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Creation and Evolution can explain what happened next. If an all powerful creator knew of this event then why would they place such beautiful and intelligent creations to be killed? Instead this all powerful God waited until the Earth was ready before we placed us here in "The Garden of Eden"
Originally posted by littled16
reply to post by theChristianatheist
There are many Christians that believe just what you have so eloquently theorized, I being one of them.
There is little doubt that God's concept of the passage of time does not jive with the human concept of time.
That doesn't bother me a bit. Not my job to second guess "The Big Guy".
Originally posted by ztruthseeker
reply to post by theChristianatheist
With all due respect, im not sure if you understand the stance of evolution in contrast to creation.
Evolution is change over time. That is all it is. Evolution only explains what happens to life once it is there, it does not explain the origins of life and how we got here. Life changes over time, this has been proven to be true. Evolution and creation can co exist, evolution does not threaten creationism. It does however jeopardize creationist mythology, ie: all religion, but not the idea of creation from a supernatural deity per se.
Abiogenesis is the scientific field which investigates the origins of life. This is a new field and its being findings are in its infancy. We have discovered several ways in which life can arise naturally. Unfortunately, we will likely never know our origins, which is to say the specific method upon which life developed naturally, (unless one believes in God of course)
Question: Your name, is it just a name, or do you consider yourself a Christian Atheist? Because that to me seems illogical and contradictory.edit on 21-8-2012 by ztruthseeker because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by WhoKnows100
Your username is Christian Athiest, and you say that you believe in God as a Creator. I have to ask where does scripture fit in? And Christ Jesus? I ask because scripture is clear - that the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob created Adam and Eve from Adam, approximately 6,000 ears ago. No "evolution" of Adamkind has taken place within that timeframe. You must refute this yet call yourself Christian knowing that scripture clearly likens Jesus as a second Adam. There is an unbroken chain of descendants from Adam to Jesus. You either believe that or call scripture a falsehood. Just trying to figure out why you feel the need to justify in your mind an idea generated from the whore of Babylon's false religions? Is it that you are an athiest who wants to believe Jesus, or are you a Christian who wants to stay in Babylon?
Originally posted by abeverage
I will read this later...but I am pretty sure a Christian Atheist is an oxymoron...
Originally posted by windword
reply to post by theChristianatheist
Creation and Evolution can explain what happened next. If an all powerful creator knew of this event then why would they place such beautiful and intelligent creations to be killed? Instead this all powerful God waited until the Earth was ready before we placed us here in "The Garden of Eden"
Why did 1/3 of this "all powerful" God's heavenly population band together to rebel against him? Why did God "plant" the Garden of Eden" on the same planet that he gave to the rebel leader? Why did God leave his children unattended in the garden while Satan defiled them? Why did he allow these "fallen angels" to beguile and rape the daughters of Eve, who gave birth to monsters to who tortured the sons of Adam?
Now, if you say that the God of the Old Testament was the lead scientist, and Eden, Adam and Eve were experiments, I would accept that as a valid theory. If Satan and the angels were members of his team that disagreed with the way it was going and made some changes without his consent, I would accept that as a valid theory. But I can't accept the idea of a GOD stepping foot on planet earth and playing with DNA and have things go so wrong.
I can accept the idea of Jesus being born from a virgin, working miracles and raising from the dead only if the alien theory is in play. I can't accept that God would send his son, through manipulating and innocent and unsuspecting teen age girl productive parts, to have him murdered by an angry mob, to save me from his own wrath.
I think a Christian is someone who follows the teaching of Jesus and the title doesn't require any other prerequisite of belief in the scripture, the God of the OT, the virgin birth, the miracles, or the resurrection. Quakers are a good example of a Christian sect that didn't believe in any of those things, but did believe that Jesus brought the teachings of how to live a life of "bringing heaven to earth." One might call them Christian atheists because they rejected the deification of Jesus, but embraced his teachings.
Originally posted by halfmanhalfamazing
I like your thoughts, although I don't see God as a figure or singular. We are everything, everything exists because we exist. The whole universe with everything in it is us and we are it. Consciousness created all that exists. It is intelligent and knowing. If you look at the world that way it all makes sense.
Peace HMHA
Originally posted by SplitInfinity
reply to post by theChristianatheist
I am happy to see someone who does not think that there is Conflict between Scientific Facts and ones belief in a GOD. I will respect your beliefs but I will ask you these questions. Although it is apparent that you have not completely garnished an understanding of what some of the Science Dictates in your post...you have at least left your mind open for things that some of Faith discount as not true...even though it is.
The main thought I have is that if a person has a soul then once a person has passed...a Soul would not have any restraints of the Human Body thus the concept that some people have of a Heaven in a sense that they will materialize in some Paradise of the Human Minds Concept of what Paradise would be for what they do not realize...a Soul of a person separated from Earthly Constraints would actually be.
I have to laugh when I hear some people say...I will die and go to Heaven and I will have a Body and etc...etc...
This makes no sense as well as a concept of HELL. If we were Created by a GOD through whatever process and Evolution is no longer a Theory but a FACT as we have mapped not only the Human Genome but many, many other species and we all have in common a Specific Viral DNA that is within all species as this is leftover DNA from a Virus that Infected the First Group of Single Celled Animals. A virus has DNA but is not alive. The people who won the Nobel Award for their work in Virology won in the CHEMISTRY CATEGORY as a VIRUS is NOT LIVING but yet it is a very good way to show people how something that is just a Molecule can act very much in the same way LIFE DOES! Thus...this encoding in all life forms of this SPECIFIC VIRAL DNA...PROVES the fact we ALL CAME FROM THE SAME SINGLE CELLED ANIMAL and all life on Earth EVOLVED from that First Animal.
So if there is a GOD and this GOD used EVOLUTION to CREATE HUMANS than even with Free Will...this GOD gave us the ability to make EVIL CHOICES as well as GOOD CHOICES. Thus there can be no HELL as it is not our fault that we were made this way. PLUS...if you get into QUANTUM MECHANICS and DIVERGENT ALTERNATE UNIVERSAL REALITIES...as the particles that make us up such as the Protons and Neutrons in the Nucleus of an Atoms that make up our Body...these Protons and Neutrons are made of Smaller Quantum Particles such as Quarks, Gluons, Leptons...etc. These particles like say a QUARK are in a constant state of NUMERICAL AND UNIVERSAL EXISTING FLUX...as the number of Quarks inside a Proton or Neutron can exist in any numerical Quantity as long as it is not greater than a specific Maximum or less than a certain Minimum. In between these...they can exist in any number and BLINK IN AND OUT of our Universal Existence. This means that there is a MULTIVERSE. Within a Multiverse every possible version of YOU or ME EXISTS thus there is a version of you and I that are Good and a version of You and I that are EVIL. As well as every variation of in between ratio's of how good or evil or neither. THUS...a MULTIVERSE means EVERY POSSIBILITY MUST EXIST. Thus there is a Universal Reality with a GOD and there is a Universal Reality without a GOD as well as Universes with variations we cannot begin to understand. Split Infinity