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You cannot be Christian and believe in evolution. Yes or no?

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    2 years ago

    There's no use believing IN evolution. It won't do anything for us, and there's no reason to trust it.

    But accepting that evolution happened is just accepting what Christians have traditionally accepted: that the material universe bears witness to God's creative power. There is overwhelming evidence that all known life on this planet shares a common descent. It's proven, twice over.

    Most Christians grasp this. And I worry about the ones who don't, because they are saying that God's process of creation is subject to his having strictly reported every step of it to them, and God is forbidden to have included any process they don't approve. That doesn't seem all that Christian to me.

  • 2 years ago

    That is not true, no. Just because you interpret Genesis in a literal manner which is not compatible with evolution, that does not mean that other Christians do so.

  • 2 years ago

    I wouldn't go that far. When a person becomes a new Christian, God considers them a spiritual baby. They're not expected to have the maturity yet to realize that they've been hoodwinked if they happen to have fallen for the evolutionism lie. Now after some time, God expects some spiritual growth (Heb 5:12), and if they are still believing that lie, he might have a problem with that.

    If a person expresses interest in becoming a Christian, I don't ask them any sort of evolution test question that they have to pass before I show them from the Bible what it takes to become a Christian.

  • Evolution is proven scientific fact, with corroborating evidence across all fields of study. There is literally millions of independent datum that prove that evolution IS THE process by which life on earth adapts, mutates, and diversifies.

    The "bible" is a book of myths, legends, fables, and stories from 3300-2000 years ago, largely plagiarized from older myth cycles, and this is a proven fact.

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  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    "Evolution" is a lie, and it is calling Jesus a liar. Because Jesus confirmed Adam and Eve as literal.

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    The truth is that death leads to immediate heaven or hell, depending only on whether the person believed in Jesus for eternal life, or not.

    The truth is that Jesus loves you and wants to bless your life freely :) Most of all, Jesus wants you with Him forever, and not in hell. The truth is that every belief except one will lead to eternal torment in the lake of fire for every person. Because nothing pays for our sins except the death and blood of Jesus, the sacrifice of Jesus that is already accomplished by Him . Jesus loves you! The truth is that Jesus is God, and Jesus died on the cross to pay for all of our sins in full, and then Jesus resurrected from the dead. Nothing else pays for our sins, not works, not deeds, not religions. So the only way to heaven and to avoid hell, is by believing in Jesus for eternal life (John 6:47), without adding any of your own works (Romans 4:5). Believe in Jesus to take you to heaven, and you will be in heaven, no matter what, guaranteed. That easy, thanks to Jesus! Tell Jesus that you thank Him that you will be with Him in heaven when you die, because you believe in Jesus! It is too late to be saved, after death

  • 2 years ago

    False.

    People deny evolution because they haven't figured out that the Genesis passage was written to people who were herding sheep 3000 years ago. These sheep herders did not know about quantum relativity, string theory, Higg's boson or time frames of billions of years. The purpose of the Genesis account is about who (God) made the Universe, not about when or how He made it.

    The Time line of Creation

    http://www.rareuniverse.org/timeline.html

    Aren't Christians supposed to believe that God never lies. People even say that God cannot lie. If that is true, God would never have left evidence that Earth is billions of years old, unless it actually was billions of years old.

  • 2 years ago

    Considering most Christians accept the overwhelming evidence for evolution yes, you can be a Christian and believe in evolution. The question is why would you want to? Be a Christian that is. Seriously why would you believe that nonsense in the Bible is true?

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    Since no god exists to say otherwise, you can be any kind of Christian you want. Any other Christian who disagrees are the real false Christians.

    Edit:

    "God exists but okay."

    But does one exist to say otherwise? Consider the fact that you had to ask humans and not a god.

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    No, most Christians around the word realize evolution is proven to be true. It's mostly just ignorant American fundies that deny it.

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    IMO YES CUZ WE BELEIVE GOD NOT MEN...men dk more than GOD!! GOD SPOKE TO MAKE ALL LIFE...NO NEED for theories.

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