Is this part of Scripture talking about the believers of Evolution?

Question

¶ For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed [it] unto them.
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, [even] his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
Because that, when they knew God, they glorified [him] not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator
(Romans 1:18-23, 25)

This is an honest question, not trying to be mean or judgemental.

I guess I worded the question wrong, maybe I should have asked if it could be applied to believers of Evolution.

Answer 1

No, Paul is speaking to the Roman Church. Remember at the time Christianity was illegal in Rome, and heavily influenced by the Roman gods.

BTW, I find it helpful when quoting the bible to include the whole passage, not just selected verses. Leave in vs. 24, it will help you interpret it.

Answer 2

There was no evolution believers at that time. Apparently Paul was describing the 1st century Greek and Roman people and their idol worship, among other things.

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As King Solomon noted, there is nothing new under the sun. People will always find an excuse to not believe in God, and come up with alternative theories about where we came from, in order to justify the fact that they don't want to follow God's commands, so this could apply to modern day atheists, among other things.

Answer 3

Hello,

This is talking about events 2000 years plus in the past and the theory of evolution did not come up until the 1850's AD.

I interpret the passage as saying God made all the creatures of the earth from scratch and they are all from him. Man was foolish enough to take these birds, four footed things and ceepy things and make images of them to be worshiped as gods forgetting where they had all come from in the first place.


Regards,

Michael Kelly

Answer 4

this is completely existence want to have confidence that a some thing directed evolution ( god or no longer ) if certainty be told it would be quite unscientific to assert that it grew to become into impossible that god did no longer initiate evloution with the aid of fact we cant disprove it even with the undeniable fact that evolution is merely as lots of a actuality as gravity people who's say its a theory no longer a actuality do no longer understand very lots approximately scientific terminology, a hypothesis ought to be well-known and shown previous resnobale doubt to alter right into a theory, whilst maximum folk hear theory they think of of a hypothesis.

Answer 5

It just says if you don't believe what I tell you, you are bad. This sort of verse has been used to justify all sorts of prejudice against those who do not agree with a recieved point of view. It is the basis of repressive religious systems such as the Taliban. We should have nothing to do with it.

By the way, evolution - like other facts - does not require belief. It just requires intelligence to understand.

Answer 6

Evolution is.

2+2=4 is.

It doesn't matter what you believe.

Evolution is a Scientific Theory that has been proven by thousands of scientists over thousands of years all working independently of one another.

Disprove each and every science experiment scientifically and I will convert to whatever Dogma you preach.

Answer 7

I don't see how, considering that most biologists are believers in God, and many, like myself, are devout Christians who fully accept the message of the Bible, properly and authoritatively interpreted. Sorry if I don't accept your personal unauthoritative guesses about the meanings of biblical passages.

Answer 8

No, and the fact that you had to remove the 24th verse proves it.

Thank you for demonstrating your dishonesty by quote mining the Bible. It proves that Creationism is a religion of lies.

Answer 9

i'm sure an all knowing, omniscient god wouldn't beat about the bush and if he was going to give a universal text that was good for all time i'm sure he would not have introduced any ambiguity whatsoever and named evolutionists directly as the object of his ire. otherwise you would have all sorts of arguments about interpretation wouldn't you. and a god wouldn't do that would it.

Answer 10

That scripture, like any in any religious book can be applied to anyone who doesn't agree with the book