Originally Posted by garnet13aj
How do you feel about evolution. According to my roomate who went to a Catholic high school and took an extensive religion class there, the official Catholic stance is that evolution did occur. But how do you feel and why. And if you don't believe in evolution, can you give an extremely basic description of what you think it is.
Firstly, I'm not Catholic. In the general Christian population, Catholics are regarded as being "too liberal and flexible" of all the denominations. I say that, because much of what they say as their “doctrine” is in direct conflict of what the bible says. I won't go into it too much, but “evolution” is a prime example.
Take these verses from Genesis for example. These are the only ones that really apply to what you're asking… You can read all the in-betweens, but you will see they don't really add or take away from anything we're talking about.
Originally Posted by New International Version (easier to read than KJV)
Genisis Chapter 1: 26-29
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground-everything that has the breath of life in it-I give every green plant for food." And it was so.
And in Genisis Chapter 2:18,22-23
18 The LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him."
22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
23 The man said, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called 'woman', for she was taken out of man."
OK, based on these scriptures alone, ANYONE who claims they are a Christian and “believes” in the bible in its entirety - and says they believe in EVOLUTION is, for a lack of a better word - Illiterate.
Notice how Adam "spoke" in verse 23 as soon as the woman was made. This is because he was a fully developed PERSON.
Let's pick it apart if you will.
“Let us make man in our image”
us is widely accepted to be in reference to the God Trinity. Father/Son/Holy spirit.
John Chapter 1: 1-3 Explains this pretty clearly.
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 He was with God in the beginning.
3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
He is simply stating that the Son (Jesus) existed from the beginning of time. This is the main scripture that declares Jesus as being God himself.
Anyway, not trying to go in the “Jesus” direction, but it does apply.
When God said “us” and then “our image”, he was simply saying he created man on the spot. And immediately says that man will “rule over” pretty much everything.
If God create “man” in his image… then we couldn't have “evolved” from plankton… or whatever.
Keep in mind, this all happened on the sixth day.
Genisis 1:31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning-the sixth day.
Evening/Morning… day 6. Not millions of years of evolving. I know people say all the time that Gods time is not our time, but… it was pretty clear that this was just “a day”. And by day 7, he was “Finished” with everything.
I don't know. It's kind of hard to interpretate these writing any other way, other than “No, we didn't evolve, we were created.”
But again, that is just a big pill you have to swallow.
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