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If somewhere within the Bible, I were to find a passage that said
two plus two equals five, I wouldn't
question what I'm reading the Bible. I would
believe it, accepted as true, and then do my best to work it out to understand it.
I can't even fathom coming from this little thing that crawled on the ground
to apes, to being human
it just doesn't, it just doesn't—it sounds crazy to me
When you have generations of people being taught
that evolution's fact and therefore Genesis is not true and you have to
reinterpret the Bible—
Why shouldn't we do what we want to do? There's no absolutes, therefore we determine
what is right and what is wrong.
To put man down as
just an animal—that we're no different than a dog, a horse,
an elephant or a cat or anything else—
is totally preposterous. God made us
in his image and so to say that
man is an animal and god created man in his own image—
so does one come back and say, Are you saying god is nothing more than an
animal?!
What that does, it puts God so remote
that we can safely ignore him. He's way back at the big *** and he really hasn't
done much since.
And here's another issue we need to think about:
What's more basic to Christianity than prayer?
Prayer's a case where we actually have an opportunity, and are invited to do so by
our Father, to speak to God.
Why bother pursuing a relationship with God if he's—
if he's closed the door on us and
doesn't care about us anymore?
To think that I had no communication with God
would be so
devastating—I can't even imagine adopting such a view; just to make
peace with Darwin.
If that's the way the world works—if it is just
this mechanical thing that God set spinning in place
then you believe in a God that doesn't intervene in nature—that takes way
any possibly of miracles, any possibly of answering prayer,
any possibly of the resurrection. And in
in reality you take away the possibility of Christianity to be true
at all.
I would love to encourage mister Darwin
and others they feel just like him to
try God.
And see the transformation for themselves.
If I were asked,
What is the primary reason I believe evolution
is incompatible with biblical Christianity,
I could sum it up in one word for you: Death.
If you want, add "pain."
"Suffering" and "death." I know a little about this.
I lost my first wife to cancer; and now my second wife has cancer; and so do I.
Whether we're young or old, death is inevitable.
And how do we deal with death? How does evolution deal with death?
From just reading Genesis, you get the idea of
a perfect world—No death, no disease.
Animals, man, the dinosaurs
were all vegetarian. Now the fossil record—
It's a record of death. It's a record of animals eating each other.
It's a record of disease, because they're dinosaur
bones with brain tumours.
But you can'y have dinosaurs with brain tumours
and dinosaurs eating each other until after sin.
I was raised at believe that the Bible is fact, so if something is gonna
collide with it, then it's obviously incorrect and false.
I think sometimes our culture has like a overly heavy
heavy reliance on like science.
Christianity is
is more than science and scientific proof.
Have you guys ever been in a
situation where you've been articulating your faith and
it was met with mockery?
Should never surprise us that we're
mocked, or hated by the world. I mean, Christ said that this would happen and it's
happening, so...
I have to say, and I'm willing to say,
you know that the first eleven chapters of Genesis are are true and correct,
because it's... it's God's Word