Grand Canyon Revies, Part 2
Until we appreciate what God has revealed in the last 200 years about how everything was actually created and why death at all levels is necessary—until we GET that—we can't help but belittle God and trivialize the core concepts of our faith.
For example, you can't possibly know how God created the heavens and Earth if you don't understand supernovas. You can't know how God created soil, lakes, oceans, and mountains if you don't understand glaciers and plate tectonics. And only by understanding extinctions and why they're essential for the emergence of complex life could we learn how God created us.
Moses, King David, Jesus, and the Apostle Paul couldn't have possibly known how God created everything. Prior to 200 years ago, mythic beliefs were as good as you could get. A thousand Einsteins living a thousand years ago—or even just a few hundred years ago—couldn't have known about extinctions, evolution, glaciers, plate tectonics, and supernovas. We needed telescopes, microscopes, and the scientific method before God could reveal those things.
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Science reveals more of "God's ways", "God's word", and "God's will" for today than the biblical writers could have ever hoped to. And if any of them were alive today they'd be the first to shout "Amen!"
Darwin didn't kill off God. He gave us the first glimpse of the real Creator behind and beyond all the world's mythic portrayals of the divine.
Claiming that evolution is of the devil and that all the evils of the world can be attributed to Darwin, as many creationists do, is by definition blasphemous. It is labeling as evil that which is actually divine.
When we value what God revealed thousands of years ago over what God is revealing today, we inevitably betray our Creator. We also belittle the gospel, and we risk condemning our children and grandchildren to a literal hell on Earth.
Also see: Grand Canyon Revies, Part 1: Christians
Questions
I have a few questions.
You say that Religion and Evolution go hand in hand, yet you never use scripture to back you up. So how are we supposed to know that what you are saying is true?
-In Genesis where God is creating the universe it said that he made all of the creatures to their own kinds.
-It also says in John that the word is truth. (John 17:17)
So(and assuming you believe the bible to be true) as a christian doesn't that mean that what God says is truth, and not what we think to be true.
Also i have a scientific question for you.
When planting a tree you cannot put to much soil up the tree trunk or it will die, correct?
So how is it that there are full grown trees in the Grand Canyon?
-They could not have grown there, which suggests that something catastrophic happened.
-The flood for example.
You also said: "Moses, King David, Jesus, and the Apostle Paul couldn't have possibly known how God created everything. Prior to 200 years ago, mythic beliefs were as good as you could get. A thousand Einsteins living a thousand years ago—or even just a few hundred years ago—couldn't have known about extinctions, evolution, glaciers, plate tectonics, and supernovas. We needed telescopes, microscopes, and the scientific method before God could reveal those things"
In the bible it says that the scripture is "God Breathed", meaning it is his words, not our own that make scripture true. it also says that it(scripture) is profitable, and can be used for teaching, reproof,correction, and training in righteousness. (2 Timothy 3:16)
Also in John 1:1-6 it says that the word(being Jesus) was with God and the word was God, and all things were made through him.
These two verses bring me to my next question. if the bible is God breathed, and Jesus was in the beginning and all things were made through him, how can you possibly say that "Moses, King David, Jesus, and the Apostle Paul couldn't have possibly known how God created everything". That contradicts the bible.
-Just so you know, the bible was written over 1600 years, and there is not one single contradiction.
To be very frank here, your whole theory contradicts the bible. You cannot take it back to scripture to prove it true.
Let's not find answers in ourselves to questions we can not possibly answer on our own.
-If I asked you how you know what your name was you could say it is on your birth certificate, or some other document or person other than yourself. Just because you say something doesn't make it true
Pleasing people should not be your ministry. Spreading the truth should be your ministry.
John 14:6 "And Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life, and no one comes to the father except through me"
-Although it may seem harsh to tell people with out Jesus they will go to hell, it's entirely necessary. There is more than one side to the story.
Jesus came to earth to bear our sin and and take our punishment on the cross. He knew you before you were born and he has a plan for you.
-Evolution believes that human life is just any other animal's life. There is no hope, when you die your dead.
This is not true. We don't just die we either go to heaven or to hell.
So before you go on "spreading the good news" maybe you should research some actual scripture, so you aren't misleading people.
Also your theory is just that, a theory, don't spread it around like it is truth. That's deciet.
I'll leave you with a few questions.
If we evolved why are there no fossil records of any transitional animals?
If the universe really were billions of years old, how could life have existed at all?
The sun shrinks every year, would it have been possible for any type of life to have existed?
The dust on the moon suggests that the earth is only a few thousand years old, how does evolution explain this?
There is hope in Jesus Christ to all who believe in him. It is not our own speculations, ideas, or irrelevant theories that will grant us paradise. By grace through faith we are saved, and "there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under Heaven given among men by which we must be saved." (Acts 4:12)
We are here for a purpose, and that purpose is to serve God.