How do you determine what is or isn’t allegory?
God didn’t remotely assert we are merely great apes.
You show a reemarkable penchant for understanding neither evolution OR Christianity when you keep parroting “Christianity is perfectly compatible with evolution”.
Actually, I have a remarkably keen insight into both, hence my obvious conclusion. Most Christians have the intellectual acuity to share my conclusion.
[[How do you determine what is or isn’t allegory?]]
to the ‘religious’ (who incidently run away with hteir tails between their legs when asked if they have ever received Christ as their personal Savior the way the bible speaks about) determine what is allegory by determinign what does and does not agree with macroevolution. Since Christ had to die to cover the sins of fallen man who fell after creation, bringing spirit death to the world, they do not think Christ was anythign more than a ‘good man’ or ‘good teacher’ because to admit He was the Son of God who became man to die for our sins, woudl be to admit that man didn’t evovle, because if they had evolved, there would have had to have been death and sin before the sin of Adam and Eve, and hte bible makes irt very clear, there wasn’t- so, whatever refutes the idea of Macroevolution, must hterefore be allegory-, and anyhting that can be skewed and twisted to support macroevolution, must hterefore be ‘biblical truth’ (which i nther minds amoutns to nothign more substantial than ‘good men writign good thigns for man to do’)
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the bible makes it VERY clear that it is Scripture that interprets Scripture, and NOT man- When hte ibble includes allegory, it clearly indicates, with corroborating Scriptures, that allegory is being used- when allegory is NOT intended, the bible is an historical work from the Holy spirit workign htrough man
2 Peter 1:21-22 clearly states in no uncertain terms that Scripture is not a matter of human interpretation since Its Source is not human - the Holy Spirit gave the Words, spoken by God to men to write down.
People who obviously reject the word of God as a supernatural work By God, Through man, obviously reject the authority of His word, and so will not ever admit anythign that doesn’t jive with their Macroevolutionary beleif- their’s is not a ‘religion’ of Sovreignty, Omnipotence, and Salvation, theirs is a religion of secularism and interpretation. Just liek the Pharisees (who incidently also claimed to be ‘religious’), the theistic evolutionsits MUST undermine hte very word of God in order to get God’s word to mesh with their hyptohesis- Jesus point blank exposed the pharisees as teachign somethign that was NOT the word of God!!! They ‘honor’ God with their lips, but their hearts are desperately wicked and far from God- Anyoen can ‘honor’ God- but it’s what proceeds fro mthe heart that exposes their spiritual conditions for everyone to see.
as I psoted earlier- theistic evolutionists have also called into question Christ’s own Godship because in order for Macroevolution to be concidered, one must call into question the NEED for Christ to come to die for original sin- They call into quesiton His Godship, His death, even His life, and certainly His ressurection.
Theistic evolutionists will often claim that ‘there are many interpretations’ of the bible, and that ‘no one interpretation is true or right’, but what does hte bible tell us? Yup- that it is NOT man that interprets Scripture, but Scripture itself which is the ONLY valid itnerpretation of Scripture. Those who reject God’s word deny this of course- despite tjhe bible clearly tellign us this is so- they simply come up with another ‘man-made interpretation’ to wave thsoe verses away. Their ‘truth’ is built upon sand, nothign more substantial that the whims of the day, whichever way the wind blows, that’s the ‘truth’ forthem- subjective man-made interpretation! The bible is NOT the Holy Spirit Inspired word of God to them- it’s nothign more than ‘good words written by good people who may or may not have been right’ and ‘who may or may not have interpreted good teachigns right’
Rather hypocritical of evos to reject creationists determination of what is and isn't allegory and then demand that creationists accept theirs.
Because God clearly stated that He created man from the dust of the earth, not another already living creature. Otherwise, breathing into his nostrils the breath of life, would be redundant. At that point, God could have just said that He imparted a soul, or some such think.
Clearly the man He created wasn't alive until God made him alive, thus ruling out another living creature.