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It’s bad for your soul to make false accusations against others.

Spirited: No BroJoeK, it’s very, very bad for your soul to posit a limited God, a miserable deity who is the cause of death and suffering due to the fact that evolution posits millions of prior creatures who lived and died long before the appearance of man.

All conceptions of a limited God in process of becoming (evolving) are Satanic.

You are in process of selling your soul on behalf of natural science and evolution.

spirited irish: "No BroJoeK, it’s very, very bad for your soul to posit a limited God, a miserable deity who is the cause of death and suffering due to the fact that evolution posits millions of prior creatures who lived and died long before the appearance of man."

Is that your real problem?
Are you so deathly afraid, that if you frankly acknowledge what the fossil record clearly shows, your faith in G*d and Christ's salvation will crumble to dust?

Is your faith so weak and fragile?
Is it based on nothing besides the ages of various geological strata?
Let's look directly at this:

"Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned..."
13 To be sure, sin was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not charged against anyone’s account where there is no law.
14 Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command..."

1 Corinthians 15: "For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man.
22 For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive."

So this is it: as near as I can tell, the only place in the entire Bible which says there was "no death" before Adam -- no book or prophet of the Old Testament says it, no Gospel writer (Matthew, Mark, Luke or John) says it, Peter doesn't say it, nor do James or Jude, even Jesus Himself never says it.

Only Paul, so what are we to think of this fellow?
A man of great depth of thinking, and frequent metaphors, he advises us:

"4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity."

So what do you think?
Would you forgive Paul an occasional metaphor, to teach us what it's most important for us to know?

spirited irish: "All conceptions of a limited God in process of becoming (evolving) are Satanic.
You are in process of selling your soul on behalf of natural science and evolution."

Nobody says "God evolves", but His Universe obviously does, and why should it not?
So why, even though I've warned you before, do you continue to falsely accuse me?
Which religion allows you to do that?
Surely not Christianity, FRiend?

Spirited: No BroJoeK, it’s very, very bad for your soul to posit a limited God, a miserable deity who is the cause of death and suffering due to the fact that evolution posits millions of prior creatures who lived and died long before the appearance of man.

It seems to me, spirited Irish, that you're trying to put God in a little box that makes Him small enough for you to comprehend. Astronomical distances and astronomically huge times are apparently beyond you.

Our finite brains cannot really comprehend things that are infinite, such as God.