I very strongly doubt that my dear brother in Christ, TXnMA, would embrace any of these statements, these “assumptions
Spirited: Either God spoke everything into existence in six instantaneous acts (days) of creation (Special Creation), meaning that Adam was a living soul/spirit embodied within physical matter (body) right from the start, or Adam is a myth, the meaning of which men of our age are at liberty to interpret according to their cosmic narratives.
As soon as Special Creation is rejected in favor of cosmic narratives, evolutionary transformism over billions of years becomes necessary.
When men reject what God Said in favor of their own interpretations, then God MUST BE MADE submissive to the laws of science. He must act according to the requirements of man’s science in the same way as apostate Kabbalist Jews “killed” God in order to take control of His Divine powers.
Does TXnMA embrace the statements outlined in my post? Obviously he does, whether unwittingly or wittingly cannot be known by other people. However, our Lord knows our heart. He knows what is really there. We cannot fool Him.
Ideas have consequences because our actual thinking takes place in what Francis Schaeffer calls the “thought-form” realm whence ‘unseen’ spirits are at all times. Fyodor Dostoevsky knew this to be true, which is why his penetrating analysis of Rennaissance/Enlightement ‘isms’ including the science of evolution revealed to him the face of the devil at the lowest substratum of meaning. While spirits cannot force the will of man to submit to them they know how to seduce wills to their ends.
My purpose in this thread is not to argue and quibble with wills bent and determined on cosmic narratives, a fruitless exercise imo, but to deliver a message found in John 10:1-14.
Dear sister in Christ, are you saying that Genesis isn't a "cosmic narrative?" After all, it's all about the Creation of everything that there is, out of nothing (ex nihilo). Not just the earthly creation, but the universal one.
I know for a fact how dearly, deeply TXnMA loves God's "cosmic narrative" — His creation story in Genesis (and also in the Gospel of John, 1:1–5):
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.I feel sure that you and he do not disagree about that.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.