Is it impossible to believe in evolution and be a true christian?

Question

im think maybe because the story of adam and eve is the basis for original sin but i dunno

"Ask the Pope. He believes in evolution (which, incidentally, is now a proven fact)."

i smell bullshit

Answer 1

I think you're a true Christian if you believe in Jesus and accept Him as your savior and live your life like He lived His. Nothing else determines if you're a "true christian"

Answer 2

If you are honest about it then YES Impossible. If evolution is right then the whole creation myth with Adam and Eve falls apart. This eliminates the forbidden fruit, which eliminates original sin, which collapses the need for universal salvation and that makes the Jesus story pointless. This is why the fundamentalists are fighting evolution theory so hard and supporting ID or creation science so earnestly. They have a three billion dollar a year industry and have no desire to lose it.

Answer 3

The story of Adam and Eve is the point where human beings actually became memebrs of the spiritual universe as opposed to cavemen(no offense insurance dude). The Original sin was sex, but the Bible was written to be a family book so they just called it a a fruit(reason why we haven't be able to deternine the type of fruit) Until that point Adam and Eve were kind of "super humans" for lack of a better term, sent here to see over the earth. When the little hussy got down with the snake boy, everything changed. They were cast down form their immortal position to mere human beings, allowing them to breed with humans... anyways, this is too long a story for this forum.

To answer your question. Yes, True Christians would indeed believe in evolution. Either that or they'd have to try really really hard to explain the difference in the races.

Now if you want to be an All-American Christian then I think the current standards just require that kill your daily quota of Muslims(raping little Muslim girls seems to give you extra credit btw.)

Answer 4

Good question! Because if you read the Bible evolution is in the Bible. Read the 6th chapter of Genius about the fish crawling out of the sea onto the land.
What is so confusing is the time line: The argument between fundamentalist and evolutionist.
That seven days was seven days in God's time not in man's time.
He referenced it in days so man could understand it.
The earth is actually a lot older than either one of them claim. And it is right in the bible if you want to do the math..

In the new testament Christ states that a man's life is no more than a twinkling of his father's eye. OK light travels at 300x10^6 per second. Figure the distance from the front of the eye to the back of the eye. Then figure out how long it takes light to travel that distance. Now the Bible said that at that time man's allotted time on earth was 3 score and 5 or sixty five years(if I remember right) And if 65 years in our time man's time equals to not more that light traveling from the front of the eye to the back of the eye and back again, roughly 1/4 inch. You can figure out roughly how long a day in God's time is in our years. And it is a lot longer than either the evolutionist or fundamentalist think.
We figured it up when I was in College. At the time scientist were saying the earth was 66 billion years old. We can out with the earth being a lot older than that.
You can prove it yourself. That will make you a good computer programming project or Math project.

Answer 5

some christians do believe in evolution they just think the world started with ...and god said....and from there animals did evolve...there are many years in the bible that aren't covered. and yes most christians believe adam and eve were the basis for original sin but that has nothing to do with evolution

Answer 6

Ask the Pope. He believes in evolution (which, incidentally, is now a proven fact).

Answer 7

According to evolution, First there was the earth, but no life was on it. Then water was formed. then up from the water came land. then there were small life forms. Then came mammals, and last of all, man. If you read the first chapter of Genesis, everything is in the same order. It all depends on how long the "days" are. I don't think many people believe they were literally 6 days. But if evolution is real, then it was God who caused things to evolve because He is the creator of all things.

Answer 8

Why would it be un-christian to believe that God started the process of evolution? Why do we have to stay within the parameters of our own limited existence? Can it not be that one "day" in the life of God could have been million's of years as we now measure time? Is it not possible that God give us the ability to learn, question, and consider so that we could reach out and grow beyond ourselves and our narrow view of life and the world as we know it?

Look at all the changes we have made in this world in the past 100 years!! Not all are good, but most are amazing when you really stop to consider that 100 or so years ago the most savvy of men would have never dreamed of the Internet....or phones in every home, or LDC TVs, or cell phones, or DVDs....the list goes on and on....

Even in faith you can reach beyond narrow mindedness and find your own truth.

Answer 9

maximum holy scripture makes reconciling evolution and God's plan for creation an quite complicated ingredient to do. case in point, the bible claims that God created flowers previously the sunlight and the celebs. This won't be able to have occurred while you're attempting to reconcile in tale in the bible, with what all of us understand approximately flowers and the age of the earth vs the sunlight. you would be able to desire to accomplish doctrinal gymnastics to reconcile the two jointly, no longer impossible, yet for me, while you're keen to forget components of the bible, why could you place self belief in any of it? If the story in Genesis is a metaphor, then why don't you the story of Jesus?

Answer 10

A true Christian would be more like an atheist, than today's version of christian.
So yes, evolution would be closer to the truth than "zap" it happened.
Well a true Christian would be very very concerned with cause and effect. Thus reality and the means to understand it would also be top importance.
The bible would be tossed aside with other outdated books on philosophy.

Answer 11

It is not impossible to believe in evolution and be a Christian. Evolution is the way G-d made things, and is still making them.