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Talk:Extraterrestrial life (view source)
Revision as of 17:59, September 1, 2008
, 17:59, September 1, 2008→Salvation rules out extra-terrestrial life?: (Think I got it)
:::::OK, forgive my ignorance, but then what's the problem with committing your life to Christ and still believing in evolution? Is it a morality issue? Is it that God is less great if people believe that He didn't have a direct hand in our creation?--[[User:Frey|Frey]] 11:08, 26 August 2008 (EDT)
:::::OK, forgive my ignorance, but then what's the problem with committing your life to Christ and still believing in evolution? Is it a morality issue? Is it that God is less great if people believe that He didn't have a direct hand in our creation?--[[User:Frey|Frey]] 11:08, 26 August 2008 (EDT)
:::::: It's a number of things. If you don't believe what the Bible clearly says, then your faith is likely to be weakened, especially if an atheist (for example) challenges you on it. The accounts of people losing their faith because they accept the anti-biblical atheist origins myth that is evolution are legion. Further, Christians are supposed to witness to others. That witness is badly weakened if they show that they don't believe the very book they profess to believe. Another one is what you touch on. If you believe that God used evolution to create, you are more likely to believe that God merely started the whole process off and then let it be, rather than being intimately involved in a personal way. [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 11:15, 1 September 2008 (EDT)
:::::: It's a number of things. If you don't believe what the Bible clearly says, then your faith is likely to be weakened, especially if an atheist (for example) challenges you on it. The accounts of people losing their faith because they accept the anti-biblical atheist origins myth that is evolution are legion. Further, Christians are supposed to witness to others. That witness is badly weakened if they show that they don't believe the very book they profess to believe. Another one is what you touch on. If you believe that God used evolution to create, you are more likely to believe that God merely started the whole process off and then let it be, rather than being intimately involved in a personal way. [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 11:15, 1 September 2008 (EDT)
:::::::So they can be Christians, but they can't very effective Christians; do I have that right?
:::::::Thanks for taking the time for me, by the way. I suspect that explaining religion to me is a challenge along the lines of explaining color to a blind man.--[[User:Frey|Frey]] 13:59, 1 September 2008 (EDT)
I do not think that we necessarily need a God to decide what is "wicked." There is no reason for me to think that if you, Phillip, lost your faith, you would suddenly just go around murdering people. Of course you wouldn't!
I do not think that we necessarily need a God to decide what is "wicked." There is no reason for me to think that if you, Phillip, lost your faith, you would suddenly just go around murdering people. Of course you wouldn't!