Today we find many christians who beleive in evelution. Oh they beleive God created, but by means of evelution. The Geneses narrative is just a story, to them, given by God to people who couldent understand it all fully.
Now I coulder care less how God created, whether He took six seconds, minets, 600 years, etc. That we are created is what matters. OK thus far Theistic evolutunionists and I agree.
Now as reguards to evolution. I'm quite amazed at how many scientists, not just creationists, see a problem with the whole theory of evolution. So we can say, for many scientists, the jury is still out on this one. It still remains a theory, one thats mathamaticaly immpossible. Just work out the odds for all evolutionists claim!
But many christions dont want to appear dumb in this world, beleiving evolution must be true, after all its taught in universities, so they hold to evolution as God's way of creating. But, "Houston we have a problem." These same christians also beleive that God dosent lie. After all they accept His Word that He loves them.
Why does God say six days? Why pick this time scale? Maybe He actualy did creat in six days, a time scale we could grasp and understand. To presume God had to creat through evolutionary proccess and time scale, is limiting God to our modern scientific preferance. So we might fit in with the world view.
God spoke and creation happened, Being God He could use any time scale He wants.
However, His Word says "six days". He wants us to beleive what He tells us, He is love, Jesus died for our sins, rose from the grave, is comming back again, etc. So, if He wants us to beleive His Word, why start with a lie? Does God lie, mislead us? Was evolution, so-called, just too difficult for God (Who is God) to explain? Holding this view is to limit God.
I study theology a lot, love it, it makes me realise our God is an amazing big God. His being and power is quite beyond our finite minds. But I trust Him (being God) to tell the truth. If He dosent, we are totaly lost my friends, without any solid hope.
So God says "six days", why He did it in this time scale I have no idea? But He says He did! Soo friends, does God lie? Why should He lie? He after all is God!
Wednesday, 31 October 2012
Friday, 26 October 2012
Christian Love...does it exist today?
I'm not here attacking "Christian Love" or saying its not obtainable, or even truely shown, by some.
But feel, in general, christians preach this doctrine but have real difficulties in living it. I often have to observe that there is as much love in a pub (bar) as is found in the church.
We study the subject and agree we christians should be more loving than others. Sadly we like to show love while holding to the high ground. By this I mean, to be seen as loving, reasonable, christians. We find it hard, to seek to show love, as failures in this love.
Of course 1 Corinthians chapter 13 is the great passage on christian love. Honestly read and digested it shows christianity of today as sadly laking.
We have fellowship, yes, but often not based on true love.
1. Theological Love.
Here we have a love and respect for those in our theological grouping, thinking, preference. But those who dont think as we do are outside this love type. The brother is "sound" or "is in error".
2. Evangelism Love.
This can be towards a group who share a mission. "We are in it together" sort of thing. But away from the commen aim/task we have little in commen.
I have known people not wanting to be in contact when I have, seemingly, moved from a theological position that they prefer. I guess love never really existed there?
I have known people, who love to be around you when you are the flavour of the month. Who stear clear if you fall from favour.
If I do nothing else in this post, I want to challenge us in reguards to true christian love in the evengelical community? What is "True christian love?", "Are we seeing it?" "Are we showing it?"
The love Bible speaks of it, sacrificial, humbling, honest, all consuming. It it the Feet Washing love, the love that exchanges Heaven for the cross. It is a love that lays down its life for a none deserving other.
I think I have said enough for the present, let others comment, add their thinking.
But feel, in general, christians preach this doctrine but have real difficulties in living it. I often have to observe that there is as much love in a pub (bar) as is found in the church.
We study the subject and agree we christians should be more loving than others. Sadly we like to show love while holding to the high ground. By this I mean, to be seen as loving, reasonable, christians. We find it hard, to seek to show love, as failures in this love.
Of course 1 Corinthians chapter 13 is the great passage on christian love. Honestly read and digested it shows christianity of today as sadly laking.
We have fellowship, yes, but often not based on true love.
1. Theological Love.
Here we have a love and respect for those in our theological grouping, thinking, preference. But those who dont think as we do are outside this love type. The brother is "sound" or "is in error".
2. Evangelism Love.
This can be towards a group who share a mission. "We are in it together" sort of thing. But away from the commen aim/task we have little in commen.
I have known people not wanting to be in contact when I have, seemingly, moved from a theological position that they prefer. I guess love never really existed there?
I have known people, who love to be around you when you are the flavour of the month. Who stear clear if you fall from favour.
If I do nothing else in this post, I want to challenge us in reguards to true christian love in the evengelical community? What is "True christian love?", "Are we seeing it?" "Are we showing it?"
The love Bible speaks of it, sacrificial, humbling, honest, all consuming. It it the Feet Washing love, the love that exchanges Heaven for the cross. It is a love that lays down its life for a none deserving other.
I think I have said enough for the present, let others comment, add their thinking.
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