Where, in the new testament, does evolution contradict the teachings of Christ? I've read his teachings about brotherly love and forgiveness and all. How does evolution change any of that?
2007-11-12 13:57:15 · 14 answers · asked by phil8656 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There is no contradiction between creation, jesus, and evolution.
2007-11-12 14:00:33 · answer #1 · answered by paula r 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
it only changes the nature of life not the morality of love . And you might ask how does Jesus Christ change the same ideal spouted before his birth by confucious or Buddha or the hamurabi code . Evolution could have been incorporated into Christ's paradigm as an acknowledgment but this information couldn't exist till science had enough information to theorize it . there are some schools of thought that the deity of Christ was injected by others after the fact anyway.
2007-11-12 22:07:39 · answer #2 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Jesus often quoted the Old Testament Scriptures. He believed they were not stories but true accounts of what has happened in the past including creation. Jesus didn't believe in evolution (because the world was created through Christ). So who would know better than the very one of whom the world was created by?
2007-11-12 22:04:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Evolution puts into question your origin and purpose in life. The bible says man was created in the image and likeness of God, which means we have a spirit that enjoys (ought to) fellowship with the creator, with one another, and with creation. Sin changed all that.
Evolution says that we came into being by random selection - by chance. Evolution says we enjoyed the same origin tract as that of other primates and animals. It implies we have the same purpose as theirs.
Jesus taught us the we are to become co-heirs in the kingdom of God for all eternity. After the rapture, we are to receive the crown of life. That is God's purpose from the very beginning - something evolution will never consider.
2007-11-12 22:08:57 · answer #4 · answered by paulyaranon007 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you understand evolution it is a science based upon a chance system. Evolutionist teach that all life came from single cell organisms which developed into their current complexities over time purely by chance. They have yet to tell us where this single cell organism came from. In education the sciences teach our children that the final reality is 'impersonal'. But the bible teaches that all came from an infinite personal creator God. All the sciences begin in the chance section because they all reject the notion of absolutes. Once absolutes are gone certainty of knowledge is not possible. In Chemistry they have reduced humanity to the DNA template and astronomy and physics have reduced us to matter in some shape or form which like evolution developed into what we see purely by chance. Darwin said that he could not believe that everything he could see came about by chance. But he said he had a mind of a monkey and who can trust a monkeys mind. But he trusted hi monkey mind enough to believe and communicate his chance system ideas. Early science was framed on the Judeo Christian tradition if you read Oppenheimer and Oliver North Whitehead the mathematician. But science today has rejected the notion of absolutes which means they understand that science is essentially guess work based on observation. Despite all this science holds the field in the intellectual arena despite have no reason for doing so. Without absolutes certainty of anything is never possible. So in the sciences, there is not a single living soul, despite our own observations about ourselves.
2007-11-12 22:13:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hebrews 1 - Jesus is the Creator
John 1 - Jesus was in the beginning and is the Creator
If God does not exist, if He cannot Speak the worlds into existence, then how can He have the power to Save or Raise one from the dead?
2007-11-12 22:08:09 · answer #6 · answered by realchurchhistorian 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't.
But a careful study of the New Testament is likely to convince you that the story of Adam and Eve is universal, and is more about the struggle of every human being than it is about one primordial couple.
2007-11-12 22:00:49 · answer #7 · answered by NONAME 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
You are right, it doesn't mess up Jesus' teachings, just the rest of the Bible...that is what gets Christians undershorts all up in a bundle usually...
2007-11-12 22:02:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
Evolution is the original "unsolved mystery" and none of us will be alive for the resolution.
2007-11-12 23:27:00 · answer #9 · answered by syviegirl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
most people who embrace the Old Testament have no clue what Jesus was about
2007-11-12 21:59:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋