What is it that Christians hope to achieve when it comes to debating creation versus evolution? Why do the two have to be mutually exclusive? I believe in the creation: God commanded it and it was so. But believing in creation does not tell me by what method God purposed his creation. In Genesis 1 we are told that man and women were created in the image of God. The New Testament Scriptures tell us that we are created in the image of Christ, as his image is formed in us. Now as we walk our walk of Faith by the Grace of the Lord, is there anyone who can claim that they are a completed work in the Lord, fully created in his image yet; Or do you evolve and grow in the Spirit as the image of Christ is formed in you?
Now I am not going to say the man kind evolved from apes, but there is no denying that man kind and apes share very similar DNA. The scripture is quite clear in the epistles in its instruction to avoid foolish and unlearned question. When a Christian argues against evolution they are playing the part of a fool and and they are not serving the kingdom of God.
As a simple man with casual observation, I am aware that virus's evolve when they become resistant to certain types of bacteria. I can look out upon the horizon, to the mountains and towards the sea, and while change seldom comes in an instant, over a period of time the process of erosion becomes self evident.
1 Cor 15:36-38 Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
When I look to nature I find a creature that resembles a worm, we call it a caterpillar. Now this caterpillar crawls about eating leaves and vegetation until the time that it spins a cocoon and dies. Or does it die? For out of that cocoon emerges a beautiful butterfly that no longer crawls upon its belly, but instead soars through the sky on the wings of a breeze. Did got create the caterpillar, or did God create the butterfly? Or could his process of creation be described as a form of evolution?
As a Christian we are called to make known the salvation of the Lord and to be a witness for the kingdom of heaven; A kingdom of Spirit. A kingdom many would label as make believe. But how can you as a Christian be a Faithful witness to the invisible things of God when you refuse to accept or simply deny those things that are readily apparent in the physical world? If you can not accept the things that are readily apparent in this world, why should anyone listen to you about that which is not so apparent, but requires a measure faith as well? Who is the wise and faithful servent?
