Christians how can you believe in the Bible AND evolution?

Answer 1

You can't ....some try to say each day of creation was really millions of years...but the Scripture doesn't allow this:

You cannot assume that each 'day' in Genesis is millions of years because the "sun , moon, and stars" were created the day AFTER the "plants, and green trees"... (Not possible if there were millions of yrs.)
Don't be deceived...
The order of creation days DOES NOT allow for each 'day' to be millions of years. Read Exodus 20:11

Most real science confirms the Bible. See here: http://everystudent.com/forum/science.ht...
More resources: Creation Resource Foundation: www.creationresource.org

Answer 2

It's called Natural Theology.

Both St. Augustine and Thomas Aquinas were proponants of the theory and it was quite popular in the 19th century - up until the ACLU deliberately went looking for someone to challenge a mostly ignored Tennessee law and the result was the Scopes Trial. This had the unfortunate effect of galvinizing a certain portion of Christendom away from anything to do with evolution.

However, belief in a Creator does not dicte *how* that Creator may have chosen to Create. Evolution may very well be a tool of God -- that is the basis of the idea of Natural Theology.

Answer 3

I have news for a lot of people....when you have that personal, born again relationship with Jesus Christ, it removes any thoughts except the awesomeness of who God was and is and can do.
Many people teach, "just repeat after me and you will be saved". The Holy Spirit must be drawing you to Him...so, if you don't feel that drawing, it won't do any good to say with your mouth and not your heart.
Well, I will tell you, if someone says they're saved and don't show forth a new character...you know, behold old things are passed away, and you become a new creature in Christ.
A Christian (follower of Christ, not just a church goer) knows God spoke these things into existence.

Answer 4

There is nothing in the Bible that disproves evolution. And nothing in evolution really disproves the Bible. A bird from that time may not resemble a bird from today.

And six days to make the world? Well, scientists just estimate their time lines; some have been disproved and changed. But who knows what orbit Earth may have been in at the time. A day lasts six months in the Arctic even today!

Each species, including mankind, can change and adapt to its environment.

We are made in God's image. Personally, I find comfort knowing that God himself may grow and change.

Answer 5

A true Christian cannot. Because Jesus believed only in the Bible account of creation-not a bit of room for any vestige of the false science, nor did he even indicate the subject in any of his teaching.

Everything he taught made reference to creation. All the disciples & apostles made reference only to created animals and created humans--never an iota of the process evolution.

Paul made clear his thought & how he felt that humans in their rejection of God, began to worship the animal creation--Evolution was not a new teaching, even in Bible times:
(Romans 1:20) “20 For his invisible [qualities] are clearly seen from the world’s creation onward, because they are perceived by the things made, even his eternal power and Godship, so that they are inexcusable. . .although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God nor did they thank him, but they became empty-headed in their reasonings and their unintelligent heart became darkened. 22 Although asserting they were wise, they became foolish 23 and turned the glory of the incorruptible God into something like the image of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed creatures and creeping things.”

Answer 6

Easy.

I really want you to do this, because it's really going to open your eyes. Read Genesis, but instead of thinking of it literally, think of it as an explanation of the formation of the planet that is written to be understood by people 2000 years ago.

They couldn't possibly have understood the formation of unicellular organisms, or the evolution of species, or the concept of a billion years. The science is so far beyond the scope of understanding of lay people right now! Imagine how much more confusing it would have been 2000 years ago.

God told them in words they could grasp. Now that we know more, we can see how He really did it!

Answer 7

To a being powerful enough to create the Universe, billions of years would seem like working for only 6 days or less.

And just like people like to adjust things (cooking, building, painting) why wouldn't God want to adjust (evolve) that which he/she had created?

If you were at God's intelligence level, how would you explain things to creatures at our intelligence level?

Answer 8

would you rather we believed in spontaneous generation?
In everything I see God's hand, God's wisdom and God's intelligence. The OT was written through the mind and hands of a man that was not a modern man, but a primitive man. We must bend our own intelligence to this and with gentleness and humbleness accept the will of God

Answer 9

No, because the Bible teahes creation not evolution. You can't choose both. It's one or the other.

Answer 10

because I went to seminary and understand the metaphorical meaning of the ancient stories of faith. God's creation can evolve has God so desires. The biggest fallacy of the American scriptural understanding of ancient texts is this: we filter ancient texts of faith through our present-day culture. Guess what? The Bible wasn't written in America and doesn't reflect our cultural values.