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I haven't found that to be the case. I can't speak for everyone, of course. but I believe in evolution because there is evidence for it. I have no problem with believing in the supernatural at all, but I see no reason to disbelieve in the natural, either. God is obvipously not restricted in His use of either.Something I've been pondering lately. I'm now fairly confident that most Christians who believe in Evolution, do so because they have a problem with the idea of the supernatural in general.
Not at all. Out Lord wants water to become wine, it does, end of. He's God, He made it all. Do I believe that God had to follow the Bible when He created the universe? No, I don't. Restricting God is always a bad idea, even if it's done to sound reverent and pious.They tend to reject accounts of miracles in the NT (unrelated to Evolution) just as readily as they reject a Genesis worldview of earth history.
Interseting idea. Seems baseless, to me, but interesting all the same. I can't really picture anyone saying "I think I;m going to disbelieve in a 6 day creation so I won't have to believe in sin. Do people's minds really work that way? If I wanted to disbelieve in sin, I would, without feeling the need to alter the universe so as to feel better about it.But why? I think perhaps we have a hidden motivation to "de-realize" (make the Bible more unreal) because this in turn makes ideas of accountability and God's judgment more unreal. It makes SIN feel less real... Our personal lives, our desires and agendas, get a lot more flexible the more we push the Bible into the realm of symbolic unreal-ness...
Nah, I think you're beating a strawman there. Sin's sin, and it's bad stuff, plain as a pikestaff. The Six Day Creation story, much less so. No sun, no 24 hour "day", OK? And God wasn't bound by a schedule that was strictly used by His scribes to make people understand that God is the sole creator and that He went about His creation in an orderly fashion. The notion that "No, God had to do it this way" is silly. We can't understand how He accomplished the Creation at all, we can only see the results of what He did, and Genesis simply says "God did it all that." I'm not willing to wave a book at God say "But you can't have spent a million years working on that, it says right here you did it all in a week!" I reckon that He might remind me that I'm bound by time, but He isn't, and tell me to run along.going along with the secular world's creation story (Evolution) makes it a lot easier to maintain that lifestyle and reap the social benefits of being a "reasonable Christian" ... and not one of those kooks who actually believe all that problematic stuff in scripture about miracles and judgments and stuff.
Secuse me, but who do you reckon designed and installed those natural processes you seem so unimpressed by? Again, "But God, you can't have used the tools you designed and that we see operating in your universe day by day! It had to be by arcane gestures and theatrical thunderings, like real magic!" You know, I'm a pretty decent old engineer, but I;m not ready to take God to task about His methodology in His creation, or how long it took Him.We assure ourselves that we are just following the "evidence" of Evolution that God left for us, when in reality we are just putting on the goggles of philosophical naturalism, where everything we look at *must* be attributed to a natural process.
Genesis appears to not be technically accurate. So? It isn't a technical document. Designing a working universe isn't like making toast, and I think believing that God just kind of flung the universe together in less than a week shows a terrible lack of appreciation for what an incredible piece of work it is, and what unimaginable efort went into it.
I don't see anyone doing that.The result is a weird contradictory blend of professing to believe in the Resurrection, while systematically cleansing all other supernatural accounts out of the Bible.
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