RE: How can a Christian reject part of the Bible and still call themselves a Christian?
February 11, 2014 at 9:22 am
I would point out that the verses following Matthew 5:17-19 are even stricter than "the law." Jesus spends the next several verses telling the crowd that if they thought the law was strict, they ain't seen nothin' yet. The law made it wrong to do certain things, but Jesus said that the intent was now sufficient to damn a person. Jesus wasn't destroying the tenth commandment, he was expanding it.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
