KOFHY:
Hi mr mhess,
You do a good job in opposing evolution.
However, you take for granted a number of vaguely defined and perhaps not really understood bible concepts.
People think they understand them, though they must define them surrealistically and in the unreal metaphysics long with religion.
To answer your arguments, many of these basic concepts must be specifically stated.
mhess13:
Evolution is not compatible with the Bible.
KOFHY:
Yes it is.
mhess13:
There could not have been millions of years of death before sin.
KOFHY:
Sin?
You do not define this.
I assume you refer to the original sin, which was something unique with the evolution of man, Adam.
mhess13:
Rom 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.
KOFHY:
Theistic Evolutionists understand sin as inherent in the devrlopment of Free Will which was the by-product of the evolution of Consciousness. Specifically, human Consciousness, 24/7.
mhess13:
MAN introduced death into the world because of sin.
KOFHY:
First, nothing alive today was ever dead.
The division of already existing protoplasm, through mitosis/miosis merely multiplies and produces replicas of the "parent" organism.
Second, death is a concept, and Human Consciousness "manufactured" the concept, one not present in other life forms. All life is a flower on the genetic vine, and from the pool of the human genome, our recreation is promised and rationally possible.
mhess13:
Rom 5:14 Nevertheless death (as a concept) reigned from Adam (the first conscious humanoid) to Moses, (Modern Homo sapiens) even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, (selfishness), who is the figure of him that was to come, (the unselfish shepherd who lays down his life for us).
Parenthesis added to make the point:
mhess13:
If evolution is true, slow gradual changes over millions of years of death brought man into the world.
KOFHY:
Seems to follow clearly from above.
mhess13:
The Bible and evolution are teaching 2 different things. Note that the Bible calls death an enemy.
KOFHY:
No way!
Evolution and what you interpret from the text of the bible, you mean. mEvolution IS totally supported by scripture.
mhess13:
1Co 15:26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
KOFHY:
ABSOLUTELY!
The next ebolution will be Total Consciousness!
In our phylofenetic memory we have ALL of the history of our species locked up today in the Unconscious Mind:
Jung said, "the form of the world into which a person is born is already inborn in him, as a virtual image." (Jung, 1953, pg. 188)
The Collective Unconscious then contains the entire catalog of experiences that have marked human evolution, and it is repeated in the brain of every human being in every generation.
mhess13:
When reading 1COR15 you can clearly see that PHYSICAL death is being discussed and it is described as an enemy that Christ has defeated through his resurrection.
KOFHY:
ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!
Theistic Evolutionists read 1Co 15 like this:
1Corinthians 15:20-24[/b]
"But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep (in the facility of their Unconscious Mind). For since by a man came death (in partial and premature consciousness), by a man also came the (first) resurrection of the dead (or sleeping world of phylogenetic memory). For as in Adam, (partial consciousness), all (previous phylogenetic memories) die, so also in Christ all will be made (awakened), alive. But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits (of awakened Conscience), after that those who are (awakened to the same Conscience as) Christ's at His coming, (true Christians, Homoiousian sapiens), then comes the end, when He hands over the kingdom (of mind within) to the God and Father (imaged in the trinity of our Conscious Mind, Subconscious Mind, and Unconscious Mind), when He has abolished (the in the Free Will of the Conscious Mind) all rule and all authority and power." - 1Corinthians 15:20-24
mhess13:
So then you cannot have death in the world (as evolution teaches) millions of years before Adam's sin. BOTH EVOLUTION AND THE BIBLE CANNOT BE TRUE-they teach different things!
KOFHY:
I think you misinterpret Scripture, and do not reflect upon our current knowledge. mYou start with archaic theological metaphysical ideas the require irrationalities and demand acquiescence to very old surrealistc inventions needed in those days to explain what is only,now explainable.
mhess13:
Rom 8:18-19
KOFHY:
Here's how TE Christians underdtand Rom 8:18-9
Rom. 8:18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time (in
this present genetic incarnation), are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us (in our next genetic re-manufacturing).
Rom. 8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creature, (Modern Homo sapiens), waiteth for the (evolving) manifestation of the sons of God, (the next step for mankind, Homoiousian sapiens).
mhess13:
Because of death and sin the whole creation is futile according to the Bible. Rom 8:20-22
KOFHY:
Rom. 8:20 For the creature, (Modern Homo sapiens), was (innately) made subject to vanity (of selfishness), not willingly, but by reason of him, (the first Adam), who hath subjected (himself to) the same, (a self centeredness) in hope (of survival),
Rom. 8:21 Because the creature, (Modern Homo sapiens), itself also
shall be delivered from the (personal) bondage of (sociological)
corruption (resulting from an enculturated collective selfishness) into the glorious liberty of the children of God, (the next step for mankind, Homoiousian sapiens).
Rom. 8:22 For we know that the whole creation (of mankind) groaneth and travaileth in pain (of individual selfish methods aimed at survival of the fittest), together, until now.
Rom. 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the
firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves,
waiting for the adoption (by the mass of men), to wit, the redemption of our body (from their selfish persecution).
mhess13:
But we know that during the Millennial Reign of Christ...
KOFHY:
TE Christians recognize the millennium of 1000 years of the Dark Age has historically past:
Matt. 24:13 But he that shall endure unto (590 AD), the end (of Roman anarchy and chaos, until the reign of GREGORY I, 590-604 AD, who shall represent to the Roman world of Western Europe, a church that will still be identified with the empire), the same shall be saved (from the persecution of Jews, and the elimination of pagans during the formation of Universal Roman Christianity).
mhess13:
Or if you are an amillennialist during the new heavens and the new earth; the creation will be restored.
KOFHY:
ABSOLUTELY TRUE!
Rev. 21:1 And I saw a new heaven (of Total Consciousness) and a new earth (from the sociological behaviors resulting) thereafter: for the first heaven (of semi-consciousness) and the first earth (of Paganistic practices) were passed away; and there was no more sea (of unconscious
behavior).
mhess13:
DEATH because of sin is what wrecked the creation.
KOFHY:
No, death is a Vonscious Mind construct. It is not clearly understood, and it ignores the genetic mind.
mhess13:
THEISTIC evolution seriously downplays the fall of man.
KOFHY:
No.
The evolution of free will in the development of Consciousness was the ultimate problem here.
mhess13:
Without a clear understanding of how huge the Fall was, how can we fully grasp the work of the atonement?
KOFHY:
EXACTLY!
Theologians have failed to define this, some alluding to "apples" while other vaguely describe some war in "heaven."
mhess13:
Evolution wars against the plan of salvation.
KOFHY:
No way!
Evolution is "God becoming, manifest with men..." or, the Hebrew of YHVH.
Revelation 21:4-5 And God, (blessing them with Total Consciousness: [Carl Jung]), shall wipe away, (in their awakened Unconscious Mind: [Freudian Hypothesis]), all tears from their eyes, (for life is a genetically rememberable continuum from one generation to the next living generation); and (in genetic memories of prior existences held in our Unconscious Mind) there shall be no more death (though we shall all "sleep:" [1Co15]), neither sorrow (for we, individually, are part of a living continuum of our own pasts), nor crying (for we are happy in these revelations), neither shall there be any more pain (as circumvented by hypnosis today): for the former things (in Modern Homo sapiens life experience) are passed away.
And he, (the ancient, phylogenetic, Collective Unconscious Mind), that sat upon the throne (of the Homoiousian sapiens' brain) said, Behold, (in this way) I make all things (in human experience) new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true (rational, and scientifically feasible) and (worthy of) faithful (belief).