Moses wrote in Exodus 20:11, "For in six days Yehovah made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore Yehovah blessed the seventh day and made it holy." Moses taught that the heavens, the earth and man were created in six literal twenty-four-hour days. He taught, not that man evolved, but that he was created instantly by God with a spirit, soul and body and in God’s image. He taught that death was not a part of God’s Creation, that before Adam and Eve sinned there was no death in the world. This is diametrically opposed to the teaching of Evolution which teaches that life on earth evolved and that death has always been a part of the chain of life. Moses taught that death is the result of Adam and Eve’s sin, that before they sinned there was no death in the world. Moses further taught that, as a result of man’s sin, man’s spirit died and and his ability to have relationship with God died as a result. This means that now when man is born into the world, he is born soulishly and physically alive, but spiritually dead. To be spiritually dead means to be without the means or capacity to have relationship with God. This is why Jesus, God the Son, became man. Why? So He could abolish the enemy, death, by paying sin’s penalty for us on the Cross. As a result of His death for our sins, when we receive Him as Savior and Lord, our spirits are brought back to life (2 Cor 5:17), back into union with the Holy Spirit (1 Cor 6:17) and as a result back into relationship with God (John 4:23-24). Also as a result of Christ’s death for our sins, eventually death and the effects of sin on the rest of creation will be removed also (Rom 8:19-21).

The moment we separate ourselves from the Bible, man no longer knows that he was created to be a tripartite being with a spirit, soul and body and that the reason for his problems are because of his dead spirit and lack of relationship with God. When one accepts literally and understands what the Bible teaches about man’s creation and fall taught in Genesis Chapters 1-3, he then understands what his problems are centered in and why he needs Jesus’ Salvation for his sins.

Humanistic psychology teaches that man has a body and a soul and some only a body. Not only do they not teach or emphasize the spiritual aspect of man, neither do they understand it. This is because they do not take into consideration the counsel of God’s Word. Proverbs 21:30 states, "There is no wisdom and no understanding and no counsel against Yehovah." God teaches us through Isaiah 30:1 that the only thing that will please Him is what we do that is out of His initiative through His Holy Spirit through our spirits; that anything we do, no matter how good it appears before man, if not done out of relationship with God and His initiative through the Holy Spirit is sin. The Bible’s definition of sin is anything we do without God period! Because man is born into the world soulishly and physically alive, but spiritually dead, everything he does is out of the initiative of his soul and therefore sin. This is what we mean by man being in totall depravity: not whether a person is good or bad but that whatever he does he does without God or God’s initiative. This is why anything man does cannot save or correct his lost condition because it comes from the initiative of his soul, not from the initiative of God. This is why secular psychology trying to solve man’s problems by focusing on his soul will not ultimately solve man’s problems. Man is dead and destined for hell and stays that way, no matter what his therapy is, until He receives Jesus Christ and is born again spiritually and comes back into relationship with God. Until man does this, he does not even begin to solve whatever his problems are because his trying to solve his problems through the reasoning of his soul, rather than through the initiative and counsel of God first, is the problem. Whatever man’s problem is, God’s will for him in the matter is the only solution. This is why Secular psychology is not the answer to any of man’s problems because they are not dealing with what is really man’s problem: his dead spirit and broken relationship with God, and what God’s will is for the person in the matter which when once known will solve the problem they are seeking counsel about. Understand that this is not an attack against the profession of psychology or psychiatry, but what it is based on. Psychology and psychiatry based on the Word of God and led and administered through the Holy Spirit is a very powerful healing tool. However, when based on man’s reason and the initiative of his soul alone is totally destructive and does not lead to any true solution to man’s problems or needs.

If man had not been created in God’s image with a spirit soul and body in perfect relationship with God, which was then later destroyed through man’s sin, that would mean that what man is today is what he has always been. This would mean that he is normal and that death is normal. This would also mean, therefore, that there is no meaning to Jesus’ death and resurrection for man because man is normal and therefore in no need of salvation. This is what happens when you do not take the first three Chapters of the Book of Genesis as literal historical fact: the Gospel loses all meaning and purpose and falls to the ground.

But if God did create man instantly with a spirit, soul and body and in His image and with everlasting life and man chose to rebel against God resulting in his spiritual and physical death (Genesis 2:16-17), then what man is today is not normal. Man is not what God originally created him to be. Death in the world is not normal. If this is true, then Jesus’ coming and death to save us from our sins and to deliver us from our fallen condition and spiritual and physical death have total meaning and an answer for the sinful condition that man is in. This is why we must take what the first three Chapters of the Book of Genesis teach us about the creation of the cosmos, the world and the creation, constitution and fall of man as being absolutely literally historically true and why we cannot alter these teachings of the Bible.

This is what page 3 of WEL does: first, it establishes that Moses is the author of the first five books of the Bible. Jesus said "For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me" (John 5:46-47), thus Jesus affirmed that Moses is the author of the first five books of the Bible. Second, it establishes who Moses is writing about: Jesus said, "For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote of Me." Who was Moses writing about? About our Creator and His creating the world and man. What Creator? According to Jesus Christ, Moses was writing about Him. In saying this Jesus affirmed that He is Yehovah Elohim of the Old Testament our Creator in the flesh. Third, WEL affirms that what Moses wrote about the Creation of the world and Adam and Eve and about the fall of man and God’s judgment of man through the World Wide Genesis Flood and all other recorded events in the Old Testament, and what Jesus said, the New Testament: God’s Word is absolutely true and why: because Jesus came back from the dead Physically Alive! to prove to us that the Bible is true and that it is to be taken as literal historical absolute truth. Once you establish this, the person you are sharing the Gospel with will take to heart everything else you share in the pages that follow including that man is not normal but fallen sinful man and in need of redemption through Jesus Christ.

The third Biblical foundational truth that cannot be altered or played with, if we are to be successful in Evangelism and in bringing men and women to saving faith in Jesus Christ, is what the Bible teaches us Jesus claimed about Himself: that He is fully God and fully Man. The significance of Jesus being God Himself who came down from Heaven and became man is all wrapped up in what is necessary for our salvation. I discuss all aspects of this thoroughly in Chapter 1 of Section 3.

Page four of WEL states clearly what the critical claims of Jesus Christ are concerning Himself. Jesus claimed to be God the Son, God’s ONLY Son. The Apostle John writes, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God" (John 1:1). Jesus said about Himself, "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life" (John 3:16). The Apostle Paul wrote concerning the significance of Jesus’ Physical Resurrection: "who was declared the Son of God with power by the resurrection from the dead" (Rom 1:3-4). Jesus claimed to be the ONLY Son of God, thus of the essence of God, God Himself.