10 Dangers of Theistic Evolution

 I will be writing about the dangers of theistic evolution. This ties in with the last lesson, except the last lesson was about how evolution couldn't be theistic. This lesson is about the dangers of believing in a theistic evolutionary worldview. This post will view three, the next post three, and the last post four.

1. Misinterpretation of the nature of God
The Bible says that God is perfect, holy, and omnipotent, and that God is love and light. Theistic evolution gives a false representation of god because it shows death as part of creation. theistic evolution says that dinosaurs came and died before Adam and Eve. We see dinosaurs that ate each other, and others that died from disease. How could a loving and caring God create a world with death, disease, and suffering? This is dangerous for Christians.

2. God becomes a God of the gaps
1 Corinthians 8:6 says that God is the prime cause of all things. Theistic evolution makes God a god for those phenomena about which there are doubts. This leads to the view that God is evolution.

3. Denial of central Bible teachings
The Old Testament is like a ramp leading to the New Testament. Creation is history, not a myth, but Theistic evolution tells us that creation wasn't in six literal days, and that the literal view of creation is false. jesus referred to creation (Matthew 19:4-5). This reduces events in the Bible to myths, and understanding the gospel message as being true in word and meaning is lost because of theistic evolution.

Can millions of years fit into Genesis Part 1.5 Rule 6-7

Rule 6: The Origin of life
Evolution and the Bible have different views on how we came to be. Evolution says that we came from random nothing, but the Bible says that God formed us into existence, and everything around us from His words. Throughout the whole Bible it tells us that god created everything. So in order to add evolution, you have to change the whole bible! To say that we are an accident, this means that there is no hope, and that you can do whatever you want, because when you die it doesn't matter.

Rule 7: What did jesus say?
John 5;45-47 asks us how we can believe in Him if we can't believe in Moses. He is talking about Exodus 20:11 when moses said that God created everything in 6 days. Matthew 23:35 and Matthew 24:37-39 show us that Jesus believes that Abel existed, and He believes that there was a global flood. Another thing is that denying a literal six day creation undermines the message of the cross. If death was there from the start, there would be no point in Jesus saving us from death because it would already be natural. The Bible also says that Jesus is the creator of all things (Colossians 1:16-17), so denying (a literal six day) creation is denying Jesus. Lastly, how can someone believe that He walked on water, rose someone from the dead, made the lame to walk, but deny a six day creation because it is "unscientific?" That is inconsistent! My last point is that by adding evolution to the bible, we are creating God in our image, which is idolatry. So you see, there are many problems with adding evolution to the Bible, so I find it better to take the bible as it is. And when you do, you will find that it actually makes more sense! 
 

Can millions of years fit into Genesis Part 1.4 Rule 5

The Creation of Days
Another reason evolution can not fit with the Bible is because of the creation of days. The Hebrew word for day used in genesis is "yom," which means a literal 24 hour time period, a small time, and a distant time. We can use the context to interpret what sense the word 'yom' is. If there is a number before the word day, the word day will mean a literal 24 hour period. In Genesis 1, it says "that was the first day... that was the 2nd day... that was the 3rd day..." We see that evolution has a different view on this. Another big thing about creation is that genealogies show that the earth is only 6000 years old. Evolution, on the other hand, tells us that the earth is billions of years old. You read the genealogies, and you question is God left multiple generations out, and that our calculations may be wrong. Maybe the earth is actually millions of years old. A non-christian Hebrew scholar said that there would not be enough missing genealogies to account for billions of years. The MOST it would get us would be to 7000. Another non-christian scholar said that if you took the Bible as it is without any human ideas, you could see that the earth is 6000 years old and that day meant 24 hours in Genesis. A third (non-christian) said that the bible proves the earth is 6000 years old, even though it denies the cosmos. How come non-christians can believe this, but we can't? There is enough evidence in the Bible for this, and yet we still believe man's ideas. What are you going to believe?