Christian Evolutionist?

Question

Does anyone, besides me, think this is impossible?
I mean, if you believe the Bible to be true, then how can you believe in evolution? Is this a New Age way of thinking or is it conforming to the ways of the world?? What do you think? Any "Christian" feedback is good.

When God spoke things into existence, it didn't take billions of years. He spoke and they were. Just like it didn't take a million years for the blind man to be healed. It was instant.

I do believe the Bible to be 100% true. It was written by God and He doesn't lie.

Answer 1

In my opinion, evolution and Christianity don't mix. Evolution - or any type of "pre-creation" story would infer death before sin, and that just isn't possible.

blessings :)

Answer 2

well, I basically just said this answering another question but I will say it again.

I am a Christian, but I believe strongly in evolution. This is why. If you study the Bible deeply you realize a few things that everyone should keep in mind. First off, the Bible was not written in English. It was translated to English from Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Aramaic, etc... I am bi-lingual and can tell that some meanings are lost in translation.

For example: The word translated as "Day" in Genesis doesn't actually mean day. It only means period of time. It doesn't even specify how much time. Litterally a better translation would be "In the first period of time God..." instead of "In the first Day..." Because the word isn't specific about how much time is meant it could just as easily mean millions (or billions) of years as much as day.

Now, during all that potential time couln't God have kick-started life via evolution so that eventually the planet would look as it does now?

Doesn't that change your perspective? The problem is some people take the Bible's messages as completely literal, but the original writers didn't mean everything to be taken that way.

For Ex: Jesus taught in parables. The parables weren't real events. They were stories meant to teach a moral or share important lessons. The people listening knew this. Why would it be different in the writings of Moses or the many other prophets? Read Isaiah. Much of what he wrote was figurative, not literal.

The difficult part is trying to decipher what was meant literally and what was meant as a metaphor or allegory. Either way, Jesus died for us. Because God loves us so much it shouldn't matter how he made us. The fact that he did should be good enough.

Why must we always deny science? Didn't God invent that too?

Answer 3

I am a Christian and a science teacher as well. For 17 years I taught all the theories of creation. Theories is what they all are. I believe God created the universe with something like the Big Bang and then created Adam and Eve just the way He says in Genesis. Evolution means change over time. Everything has changed to some degree over time. Even man. But we did not come from a common ancestor as apes.

Answer 4

Since the Bible says absolutely nothing about the post-creation development of new species, how can it be in conflict on the subject?? And, since we know that the Bible is true, and we also know that evolution is true, from mountains of incontrovertible evidence, we therefore know that there cannot be any conflict between the two, because truth cannot conflict with truth. But here's the catch - there is no guarantee that your personal interpretations of the Bible are true and correct. And when they conflict with known and proven scientific truth, then obviously your interpretations are not infallible after all. Which should be no surprise since the biblical interpretations of each denomination are in conflict with the interpretations of other denominations, and again, truth cannot be in conflict with truth, so we know that many if not most of such biblical guesswork is simply wrong, even without comparing it to scientific facts.

Oh, and here's one more little piece of evidence that harmony between scientific facts and biblical truth is not "impossible". I am a born again Christian who loves, worships, and follows Christ my Lord and Savior. And I am also a professional biologist and medical researcher who doesn't feel compelled to reject obvious scientific evidence on the basis of someone's simplistic, unauthoritative, ignorant attempts to self-interpret the Bible.

Answer 5

You don't believe the Bible to be true. You believe a very specific interpretation of the Bible to be true. Medieval Jews reading the book of Genesis in Hebrew interpreted it as allegory because "ha-Adam" means "human being" - it is not a proper name. Many ancient Christians, reading the Greek Septuagint, interpret the creation account as allegory, because it refers to Adam as "anthropos," or "humanity." Many 18th century Christians considered it allegory because it utilized common symbolic elements found in other near-eastern sources. There is ample evidence to suggest that the creation account was never meant to be a literal account of the creation of man.

But that does not mean that book of Genesis is not true. On the contrary, it's actual meaning is very true. Personally, I believe in the inspiration of Scripture - but only when it is read as the original authors intended. If the author of Genesis intended for the creation account to teach a symbolic lesson, then we cannot claim to "believe the Bible" and then add a completely foreign interpretation. I believe the Bible - but I believe it as it was written.

You might ask, how do I know how the Bible was written? We have thousands of years worth of commentaries written by Greek and Hebrew-speaking scholars, as well as the witness of modern critical scholarship on the subject. I would much rather trust those sources than rely on my own ignorance to interpret the Holy Scriptures.

Answer 6

You can believe that time is relative, and that the Bible begins at the start of human history, giving only a brief overview of the start of cosmic history. The Bible is not a science textbook its goal is to teach us what God wants from us. It is when people start using it as a science textbook that problems arise. God does not explain exact science through the Bible, he wants us to figure that out for ourselves, he just gave us the moral standards he expects.

Answer 7

it is real. Many Christians although do no longer believe the Bible besides, no longer all Christians bash the bible in peoples faces (yet many do) you will be Christian and comprehend the actuality of evolution....and perhaps, purely consistent with possibility settle for the two creation and evolution..and why no longer? Evolution is how God created and creates the international. Evolution is the answer to how and what, no longer why or who. There are Christians that relatively have brains, and use them, hence comprehend the actuality of evolution and settle for it.

Answer 8

do you take the bible 100% literal? Do you believe that in the end, a half-killed lamb will destroy evil?(Rev.) Of course not, because its a symbol.

The bible isnt a science book, its job ISNT to explain the origins of mankind.

God still did do it, but it was a little more complicated than "let there be light" (maybe it was that simple for God)

Answer 9

Do you believe there was literally a good samaritan and a guy who got beat up and ignored by two guys before the samaritan?

Or did Jesus speak in a parable?


Why can't Genesis be a parable?

Ancient semetic cultures were OBSESSED with origins. You wouldn't just introduce yourself with your name, you'd give your parents names, your grand parent's name, and even further back if you knew it.

So Moses goes to God and says, "God... where'd we come from?"

God responds, "Well, first I had to build up the inflaton field, which was oscillating in vast patterns of quantum interference. I designed it so that occasionally the indeterminancy of the fluctuations would exceed a certain critical value and the underlying vacuum would phase-change to a lower vacuum energy. This caused the spacetime metric to rapidly expand, precipitating subatomic particulate and..."

Moses would have been utterly clueless. Moses didn't know or understand quantum physics to understand the Big Bang, let alone genetics to understand Evolution.

So God says instead, "You know Moses, you're obsessed with where you came from. You came from me. I did this, then I did that, then I finished up with you guys. To tell you the truth Moses, you couldn't understand it, so just live with this -- *I* did it. Just know that in a few thousand years, you guys are gonna be pretty smart and start to see just how truly awesome and complex this universe I made is!"


If Jesus used parables, and Jesus is God, ... why couldn't God use a parable to teach a truth (God Created) that could not in its literal form (Big Bang/evolution) be understood by the culture of the day?

Answer 10

The bible is just a bunch of stories--- the history of the tribe of Isreal. But one can believe in the teaching of jesus, and believe he was an important religious person without believing the bible is anything but a little history book.

Answer 11

I think Adam & Eve were created by God--I also believe God uses evolution.