wisdomseeker said:
Thank you for your reply. I'm still a little confused though because if Adam and Eve were the first then how did black, Native America, Chinese, and other ethic backgrounds arise?
God wanted man scattered over the entire face of the earth. Yet, mankind was fighting this idea.
Genesis 11:4 niv
"Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth."
God tells us that he created new languages that caused a divsion amongst mankind, dividing men up intp groups. The inability for men to understand the other's language isolated one group from another. He did this instantly! It was not evolution.
God moved these groups to where he desired.
Acts 17:26 niv
"From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live."
In moving men to areas that had unique climates, God had to provide the means for them to be fully adjusted to their new environments. If it depended upon evolution it would have taken way too long for their survival. God's Word shows the means by which God could cause an instant transformation, as to cause each group to be fully adapted to where he wanted them to be. He first caused them to speak certain languages that divided them up into predetermined groups. Then God needed to transform them as to be suited to where he had each group go to. How could he do this without evolution?
Divine Instant Transformation.
Here's how.....
Genesis 3:14 niv
"So the LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this,
"Cursed are you above all the livestock
and all the wild animals!
You will crawl on your belly
and you will eat dust
all the days of your life. "
God caused the serpent
instantly to become a belly crawling creature. Apparently, before it was cursed, it had legs!
God is able to transform a creature at will. Instantly! It does not need evolution and thousands of years to produce a change when God has a plan for something to change.
Daniel 4:33 niv
"Immediately what had been said about Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled. He was driven away from people and ate grass like cattle. His body was drenched with the dew of heaven until his hair grew like the feathers of an eagle and his nails like the claws of a bird."
It says that it was fulfilled,
immediately,,,,,
Just the same, God has built into certain creatures (because he knows all our needs before they are known to ourselves) the ability for physical change when the envirornment changes and requires a new need.
Take a chameleon who always lived on a brown surface and place it on a green one. Did it evolve when it turned green? No. But it would seem that way if it had been known only to live in an environment that was always brown. Likewise, God knowing all our needs had created into certain creatures an inate ability to adapt that will not be recognized until the need arises. Its not evolution, but God's forknowledge at work. It is to reveal that God knows all things before they happen.
Grace and peace, GeneZ