(December 6, 2019 at 6:07 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: I've never gotten the conflict between the Bible and evolution. So God created a man out of dust and breathed life (or a soul?) into him. If you're not committed to it happened in an instant like magic, evolution gets you from dust (microbes) to people. The Catholics are (officially) fine with evolution being 'how God did it' starting the clock for being human at the point when God added souls. If Catholics can reconcile the Bible and evolution, evangelicals ought to be able to pull it off too.
Well, that's the issue, isn't it? An alarmingly large number of Christians are committed to interpreting the Bible in a totally literal way, thereby forcing them to assume that Adam truly was, literally, born of dust. The Bible doesn't say that he eventually came from dust and evolved into other things that evolved into other things that eventually became a man.... he was made from dust, in god's image. Plain and simple.
If you're frightened of dying, and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the Earth.
