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I hope you are joking.
Have you not read 1 Timothy 2:14?
14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression.
Adam was not deceived, therefore Adam knew what he was doing defying God's clear command. It was because of Adam's sin that sin and death entered the world (1 Corinthians 15:20-21, Romans 5:12).
Well, it's not essential to know, it is really our own vanity to have to know how everything came to be, be it religious oriented or scientifically oriented... It does tend to pull us away and distract us from matters that we maybe should maybe be focusing on more anyway, especially now, considering the nature and condition of our world right now...I'm not quite sure that we're talking about the same thing here. My point was that a literal reading biblical creation account (or trying to use the creation account as a historical record of the origins of life etc) isn't particularly useful to us because it a) doesn't conform with our observations of the natural world.
b) doesn't seem that christians can agree on it's interpretation (as can be seen in this thread).
It seems like you're saying it's vagueness is a good thing because anyone can interpet it in there own way, according to their own biases and it can mean whatever they want it to mean. That is the opposite of 'clearly communicated'.
Because the Creationist propaganda mills you're getting this stuff from aren't showing them to you? Never mind, even "hardly any" is enough to disprove "kinds." You don't even have any scriptural justification for the notion that "kinds" are meant to represent an immutable divine taxonomic barrier that evolution can never cross.I would like to say though that I wonder why it is that there are plenty of fossils for various different kinds of a particular kind of animal, different breeds and species, but hardly any "transitional" ones that would show and prove how a say a fish, or sea serpent, became an amphibian, or an amphibian became a reptile, so on and so forth... There's plenty in the fossil record of different "kinds of a kind", but hardly any, or next to none, of how one kind, became another kind... And, in Genesis it says that God created or made, each one according to it's "kind"... Strange to me...?
Wonder why that is...?
Eh? Don't you think that people could count in biblical times?
Can you show us where it says that please?
Not at all, I don't think God knows anything as I don't believe he actually exists.
You could just provide me with some evidence to prove me wrong you know...? I was just wondering why I haven't seen any in all the threads talking about evolution here, is all, do you have evidence of transitional fossils from the fossil record...?Because the Creationist propaganda mills you're getting this stuff from aren't showing them to you? Never mind, even "hardly any" is enough to disprove "kinds." You don't even have any scriptural justification for the notion that "kinds" are meant to represent an immutable divine taxonomic barrier that evolution can never cross.
I suggest taking an introductory course in Paleontology to begin understanding the concepts through which transitional connections are made. It is not a mater of "well this seems to look like this and, etc...." It is quite specific in relation anatomical connections. However, the way I understand evolution best is to view the fossil record in geologic strata. How did all those fossils get distributed as to represent evolution?I would like to say though that I wonder why it is that there are plenty of fossils for various different kinds of a particular kind of animal, different breeds and species, but hardly any "transitional" ones that would show and prove how a say a fish, or sea serpent, became an amphibian, or an amphibian became a reptile, so on and so forth...
Oh, yes, of course. In fact, only God has the ability to inspire and direct the folly of men, that His word will not return void...this is the power and providence of God.Yes!... That is what I believe, but that it is still "inspired" by God though, and contains much spiritual truth that we can use, it contains many "secrets" to our humanity, and what humanity is destined to become, that is very similar to and is like God's divinity, I believe...
God Bless!
I think you are confusing scientific theory with the common use of the word.
I suggest taking an introductory course in Paleontology to begin understanding the concepts through which transitional connections are made. It is not a mater of "well this seems to look like this and, etc...." It is quite specific in relation anatomical connections. However, the way I understand evolution best is to view the fossil record in geologic strata. How did all those fossils get distributed as to represent evolution?
Check out this video! Will help fill in some the gaps you have about fossils.Well, it's not essential to know, it is really our own vanity to have to know how everything came to be, be it religious oriented or scientifically oriented... It does tend to pull us away and distract us from matters that we maybe should maybe be focusing on more anyway, especially now, considering the nature and condition of our world right now...
I would like to say though that I wonder why it is that there are plenty of fossils for various different kinds of a particular kind of animal, different breeds and species, but hardly any "transitional" ones that would show and prove how a say a fish, or sea serpent, became an amphibian, or an amphibian became a reptile, so on and so forth... There's plenty in the fossil record of different "kinds of a kind", but hardly any, or next to none, of how one kind, became another kind... And, in Genesis it says that God created or made, each one according to it's "kind"... Strange to me...?
Wonder why that is...?
God Bless!
I believe he literally went (or made the "transition" that I talked about), that he literally made the transition from the physical to the spiritual when he was resurrected...? Are you talking about that...?
God Bless!
I've wondered that too, but at the end of the day, well, he ended up like the rest of humanity... worm food.I've recently wondered where Jesus' physical resurrected body went. It says he ascended into the clouds, but where to? I think the answer is hidden, until he returns, but His Spirit lives in the believer and one could view His body as the church or body of Christ. So in reality, He is still here making all things new, working in us and through us.
If one tries to explain the world with a theory then the only proper definition of that word is the scientific one. Otherwise it is better to say "I have this wild and crazy idea that is not supported by reality at all".
Which verse confirms human evolution?Gap theory is supported by reality. It proposes an old earth, and voila, science confirms that the earth is indeed old. Science doesn't refute bible history, it confirms it, and will continue to do so as it becomes more apparent that the creation was indeed created.
Doesn't Gap theory pertain only to the area between Gen:1:1 and 1:2, thus the rest of Gen 1:3 forward is literal? Just need clarification.Gap theory is supported by reality. It proposes an old earth, and voila, science confirms that the earth is indeed old. Science doesn't refute bible history, it confirms it, and will continue to do so as it becomes more apparent that the creation was indeed created.
Which verse confirms human evolution?
Doesn't Gap theory pertain only to the area between Gen:1:1 and 1:2, thus the rest of Gen 1:3 forward is literal? Just need clarification.
Then how do you explain grass and fruit trees before the sun?It does, and we get to fill in the events between those verses. I like to start with Jude 1:6. I believe the earth was made originally for the angels. The re-creation of Gen 1:2 onward is the earth renewed for man. If I had composed Genesis it would look like this:
In the Beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth.
But the earth became an empty wasteland.
What follows is the restoration of the surface of the earth for Man.
Ah, so science does refute bible history.
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