Sunday, May 15, 2011

Evolution = Bad Theology (My hack at it.)

Now I’m not a scientist and really haven’t put much study into geology or paleo-zoology or what ever but the beef have with one day being a thousand years or a million years, (in regards to the creation), is really a theological one…

Romans 5
12 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned--
13 for until the Law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam .…


(And notice not before him)

…until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.
15 But the free gift is not like the transgression. For if by the transgression of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.
16 The gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned; for on the one hand the judgment arose from one transgression resulting in condemnation, but on the other hand the free gift arose from many transgressions resulting in justification.
17 For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.


So…
If I’m supposed to understand that a day was longer than a literal day, i.e. many many years, then I'm supposed to believe that death was in the world long before an event called “The Fall”.

I can’t buy off and that and remain doctrinally sound.

I’m told the world before the Fall was judged by God as, “…It is good.” (Gen. 1:31)
Not so after the Fall…

Genesis 3
17 Then to Adam He said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat from it'; Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
18 "Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; And you will eat the plants of the field;
19 By the sweat of your face you will eat bread, till you return to the ground, because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return."


Things changed.
What? I’m supposed to believe that before this, in a world pronounced by God was “good”, had dinosaurs and sauropods and Jurassic fish…stuff…things… dying and eating each other and getting caught in the La Brea tar pits?

Well, I don’t think a world like that is good and I don’t think you do either and I don’t think God does either.

What kind of a world does God think is “good”?
Well, first thing, He’ll get rid of one bothersome nuisance…

1 Corinthians 15:26
The last enemy that will be abolished is death.

Revelation 20:14
Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

No dying. No T-Rexes chowing on some Brachiosaur or even Bengal Tigers mauling anything.
The whole animal kingdom will be vegetarian (Isa 6:11).
If a world pronounced “good” by God had no death before why would He set it up to have none in the Millennium?
(Well, within parameters, [Isaiah 65:20]. But that can be a whole different topic. "The Millennium".)

Anyway…
I have no idea if evolution is good science or not.
I got friends that say it isn’t.

But I know it’s bad theology.

And that’s why Christians shouldn’t believe in “Theistic Evolution”.

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