The Clergy Project

I agree with you on the numbers who believe in literal creationism. It supports what the Bible fortells of a great falling away by the church. If you can attack the Bible at it's very core and prove or demonstrate that it is incorrect in it's assesment of how we got here, the entire credibility of the Bible is destroyed. Since according to the Bible, the first 5 days of creation were only witnessed by God, then if the account is wrong, then what else could you believe in the book.So the only other way to preserve any credibility in the Bible is to alogorize these accounts and subscribe to evolution via mainstream science, and then attempt to salvage the rest of the Bible as some kind of grown up bedtime story that is meant to convey God's message to mankind in the form of short stories. But that comes accross as very watered down and something not the product of a supreme creator and so over time all usefullness of the Bible will be extinguished.I would predict that the same members who signed this letter are moving ever closer to surrendering most of the other positions that the Bible expounds on in view of a broader more liberal open position. These members will likely be pivotal players in the World Ecuminical Church movement which is the logical progression once you break away from the moorings of the Genesis accounts.

It has been my experience with those like you have listed that they are the same ones who hold a very loose grip on foundational doctrinal truths of the Bible. Once you are willing to get astray from the literal meaning of the Genesis Account, then all of the other doctinal positions are game for molding and adaptation to the whims of society.If the 6 day Genesis account is true, then the purpose of the creation of the Earth was a habitat for man. Man is God's central creation according to the Bible. If Evolution is true and the Earth is actually 4.5 billion years old and the product of a first generation star super nova, then man isn't the central creation of God and the rest of the Bible is nonsense. Man would be one of millions of living bi-products that occured via evolution. So to have man as just another bi-product, yet for some reason God take special interest in him and send his son to die for him - sounds like a psychotic creator to me.Yet even if evolution is the machine that gets us here, it is highly organized in it's movement and is guided by some unseen force. Whatever that force is, for it to take special interest in one very small component of evolution, man, and come down to Earth in the form of man and die a death to redeem him makes no logical sense.So therefore if evolution is the truth, then logically there is no supreme creator or at least none dumb enough to die a horrible death to redeem something that came about by chance. So why after acknowledging evolution as fact, would you attempt to "Dumb Down God" by saying that the other teachings in the Bible are relevant?God revealing himself to Man makes no sense. God giving a law to Man makes no sense. God blessing man makes no sense. God taking on the form of man makes no sense. God dying for man is complete absurdity. So what do you have once you accept evolution from the Christian Church prospective. Nothing. And once this plays out and runs it's course with the people, then a world wide ecuminical church that is focused on the benefit of humans instead of the worship of God will take the traditional churches's place - as foretold in the Bible.The 6 day creation account places the Earth as a specially created habitat, Man as a specially created being in the midst of creation, and the primary purpose of man is to have fellowship with the Creator. Evolution places man at the tail end of a long mutation/adaptation/natural selection train where there is no logical room for a devine Creator to take special interest in.This message has been edited by Lizard Breath, 11-27-2005 06:35 PM

I can't answer it any more clearly. If you accept evolution, then you are wasting your time persueing the God of the Bible. They cannot coexist.They are opposing messages. One places man at the center. the other places him at the end. One is right, the other is wrong. They cannot both be right or both be wrong.You can't root for both teams in a game. You can't go to the Fiesta Bowl and hope Notre Dame and Ohio State both win. Same here.The message of the Bible does not allow enough room for anything other then special creation for the Earth and Man. If you resign these, then you remove the foundation of the Bible. The rest of the message crumbles. So eventually these who subscribe to Evolution will toss away more and more crumbs until they are left with a religion humanistic in nature and ecumenical in flavor.They have fallen away from the Bible and God's message. The ones who continue to reject modern science's explanation aka evolution are the ones who are holding true to the Bible.They will continue to fall away in ever greater numbers until there is only a small fraction of people left. The Bible acurately forsees this happening when Jesus said that narrow is the way to eternal life and few ever find it. It's not that there isn't enough room for everyone to find it, but the broad way - evoulution is far eaiser to live with, especially now.