Thursday, August 04, 2005
Consistency
Does anyone out there know anything about the Catholic church’s view on the account of creation in Genesis? Yesterday I was listening to Bill O’Reilly discuss the President’s statement that public schools should, in the spirit of exposing kids to both sides of a debate, teach intelligent design. O’Reilly stated that the Catholic church, to which he belongs, adopts the view that God used the process of evolution to create mankind. I conducted a brief search online and found that this appears to be true. It would seem to me that you’d have to completely discount the biblical view of creation in Genesis, that God formed Adam and Eve out of dust and Adam’s rib, respectively, if you adopt the view that God set into motion the evolutionary process to create the human race. I realize that other Christians, and Christian organizations, hold this view as well, but it seems rather inconsistent with the scripture. Either you believe what the bible says, or you don’t. What’s with this middle-of-the-road approach? How can we ever suppose to start with human reasoning, try to mix it with God's word, and come up with Truth? Man is finite and God is infinite.
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Check out www.catholic.com for info on what they actually believe. Be aware, this is a Catholic apologetics site and if you aren't careful it can pull you in. They are very persuasive.
The official doctrine they have listed there is that the church doesn't know exactly what happened, but if it was chance, it was God using chance. The same with evolution of man, although they will say that at some point God specially created man's soul. That didn't evolve.
God as creator has been under attack since the fall. As God asked Job, "where were you when I created?". We should start with the very first 4 words of the English Bible - "In the Beginning God". Think on those words first. Before God created the heavens and earth, before the earth was formless and darkness was over the surface and the Spirit of God hovered over the waters, God was! Search on the scriptures on those thoughts!
As Amy pointed out, its kind of hard to square evolution with the Bible showing God’s hands in all things, especially the creation of life. An example is seen in the foreordination of Jeremiah to be a prophet:
“Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the Nations.”
--Jeremiah 1:5
Seems pretty clear to me.
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