Jesus used parables often in his sermons. How do we know that the creation story isn't a parable for the human heart and how susceptible we are to evil?
2007-01-01 13:14:52 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
okay fair enough...it was really about evolution but the questoin still stands
2007-01-01 13:19:43 · update #1
That makes a lot of sense; I wish more Christians would put more thought into reading the bible.
But if any of you Christians have a way to prove evolution wrong please send it here
http://nobelprize.org/nomination/
2007-01-01 13:17:29 · answer #1 · answered by blue 1 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Concerning the debate going on about intelligent design and evolution: is it possible that the final answer about which of these two seemingly opposite ideas is correct could simply be yes?
With one position firmly held by the believers and the other just as fearlessly defended by the non-believers, if you happen to be in a position somewhere near the middle, it does not look all that complex. From this position, you wonder why either-or has to be the answer.
If you believe that some higher being created the universe by intelligent design, what more elegant and intelligent design could there have been than a self-regulating system that continually checks its own errors and makes its own corrections in mid-stream as an integral part of the process.
This all seems quite logical to me although it probably won’t satisfy the believers because they are afraid to see any truth other than the one they have been told to believe in. Inversely it certainly won’t satisfy the non-believers because it leaves them stuck with a god that they are so obviously terrified of.
To sum up this view from the center, it might be most easily be explained by saying perhaps the designer was intelligent. Problem is, the designer was likely so intelligent that those seeking to prove that it is intelligently designed may be incapable of ever understand it well enough to see it for the elegant self regulating design that it has always been.
The nonbelievers will be similarly handicapped due to the internal terror the have about the idea that there may be a God. Neither side being able to leave their entrenched position for fear they may have to admit they were wrong. While the rest of us stand by trying to figure out what all the fuss is about. Personally I don’t think anyone is wrong, I just feel both sides are about half right.
Love and blessings
don
2007-01-01 21:26:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Unlike Many Christians, I Believe That The Bible Points The Way To Evolution. On The First Day God Created This On The Second Day etc. Sounds Like Evolution To Me.
2007-01-01 21:32:24 · answer #3 · answered by papsmearpete 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
With parables, generally a comment that conveys a meaning indirectly by the use of comparison or analogy is included which proceeds the parable.
Moses the author of Genesis is not particlarly known for telling "parables".
Almost eveything in Bible can be applied to our life with the use of analogy.
Do you believe that parables are not true happenings or made up stories?
Do you consider parable to be false stories?
2007-01-01 21:27:55 · answer #4 · answered by Akshun 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, ya just don't really know do ya? What you do know is what feels right? Maybe to look at it another way is that we are not so susceptible to evil as much as our possible fascination of it.
As we place our attention on anything we are validating the existence of that which we place our attention upon, Thus creating the actual experience of it.
Maybe we are co-creators in this realm of delicious contrast, and not so much victims of what some would say we are susceptible to as much as we are experiencers of that which we create?
I like that concept better because I cannot fear that which is illusion or better yet, my own creation.
2007-01-01 21:21:42 · answer #5 · answered by Rowdy Yayhoot 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Still not about evolution, but those interested in that question honestly wouldn't care if it was. Only those who refuse to acknowledge the question and believe the bible is to be taken literally are the ones who are causing the trouble.
2007-01-01 21:17:54 · answer #6 · answered by distind 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Parables are sort of the Lord's m.o., when He wants to get a point across.
The truth is...we don't know.
Evolutionists don't know, and Creationists don't know.
I don't know, and neither does anyone else...
except, God, of course.
2007-01-01 21:34:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither "creation science" nor "evolution" are fact. They are both theories. Creation science relies on the 'belief' that a supreme being could have set the universe in motion with any set of parameters necessary. Evolution postulates the existence of 'transitional species' (which have not yet been discovered) to explain the origin of different species.
Pick your poison...
2007-01-01 21:19:42 · answer #8 · answered by Joe Rockhead 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It's also a theory that they weren't parables at all, but they actually happened since God is all-knowing. It'd be easy for him to pull a story out from history.
2007-01-01 21:17:38 · answer #9 · answered by polevaulter1000 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The universe itself is still largely a mystery to man, so how can he expected to know about God / Jesus? I am always amazed by this.
2007-01-01 21:19:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋