Can you be a christian and believe in evolution?

Answer 1

No. A Christian believes in the God of the Bible.
The Bible teaches that sea animals and birds were created by God on day 5. Other animals and man were created on day 6.
God said everything was good. There was no sin until Adam sinned against God. That is when sin entered the world and death is a consequence of that sin. There was no death before this. There is no room for evolution. The Bible is archaeologically correct and historically accurate.
Remember, evolution from one organism evolving into another different organism is not a proven fact.

Answer 2

Well . . . If you are, for example, A Christian who claims affiliation with the Roman Catholic, Episcopal, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, United Methodist Church, Presbyterian Church U.S.A., or United Church of Christ, then you can most definitely be both a Christian and believe in Evolution -- since the official doctrines of all those churches leave room to believe in evolution.

It's mostly the fundamentalists that try to create a false choice between being a Christian and believing in evolution.

Answer 3

For you are the Body of Christ and individually Members of it.
(1 Corinthians 12:27)
That's Evolution in Action!


We are all descended from one woman, a fact DNA studies have confirmed. But where did all the different races come from? If skin color and facial features had changed suddenly, this bizarre event would certainly have been recorded somewhere! Since no one mentioned a sudden change, we can assume skin color and facial features changed so gradually nobody realized this was occurring. That is all evolution is the gradual changing of a species into a slightly different form.

Jesus compared the Kingdom of Heaven to a mustard seed, which though the smallest of all seeds, grows up to become a tree so big that the birds of the Heavens can nest in its branches. The word evolution originally meant growth or unfolding as in the way a seedling emerges from its seed casing and grows to become an adult plant, so in a way Jesus Christ actually teaches that the Kingdom of Heaven evolves!

Matthew 13: to Matthew 13:9. A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants. Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop-- a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown. He, who has ears, let him hear.

This parable definitely teaches that out of an abundance of life forms, only a few manage to adept to their environment enough to survive to reproduce.

Another example. Matthew 7.13. To 7:14. Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life and only a few find it.

Again Jesus Christ teaches that out of an abundance of life forms only a few succeed in life.

I guess it’s a point of view and up to you to choose.


love Rev: J.P. Hermanson

Answer 4

Alot of die-hard Christians may tell you no, I know they will, but I think you can. Being a Christian means you follow the teachings of and worship Jesus (and God.) The way I see it, evolution could be God's divine plan,( its more practical than the Adam and Eve silliness). They can go hand and hand if you want it to. Evolution and science can be God's gift and plan.

Answer 5

Why ever not? Remember that the Old testament is a 'book full of stories' to help people to understand their surroundings 6000 years ago, when no other explaination was available.

Whatever your beliefs, evolution has scientific backing, no matter if your christian or non believer.

Answer 6

No.

Scientist are deliberately ignorant when it comes to the age of the earth. They know if they don’t lie about millions of years then they can’t prove their evolution religion.

If science admits that there is a Creator, then they would have to admit that there are moral laws (10 commandments) that we would be accountable to. They love being in the dark, and I love being in the light.

Answer 7

I don't see how. Evolution contradicts several plain statements in the Bible: death as a result of the sin of man, man created from the dust of the Earth, each kind reproducing after its own kind. If you can justify the two claims, your mind is more flexible than mine.

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Answer 8

Yep - pretty much all the christians I know do. It was the Discovery Institute that tried to convince people that it was god or evolution.

Answer 9

if evolution is real, the genesis story is false.

meaning adam and eve didn't eat from the tree

meaning original sin never existed

meaning no reason for jesus

no christ no christians.

Answer 10

Evolution undermines every doctrine in the Bible.
It is one or the other.