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Does believing Genesis is wrong make me a bad Christian?

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The succession is based on morphological features and temporal locality. You don't have to witness a skeleton giving birth to another skeleton to recognize succession

Just as there is a succession of colors in a rainbow, birth isn't necessary in the equation for the sequence to be observed.

So the question then becomes, what is the best explanation for this sequence of fossils.

Based on this logic, you would find a car with a computer and electronics within it, find the same in a plane. You would say that they are related and evolved from the computer...
 
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The bible says they will bring forth after their own kind.
Genesis 1:24 “And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.”

Show me the proof that anything breads forth NOT after their own kind. 0 evidence of this. Except pictures of dead bones with lines between them.

Lucy is a big hoax. If you seriously believe that a couple of bones like this is the missing link, that's wild in my opinion. Some of the bones are not from this species apparently.
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. This is Lucy . Simply because they have her right thigh bone and most of her right shin . That means they know what both legs looked like . The same with her pelvis . There are a lot of other Australopithecus afarensis fossils including skulls ,faces and feet . So we know what the species tended to look like even if we don’t have Lucy’s face and skull. But you creationists are never told about the other fossils which is fairly typical of creationist disinformation. Or the other fossil species and it’s not JUST THE FOSSILS. We have a lot of other information that screams out common descent especially that DNA
 
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The world demands a natural explanation that doesn't involve God, they reject God.
I’m not rejecting God . Lying about God’s creation the way creationists do, seems like blasphemy to me
 
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. This is Lucy . Simply because they have her right thigh bone and most of her right shin . That means they know what both legs looked like . The same with her pelvis . There are a lot of other Australopithecus afarensis fossils including skulls ,faces and feet . So we know what the species tended to look like even if we don’t have Lucy’s face and skull. But you creationists are never told about the other fossils which is fairly typical of creationist disinformation. Or the other fossil species and it’s not JUST THE FOSSILS. We have a lot of other information that screams out common descent especially that DNA

You mean common design.
 
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I’m not rejecting God . Lying about God’s creation the way creationists do, seems like blasphemy to me

So the bible is lying then? Or right it's all symbolic. God gave all the comple details of ancestry from Adam to Jesus with ages just for fun? The ages of every first born given just for symbolism?
 
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Evolutionists never contaminated me. The word "human" means the kind of animal we are. It is biological and has nothing to do with the spirit and soul within us.

You are hung up on the idea that just because a spirit and soul are within us, what makes people human can't possibly be a physical thing. That is DEAD WRONG.

Our bodies defines just that, our bodies, your person is spiritual. What makes us humans and wishes to live a nice day and hopes for the best for example is not your in your brain, its your spiritual part.
 
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So the bible is lying then? Or right it's all symbolic. God gave all the comple details of ancestry of Adam with ages just for fun? The ages of every first born given just for symbolism?

It even links to the ancestor of Jesus to Jesus himself, i wonder if some of these are doubting the gospels too because you know they are lying even about the birth of Jesus in their mind... just because of evolution? God created the universe you can't get more "over the top" thing like this, but christians agree with evolutionists even if they say evolution alone can make a human without the need for God at all.

However is critical we get to know Jesus is alive after living in this earth.
 
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So the bible is lying then? Or right it's all symbolic. God gave all the comple details of ancestry of Adam with ages just for fun? The ages of every first born given just for symbolism?
God created natural phenomena.mainstream Scientists just report what they find . Creationists lie about what scientists find because they’re so committed to a story that they think is a history. Why lie about scientific findings ? Aren’t we Christians forbidden to lie. Isn’t Satan the father of lies . That why I consider creationist behavior to be blasphemous
 
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I’m not rejecting God . Lying about God’s creation the way creationists do, seems like blasphemy to me

Creationist = someone that believes God made the universe, and handcrafted us humans to be like he planned? too crazy for you?
 
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God created natural phenomena.mainstream Scientists just report what they find . Creationists lie about what scientists find because they’re so committed to a story that they think is a history. Why lie about scientific findings ? Aren’t we Christians forbidden to lie. Isn’t Satan the father of lies . That why I consider creationist behavior to be blasphemous

Explain to me why all the ages from Adam to Jesus is for? Why would each day would be very clear to be very specifically saying evening and morning?

You ignore the questions, I believe you are lying not the bible.
 
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I’m not rejecting God . Lying about God’s creation the way creationists do, seems like blasphemy to me

Its what the world fed you up to believe, and they reject God. They need a naturalistic explanation badly. They ignore death is not the end, and that is what is most important anyway for people is to know Jesus, you need to assume a lot of wacky stuff with evolution, like animals were stripped out of their minds, and God placed within one generation souls and spirits, that is almost a different gospel in my view, because WE have a human soul and spirit.
 
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Of course evolution is provable. Of course nothing proves God nor what he said he did. That's how it's supposed to be. Nature and scripture is a testimony of God, not a proof. We don't believe God on the evidence. We believe him on our faith and trust. Evidence points away from him which it is supposed to do. Faith and trust is a bridge we walk over alone. Nothing else will help us or support us or walk with us. We do it alone. Therein is the value and validation of it. The Jews said show us a sign. Well, you've got your signs. Plenty of them. So then go believe them and to hell with the testimony. That's what they're there for.
 
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Explain to me why all the ages from Adam to Jesus is for? Why would each day would be very clear to be very specifically saying evening and morning?

You ignore the questions, I believe you are lying not the bible.

In earth age, i have my doubts, i have lots of reasons to not believe in evolution, but about the age, my mind is at more easy thinking is old, and just because there is a little passage that *could* be interpreted as something different, i seem not to get convinced, but i don't know for certain, but about evolution i have very strong opinions. I mean it seems the earth IS OLD!.
 
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Its what the world fed you up to believe, and they reject God. They need a naturalistic explanation badly. They ignore death is not the end, and that is what is most important anyway for people is to know Jesus, you need to assume a lot of wacky stuff with evolution, like animals were stripped out of their minds, and God placed within one generation souls and spirits, that is almost a different gospel in my view, because WE have a human soul and spirit.
animals don’t have minds ? Obviously you never paid attention to your dog
 
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animals don’t have minds ? Obviously you never paid attention to your dog

i was saying that if evolution were to be true, then the 'monkeys' evolved until God stripped the 'monkeys' apes whatever of their minds and replaced them with humans souls and a spirit, or christians evolutionists suggest our spiritual soul evolved too?
 
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So the bible is lying then? Or right it's all symbolic. God gave all the comple details of ancestry from Adam to Jesus with ages just for fun? The ages of every first born given just for symbolism?
No. If the author of Genesis intended the account to be historical (and I’m not entirely convinced), he didn’t know better. That’s not lying. Lying is when you do know.
 
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Humans are biologically apes.

Being made in the image of God has nothing to do with where homo sapiens is on taxonomic charts. As a human, you are just that - human.

There weren't any taxonomic charts when God created living beings. He created them male and female after their own kind ... and mankind was created after animals ... and were created from the dust of the earth (not from any of the animals).

Just because man classifies humans within a "primate family" .... does not mean we evolved from the ape family.
 
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No. If the author of Genesis intended the account to be historical (and I’m not entirely convinced), he didn’t know better. That’s not lying. Lying is when you do know.

And the genealogies to Jesus? they knew better there, since its something specific, they lied then? made things up to make the gospel look better?
 
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Based on this logic, you would find a car with a computer and electronics within it, find the same in a plane. You would say that they are related and evolved from the computer...

This doesn't address the succession.

The succession is based on morphological features and temporal locality. You don't have to witness a skeleton giving birth to another skeleton to recognize succession

Just as there is a succession of colors in a rainbow, birth isn't necessary for a sequence to be observed.

So the question then becomes, what is the best explanation for this sequence of fossils.
 
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