OK, THAT post includes much I disagree with.
>>It renders the sacrifice of Christ as meaningless, since that sacrifice was made to conquer Sin and Death.<<
NOTHING man do diminishes God or Christ or their Works.
>>If Man was not CREATED in the Image and Likeness of God, then there is no basis for any moral code other than convenience and opinion.<<
So if we don’t look God you think we have no need to follow His laws or love our neighbors? I find it much more important that God sent his son in our form to know our condition - when we suffer doubt or temptation or pain - He understands because he has experienced it. God true form doesn’t have to look human for me to have faith.
>>Evolutionism denies absolute Truth outside of Evolutionism.<<
Your giving evolution too much credit - its not nearly that broad - it doesn’t say where life came from or talk about how the universe came into being or say that there is (or isn’t a God). There is all kinds of truth it doesn’t relate to.
Boiled down it says that on this planet the fossil and DNA record shows that life evolved from simpler life to a variety of complex life and then it goes on to try to explain the mechanisms.
As with all science it the best estimate to explain the available data. People can misuse it like they can misuse fire but that doesn’t make evolution either good or bad.
Not in absolute terms, no, but on an individual basis, YES! Evolutionism destroyed my faith when I was in 6th Grade. It has destroyed the faith of countless millions. By the mercy and grace of God, I recovered my faith some 30 years later. The overwhelming preponderance of those whose faith was likewise destroyed will never recover.
> So if we don’t look God you think we have no need to
> follow His laws or love our neighbors?
As an author, you should have a better handle on the implications of being created in the image and likeness of God. Hint: DIFFERENT than the animals; having a MORAL COMPASS. Like GOD, in HIS IMAGE and LIKENESS.
Besides, Christ manifested Himself as a Man. Imagine that! If you believe in Him and His work, then you know what that means in light of Genesis chapter 2.
> Your giving evolution too much credit - its not nearly
> that broad -
Then you must not be an evolutionist, since they would disagree with you heartily. Just look at the posts from the evolutionists in this forum, and you will see that anybody who does not subscribe to their narrow little worldview, which at best can be characterized as an Arcturian Landscape, is commonly pilloried as a mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging, pie-eyed, cow-licked, drooling throwback.
> Boiled down it says that on this planet the fossil and
> DNA record shows that life evolved from simpler life to a
> variety of complex life and then it goes on to try to
> explain the mechanisms.
Perhaps the DNA record shows that life was created by a common Designer. As an engineer, I use modularity, encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism in order to manage development in the most efficient manner. I use the same few constructs over and over to accomplish vastly different ends and to execute vastly different tasks. The more efficient I am at reducing the number of different constructs required to do this, the more efficient I am at creating reliable products.
I do this in part because I am made in the Likeness and Image of my Creator who I believe endowed us with a penchant for His methodology in our engineering pursuits.