Theistic evolutionists can shoehorn their way into the creeds. What they cannot do is say as Hitler said, "This planet will once again follow its orbit through space devoid of humanity." That's what contradicts the universal creed of the Second Coming. Usually theistic evolutionists don't do that, and even Tipler's Big Crunch is intended to be consistent with some thoughts of the Second Coming.
If theistic evolutionists want to handwave away both most of Genesis 1-11 and "by one man came death", even though Jesus says Adam was historical, they have a double shoehorn because they have to fit a bunch of alternate reading in and they have to deny aspects of evolution as well. They affirm humanity has meaning and received a spark of divinity, which is not intended by evolution at all and adds to its improbability, and they also must theorize that prior primates did not count as sapient and so some creatures are below others in the same interfertility group. Obviously today we call that racism, and I don't think Adam was racist against any primates he was related to.
So, while I'm not silent about by objections and criticisms, I'm not going to say old-earth contradicts the creeds, it just has to be very cagy about its interpretations. But future dooming does contradict the creeds.
Doesnt the rapture mean some humans will be transported from Earth while others are left to perish? Wouldn't that mean Earth will be without humanity someday?
Theistic evolutionists can shoehorn their way into the creeds. What they cannot do is say as Hitler said, "This planet will once again follow its orbit through space devoid of humanity." That's what contradicts the universal creed of the Second Coming. Usually theistic evolutionists don't do that, and even Tipler's Big Crunch is intended to be consistent with some thoughts of the Second Coming.
If theistic evolutionists want to handwave away both most of Genesis 1-11 and "by one man came death", even though Jesus says Adam was historical, they have a double shoehorn because they have to fit a bunch of alternate reading in and they have to deny aspects of evolution as well. They affirm humanity has meaning and received a spark of divinity, which is not intended by evolution at all and adds to its improbability, and they also must theorize that prior primates did not count as sapient and so some creatures are below others in the same interfertility group. Obviously today we call that racism, and I don't think Adam was racist against any primates he was related to.
So, while I'm not silent about by objections and criticisms, I'm not going to say old-earth contradicts the creeds, it just has to be very cagy about its interpretations. But future dooming does contradict the creeds.
Doesnt the rapture mean some humans will be transported from Earth while others are left to perish? Wouldn't that mean Earth will be without humanity someday?
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