Don't speak for me pal. What you describe sounds more like a wayward Christian, not a "thinking" Christian. I choose to put my trust in God, not science. If God wanted the end result to be a human, why make us evolve from a lizard or monkey? Your way of thinking doesn't hold water. You're trying to use science to strengthen your faith. It doesn't work that way. Faith is believing, even in the absence of proof....taking something at face value without substantial evidence. By your way of thinking, our God is not a personal being, but some faceless super power randomly creating life around the universe. You might as well be worshiping Zeus.
I think man started being kind right after the cavemen. If you are to believe the Geico commercials. :lol:
I have said a dozen times that faith is belief in something in the absence of proof. We don't look to science for proof, but for understanding. I also put my trust in God, and in my Church. But science also has credibility because God created the laws of nature just as he created nature itself. To say you have to believe in God or science is to create a false delemma. God is the author of ALL truth, whether it be theological truth, scriptural truth or scientific truth, and His truths cannot contradict each other because God cannot contradict himself. God is the supreme being of the universe and He is as personal as we want him to be. This does not make me a "wayward" Christian. It makes me a Christian who is open to all the truths, and in all the manifestations of truth, that God has shown us in this world.
You didn't answer my question. If God wanted the end result to be a human, why make us evolve from a lizard or monkey? Molding God into something we want Him to be, and ignoring who He says He is in his own word, the Bible, is the same as idolatry. It's no different than creating a golden calf to worship. We can not change what God has said just to make us feel better about ourselves. God is the Word, and the Word is God. Genesis, Chapter 1 Genesis, Chapter 2 "Theistic evolution is no different from atheistic evolution. God is simply added to the story. Christians who believe God used evolution accept what the atheistic view tells them, and then add God to the situation and re-interpret the Bible. Understanding the nature of man, that he is sinful and biased against God and that “there is none righteous, no not one,” any view concerning the origin of life which has a consensus of opinion among non- Christians should at least be suspect. As the Bible is the Word of God—the God who knows everything, who has always been there, who does not tell a lie—everything we believe and think must be judged against God’s Word. To understand any area of life we must have a Christian philosophy, which means we must start with the words of God, who was there, and not the words of men who were not." http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/the-lie/appendix1.asp “Choose you this day whom you will believe: the words of men who are sinful creatures, who were not there, or the words of God who knows everything, who was there, and who has revealed to us all we need to know.”
I just find it funny that someone who supports the genocide of Muslims is calling someone else a wayward Christian.
