25 Oct '13 13:12>1 edit
Originally posted by Rank outsiderWhether you think i have proved it to your satisfaction or otherwise really is irrelevant, the fact is that Jesus taught others that human beings were created from their inception through a direct act of God, it really is that straightforward. The animals are an entirely different creation as Genesis points out. If you wish to hypothesis and speculate that God used the evolutionary process to do this then please cite an example of it from scripture, for Genesis mentions no such idea.
Actually, I don’t think you have proved this claim as yet.
You claimed that Mathew 19:4 demonstrated that Jesus denies the possibility that evolution was the process by which humankind came into existence.
You focused on the word ‘created’. You posted:
[quote]"Did you not read that he [b]who created them from [the] beginning made them mal ...[text shortened]... n.
So, as yet, nothing you have cited means that evolution and Christianity are incompatible.[/b]
Stating that created can mean different things in different contexts does not negate the fact that humans from their inception were a distinct creation from animals, from their inception as Genesis points out, thus, the ideas of evolution and Biblical creation are mutually exclusive from this mere fact alone.
That God has used other agencies, agencies that are actually mentioned does not necessitate that he has used the hypothesised evolutionary process, the only other agencies that are mentioned in scripture are the Holy spirit and Jesus Christ, when you have evidence of any others, let me know.