In the amoebic beginning...

I've been thinking... and talking to a few friends about creation vs. evolution. Here's what I think it comes down to. It is about what exactly the bible says - we could argue all day about whether there were conflicting accounts about which day Adam was created, which day Christ was crucified, etc. But I think we're missing the most important point. It's the theological implications that have me the most concerned. I don't mean to mock their opinion, and yet I do, because if you follow to the logical conclusion, evolution mocks Christ's death and ressurection. Here is my re-telling of the beginning.

In the beginning, God sparked life like a match. There were four components - there was no day or night, evening or morning, water or earth or sky. There was amoebic Adam, amoebic Eve, a very simply amoebic replica of an apple and an amoebic serpent. God told them you can multiply and do anything you want, but don't touch that single cell "apple" of the knowledge of good and evil. If you do, you will surely die. At some point, the serpent wriggled over to Eve and said, "Did God really say you can't do anything?" To which Eve replied, "Oh no, we must just stay away from the apple, or we will surely die." The serpent said, "You will not surely die! God knows that in one of the millionth years that you touch it, you will become like Him, knowing good and evil." And Eve looked on the single cell, and saw it was beautiful, that it was edible, that it would make her wise, and she ate of it, and she also gave some to her husband, and he ate of it. And their eyes developed and they saw that they were naked, and found that some single cell leaves had developed and covered themselves. Etc...

Now, before you quit reading in disgust, and possible offense, hear me out. The point isn't the amoeba's, the point is Adam and Eve. But it goes much deeper than that. My story writing is I would say poor to moderate, so I figured I'd go with what I already know, the Story the Word tells me. I'm sure someone could come up with a much more creative version. My issue is not with whether the Bible contradicts itself. My issue is with sin and death.

Sin had to be introduced at some point. "For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 6:23. Now, was the earth/universe started with death already present? Or was it introduced by Satan through temptation? If so, when exactly? When "man" as he would one day be known was half-way there? 1/4 of the way? 3/4? Or when he was finally fully man and the order of the world thus far reversed and the law of entropy was introduced? The wages of sin is death. We see this reiterated over and over again because the Israelites had specific times of the year when a man from each family had to go and confess the sins of the family, sacrifice an animal and make atonement with God. It was part of the law, because blood needed to be shed. But! If the world is millions of years old... then there was death present. If it was present before sin, then death really wasn't the punishment for sin, it just became the punishment afterwards. That's literally like if a judge in a courtroom sentences everyone to death, before they have been tried, "Just in case." You cheapen the punishment by delivering it before guilt has been proven. Now, we are all sinners in that courtroom, and God has every right to sentence each one of us to death.

So, are we all born innocent and are taught by our imperfect surroundings to sin? If you think of sin as a deep ocean - do we crawl in as innocent babes and before we know it, find ourselves floundering for our lives? Or are we born into it? If we crawled into it willingly then, don't we have some capability of finding our way out? How come only One man out of billions didn't? Don't we have some resource that could possibly keep us out? Or are we totally and utterly deprived, drowning in our own imperfections, until Christ offers His hand and pulls us out of the mire? You know what's incredible? We are so blind that even when He offers His hand, we think He's pushing our head under deeper. Even when He offers rescue, we are so hard-hearted, we refuse because we are sinful and we. think. we're. fine. Until He opens our eyes, shows us we're drowning, and only then do we realize we need Him.

Was the first amoeba Adam (I'm giving it the name Adam because there had to a first one somewhere, and it's a fitting name) a single cell with fully developed thoughts, emotions and mental capabilities? How do you argue that? Why would God only partly create something? Then you mock Christ being the second Adam, the sinless and perfect Adam who did it right. Because He obviously had advantages over the amoeba.

Lastly, was there only one cell that just kept on growing and growing and becoming many and nothing ever died? And entropy was introduced when Adam sinned? You can't account for all the layers of the earth then. You can't account for fossil fuels that are "millions" of years old. If it's young, though, now that's a different story.
God slowed down creation enough for it to be documented so we could read about it. God could have snapped His heavenly fingers and the entire world would have been. But He didn't. He spoke it out, in seven days, because He had an order He wanted to lay out. He has a plan. Genesis is about Christ, the atonement.