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1 | Bible and evolution both? | Gen 1:1 | stjones | 19468 | ||
Uh, can I just say that an infinite God worked out the details in a way my finite mind can't grasp? ;-) I'll admit that if I wanted to persuade others, I'd have to give your question a lot more thought. The fact is, I bet we'll all be surprised when we get to Heaven and see how completely we've misunderstood many things that seem crystal clear to us now. My impression is that not many Christians lose their faith by succumbing to the kind of progressive doubt/rejection you described. But I know a lot of people for whom a literal reading of Genesis 1-2 is a barrier to faith. When presented with a creation story whose mechanics seem patently false to them, they reject the fact of creation and the rest of the Bible as myth. Jesus never called us to be witnesses to creation, only to him. How tragic if we drive away even one non-believer by focusing on such non-essentials. Let's at least keep in the family. Peace and grace, Steve |
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2 | Bible and evolution both? | Gen 1:1 | Reformer Joe | 19497 | ||
We do not compromise what is revealed in Scripture as truth for the sake of the fallacies of neo-Darwinism. The origin of the diversity of species via descent with modification is not scientific fact. That is the bottom line. It is a theory based on a metaphysical rejection of the supernatural and a false extrapolation of something that actually does occur in nature (natural selection). The authenticity of Scripture IS an essential, Steve. If we say that Genesis 1-2 are "spritualized" versions of the truth, where do we stop with the spiritualizing and concede that "all the rest" REALLY happened the way it was written? --Joe! |
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3 | Bible and evolution both? | Gen 1:1 | stjones | 19516 | ||
Please see my other notes "AT THE RISK OF ANNOYING..." and "Well, yes, I did mean 'parable'..." Let me just reiterate that the Bible is 100 percent reliable and authoritative - history, parables, the whole thing. We just disagree on whether one particular passage is a parable or history. By definition, the spiritual truth is the same either way. |
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