I actually was considering to becoming a scientist before the Lord saved me, and was well read and versed in so called Theistic and Darwinism evolution, and just cannot accept that either view does justice to the scriptures!
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Discussion in 'Creation vs. Evolution' started by Calminian, Apr 5, 2018.
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When I asked if you had read him more broadly than just the five pages on this thread, you posted this.
It looks like you are making the classic mistake of letting someone else think for you. Why is the world would you want to simply trust a scathing review without checking things out for yourself? The review you posted has tremendous value IF you do you own investigation and then carefully consider the reviewers critique's in light of what you have read. Otherwise, you really don't know if the fine folks at the creation.com site are telling the truth or not. If you ONLY listen to people who only affirm your interpretation of scripture (if it was ever truly yours in the first place), you are not being a faithful student of scripture and being a poor disciple of Jesus. A good disciple asks questions and challenges ideas so he or she can be convinced in his or her own mind without having to run to another authority to know what to do.
So when you criticized Walton, you are doing that out of ignorance. Why in the world should that opinion matter to me or anyone else? -
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Regarding the claim that he "does not acknowledge the full inspiration of scripture," do you have a citation from his writings that makes that statement, or something to that effect? -
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And how is pointing out his flaws means the reviewer was 'heavily biased?" -
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Where did you get that idea about Walton’s position? The review you posted says nothing of it? Please provide a clear reference or retract your assertion.
Let’s be clear, I don’t think ANY biblical scholar claims that the ancient cosmologies of the ancient world around Israel are “also valid.” There are huge differences between all of them, even though there is a similarity of structure, questions and concepts that everyone is working with. That is to be expected.
I have not personally read any of Walton’s books, but I have seen him cited approvingly in books that discuss the early Middle Eastern cosmologies. If he fundamentally disagree with the premise of the writer I was reading (Scot McKnight, for instance), I am confident that he would have been called out on it.
Philippians 1:8 NASB
For God is my witness, how I long for you all with the affection [σπλάγχνοις, which is literally, “bowels”] of Christ Jesus.
Philippians 1:8 KJV
For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
I affirm that humankind (and all loving and non-living things) were created by God with His direct interaction. God also created life in such a way that it unfolds in a certain direction and that He nurtures and interacts with His creation. And at some point, God made humankind in His own image, and that was a special act of creation with elements that were already created.
Anyone who claims they can disprove the existence of God (or even the need for God) on the basis of science is either self-deceived, been deceived by popular culture, or is dishonest.
Some people, even Christians, think that the battle for God’s existence is on the field of evolution. But that’s simply muddy and incomplete thinking. Evolution depends upon the existence of material reality, certain conditions, certain basic particles and elements, and (at least) a primitive form of life as a beginning. If evolution is predicated on all of those things, there must exist a Creator or else the physical universe itself must be divine in its self-sustaining nature.
As far as we can observe, matter comes from matter, so at one point going back in time through the Big Bang, there was a time when matter came into existence from something other than itself — we can use the word spirit here, or perhaps Spirit, to express this non-physical reality.
So the idea that someone can use evolution or even “science” to claim there is no God has not really understood the fundamental premises of the question. -
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