If evolution was outlined in the bible would you consider it then?

Question

Ever stop to think that evolution did occur yet "God's time of 7 days" is really a span of millions of years?

Lord...ever heard of a metaphor?

Answer 1

yes. i have thought about that. Honestly, I don't see why a person can't believe in both (creation and evolution).
Isn't it curious how the order in which God creates things in Genesis is the same order which evolution says they evolved?

Plants
Sea life
Animals
and finally Humans!

The creation of the cosmos (according to Genesis) also closely parallels the scientific explanation) - God first creates light - a "Big Bang" type phenomenon. Then "time" comes into existence (described as "day & night") Then the elements (described as "water"), Then the planets ("dry land") then eventualy, life starts evolving (as i described above).

Admittedly, some of the wording in the translations we're familiar with are a bit ambigeous, however, I believe if you can read between the lines you'll see that the bible and science are not that far off from eachother.

People (from both sides) tend to be so reactionary that they refuse to see the other side objectively.

Answer 2

Evolution and biblical creationism are contradictory. You cannot remain intellectually honest and logically accept both as true. Both cannot be true -- evolution denies the very idea of a creator God. A couple points to think about: 1) we are told in the bible that death entered the world as a result of Adam's sin. Evolution requires the death of many to advance a few. God cannot contradict or act against His nature. Sin is defined as disobedience to God. Therefore, evolution cannot possibly be the method God used for creation.
2) The book of Genesis is not metaphor nor allegory. The style of writing is not poetic, although it does have a certain amount of poetry. Nor is Genesis written as parable. Whenever Jesus used a parable, He introduced it as such. There is no such introduction or anything within the text that would indicate Genesis is to be understood as a parable. Genesis is filled with meticulous details and written as a record of authentic historical fact. Evidence for this exists within the book of Genesis, itself, within the rest of the bible, and the acceptance of Genesis as a literal, historic record by Hebrew scholars. So, if Genesis is to be interpreted literally, then the act of creation took a period of 6 24-hour days, followed by a day in which God rested from creation. Furthermore, the 6 day period of creation followed by the day of rest modelled the plan for God's chosen people to work 6 days with 1 day of rest. Read Exodus 31:12-17. The intended audience would have understood this to be a 7 day creation period, not some metaphor for millions of years.

Answer 3

The Bible is all about God our Creator and Jesus Christ our Lord Savior.
Although, I do wonder if evolution did occur, could it be possible that Satan created evolution to have his own species to fight and dispute with God creatures.
I don't know, but that is one theory I'm still debating.
Could it be that God created man with His seed and the evolution man was created with no seed and makes them the unbelievers?
Just a crazy theory.

GOD BLESS! AMEN! SHALOM!

Answer 4

Funny you should mention this because it is talked about in the Bible...read 2 Peter 3:5 and 6

And no God's time of 7 days was 7 literal days...He even went on to explain that a day was evening and morning for those who might get confused.

Answer 5

I don't believe that Genesis is a literal creation account in any way, shape or form. It is a metaphysical allegory that was never intended to reflect a historical account, and which was probably never understood in a literal sense by the original audience. It took centuries for people to loose the original context of the book and adopt a literal reading. Even as late as the first few centuries of the Christian era, theologians did not interpret the passage literally. The birth of Creationism as a wide-spread belief did not appear until the counter-Reformation.

Answer 6

If the 7 days of creation was a span of million years, how old was Adam before he died again? (I thought Adam died at the age of 900+, but if the 7 days of creation were a span of million years, Adam would be err....do the math for yourself.)

Answer 7

I don't think it's possible to reconcile evolution with the Genesis account of Creation. You can believe one or the other, but I don't see how you can believe both. Evolution just doesn't fit into Genesis, no matter how hard you try to make it fit.

Answer 8

God made a person from a rib,... that is not evolution.

If its a span of millions of years he could say so.....
People who follow the bible don't follow all of it since in contradicts it self. So it would help if it was there but it still would not prove God in any way.

Answer 9

I actually have no problem with that... or... maybe the earth actually existed in some form before Genesis 1 began
...."and the earth was without form and void and darkness was on the face of the deep."

Answer 10

Matthew 13:12 "For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath."

if not for the context, this could be a rough description of natural selection. some may even choose to interpret it that way, showing that one can use the bible to support almost any viewpoint.