Did we come from monkeys?

Some people don't want to believe that God created people.

Lots of people think humans came from ocean creatures that changed into creatures that walked on the land. People believe that over time those land creatures changed into apelike creatures that eventually changed into humans. This idea is called evolution. People often believe in evolution because they don't believe God exists and created everything. Or, they don't think all of us could have come from just two people, like the Bible says we did.

Some scientists say fossils prove that evolution happens, but Christian scientists see that fossils can fit with what the Bible says. The Bible says God created the different animals separately from people. People were created in God's own image, so we can think, love, and know God. Animals can't even choose right from wrong. Because only God was there at creation, we must trust what His Word the Bible says, not the scientists who believe in evolution. We didn't evolve from monkeys but were created by a loving God.

Bible Truth

• "Know that the LORD is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture" (Psalm 100:3).
  
  
• "You made my whole being; you formed me in my mother's body. I praise you because you made me in an amazing and wonderful way. What you have done is wonderful. I know this very well. You saw my bones being formed as I took shape in my mother's body. When I was put together there, you saw my body as it was formed. All the days planned for me were written in your book before I was one day old" (Psalm 139:13-16, NCV).



• "Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.' So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them" (Genesis 1:26-27).

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