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Author Topic:   Evangelicals accepting Evolution
truthlover
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Message 6 of 15 (397743)
04-27-2007 3:28 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Archer Opteryx
04-27-2007 9:46 AM


Gosh, I think we're a great example:
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There's many ways in which we'd be called liberal, I suppose, but we follow the Scriptures quite literally, hold to pretty much all the views of the early church (as represented by the so-called "early church fathers," such as Justin, Ignatius, Polycarp, Irenaeus, Tertullian, Origen, etc.) We're radical or conservative enough to believe that Jesus meant it when he said that his disciples have to deny themselves and forsake all their possessions just like he said(Luke 9:23; Luke 14:24-33).
But we're also open to what's obviously true, so the vast majority of us accept that evolution occured (molecules to mammals), though a lot of our members, due to backgrounds they've come from, really have a hard time with man evolving.
The reason I think we make a great example is because for us it was a switch from taking Genesis very literally--whether we were old-earth or young-earth--to not taking it literally at all. The result of that switch was nothing at all. Nothing changed. It didn't affect our morality, our doctrines, or anything else I can think of, unless we appreciate nature a little more and are a little more awed as we look up at the sky and at the world around us.
There's about 260 of us nowadays and we're beginning to grow much more rapidly than in the past.

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