“I’m certain I’m not alone in greatly anticipating your lengthy and insightful response.”
Insight will be lost on you and Forrest. The weakness of your faith will not allow you to separate your professed Christian faith from your belief in the literal inerrancy of the bible. Without that crutch, your faith will falter.
Evolution and Christianity are perfectly compatible, as you may have heard. Evolution and your belief the literal inerrancy of the bible are not. However, Christianity is neither measured nor defined by the degree of literal inerrancy one chooses to accept. You represent a small minority, and your positions regarding the faith make the majority of the Christian world appear feeble-minded by association.
Where do you buy your slaves?
You've repeated the phrase "evolution and Christianity are perfectly compatible," but as far as insight into just why you persist in believing this, you've provided no insight.
and Forrest
Referring to oneself in the third person is not as flattering as those who do so might suppose.
The weakness of your faith
I'm exhibiting faith, being pilloried for it by you, and you think that this constitutes weakness. You compromise faith for the knowledge of the world, and think that this constitutes strength. There are a few Biblical passages with which you might want to familiarize yourself, before you dig any deeper into that hole you've dug for yourself.
will not allow you to separate your professed Christian faith from your belief in the literal inerrancy of the bible.
... and you allow your worldy concerns to separate you from God, and resort to claiming that the BIble is in error to do so.
Without that crutch, your faith will falter.
An oddly disparaging way of describing the Word of God, for a professed Christian such as yourself. But, yes, my faith is strengthened by reliance upon the Bible. Your faith is strengthened by reliance upon ... what, exactly? You still decline to elaborate.
Evolution and Christianity are perfectly compatible, as you may have heard.
I've heard it again and again, from you. You consistently decline to elaborate. I can only conclude that you do so because you have no answer.
Evolution and your belief the literal inerrancy of the bible are not.
Huh? Evolution is not, upon this we can agree.
However, Christianity is neither measured nor defined by the degree of literal inerrancy one chooses to accept..
It's measured and defined by faith, which leads to salvation. It's just that faith part that seems to be getting you all tied up in knots. Do you accept that Jesus Christ died on the cross for your sins, and was resurrected on the third day, Buck W.? Or is that too much Biblical inerrancy for you?
You represent a small minority, and your positions regarding the faith make the majority of the Christian world appear feeble-minded by association.
Certainly not a small minority of Christians. Exactly who is it, that you're trying to impress with faux intellect? God is not impressed. As I've said before, if you knew your Bible, you would know that.
Where do you buy your slaves?
Where do you buy yours? I've never bought a slave, myself, and have no interest in owning another human being. Human bondage has taken many forms over the course of human history, though, and we're fortunate in our place and time to be without it. I honestly can't think of a people that hasn't been enslaved in one form or another. The Bible condemns unjust enslavement and unjust treatment of slaves. The state of bondage, however, is not in and of itself condemned.
But, none of this has a thing to do with the conversation at hand. Other than some left-field attempt at casting aspersions, what is your point?