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Seeing that everything that has been made was made by Jesus, then I guess He would have something to do with how the universe and our world came into being. Have a look at Chuck Missler's Genesis Commentary. It is a real eye opener.
The key is that it was the way God chose to do things. But Jesus never discussed how He did it. Evolution just happens to be the way it works; we see that going on around us constantly.
A commentary on Genesis by a man who does not know even the first three letters of the Hebrew alphabet! What a gross absurdity!
It's basically the next best guess if one doesn't want to accept the six day creation as described in Genesis 1-3.
Seeing that according to the Bible, Jesus, as the pre-incarnate Son of God created it all, I would think that as the designer and creator He would be the best authority.
In the middle of Genesis 1:1 in Hebrew there is a small two letter group that wasn't translated. They are the first and last letters of the alphabet. It is a code to say that the first and last were involved in the creation of the world. In John 1:1, there is the same untranslated group of Greek letters (alpha and omega) that also stands for the first and last. Jesus is described as the Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last. He was the first Adam and the last Adam. This "code" in Genesis 1:1, linking with John 1:1, clearly validates that Jesus Christ is responsible for the creation of the world.
I think you have a very limited view of who Jesus really was and is. There are ample references in the Gospels that show that Jesus was not only a real human, but He was God as well. Only God could still a storm, walk on water, knew the thoughts of people, fed 5000 people with a child's lunch on two occasions, cast out a legion of demons. No one since the ascension of Christ has been able to do those things. Only God could say, "Before Abraham was, I AM", being the same "I AM" who spoke out of the burning bush to Moses. Jesus showed He was God when He was transfigured before John, Peter, and James on the mount of transfiguration, and met with Elijah and Moses. So to say that Jesus was just a finite human shows that you need to do your homework in the Scriptures to see who Jesus really is.
Sounds like the hyper Charismatic doctrine that teaches that Jesus was just an ordinary human being empowered by the Holy Spirit. This gives the impression that we can do exactly the same things He did through the power of the Holy Spirit. The problem is that with Kenneth Copeland, Benny Hinn, and Creflo Dollar who teach the doctrine, they have not achieved anything more than just speech making about it. They have not achieved any of the minor miracles that Jesus did let alone the greater works they say they can do.
Sounds like the hyper Charismatic doctrine that teaches that Jesus was just an ordinary human being empowered by the Holy Spirit. This gives the impression that we can do exactly the same things He did through the power of the Holy Spirit. The problem is that with Kenneth Copeland, Benny Hinn, and Creflo Dollar who teach the doctrine, they have not achieved anything more than just speech making about it. They have not achieved any of the minor miracles that Jesus did let alone the greater works they say they can do.
I'd better stop now before I get my rear end kicked for getting so far off topic!
If Jesus was not God, He would have been a lunatic if He didn't know whether He was or not. If He knew He wasn't God He would have been a liar.
The Bible is not a toy to be played with or abused.
I'll concede that the two letter group doesn't appear in John 1:1. I'm not sure what source Chuck Missler used. However, he included quite a number of items of valid evidence to show that the Bible is the product of design from a source outside of our physical universe. That is the point I am making - that the Bible is all about Jesus Christ and unless we see that, the Bible is basically meaningless.
How could a mature Christian possibly make such an obviously wrong mistake! And what did Chuck Missler have to do with any of this? He never earned any kind of a degree in any field of study having to do with the Bible, and he never wrote anything of sufficient quality or value to have it published by a Christian publishing house. Therefore, the junk that he wrote is published by a Christian ministry (Koinonia House) that he founded and led for many years.
I have an MA in literature, so know about the different genres of literature. My view of Genesis 1-11 is historical narrative. It does not have the characteristic of epic tales, sagas, myths or legends. In fact the whole of Genesis is a complete stream of historical narrative, describing real people and events. Jesus spoke of Adam and Eve as real people. There are genealogies that clearly show when definite people were born and died, right up to Noah. These were all real people in history. myth and legend does not describe people and events in that way.
A “very comprehensive research based on Scripture?” Chuck Missler didn’t even know as much as the first three letters of the Hebrew and he apparently never even read an academic translation of the Bible but relied upon the KJV. Moreover, he is never cited in any academic literature. Outside of Koinonia House and its tight-knit followers, he is an unknown.
