Hi there,
So I am going for the spiritual jugular here: perhaps what we've done arguing about Evolution (and how unhappy it makes us!), is forget the spiritual battlelines - maybe what we've done is forget where the Devil is up to Evolutionarily?
Does the Devil evolve? Scripture would suggest that he is too self-centered to want to change anything - I find it hard to believe that he would fully embrace the concept of Evolution - yet it would seem reasonable to suggest that he was the inspiration for the concept, in the first place. I mean, who abandons the heritage of the honour of their parents, to be identified with something that fails to be true to a single devotion of prayer to God (I am talking about the whole of someone's life here, let's not kid ourselves)?
So does the Devil need help? That would be a litmus test for the truth of the theory. We could say, here we honoured the difference to the death, and from there we helped the Devil achieve part of it, such that being tame, he might be able to undertake, for his own purposes. This is not immediately evil, its like doing something generous for an enemy, as the Bible says, is like pouring hot coals on his head (Isaiah?). I for one, would find that inspirational: that my Evolution is not the thing that needs to change, but the Devil that inspired it - it just makes sense.
I don't think I am mistaking anything here, it does not need extra sense, to make sense of what it is to help someone - you do it because, you love God and despite the evil of the world, you have love for the world. This then becomes a foundation that whenever the Devil comes, we are to have something ready, that in time, will be tameness before God - for both God and us to see, that we are not fools, in principle. Again, this makes sense, as I would add "because Creation makes sense" - in whatever way it is called "Evolution".
How many fools are still fool enough, to ignore the Devil? When it is the Devil that needs to evolve?
So I am going for the spiritual jugular here: perhaps what we've done arguing about Evolution (and how unhappy it makes us!), is forget the spiritual battlelines - maybe what we've done is forget where the Devil is up to Evolutionarily?
Does the Devil evolve? Scripture would suggest that he is too self-centered to want to change anything - I find it hard to believe that he would fully embrace the concept of Evolution - yet it would seem reasonable to suggest that he was the inspiration for the concept, in the first place. I mean, who abandons the heritage of the honour of their parents, to be identified with something that fails to be true to a single devotion of prayer to God (I am talking about the whole of someone's life here, let's not kid ourselves)?
So does the Devil need help? That would be a litmus test for the truth of the theory. We could say, here we honoured the difference to the death, and from there we helped the Devil achieve part of it, such that being tame, he might be able to undertake, for his own purposes. This is not immediately evil, its like doing something generous for an enemy, as the Bible says, is like pouring hot coals on his head (Isaiah?). I for one, would find that inspirational: that my Evolution is not the thing that needs to change, but the Devil that inspired it - it just makes sense.
I don't think I am mistaking anything here, it does not need extra sense, to make sense of what it is to help someone - you do it because, you love God and despite the evil of the world, you have love for the world. This then becomes a foundation that whenever the Devil comes, we are to have something ready, that in time, will be tameness before God - for both God and us to see, that we are not fools, in principle. Again, this makes sense, as I would add "because Creation makes sense" - in whatever way it is called "Evolution".
How many fools are still fool enough, to ignore the Devil? When it is the Devil that needs to evolve?
