Since when did it become okay for "christians" to believe in evolution?

Question

I have seen comments where so-called Christians say you can be a Christian AND believe in evolution. Did you not read Genesis where God created Adam from the dust, blew breath into him, and created Eve from his rib? Please dont call yourself a Christian if you dont believe God's Holy Word. Thats one reason we are so hated- because some people claiming to be Christians are complete hypocrites and just plain ignorant on God's Word.

Answer 1

You are absolutely right.Too many Christians are being deceived into believing satan's lie of evolution. They are not taking God's word literally,and they should. We are not to add words to His Word.(Proverbs 30:6) neither should we take from His word.
This world is not billions of years old. All life WAS created in literally 6 days.The Bible says in Genesis 1:5 "and the evening and the morning were the first day." Genesis 1:8,13,19,23,and 31 all clearly says the same for each DAY. Evening and morning constitutes a 24 hour period,ONE DAY. God spoke everything into existence.He didn't need a "big bang" to do His work for Him. HE IS GOD.
Christians,we aren't admonishing you.We are gently trying to remind you of just who you serve.The Great God Almighty is fully capable of doing just what He said He did. We can't let the world tell us any differently. We need to stand up for what we know is true,and don't compromise our faith in any way.Even the smallest compromise to our faith can cause the world to find fault with it.Yes,there are certain things we don't understand,but God's Word is what we must stand on,and we must take it literally,because that is how God wrote it.

Answer 2

It has always been "okay" for Christians to believe in the truth, including truth revealed by scientific evidence. Genesis says God created Adam's body from inorganic matter, by an unknown process. So does science, only science describes the process. There is nothing in the Bible to suggest that Christians have to reject scientific facts. However, the Bible DOES tell us that the Scriptures are not for private interpretation. If you had followed that biblical instruction you would not be in your present quandary, having invalid personal interpretations of the Bible that conflict with known truth.

Answer 3

There was a show on the History Channel on this very thing the other night.

It told about Ancient civilizations discovering dinosaur bones and, not understanding what they REALLY were, described them by the way they LOOKED. This is where the Cyclops, Giants and other "strange" creatures described in The Bible came from. This is documented in little known texts by little known authors of that period of time. Modern scientists have studied this very extensively.

So science CAN in deed PROVE most of what is in the Bible NOT discredit ALL of it. What is percieved as science debunking The Bible is in fact giving RATIONAL and UP-TO-DATE explanations for what is written by people who didn't understand the world as we do today.

Remember, there was a time when "The Church" INSISTED that the Earth was FLAT and that the Sun revolved around it instead of what we know today to be the fact that the Earth is a sphere and it revolves around the Sun.

Answer 4

First of all every religious group is hated for one reason or another by someone one. Second with all the scientific discoveries that are happening today on how everything was created, it kind of hard not to believe in Evolution. I had a teacher in high school who believed in Christianity & Evolution. His reasoning was that some where along the line of Evolution, God breathed a SOUL into homosepians. We all can take a quote from the bible & interput it to fit our life style. It's called justifying our actions. No two people will have the same interpution of any written word.

Answer 5

Since there are "christianity" and the "evolution theory". Why? Because no one can force and control what a person believes in. Believing is within one's hearth anf faith. Even God gives freedom to each person whether to believe or to disbelieve.

We'd better talk about the results of believing and/or not believing, rather than talk about okay or not okay.

Answer 6

It is OK in the sense that a Christian's salvation is not based how he reconciles Genesis with the issue of evolution. But it is not OK in the sense that by believing in evolution, the Christian has given up Scriptural authority and opened the door for more compromises along the way. His hermeneutic becomes flawed.

Answer 7

Candy, your own ignorance is showing. It became "ok" when christians started seeing that evolution is fact. It became ok when christians began to educate themselves and think for themselves and see beyond the box the preacher stands on.
Once you understand that evolution theory does not, and cannot explain HOW life began, only what happened to it AFTER it began, then you may, just may, begin to understand how God could have created the entire universe AND evolution as one of His tools.
ps. The "dust" God used isn't the same stuff as on top of your science books........ study, learn, THEN make statements, you'll sound a lot more intelligent.

Answer 8

Has anyone acknowledged if GOD changed animals himself?
The time period for evolution seems to go on forever, billions, trillions.. larger illions.. I don't think we should study such as "TRUTH" in school, for it afterall, is a theory. As to being a christian and believing in evolution? Depends how you look at it. Like I said before, if God changed animals to "adapt" to their enviroments, would that throw the theory of evolution out the window? Just a thought.

Answer 9

People in glass houses should not throw stones.

I doubt that you follow the bible's literal interpretations in all its teachings, "eye for and eye" for example, would you become a burglar just because someone broke into your house. I don't think so.

The bible is a work of literature, it was meant to act as a guide, there are stories to teach moral values, allegories mostly, contains supposed histories but they cannot be taken literally... Whatever happened to not casting the first stone, eh?

btw I'm definitely not christian...

Answer 10

One of the leading proponents of evolution in the country -- and opponents of Intelligent Design -- is a Roman Catholic.

Can you at least agree that the most important part of Christianity is Christ's message, not specific details like how old the planet is or how exactly we got here?