Hi there,
So there is a bit of a bind here. I have tried to describe as exactly as I can what it is that vexes me about the whole Creation/Evolution thing: Jesus can guarantee Resurrection, but Evolution can't guarantee Jesus. There is a major problem here, right? I mean I am not ultimately going to wait for Evolution, unless it can guarantee Jesus. I need Jesus, without Jesus there is no "resurrection" and without "resurrection" there is no power to Word. No power to word, no point to Evolution.
Do you see the connections, there? This is about being honest about what God created with His Creating Jesus - it wasn't an accident, it wasn't less than was expected. It was about God caring about all of our being created, in no sense was it an adaptation, fundamentally - it was His Son! The love of God was poured out on us, because we believed we had nothing that we could answer the Love of God, with!! When Jesus heard and heeded the Word of God, He was putting into effect something far greater than Evolution. He was putting into effect, the ability to command the entire genomic family of Creation. It wasn't some Evolution, some Creation, it was completely "Creation". What happened on the cross, you could argue was partly Evolution - but not less completely "Creation", Creation was moreso (at the cross).
Everything that was moreso at the cross, was ours. Creation was moreso, Creation was ours. This is the beginning of Salvation, it has a point. We can now tell, when something has begun to Evolve, to a point, that either may or may not be granted, as part of the inheritance of the faithful of Jesus Christ. We can say "this I will accept, not that" "that I will accept and that and that again" - as Jesus said "Whatever you bind in Heaven will be bound on Earth, whatever you loose in Heaven will be loose on Earth". This is not some philosophy open to the wind! It is a command, which means we have very real decisions to make, about what we will accept and what we cannot.
There is promise in this, that if we do well, it will go well with us - that our children will inherit what is good, in us, that our people will not die out, that our leaders will have surpassing strength: all good things, for those that love the Lord. Working because His faith works in us! You can be blessed or you can be cursed: this is the creed of the faithful who do not admit blind leadership in an Evolution, that may never find its foundation, in anything that will justify it. Words can be abused, the argument here is that it simply has to be demonstrated that the word preempts something that is desired - if you can show me that, you have shown me everything (in principle).
I hope you are feeling constructive!
So there is a bit of a bind here. I have tried to describe as exactly as I can what it is that vexes me about the whole Creation/Evolution thing: Jesus can guarantee Resurrection, but Evolution can't guarantee Jesus. There is a major problem here, right? I mean I am not ultimately going to wait for Evolution, unless it can guarantee Jesus. I need Jesus, without Jesus there is no "resurrection" and without "resurrection" there is no power to Word. No power to word, no point to Evolution.
Do you see the connections, there? This is about being honest about what God created with His Creating Jesus - it wasn't an accident, it wasn't less than was expected. It was about God caring about all of our being created, in no sense was it an adaptation, fundamentally - it was His Son! The love of God was poured out on us, because we believed we had nothing that we could answer the Love of God, with!! When Jesus heard and heeded the Word of God, He was putting into effect something far greater than Evolution. He was putting into effect, the ability to command the entire genomic family of Creation. It wasn't some Evolution, some Creation, it was completely "Creation". What happened on the cross, you could argue was partly Evolution - but not less completely "Creation", Creation was moreso (at the cross).
Everything that was moreso at the cross, was ours. Creation was moreso, Creation was ours. This is the beginning of Salvation, it has a point. We can now tell, when something has begun to Evolve, to a point, that either may or may not be granted, as part of the inheritance of the faithful of Jesus Christ. We can say "this I will accept, not that" "that I will accept and that and that again" - as Jesus said "Whatever you bind in Heaven will be bound on Earth, whatever you loose in Heaven will be loose on Earth". This is not some philosophy open to the wind! It is a command, which means we have very real decisions to make, about what we will accept and what we cannot.
There is promise in this, that if we do well, it will go well with us - that our children will inherit what is good, in us, that our people will not die out, that our leaders will have surpassing strength: all good things, for those that love the Lord. Working because His faith works in us! You can be blessed or you can be cursed: this is the creed of the faithful who do not admit blind leadership in an Evolution, that may never find its foundation, in anything that will justify it. Words can be abused, the argument here is that it simply has to be demonstrated that the word preempts something that is desired - if you can show me that, you have shown me everything (in principle).
I hope you are feeling constructive!
