I agree. I do not believe in evolution. It would take a long time to go into all the reasons why, but on the subject of Christians saying evolution and the Bible aren't at odds and that it's not that big of a deal...
If evolution's true, then there was death before Adam sinned, which makes the Genesis account not true. And Jesus references the Genesis account as being true, which would make Him fallible.
I don't think some Christians realize how much of a theological foundation the first 3 Genesis chapters are. Paul references it constantly "As one man sinned (Adam) and death entered the world.... etc.
So yeah, I'm highly suspect of this article. Scientists often count their chickens before they hatch especially in out there things like this that don't have much of a chance of success. If their experiment does 0.1% of what they hope it does, they'll still call a breakthrough early, either for headlines, or whatever. Most of what they claim, when you look deeper into it, it's often a big heap of nothing. Lions and Tigers mate and their offspring is infertile, unable to reproduce, yet they're trying to make it like humans and monkeys can have some chimera/hybrid thing. At least the lions and tigers are both animals.
The Bible is clear we are different than animals. Man are in a different category altogether from animals.
There's people who are Christian and are going to heaven who have bad views.
The one view that is the deciding factor is whether Jesus died for your sins and you trust him for the forgiveness of your sins.
When we die, every single one of us will have areas where our theology is bad, or we think something's the case that isn't for a variety of reasons.
No one dies with perfect theology. I find Catholoicism has a lot of screwed up beliefs, but I think there will be Catholics in heaven who ultimately trusted in Jesus for salvation, in spite of the tenents of catholicism.
Likewise I think there will be Christians in heaven who believed in evolution because they trusted in Jesus for the forgiveness of their sins, in spite of having a false view when it comes to our origin.
I agree that it's weird how a certain demographic of Christians are believers in evolution, and how they can't see it as a way bigger deal in terms of the Bible than it is. It seems like one of those things where if you reject the part of the Bible about how we were created, then why would you accept other parts of the Bible? Either it's God speaking His infallible word and will to us or it's not....It can't be 50/50. I think it's dangerous to believe in evolution, because it has led people astray, and is at odds with God's word even if it didn't. Those guys on youtube, Rhett and Link, their apostasy pretty much started from believing in evolution, and thinking that was more concrete than God's word. I heard them talk about it on their podcast (though as you could guess they didn't call it apostasy).
I agree. I do not believe in evolution. It would take a long time to go into all the reasons why, but on the subject of Christians saying evolution and the Bible aren't at odds and that it's not that big of a deal...
If evolution's true, then there was death before Adam sinned, which makes the Genesis account not true. And Jesus references the Genesis account as being true, which would make Him fallible.
I don't think some Christians realize how much of a theological foundation the first 3 Genesis chapters are. Paul references it constantly "As one man sinned (Adam) and death entered the world.... etc.
So yeah, I'm highly suspect of this article. Scientists often count their chickens before they hatch especially in out there things like this that don't have much of a chance of success. If their experiment does 0.1% of what they hope it does, they'll still call a breakthrough early, either for headlines, or whatever. Most of what they claim, when you look deeper into it, it's often a big heap of nothing. Lions and Tigers mate and their offspring is infertile, unable to reproduce, yet they're trying to make it like humans and monkeys can have some chimera/hybrid thing. At least the lions and tigers are both animals.
The Bible is clear we are different than animals. Man are in a different category altogether from animals.
"some Christians say evolution and the Bible aren't at odds and it's not a big deal." Can't be a Christian when you believe you're God. Scoffers.
Explain?
You're saying all the Christians who believe in evolution believe they're God?
Or just the scientists doing things like this?
I was speaking more broadly on the issue of believing in evolution as a Christian generally.
If you believe in evolution you deny God. You can't be a Christian and deny God.
I wouldn't be as black and white there.
There's people who are Christian and are going to heaven who have bad views.
The one view that is the deciding factor is whether Jesus died for your sins and you trust him for the forgiveness of your sins.
When we die, every single one of us will have areas where our theology is bad, or we think something's the case that isn't for a variety of reasons.
No one dies with perfect theology. I find Catholoicism has a lot of screwed up beliefs, but I think there will be Catholics in heaven who ultimately trusted in Jesus for salvation, in spite of the tenents of catholicism.
Likewise I think there will be Christians in heaven who believed in evolution because they trusted in Jesus for the forgiveness of their sins, in spite of having a false view when it comes to our origin.
I agree that it's weird how a certain demographic of Christians are believers in evolution, and how they can't see it as a way bigger deal in terms of the Bible than it is. It seems like one of those things where if you reject the part of the Bible about how we were created, then why would you accept other parts of the Bible? Either it's God speaking His infallible word and will to us or it's not....It can't be 50/50. I think it's dangerous to believe in evolution, because it has led people astray, and is at odds with God's word even if it didn't. Those guys on youtube, Rhett and Link, their apostasy pretty much started from believing in evolution, and thinking that was more concrete than God's word. I heard them talk about it on their podcast (though as you could guess they didn't call it apostasy).