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MB, both your post and signature are good questions that I ask myself. And to be perfectly honest, my answer to both is "I don't know." But I'll keep working at them.
In the meantime, thanks for bringing up these important questions, and keep up the good work!
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Originally Posted by MemeBuster
What role exactly did/does god play in theistic evolutionary to bring life about on Earth?
MB.
No more than any other imaginary being.
We can imagine anything we like, that's why we have developed imaginations,
Gods exist for us because we are the only animals with sufficient imagination. (extremely necessary for some)
God is just a name we have given to cover something that acts like a comfort blanket, or a catchall,
as we progress and know more, life will become more and more complicated for some,
so God will feature less and less for some, and more and more for others,
like now, if people are unable or unwilling to understand something (creationists) they bring in a God to explain it away,
there will always be people who want to know, and others more willing to take the easy way out.
Plus the fact, death is the one thing we will never be able to find out about, (experience) so a God will always feature there,
and it will haunt humans until they become extinct, or the earth is destroyed, whichever happens first,
and it's all down to our imaginations, without our imaginations, we would happily be born, breed and die,
just like all the other animals, and to stay away from death would be instinctive, not something to make plans for.
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What role exactly did/does god play in theistic evolutionary to bring life about on Earth?
None, why would He have to play a role?
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Did God guide evolution? Did God set it off and take a hands off approach?
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Originally Posted by Washington
That's what's neat about Christianity, it's so incredibly diverse in its interpretation of the truth that no matter what you come up with there'll be a crowd of people who agree with you. The Christian truth is whatever you decided it to be. That's why there are 38,000 Christian denominations in the world. (source)
Honestly, that's what scares me the most. Who's right and why?
Honestly, that's what scares me the most. Who's right and why?
Thanks for the source washington
Well, before I personally can really debate with you, you've got to be sola scriptura at least.
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