I believe that God created the world and everything in it. I believe that this happens through a process that I do not fully understand, that involves evolution and other processes which can be scientifically observed. I do not throw away the word of the Bible, nor do I only believe in myself. I just don’t believe that a strict literal reading is necessary or accurate. The Bible has been translated from language to language. There are many translations using different words and having different meanings. They cannot all be literally true, but they can all contain the truth.
I do not expect you to believe as I do. Nor do I condemn your beliefs. But, I am a Christian and I believe in evolution, so don’t tell me that it isn’t possible.
1 Corinthians 15:39
I apologize if I have offended you, truly. It is not my intent. I do believe in a strict literal interpetation as it refers to grammar. Such as word structure, word meanings, sentence structure, metaphors, hyperbolies etc. The translations are not inerrant, but they are the best we have. Therefore, it is imperitive that our understanding in english be derived from the language in which the Bible was written, Hebrew and Greek. For example, the word “love” in Greek has seven different meanings, from a eternal love to a brotherly love. I only believe the clearest interpetation of what the Scripture says, and desire to conform my life to that.
As to believing what you want, we cannot fall into the trap of postmodernity which shrugs off absolute truth- You believe what you want, I’ll believe what I want. There must be absolute truth, or there is no distinction between us and animals - survival of the fittest. The Scriptures are clear, God created.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but Christianity is completely antithetical to macro-evolution. If the Bible is true, God created a man, then a woman from a man, in the Garden of Eden. Maybe you’ve heard of Adam and Eve.
Christians believe that man fell from grace with God when Adam ate from the wrong tree after God told him not to. That act of disobedience left all of mankind doomed — each man and woman since then is born in sin — because of the “original sin.” The “wages of sin,” as Christianity holds, is death. Jesus was sent to Earth to redeem man from that original sin, assuming one accepts him in his heart. That is Christianity in a nutshell.
Only an idiot believes this nonsense. Evolution is a “theory” by definition, but it is a solid one backed by several disciplines in science. Evolution disproves the mythology of the Adam and Eve story, and in doing so, destroys the notion of “original sin.” Which means there was no need for a redeemer. Case closed.