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To: BuckeyeForever
Most try to reconcile their acceptance of evolution and their religious faith, which personally is not possible, in my opinion

That's an interesting comment. Why do you think it is not possible?

13 posted on 06/26/2008 11:46:44 PM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Darwinism!)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode

Christianity is based upon the notion that Jesus died for the sins of man, and that personal salvation and eternal life is obtained through acceptance of Jesus as the savior. Central to this belief is the story of the creation of man/woman in Genesis, which describes how the naughty Adam and Eve ticked off God, the result of which was “original sin” as Christians call it. Jesus provided all of man with salvation from the “original sin” of Adam. This is well-documented in Scripture. Jesus himself wasa Jew, of course, and he is described in the Bible as a believer in, and teacher of, “the Law,” which of course was the Torah, which contains the Adam and Eve fable.

Thus Christianity is premised upon the link between Adam and Jesus. The Catholic Catechism, for example, describes how the Adam and Eve story must be accepted literally, not just metaphorically. Without Adam’s fall from grace, there is no reason for a Savior.

Granted, Christians who do not believe that the Bible is literally true can rationalize that the creation of man described in Genesis is metaphor, and that God actually created bacteria and left it to natural selection to work out the gradual evolution of man about 16 billion years later, but that doesn’t seem to show much interest on God’s part, nor especially does it explain original sin and a need for a Savior.


22 posted on 06/27/2008 12:25:18 AM PDT by BuckeyeForever
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