Comments on: Evolution for Conservative Christians

By: Politicalguineapig

Politicalguineapig — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 17:27:36 +0000

Al: Such as we are all living beings that have a drive to help and do whats right.

What species are you talking about? Not humans, certainly.

By: Al

Al — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 04:33:32 +0000

All I can say is anything is possible. Regardless of evidence, there are times where new discoveries are found and an entire chain of species evolution gets changed. I think all and everything on both sides are theories. And even with evidence should be treated as theories…. We only have so much of an understanding and perspectives. Its important to keep it in mind that anything is possible and that we each have the right to believe what ever belief we choose to belief. Instead of focusing on what divides us its important to remember what we have in common. Such as we are all living beings that have a drive to help and do whats right. Whatever someone believes in the way in how we came to be, its not what matters, what the true important thing to keep in focus is how can we keep this species continuing……First off, being tolerant and accepting regardless of difference in opinion. We dont know all the answers and we are not going to. Its too complicated a series of intertwined systems as to how we exist both in the physical and to those who believe it , the spiritual. I personally believe in the spiritual due to way to hard to put together experiences to brush off as coincidences.

Fools argue, Wise men share ideas…

Alia
Christian believer of both theories… we just are not there yet on how they link

By: ron

ron — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 13:32:48 +0000

@ GL, yes, someone is making that up

http://www.themysteryworld.com/2012/07/prove-all-rocks-go-to-heaven.html

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 13:15:01 +0000

I do know what an awful lot of late 17th cen(?) through late 18th century European theology was about who and what had souls. There seems, my general impression here only corrections welcome, that there was a contraction of who could be on the list followed by a long and arduous adding to the list just within humans. Christian children are told, of course, that their dogs and cats and possibly goldfish will be in heaven waiting for them. Is somebody just making that up?

By: Chip Camden

Chip Camden — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 05:08:20 +0000

Interesting.

The phrase “living being” in Genesis 2:7 (Hebrew nephesh chaiyah) is only used elsewhere of animals. I think the whole distinction of humans having souls and animals not is manufactured by later theology.

@Jeffrey Hickson: it’s possible to take the whole Adam and Eve story as metaphorical and yet still admit a reality of sin behind the metaphor that needs redemption. The degree to which that redemption itself is a metaphor is left as an exercise for the reader.

By: Marion Delgado

Marion Delgado — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 23:15:45 +0000

Filthy accomodationist! We’ll strip you of your memes for this!

I dated a girl like that for a while. A very good artist who was part of a church fellowship that did Spirtual Warfare and tongues and God knows what. When I met her she was waitressing at a cafe run by a lesbian couple and she’d already had an Atlantic (I think) cover to her credit at a fairly young age. So it goes.

It’s good you can discuss things with your friend, however. We just didn’t discuss certain things.

By: Drivebyposter

Drivebyposter — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 04:25:19 +0000

It’s an ammonite.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 02:22:29 +0000

Of what?

By: Drivebyposter

Drivebyposter — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 02:18:18 +0000

I have been carrying a fossil around for years…

By: Jeffrey Hicksen

Jeffrey Hicksen — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 02:13:53 +0000

Well to be perfectly honest a TRUE conservative christian does not believe in evolution. It gets in the way of Christ’s death on the cross.

Christ dies on the cross becuase of what? SIN. He came here and chose to die for the sins of man that started in the Garden of Eden with ONE MAN and ONE WOMAN. Becuase of what happened in genesis, Chrost gave His life.

Now if a christian professes faith in evolution, how can he/she believe in what Christ done and the reason it was done?