KingJ said:
I don't believe you have thought much on this.
Debunk / convince me I am wrong on my three arguments and you will convert me.
1. How is the bible not recent fairytale dogma if you believe intelligent man is 30k - 300k - 800k BC? It took God 293 000 or so years to choose an Abraham? To decide the world needs to hear from Him? To kick start His plan for mankind's redemption...
2. How is the cross not a joke if mankind's intelligence is evolving? Did Jesus die for Adam's monkey father? Who exactly did Jesus die for? If monkeys too, why are we not witnessing to monkeys and especially their offspring? We know He died for our sins, so what are these sins that we can commit that evolving man could not commit? Did Jesus die for Neanderthals? Heidelberg man? What makes us accountable for sin if not intelligence?
3. How is God not implicated in evil with natural selection? If evil cannot be traced to us and angels, God is implicated. So how is God excused on this?
Convert you to what? Aren't you already a Christian?
1. God does everything HE wants, whenever HE wants, and in whatever manner HE wants and He doesn't need you to understand. The most recent archaeological finds are of cities that are about 10,000 years old which indicates that man, whom God created, is even older.
2. That question doesn't make sense. I have never suggested that Adam's father was a monkey or that man's intelligence is "evolving." Man's knowledge and understanding of the universe is growing but knowledge and understanding are not the same as intelligence.
3. That doesn't make sense either. Man (Adam)
chose to sin and sin entered the world. Natural selection has nothing to do with man's free will choice to attempt to be a god through knowledge rather than to be united to The One God.
I see absolutely no reason to challenge the Biblical teaching that God created everything and that man is unique in being the only creature made in God's image and likeness.
I see absolutely no reason to believe that anything happened by random chance without the direction of the will of God.
Are you proposing that I believe the universe to be only about 6000 years old?
Are you proposing that the Bible is a book of natural history rather than the revelation of God to man?