Are the Christians that believe in evolution and Creation only Catholic?

Question

I was just wondering if the only reason that Christians claim to believe it, is because the former pope said so. If you believe it and your not Catholic what religion are you? Why don't you believe the Bible when God said he mad Adam in the same week as the earth? Why did God mention the flesh of Man and Beast as completely seperate things? Sorry a lot of questions, I just want to know how you developed this opinion.

Kev, I believe the Bible that Jesus said was true.

Gratvol, I asked Christians. I ask plenty of questions to your people, please have some respect.

I was mistaken, it says kind. God says take the beast after his kind, birds after theirs.... This shows that God saw a difference. Why wouldnt he just evolve them all again, and have Noah take a much smaller boat. Or, just start from scratch and not have Noah. God destroyed an evil world and he started over would have the same message.

Answer 1

The Catholic Church does not take the stories of creation in the Bible literally. Catholics believe the book of Genesis tells religious truth and not necessarily historical fact.

One of the religious truths is that God created everything and declared all was good.

Catholics can believe in the theory of evolution. Or not. The Church does not require belief in evolution.

On August 12, 1950 Pope Pius XII said in his encyclical Humani generis:

The Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid that, in conformity with the present state of human sciences and sacred theology, research and discussions, on the part of men experienced in both fields, take place with regard to the doctrine of evolution, in as far as it inquires into the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and living matter - for the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God.

Here is the complete encyclical: http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_xii/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xii_enc_12081950_humani-generis_en.html

The Church supports science in the discovery of God's creation. At this time, the theory of evolution is the most logical scientific explanation. However tomorrow someone may come up with a better idea.

As long as we believe that God started the whole thing, both the Bible and modern science can live in harmony.

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

Im Catholic and I don't believe in evolution. I also don't believe God created Adam in the same week as the Earth. If I tell you something, and you tell someone, and that someone tells someone else and so on, the story will not be the same after awhile. I feel that is what happened to the bible. It has been retold so many times since the beginning that some facts are distorted. Also the dinosaurs have to come into play somewhere before man was created. I think that as long as you believe and live a good life, God is not going to care about the small detailed stuff.

Answer 3

Why are you apologising for asking questions? I wish more people would ask more questions, then their lives and the lives of billions of other people would not be as difficult or even as tragic as they are.

I am not a Catholic. I am a Protestant. However, Protestantism is not a religion. I am a Christian. Being a Christian is also not about being religious. I hate all religion just as Jesus Christ does.

Why should I believe the Bible when I believe God? There is a difference. Most of the Bible is God's word in one way or another. However, not all of it is.

In terms of understanding the creation timeline literally, you need to understand that God always speaks to people on terms they can understand. God is no fool; He understands the issues of communication theory. Teachers do the same thing when they teach you: they tell you things in terms you can understand until you are ready to hear them in newer terms or in complete detail.

Can you tell me which verse you are referring to in terms of the flesh of beasts and which translation of the Bible you are using, so I can try to answer that part of your question.

Answer 4

Christians who have faith in evolution, are regularly stating that it incredibly is fullyyt achieveable for God to have finished each and everything via potential of evolution. in fact no Christian will ever declare to nicely known precisely the way it happens, yet one way it would desire to happen, could be if God replaced into in some place, began the great Bang (created the universe), then created the celebrities, then made chemical reactions and prerequisites that made existence achieveable on the earth, and then made particular that no longer something went to uncontrollably incorrect. In different words, possibly evolution IS the only way that God makes use of to liven up fruition. He could have each and every of the time interior the international, so there is not any rush. If God for cases, needed to create yet another universe, then he could start up the great Bang technique back, and probably, makes use of Genetic components to manage the needs of existence. The question of guy being made out of monkey would not inevitably exclude Christian teachings, on condition that God might have made guy by monkeys. The e book of Genesis even states that God created a mild first, then the celebrities, then animas, THEN the final creation replaced into human beings. which potential, the monkey replaced into created first, and out of that monkey, God might have made the guy. it extremely is just one subject the place God could use evolution because of the fact the form of creation.

Answer 5

Why don't you believe the Bible? Because the Bible that says God created the Heavens and the Earth in seven days, also talks about God killing infants and ripping unborn babies from the sliced open stomachs of pregnant women. (Hosea 13:16) It speaks of God going in cities and commanding the death of every living creature, man, woman, child, infant, with the exception of all the virgin little girls who God allows the Israelites to take as sex slaves. (Numbers 31:7-18)

I could go on and on all night. This Bible you speak of is full of the most horrid atrocities, absurdities, contradictions, and errors. It's a wonder how you can believe any of it.

Answer 6

Most of Protestants in Germany accept the theory of evolution. I know the Lutheran church in Germany (the main protestant church here) because I was raised in it (although now I don't believe in Christianity at all anymore). I had confirmation in this church and religion classes at school and I know that they don't even consider creationism (I mean denying evolution) a possibility. And also I've never heard that anyone in Germany complained that the theory of evolution is taught at school. I think I was about 16 years old when I heard to my big surprise that there are really people in the world who literally believe in the Biblical story. I think it is the same in other European countries, the US are known to be the main stronghold of creationism in the Western world.

And why they don't believe in it... it is because the facts are so clear. They understand that they have to accept proven scientific facts and somehow integrate it into their faith instead of just denying them. What do you lose by saying that God created life by evolution?

Here is a Wikipedia article about the evidence of evolution:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_of_evolution

Answer 7

GOD said that He made the Heaves and the EARTH! How big are the heavens? What is GODS time? Nature is the finger of GOD!

A volcano erupts, covers the land with lava. Come back in a thousand years, all is bare and sharp rock. Come back in a couple million years and it is lush forest, and all kinds of life.

Too, what about life in other galaxies? GOD created that too! We even have skulls and bones of humans and they are not exactly as we are now.

You do not come out of the mother in one day, earths time. It takes nine months.

Both are truth. GOD said I did this, the other shows GOD work in detail.

Rather than argue what people may or may not believe, why not try living you live with love. after all, unless you live your life with love, your soul is doom to die.

Answer 8

I would hope some Protestants with common sense would also have this view.

I am not a Christian but I have to say God did not create mankind with a brain that can think and rationalize so that we will blindly follow a text.

All the evidence around us screams of an old Earth with a very old Universe.

To say otherwise gose against common sense.

Answer 9

If you are asking if a Christian can believe that God created the world through the process of evolution, then yes, there are other branches of the church that agrees with that. And we don't follow the pope. We THINK rationally. The Anglican church, which in the U.S. is the Episcopal church.

Answer 10

I'm catholic. And I look at it this way:
The bible uses lots of analogies. Jesus himself was fond of parables.
Early people were simple, couldn't understand complex arguments.
So god says "Everything was made on each day...".
and they get a rough idea.
My personal opinion is that evolution is how God made things.
IF you read what happens on each day, it does sort of follow evolution. You don't have animals appearing before the land...