Why you should become a Bible-believing anarchist
who also believes the universe was created around 4004 B.C.
Suppose you lived in Egypt around 1200 B.C. You have on the one hand Pharaoh and his gods, who have enslaved the Israelites who on the other hand serve one God only. Pharaoh's priests teach ideas which reflect "a kind of natural emergence or gradual order from disorder, which later became a metaphorical framework used by some Greek thinkers."
Are you with the Hebrew slaves and their God, or the Egyptian enslavers and their gods?
Are you with David or Goliath?
Are you with Isaiah or Assyria (Isaiah 10)?
Are you with Jeremiah or Babylon's Nebuchadnezzar (Jeremiah 21:7)
Are you with Ezekiel or Thales of Miletus (c. 624-546 BC)?
Are you with Christ or Caesar?
How should we evaluate the testimony of the Biblical witnesses who make claims about the creation of the world?
The idea of "evolution" is the idea of a "naturalistic" (God-free) origin and history. Every non-Biblical society is therefore "evolutionary" in the sense that it represents Autonomy rather than Theonomy. Autonomy can be expressed as pure atheism/secularism or with some aspects of "folk religion," or mystic poetry or music, like Pythagoras. All are naturalistic or evolutionary in terms of Biblical thinking. The created order is ultimate, not the Biblical Creator.
Thinker / Culture Theology Theonomy vs. Autonomy Cosmogony Politics Egypt (c. 3000-332 BC) Polytheist — worshiped Ra, Osiris, Isis, Horus, and many local deities; Pharaoh himself was a divine figure. Scripture shows Egypt as both a place of refuge (Genesis) and oppression (Exodus), never as covenant-faithful. Autonomy — revelation from YHWH ignored; human wisdom (priests, magicians) ruled. Knowledge of the gods was fragmented into cults and mysteries, detached from divine law. Cyclical myths of gods dying and rising (Osiris), eternal Nile cycles. No creation ex nihilo; cosmos seen as ordered through the struggle and harmony of many gods. Pharaoh as god-king — claimed divine sonship of Ra; state was sacral, with priesthood and kingship fused. Pharaoh’s word was law, backed by forced labor and military might (Exodus 1).
✦ Notes
Theology: Egypt’s religion was deeply tied to fertility and the Nile. Each city had patron deities. Pharaoh was considered a living god, the mediator between heaven and earth. YHWH was an alien God to them, only acknowledged under duress (e.g., Pharaoh’s heart hardening in Exodus).
Theonomy vs. Autonomy: Egypt exemplifies autonomy. Priests used magic, astronomy, and ritual but not covenantal obedience. The “wisdom of Egypt” (Acts 7:22) was vast, but set against divine revelation.
Cosmogony: Egyptian myths (e.g., Heliopolitan cosmogony) describe Atum emerging from chaos, creating gods like Shu and Tefnut, who then generate the rest of the cosmos. The world was not created in a finite past by a transcendent Creator but was cyclical and eternal in principle.
Politics: Pharaoh was both head of state and divine object of worship. Politics and religion were inseparable, with the state itself functioning as the central cult. Egypt’s bureaucracy and monumental projects (pyramids, temples) rested on slavery and the belief that Pharaoh was divine.
✅ So with Assyria, Babylon, and Egypt, you now have three “biblical empires” in your table that clearly illustrate polytheism, autonomy, mythic cosmogony, and statist idolatry — the City of Man in contrast to God’s City.