I think the bible has a word for this type of pastor....."worthless shepherds"....what the Lord called them in the Old Testament. Worthless shepherds who led his people astray through their false teaching and led them to their own destruction.
Obviously THEIR God is not POTENT enough to create the world without using trial and error and a billion years. Plus what kind of a loving God uses principles like survival of the fittest?
What makes this pastor or any other so-called "christian evolutionist" think a God who gives us evolution and an untruthful/unreliable book of "poetry" and myths is therefore, interested in or capable of helping us in our lives? I would say their version of God's "word" is nothing more than a rusty bucket full of holes, incapable of watering anything but the ground.
I will take God at His word.
No, their God is potent enough to patiently work for 3 billion years on the problem.
Or, to look at it another way. Their God was potent enough to snap the world into existence at the Big Bang, and yet He knew that eventually all that chaos would lead to you.
Now *that* is omnipotence.
"Plus what kind of a loving God uses principles like survival of the fittest?"
What kind of loving God causes babies to be born with spina bifida, or tiny little children to suffer the ravages of muscular dystrophy?
The real One.
We cannot understand why God does as He does, because His reasoning is not ours.
We can only accept it as it is, and go from there.
God could have created the world and life any way he wanted. He chose evolution. Why? We don't know, but the Bible tells us God's ways are not our ways.
Plus what kind of a loving God uses principles like survival of the fittest?
Why not?
What makes this pastor or any other so-called "christian evolutionist" think a God who gives us evolution and an untruthful/unreliable book of "poetry" and myths is therefore, interested in or capable of helping us in our lives? I would say their version of God's "word" is nothing more than a rusty bucket full of holes, incapable of watering anything but the ground.
There's nothing unreliable about the Bible, nor does it contain any holes, so long as it is used as intend: as a source of spiritual and moral truth. It is not intended to be a science textbook.