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To: PatrickHenry

I'm a Southern Baptist, but I don't believe that evolution is inconsistent with the Bible. It's only inconsistent with some folk's INTERPRETATION of the Bible.

But I would point out that the Priests claimed that Jesus could not be the Christ because he was from Nazareth, and the Messiah was supposed to come from Bethlehem.

There are lots of places in the Bible where people misinterpreted what was said in the scriptures. In order to be a Christian, you don't need to disbelieve evolution. You only need to believe that Christ is God, that He died on the cross for our sins, and that He rose again.


20 posted on 09/18/2006 2:00:56 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Brilliant
I'm a Southern Baptist, but I don't believe that evolution is inconsistent with the Bible. It's only inconsistent with some folk's INTERPRETATION of the Bible.

How do you interpret Genesis 1:27? If God made man in his image, is he an ape or do we go back to pond scum?

85 posted on 09/18/2006 2:33:37 PM PDT by Krodg
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To: Brilliant
There are lots of places in the Bible where people misinterpreted what was said in the scriptures. In order to be a Christian, you don't need to disbelieve evolution. You only need to believe that Christ is God, that He died on the cross for our sins, and that He rose again.

Bravo!

As Darrow pointed out in the Scopes trial, our day is 24 hours long, but we have no way of knowing how long God's day is. I continue in that vein by saying that, if we automatically presume that His day is as long as ours, we risk thinking that He is like us and, by doing so, we drag Him down to our level. God is not like us, and we have no business thinking that anything He does is analagous to anything we do.

And, by telling us that the Earth is only a couple of thousand of (our) years old, while at the same time allowing us to use our technology to show that the Earth is, in fact, billions of years old, seems to me to imply that God is a practical joker. And I cannot believe for an instant that our fundamentalist colleagues would ever dream of implying that God is a practical joker.

947 posted on 09/21/2006 7:11:16 PM PDT by kellynch ("Our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves." -- Bernard Baruch)
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