2006-12-07 13:09:04 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
not if they are smart.
2006-12-07 13:10:40 · answer #1 · answered by Tom B 4 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Not necessarily. Many do, I'm sure.
There are born-again Christians who love Jesus and have the Holy Spirit living inside them, yet take the Genesis account symbolically, not literally. They believe God created everything; they may not take literally that God created the world in six solar days.
In fact, some people have argued that the pattern of creation in Genesis 1 fits the pattern of evolution.
Now, one statement in Genesis 2, that all the animals were formed from dust, would refute the evolutionist ideas that all species of animals evolved from other species of animals.
In the musical play The King and I, when the King asks why different people believe different things about creation, Anna says something like this: "The Bible wasn't written by men of science, but men of faith. It was their way of explaning the miracle of creation--which is the same miracle whether it took six days or a thousand years."
One radio preacher says that the Bible was written for people who didn't understand all the ways of science. Then over the centuries we do learn those ways, and we look at the Bible again and we think God is dumb.
2006-12-07 21:15:42 · answer #2 · answered by MNL_1221 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They may, or they may look at the creation as something similiar to what the early church fathers looked upon it as, that the days of the creation are not actually solar days, because they for one acknowledge that the sun was not created on the first day. Also, the Early Church Fathers believe, that when the Fall happened the earth became instantaneously old. Meaning, when we were with God, we and creation participated in the timelessness of God. Then the fall happened and time fell also, so now everything is now percieved to be old. It is a paradox that the earth is really young, but is really old at the same time. Am I making sense? Probably not, but the universe is really a mystery.
2006-12-07 21:17:07 · answer #3 · answered by Felicitas 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are a born-again Christian, you are saying that you believe God's word is true, so naturally you should believe its account of Creation. Evolution tries to completely rule God out of the eqation, which is not something a born-again Christian should go along with. It seems like a no-brainer to me.
2006-12-07 21:14:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Presumably, at least some of the time.
2006-12-07 21:10:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It' usually the other way around
2006-12-07 21:13:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe, maybe not. The answer is GOD IS EVERYTHING and as far as your mind can imagine and forever further in that direction.
2006-12-07 21:13:39 · answer #7 · answered by the sponge 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm sure that while some do, others don't. It is an individual choice.
2006-12-07 21:11:08 · answer #8 · answered by ♪ ♥ ♪ ♥ 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sure. After the lobotomy.
2006-12-07 21:10:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
depends on how brainwashed they got
2006-12-07 21:14:26 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yah, thats the idea
2006-12-07 21:11:12 · answer #11 · answered by butterfly girl 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋