RE: Why I'm Still a Christian
February 25, 2015 at 8:05 pm
(This post was last modified: February 25, 2015 at 8:06 pm by JesusHChrist.)
Lek, it's a progression and it seems like you're moving toward reality - good for you.
After all of the evolution stuff begins to digest, you might consider how the fact of evolution and common descent jibes with original sin. I know the more liberal Christian types have some apologetic for it, but to an outsider, it doesn't make a lick of sense. There never was an Adam and Eve cavorting together nekkid in some garden in the middle east. DNA shows humans came from central Africa and there were never less than about 7000 of us. Species as a spectrum over time.... Again, the record is in the DNA.
Our "Adam" and our "Eve" never met and were apart in both time and geography. Hard to get them sinnin' without ever meeting. Without original sin, no need for Jesus and so the sweater unravels. Unless original sin is just a metaphor for humans being naughty, but did Jesus then die for a metaphor?
But, one step at a time. Or thread as the case may be. Before you know it, you'll have a pile on the ground.
After all of the evolution stuff begins to digest, you might consider how the fact of evolution and common descent jibes with original sin. I know the more liberal Christian types have some apologetic for it, but to an outsider, it doesn't make a lick of sense. There never was an Adam and Eve cavorting together nekkid in some garden in the middle east. DNA shows humans came from central Africa and there were never less than about 7000 of us. Species as a spectrum over time.... Again, the record is in the DNA.
Our "Adam" and our "Eve" never met and were apart in both time and geography. Hard to get them sinnin' without ever meeting. Without original sin, no need for Jesus and so the sweater unravels. Unless original sin is just a metaphor for humans being naughty, but did Jesus then die for a metaphor?
But, one step at a time. Or thread as the case may be. Before you know it, you'll have a pile on the ground.
