Thank God for evolution...?

...having been on several blogs in the past few weeks speaking with evolutionists, many of them attempt to proclaim that billions of years of evolution and the Bible are perfectly compatible. Many of these "theistic evolutionists" then ask me to view the following website called "Thank God for Evolution" http://thankgodforevolution.com/. There's the link! Michael Dowd is, in fact, traveling around the nation and speaking to churches about the complete compatibility of evolution and the Bible. His latest trip was to San Diego where he spoke at several Unitarian Universalist congregations.

The interesting thing is that they attack what they call "my" theology. Theistic evolutionists, I'm learning quickly, see God as a moral relativist! Wow! Could you imagine anything more non-Biblical than that? Right away I can't see how they believe in the Bible. What I found out is even more interesting. Many theistic evolutionists take the Biblical accounts as simply allegorical stories to tell a nice tale about something supposedly moral. Interesting, since by listening to them we are supposed to believe that there is perfect compatibility between the interpretations of scientific data leading to a billions of years evolutionary history of death and destruction as the creative force for the biological diversity we see today, and the "very good" creation after day six where there was no death and everything with the "nephesh" ate plants for food! Hmmmmm.

I was even attacked for my belief in the global flood. Apparently, according to the theistic evolutionists, God indiscrimminately killed both the wicked humans and the innocent humans. Again I find it interesting that we are supposed to believe that theistic evolution allows for the compatibility of neo-Darwinism and the Bible when clearly the Bible states that there are no good people and that all have sinned and that all are born with a sin nature! Along these same lines of argument, I was attacked for my mean-spirited view of animals. Apparently the flood lead to the needless death and suffering of countless animals. This theistic evolutionist, believing that all living things from humans to plants and bacteria all evolved from the same single-celled prokaryote, then basically equated humans with animals. Again, how are we supposed to believe the supposition that theistic evolution brings together the billions of years of evolution with the Biblical account? Clearly humans were the only created beings that were made in God's image! None of the other animals or plants were made in God's image. In fact, even some of the animals didn't have the nephesh (remember, nephesh is the Hebrew word for "living creature").

Please be vary wary of theistic evolution as it undermines the Bible. The Bible is supposed to be our basis for belief. We must work hard to develop our Biblical worldview so that any issue that comes our way we can stop and think about how we should think and react based upon Biblical principles.

The "Emerging Church" system is embracing a lot of different things, not the least of which is secular humanism. And secular humanism, as a religion, has placed the theory of evolution in the forefront of their manifesto! Please be wary of this!

Does this mean that a theistic evolutionist is not a Christian? Not necessarily! The age of the earth and the manner of creation are secondary issues to belief in Jesus Christ as the son of God that died on the cross as propitiation for our sins. The latter, not the former, is required to be a believer! Jesus said that he was the way, the truth, and the life, and that none could get to the father except through him! It is the name of Jesus that matters...there is no other name by which we can be saved!