The overwhelming evidence for evolution--which keeps growing daily --is isolating the young earthers into the status of the flat earthers.Surely it is more important to lead a good Christian life than it is to hold onto the myths of an ancient culture.
http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/essays/courtenay1.htm
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/03/0308_060308_evolution.html
2007-10-14 12:03:32 · 16 answers · asked by huffyb 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
This is mostly a problem with Americans, since it is a highly christian nation. As always, we are very ignorant about science and creationism is - frighteningly i might add - a widely accepted view.
2007-10-14 12:09:11 · answer #1 · answered by Fields M 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
As a Christian I find that the age of the earth and evolution are the biggest challenges to my faith. I graduated with a degree in cultural anthropology, so I actually saw and held skulls of primates that are not human and not ape. Do I believe that God is control? Absolutely! Do I believe God created the world? Yes. I'm just not sure WHEN He created it. Do I believe that it's possible that God allowed changes to occur throughout the many years the earth has existed? Sure why not? I understand that there are SO many questions I'll always have, and I'm okay not knowing the answers. I know that God sent His only son Jesus to be the ultimate sacrifice. And because He laid down His life for me, I have eternal life. All the other details are not nearly as important as my relationship with Jesus.
2007-10-14 12:17:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
each and every thing with a beginning up has a reason. The universe has a beginning up. that's named the super Bang. God has no beginning up. God is an eternal being and is previous time. that's what Christians have faith. God created linear time so finite beings like us ought to adventure actuality one chew at a time. To an eternal being, each and every thing could be going on suited now. As scientists have theorized, on the 2d of the super Bang, time, area, count, and ability got here into being. in the previous that there improve into in hassle-free terms the eternal God. that's completely logical that God exists. in actuality, that's a necessity, to existence and the universe getting into being.
2016-10-22 10:22:56 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, We believe we only receive grace and mercy from God. Believing in Jesus is all that is necessary to go to Heaven. Knowing we are going to Heaven and not tob ejudgemental toward anyone else . . we don't think much about Hell. After all . . the battle has already been won and Jesus is the winner.
2007-10-14 12:25:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
re: your last statement: "surely it is more important..."
absolutely wrong.
the story of creation - the account of Adam & Eve in the garden, the fall of man, etc. - forms the basis of all other Christian doctrines: sin, redemption, salvation, etc.
throw out the creation account and you must throw out any idea of "a good Christian life" because there ain't no such thing as a Christian life without it!
If we believe there was no direct creation of man by God, if there was no literal Adam and Eve placed in a garden, we destroy infinitely more than a cute Sunday School story told to impressionable children.
The origin of the family of man, the origin of sin, the origin of death, the origin of disease and sorrow, the need for salvation, the promises and the plan for a Savior, the restoration of creation, the judgment to come – all of these biblical concepts crumble when the account of Adam and Eve is dismissed as myth or metaphor.
If you want to tear out the first three chapters of Genesis from your Bible, you must also tear out 1st Chronicles, Job, Luke, Romans, 1st & 2nd Corinthians, 1st Timothy, and Jude for the person of Adam is mentioned in each of them. And not just mentioned, but in the case of Paul’s letters, Adam and the fall of man is presented as the foundation of much of his teaching.
If you want to trash the story of Adam and Eve, then you must also trash the words of Jesus Himself as He refers to the direct creation of man and woman in Matthew 19 and Mark 10.
Furthermore, there is indeed an unbroken complete chronology of man from Adam to Christ presented in the Bible. It is a fascinating study to follow this unbroken line to determine the age of man. Although there is room – very little room, in my opinion – to debate about the actual age of the earth, it is a simple task to determine that Adam, the first man, was created in the year B.C. 4046, that Christ was born in B.C. 5 and He died in A.D. 30.
The very fabric and integrity of the Bible is ripped to shreds when the account of Adam and Eve is delegated to anything less than an actual historic event. No wonder people’s faith is shaken as they try to reconcile the modern teaching of evolution with the Bible!
In my opinion, it simply cannot be done.
god bless
2007-10-14 12:12:41 · answer #5 · answered by happy pilgrim 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, but we know the truth, that God created all the universe. Evolution is an evil work of the enemy that God has allowed and that will work to His glory in the end.
God bless.
2007-10-14 12:09:12 · answer #6 · answered by lovinghelpertojoe 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
well we don't believe that God will punish us, evolution is just completely contrary to creation and we don't have enough faith to believe in evolution. Too much to believe that all of this creation didn't have a creator..
You wouldn't believe that about any other thing that you have from your own car to an airplane, but the most complex creation of all and you say NO CREATOR.. I just don't have the faith to believe that..
How would I "lead a good Christian life" if there was no Christ? and NO Christ = NO creation. So if I believed in evolution then I wouldn't believe in Christ..
I will take Jesus any day..
2007-10-14 12:09:05 · answer #7 · answered by † PRAY † 7 · 0⤊ 5⤋
yes it just shows what a fairy tale world thay live in its not the 21centry more like the stone age like that fairy land in kentucky bedrock where the flintstones live
2007-10-14 12:11:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
As long as we fundamentalists believe the earth is flat, we are safe.
2007-10-14 12:07:28 · answer #9 · answered by americanhero_aa 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Here here, Why can't the elders just come out and say "God created evolution" end of story.
2007-10-14 12:07:17 · answer #10 · answered by goatslunch 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋