Most denominations want you and me to believe they oppose the principles of evolution. However, they must endorse at least some of the tenets of evolution in order to prove that denominationalism is from God. They fail in their effort as do evolutionists.
Evolutionists must affirm that all things do not bring forth after their own kind. Moses stated over 3,000 years ago that everything does bring forth after its kind: "And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself upon the earth; and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good" (Gen 1:11-12). Those who believe and teach evolution have had generations to prove Moses and the Bible wrong, but they have not and cannot.
The denominational world tells us that John 15 affirms the concept of many different churches coming from the same vine. What would you think of me if I told you that I have one vine that produces watermelons, cucumbers, pumpkins, grapes, etc.? You would think that I am crazy. You would be right! Because everything produces after its own kind. Therefore, the denominational world finds itself promoting the evolutionists point of view that everything does not bring forth after its kind.
The vine of John 15 produces only Christians. It does not produce Baptists, Methodists, Jehovah Witnesses, Mormons, etc. The word of God is the seed that brings forth fruit to God: "Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God" (Luke 8:11). The seed only (Bible) produces Christians only. The Bible plus a human creed, church tradition, commandments of men, sayings of the Pope, etc. produces something other than Christians.
We cannot have life unless we are joined to the true vine. We become part of the true vine by obeying the gospel of Christ. To put it another way, all people in man-made churches are lost because they are not drawing their life from the true vine. We must remember the words of Jesus: "But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up" (Matthew 15:13).
Here are some closing thoughts: "There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death" (Proverbs 14:12); "For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God" (Hebrews 3:43); "Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it..." (Psalm 127:1). May God help all to see the need of becoming a part of the one body of His life-giving Son (Matthew 16:18; Ephesians 1:22-23).
Selected from Bulletin Brief - By Wesley Simons