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Does the Bible address the concept of Evolution?

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Followers4christ said:
Very simple because the bible was made by God and God said He created earth/universe/man and woman.So if i say evoltion is true im calling God a liar.GOD bless


GENESIS 1:1" In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."

No. Your interpetation of what the Bible says said that, not God. You aren't placing your faith in God, your placing it in yourself, and assuming that you have the correct interpetation in blind defience of the evidence in God's creation.
 
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Followers4christ said:
Very simple because the bible was made by God and God said He created earth/universe/man and woman.So if i say evoltion is true im calling God a liar.GOD bless


GENESIS 1:1" In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."

Evolution is how God made man and woman, although it is not about how He created the universe. It does not address the question of whether He did it. You seem to be under the impression that evolution says that God did not create humanity; it says no such thing.
 
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No im under the impression that you guys claim we evolved from animals which would go against the bible.God bless


GENESIS 1:26"Then God said,"Let us make man in our image, in our likeness.and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock,over all the earth.and over all the creatures that move along the ground."



GENESIS 1:27"So God created man in his image,in the image of God he created him;male and female he created them"



GENESIS 1:25" God made all sorts of wild animals,livestock,small animals,each able to reproduce more of its own kind.And God saw that it was good."

 
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No im under the impression that you guys claim we evolved from animals which would go against the bible.

Humans are animals. Your parents were humans. You are geneticly different from your parents. Evolution has taken place.

What the bible says is great and all when it comes to salvation and whatnot, but when it comes to biological classifcations, I'll trust the biologists.
 
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Which is all a theological statement about why we are here and our place in Creation, and you are treating it as a scientific statement about how we were made. Which is rather like taking the OT dietary laws and using them to replace all your cookery books. It completely misses the point and ends up in disaster.
 
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None of these quotes contradicts evolution. It merely elucidates how God did these things.

You're still labouring under the misapprehension that if something evolved, it wasn't created.
 
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So you believe the bible as long as it talks about your salvation like
Romans 10:9"That if you confess with your mouth Jesus is lord and believe in your heart that GOD raised him from the dead you will be saved."

But you dont believe that God didnt create you?? so you believe the scriptures you like but the sciptures you dont like isn't true???This is a question not an attack.GOD Bless
 
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A great analogy is the 'cabin' story.



So whats going to tell you the most about the cabin?

The cabin or the diary?
 
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I don't beleive in the bible, so the point is moot.

so you believe the scriptures you like but the sciptures you dont like isn't true???This is a question not an attack.GOD Bless

Well, do you?

Are bats birds?
Are there insects with 4 legs?
Do hares/rabbits chew the cud?

Like it or not, everyone believes the scripture they agree with, and ignore those they don't.
 
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Karl - Liberal Backslider said:
None of these quotes contradicts evolution. It merely elucidates how God did these things.

You're still labouring under the misapprehension that if something evolved, it wasn't created.


So if God made us in his image,then how can you say we just evolved???If God created us in his image then the evolutionest
theory has to be wrong (or your saying God was a animal.).GOD Bless
 
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Followers4christ said:
So if God made us in his image,then how can you say we just evolved???If God created us in his image then the evolutionest
theory has to be wrong (or your saying God was a animal.).GOD Bless

The 'image' in which we are created is not a physical one ... unless you believe God actually has a body. The image in which we are created has more to do with our spirit. Perhaps ALL of Genisis is a spiritual truth rather than a merely historical one.
 
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Followers4christ said:
So if God made us in his image,then how can you say we just evolved???If God created us in his image then the evolutionest
theory has to be wrong (or your saying God was a animal.).GOD Bless
Think about what you are saying for a minute. We are made in His image, not neccessarly every one of our ancestors. What do you think "in His image" means anyway?
 
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God's spiritual image is one of perfection -- perfect knowledge, perfect foresight, completely sinless nature, pure love and ultimate justice, (though the Bible clearly shows otherwise).

Man's spiritual image is one of the complete absense of perfection, imperfect knowledge and imperfect memory, a complete inability to be sinless, corruptible love, flawed images and exercise of justice.

Where does this God-like image apply? From my point of view, it appears more like opposite images.
 
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Followers4christ said:
So if God made us in his image,then how can you say we just evolved???If God created us in his image then the evolutionest
theory has to be wrong (or your saying God was a animal.).GOD Bless

No. I don't see why you'd think that. Evolution does not say we were made by an animal. It doesn't say who we were made by; that role can be givent o God if our theology so dictates.

Why is it not possible for God to create us in His image (which must be a spiritual, not a physical image, for God is spirit, not flesh and blood) via an evolutionary process?
 
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Im not treating the bible like a scientific book. the Bible is above all books written by flawed man.God made the Bible it is our past and it tells us our future.It tells us about our Lord Jesus Christ.The Bible is on earth for a reason not to just say i believe this part about Jesus died and rised for our sins but dont believe this part of the bible because it conflicts with sicence.How can you believe one part of the Bible and not the other???This is a question not an attack.GOD Bless
 
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Perfectly valid questions but unfortuneately a fair bit off topic. I'd be happy to address them in GA.
 
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in potentio. We have the potential to aspire to reflect this image properly, but are nowhere near actually doing so.
 
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Followers4christ said:
Im not treating the bible like a scientific book.

But you are. You are treating the origin myth (look up the anthropological definition of myth before attacking on this one, please) as if it were a scientific account.

the Bible is above all books written by flawed man.God made the Bible it is our past and it tells us our future.

Whoa. God made the Bible? There has been a strange phenomenon in the last few decades where people seem to view the Bible the same way as Muslims view the Koran, but it's not the historic view of it.


But none of the Christians here are saying they don't believe Genesis 1. They are just saying they don't interpret it the modernist-literalist way that you do, because it's not a modernist-literalist document, dating from thousands of years before modernism.
 
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Im not treating the bible like a scientific book. the Bible is above all books written by flawed man.

The bible is a collection of books that agreed with each other. Last time I checked that was supposed to be one of its strengths.


Because those different parts were written by different people at different times?
Can you honestly say you believe every word in the bible?
 
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