Andy Stanley Denies the Genesis Acount, Says God Only Said It To ‘Accommodate to Our Capacity’
With the news that Andy Stanley’s North Point Community Church has become a cesspool filled with LGBTQ+ affirming pastors, leaders, ministries, guest speakers, and conferences (See endnotes), it’s unsurprising that as more stones are overturned, more deviant theology emerges.
Of note, in a sermon clip uncovered by The Dissenter, Stanley says God gave the creation narrative account of how he made the world-creating light, dividing water from land, and speaking trees into existence, all in six days- to Moses as a means of ‘accommodating’ ancient people, because they weren’t developed, smart or sophisticated enough to understand the truth of evolution and how he actually created the world.
There’s no necessary conflict between evolution and theism. Because evolution is a means. Theism says there was an agent. I have one high school biology teacher Christian here. It’s like, ‘please, would somebody make this clear? I know this is like really important, because people come home, kids come home from biology class, high school. Like well, ‘you know, but evolution’. ‘No, we don’t believe in evolution, we believe in creation.’ Wait, wait, wait, wait. Hang on.
This is very important. The Genesis account of creation, the point of that isn’t ‘here’s how God did it.’ The point of that, is that God did it. And the reason we know that, is because it stood in stark contrast to the Sumerian and Babylonian and the Canaanite and the Egyptian creation myths. And in all of their myths, the gods just sort of appeared magically out of nowhere or they created themselves or they created each other.
And then, Yahweh says, “hang on, I created it all out of nothing. I didn’t use body parts, okay? I didn’t split (the primordian Goddess Tiamat) in half and their lower half became the earth and the upper half became the heavens. I mean that’s foolishness. There’s one God. I’m God. I did it.’ That’s the point of the Genesis creation account.
He continues:
Now this is important. God, as a heavenly father, does something for you and does something for every generation from the beginning that we should be so grateful for. And if you’re a parent, you do this as well. You know what God does? God accommodates to our capacity.
God accommodates to our capacity. ‘Where do babies come from?’ It depends on who’s asking, doesn’t it? And you didn’t lie to your five-year-old when she asked. And you didn’t lie to your 15 year old when he asked. And when a high school, biology student studies reproductive, you know, science- that teacher isn’t lying. We never lie. We change the answer.
Why? Because we’re lying? No. Because we’re accommodating to a person’s capacity. So come on, what was the capacity of ancient, ancient, ancient, ancient slave culture Hebrew? Was there any way in the world and God could explain to them how he did it? No.
