RE: Our role(s) as Christians on Atheist Forums
May 18, 2018 at 3:12 pm
(This post was last modified: May 18, 2018 at 3:55 pm by Catholic_Lady.)
God's concern isn't with matters of science or math lol. He's concerned with matters of spirituality and our eternal souls. Math/science are completely different and unrelated topics from the topic of spiritiality. His goal wasn't to teach us about things of the natural world (we can figure those out on our own), but to teach us about the supernatural world and what is relevant to it.
The story of Genesis is thousands of years old. It had to be written in a way that any person from any time period or walk of life could understand the underlying, relevent message.
The message is that there is a God, all creation goes back to Him, and that we as human beings have the knowledge of and the choice to do good or to do evil... and that the human condition is flawed (meaning none of us are perfect, we are all bound to behave immorally at some point if given the chance).
^That is the underlying message that is relevant to what God was trying to relay to us. It wouldn't have made any sense to go into evolution and biology, especially thousands of years ago when no one would have understood, and the important message would have been lost.
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The story of Genesis is thousands of years old. It had to be written in a way that any person from any time period or walk of life could understand the underlying, relevent message.
The message is that there is a God, all creation goes back to Him, and that we as human beings have the knowledge of and the choice to do good or to do evil... and that the human condition is flawed (meaning none of us are perfect, we are all bound to behave immorally at some point if given the chance).
^That is the underlying message that is relevant to what God was trying to relay to us. It wouldn't have made any sense to go into evolution and biology, especially thousands of years ago when no one would have understood, and the important message would have been lost.
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"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh
