wouldn't it be impossible to be a Christian and believe in Evolution at the same time?

Question

According to the genealogy of the bible, Noah who made the ship during the flood, was a descendant of Adam and Eve. Now according to Evolution there could not have been an Adam and Eve because we all came from APES. So with out an Adam and Eve.....there can be no Noah. With out a Noah there could be no flood and with out Noah to restart life there can be no Abraham.
With out Abraham there can be no lineage that produced David who was the Husband of Mary and the Step Dad of Jesus Christ.

So now there can be no Jesus Christ....

Oh yea, and there are no Jews either because they are a descendant of Abraham as well.

Gee, kind of makes Christianity hard doesn't it?

Magnus99 and where did those monkeys that lost there tail come from? why didn't other monkeys loose their tail too if their genes were almost identical??? You say a monkey started our species and I say a human did.

Answer 1

Yes it is impossible.

You cannot believe in evolution and be a Christian too.......
Evolution is a lie of the devil.

Evolution is man's excuse to deny the Creator......it's either one or the other but it cannot be both.

And by the way, I enjoy my walk with the Lord. The only thing "hard" about this is looking away from sin.

Answer 2

Yes, it is marginally possible.

Not all Christians are complete idiots.

Only the raging fundamentalists demonstrate insane ignorance such as denying evolution.

There are many people of faith that still believe in some sort of divine power, but no longer ascribe that belief to a "man in the sky who watches and judges" mythology. That is why we have seen so many new religions evolve in the last half century.

These "new age" or "human potential" movements are much less invasive and vociferous than the "fun-dies." They try to include new scientific ideas into their "beliefs" albeit in an unscientific “fuzzy-logic” way.

Even many mainstream established forms of Christianity (i.e. Unitarians, and Methodists) are embracing concepts from these ideologies.

Educated people everywhere are adapting to embrace reason and sanity into their religious beliefs. That must obviously include scientific facts about our phenomenal universe, including evolution, the age of the universe, the age of Earth, carbon dating, the speed of light and the probabilities of existence.

Another thing that "modern enlightened" Christians all know; They cannot not use the bible as an accurate historical account. No sane person can. So, although your reasoning is OK, there is no need for it, because only a totally brainwashed idiot can care about anecdotal accounts in the same book that disagree with each other .

The ONLY way for an intelligent educated person to simultaneously be Christian in any form, is to question and modify his Christian beliefs.

Otherwise, you are right, logic makes Christianity very hard... so hard in fact, that it is impossible.

Answer 3

i'm Agnostic, so all i will inform you is technology unquestionably has as lots room for blunders using fact the bible. this is to assert a likely limitless quantity of room for blunders. As mankind perspectives themselves to be the main useful being in the international (whether they suspect in god(s)), they fail to understand that even with the reality that we've self assurance wee know each and everything, we nevertheless have lots we won't be able to clarify. So, who's to assert that what we expect of all of us know is real because it stands? there is not any scientific regulation which would be claimed is the only reality. because it seems, there have been many regulations which labored in practicality, yet have been deemed incorrect using 3 flaws especially circumstances. scientific regulation is not any greater suitable than scientific thought, that's no greater suitable than the Biblical memories. sure, I guard yet argue the two factors, for the reality that all human beings would desire to be staggering partly, or all be incorrect in entirety. the probability that everyone seems to be a hundred% staggering is approximately like the hypothetical needle in the haystack, that would or won't even exist. i'd desire to upload, for Sarah, that if human beings stopped making deductions and thinking the way issues have been, lifestyles could be as undesirable because it replace into 3 thousand years in the past. There could be no new invention, no resourceful communications, no entertainment, no lifestyles. i don't know in case you ever observed this, yet deductions are the only issues that make people stable sufficient to proceed to exist.

Answer 4

Well..
1st...Humans did NOT evolve from apes. If we did, why are there still apes?
2nd..Why do you think that God, who is all-powerful and the creator of our universe, could not have used evolution as His creative method? IMO, He did just that

so, there goes your idea up to Noah..since Noah did exist and did build a great ship and did float on the global ocean for a year or so, he and his crew did repopulate the earth.
Now we have Abraham who can receive God's fufilled promise that his seed would be as countless as the stars which brings us to Jesus' family.
David,whom you mention as Jesus' step-dad is actually Jesus' grandfather 31 times removed. That's 30 'greats' before grandfather.
Jesus' earthly father's name was Joseph.

Now that you have some of the history straight, it kind of makes atheism hard, doesn't it?

Answer 5

Adam and Eve had sons that married....where did they come from.?

This illustrates that the stories of the bible are incomplete and that we have to fill in the blanks,

It doesn't mean you can't be a person of science. all faiths have the same basic premise...to answer the unknown questions of why we are here and for what purpose. I don't know anyone that has it 100% right yet.

There is a scientific/christian theory referred to as "smart design" - This marries the the theorys of science and faith.

I think until we have a definitie answer to life's questions, I should be allowed to have two or more answers to the questions.

Answer 6

You would think so on the face of it but like used car salesmen they always have their excuses. These convenient changes are designed to make their lives more easier as the evidence that religion is BS grows higher and higher. Funny how they always find time to persecute the gays though, no matter what sect they are a part of.

If God was all knowing don't people think God would know that 6.5 billion people could never ever possibly agree on which religion is the right one. This defeats the message that there is a God and suggests religion is a waste of time.

Answer 7

Ninja Showdown,

Why do you put up this front of being a good Christian, while supporting prostitution? You even describe it as "money well spent."

You make false threats of violence...

You spend an amazing amount of time in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trangendered... And a lot of time in Singles and Dating, but then you mention your wife in many posts...

What's the deal, NS? Cruising for a little boy on the side?

Your days of posting in R&S are numbered.

Answer 8

Not at all. You just need to be a non-literalist Christian. Which is pretty easy, all told. All that the Bible says is that God *created* Adam & Eve, not how. It's a record, not a tech manual - and, fortunately, some Christians know that.

Answer 9

One of the things of which you might want to be aware is that those Christians who vociferously denounce evolution are actually a rather loud minority.

Most Christians do not cling to the "Fundamentals" as stated in the pamphlets published under that name after the appearance of Darwin's "Origin of Species."

Answer 10

True. The two beliefs are incompatible. Consider evolution needs death to function (it is the opposite of survival). For something to survive, something needs to die.

God created a perfect world with no death. Evolution would be pointless and not even in work in such a world.

Answer 11

Except you can believe in "microevolution" which is a change within a species and not in "macroevolution" which is man came from the line of apes.