2006-06-14 10:57:09 · 12 answers · asked by carolinagrl 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Because there's a great deal of room for objectivity and speculation. Different people believe different things while still maintaining the same or similar core.
The same way that two people may believe in the Immaculate Conception, but only one of them believes that Christ actually walked on water or rose again after being crucified.
2006-06-14 11:03:40 · answer #1 · answered by prussianbluelady 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Bible only states that all things were created by God, not that they were created and never changed or adapted. I don't know of any Christians that believe in the Darwin theory, that the human species evolved from another mammal, but I do know several (including myself) that believe that each species has evolved over time and appears differently than it once did.
A lot of Christians are rather defensive about the whole evolution thing without realizing that it IS indeed possible for God to have created everything, then let it evolve over time.
2006-06-14 18:05:10 · answer #2 · answered by Ryan E 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every body is different. Therefor even people of the same faith would have different interpretations of it and different amounts of the religion that they actually believe. No two people think the same way, so no two people will believe the same thing.
The important thing is for Christians to follow the loving teachings of Jesus, not to nitpick every passage of the Bible. How we were created is irrelevant now, and it will be irrelevant throughout our entire lives and the lives of everybody who is born after us. What is relevant is how we treat eachother today and what we do each day.
It wouldn't make the slightest difference in our lives if we could prove whether we were made by God, by evolving from another species, or through any of the other methods that have been suggested throughout history.
2006-06-14 18:04:57 · answer #3 · answered by thenetnomad 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible and reality can coexist. The truth is some of it is meant to be literal, some metaphorically, and some of it is over our heads. A great deal of the metaphors are in the Old Testament, seeing as that is what was before written word. i.e. The creation of Earth, it could be taken that he said let there be a planet and bam there was a planet, or he could have said let there be a planet, a bang occurred and 2 billion years later there was a planet (remember our time is different from his time). But, the new testament, with exclusion to Revelations (which was a prophesy) were actual events that happened in the life of the early church.
2006-06-14 18:08:04 · answer #4 · answered by Cullin D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because many Christians don't believe that the Genesis is a literal word for word account of what actually happened. We are comfortable with a belief that God created the Uninverse some 13 billion years ago...and that creation took place over billions and billions of years, and that life on earth evolved over millions of years until it culminated in mankind. Does that make it any less miraculous?
2006-06-14 18:56:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Real Christians are Christ followers, meaning following in Jesus' footsteps; what He did, believed, and taught. He said God straight up created stuff, and He is right. Some of evolution may be right, some may be just natural. But the whole deal where we evolved from apes, thats wrong. And stuff like that is wrong.
2006-06-14 18:07:11 · answer #6 · answered by bballsistaKT 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God would not have created evolution as he is "God" and would have had no need for man to evolve. "God" "Hey I want Man" fingers click and bingo, Adam. Christians (I ain't one) believe the Bible as they cannot accept that Life adapts to its environments and they like our ancestors needed something to explain the world around them.
2006-06-14 18:04:05 · answer #7 · answered by beefypete_quizmaster 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because some of them realize that the bible and reality cannot coexist. They contradict each other. I prefer to go with straight up reality myself.
2006-06-14 17:59:53 · answer #8 · answered by The Resurrectionist 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the same reason there are fifty different churches on one street - people choose to believe what makes them feel better. They believe in what they perceive as truth
2006-06-14 18:00:13 · answer #9 · answered by topher 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why believe anything?
It's a matter of choice that every individual makes.
2006-06-14 17:59:54 · answer #10 · answered by tichothewolf 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋