[Youngblood]

This is the classic response. Rather than freely inquiring into the apparent origin of life, evolutionists set up a false choice between the Genesis account and evolution. Just because it's not black, doesn't mean it's white. Could be orange too.

You obviously don't read these threads very much. Its generally the young-earth creationists that insist on an either/or dichotomy. We're often chided that a theistic evolutionary worldview is not a valid Christian outlook. It's mostly evolutionists who insist that evolutionary biology is silent on the subject of God and that it is a perfectly defensible position to accept both. The inevitable knee-jerk response from the holy warriors is that if you deny the literal historical truth of Noah's Flood and the week-long creation event in Genesis, then the Bible canot be considered God's word.

[Elsie]

 

The inevitable knee-jerk response from the holy warriors is that if you deny the literal historical truth of Noah's Flood and the week-long creation event in Genesis, then the Bible canot be considered God's word.

 

Well, this HW does NOT need a week six-day creation OR a flood to choose between the two views.  If the E's insist that ONE creature is not sufficient to transmit mutated changes but a POPULATION is, then I have to go with the Bible.

 

 

Unfortunately, most Christians 'believe' Evolution because they do NOT know what their Bible says.  If, as they say, they 'believe' the words of Jesus and then of the New Testement writers, they have to decide what the following verses mean:

 

Romans 5:12-21
 12.  Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned--
 13.  for before the law was given, sin was in the world. But sin is not taken into account when there is no law.
 14.  Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who was a pattern of the one to come.
 15.  But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God's grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many!
 16.  Again, the gift of God is not like the result of the one man's sin: The judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification.
 17.  For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God's abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.
 18.  Consequently, just as the result of one trespass was condemnation for all men, so also the result of one act of righteousness was justification that brings life for all men.
 19.  For just as through the disobedience of the one man, the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.
 20.  The law was added so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more,
 21.  so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

 

 

 

If there were  no one man, that means SIN did NOT enter the World thru him.

 

If Adam was NOT the one man, that means SPIRITUAL DEATH did not come thru him.

 

If SIN did NOT enter the World thru the one man, that means Jesus does not save from SIN.

 

 

Are we to believe that the one man is symbolic?  Does that mean Jesus is symbolic as well?

 

 

The Theory of Evolution states that there WAS no one man, but a wide population that managed to inherit that last mutated gene that makes MEN different from APES.