have an eternal spirit in us.
The two different models disagree on the length of time, but both agree
that God created man with a spirit that is different from animals.

DNA evidence proves that man did not come from Neanderthals
and from monkeys.  Cave men were animals—bipedal
primates—around for 100,000 years.
DNA tests have proved that they were NOT man—God’s
creation.  It has been proven that
man came from the exact area where the Garden of Eden was.  It has been proven that it started with
one man and one woman and then spread.

Dr. Hugh Ross visits large schools and gives talks.  Most of them—their entire
astronomy department professors are Evangelical Christians because
they’ve seen the evidence of God’s creation and believe in Him as
the divine creation.