Posted on 12/09/2008 2:39:05 PM PST by My Favorite Headache
President George W. Bush said his belief that God created the world is not incompatible with scientific proof of evolution.
In an interview with ABC's "Nightline" on Monday, the president also said he probably is not a literalist when reading the Bible although an individual can learn a great deal from it, including the New Testament teaching that God sent his only son.
About creation and evolution, Bush said: "I think you can have both. I think evolution can — you're getting me way out of my lane here. I'm just a simple president. But it's, I think that God created the earth, created the world; I think the creation of the world is so mysterious it requires something as large as an almighty and I don't think it's incompatible with the scientific proof that there is evolution."
"You know. Probably not. ... No, I'm not a literalist, but I think you can learn a lot from it, but I do think that the New Testament for example is ... has got ... You know, the important lesson is 'God sent a son,'" Bush said.
"It is hard for me to justify or prove the mystery of the Almighty in my life," he said. "All I can just tell you is that I got back into religion and I quit drinking shortly thereafter and I asked for help. ... I was a one-step program guy."
"I do believe there is an almighty that is broad and big enough and loving enough that can encompass a lot of people,"
Asked whether he thought he would have become president had it not been for his faith, Bush said: "I don't know; it's hard to tell. I do know that I would have been — I would have been a pretty selfish person."
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You cannot believe the gospel unless God gives you the faith to believe it. The Catholic church, or any other church for that matter has nothing whatsoever to do with it.
My beliefs exactly. What's the problem?
“Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in there at”
Matthew 7:13
The Bible shouldn’t be interpreted by popular vote.
1 simple verse of refutation to 553 pages:
1Co 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
How angry, how empty a man must poor C. Dennis McKinsey be to spend so many hours, days, weeks, months compiling a tome to discredit that which he does not believe in.
Such foolishness! Such a waste!
I’m not sure what you are trying to say...(no sarcasm, really don’t know...)
That the Bible is literally true except where obviously not (parables, for example.)
But the Bible is written and intepreted by man.....very fallible and prone to mistakes.
Unless you want to argue that man can comprehend the greatness of God without error?
God sent His One and Only Son.
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You are so right. God didn't send " a" son... He sent THE ONE AND ONLY BEGOTTEN SON.....
sigh! I am so dissapointed in Bush! We must never keep our eyes on a man but on God. Men dissapoint us. God will never!
That’s pretty lame.
Later.
Why do you believe there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe?
‘But the Bible is written and intepreted by man’
It is when men are interpretted by the Bible that the Bible is of most use...
Oh, so I am supposed to believe some guy that measures scripture by his own finite standards. That would be like me writing a book about why I don’t like broccoli.
What of things about which it does not speak? Like other like extraterrestrial civilizations somewhere in God's creation?
What isn’t true?
I'm not surprised or concerned about his comments. He is a human trying to understand God, and God's ways are not our ways. We all get it wrong at times.
The President is a universalist. His stated worldview is incompatible with Biblical Christianity.
So is Obama's...so?
I don’t know whether he is a Christian or not - I doubt it - but his comments should be a reminder to Christians that we must NEVER adopt pragmatism or unBiblical compromise in the selection of our leaders.
President Bush has stated many times that he is a Christian. Your questioning his faith based on your own understanding is wrong. President Bush is not a spiritual leader, he's just a man that we elected to lead our country. No more, no less.
Jeb would have no chance at winning the Presidency anytime in the foreseeable future.
Bump.
You don’t think God influenced people who were translating from different languages? All sorts of books are translated into different languages. What’s the big deal? What part of the Bible don’t you believe and why?
Exactly
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