Well we all have our interpretations,ideas and thoughts on things and I do too.I feel that I have very good reasons for why I accept,believe and interpret things the way I do and reject certain things but I'm not so dogmatic that I refuse to change if I'm shown to be wrong about my interpretation,beliefs and view points because I'm more for God being right than I or anybody else and I am aware of certain times when good men of God got certain things wrong based on an interpretation.EssentialSacrifice wrote:I think this is very well said able. It seems that if you're not on your toes your put on your heels.
1 Thessalonians 5:21 and I think the only way to do this is to sift the wheat from the chaff over time, as you said.
I am really enjoying this new site. The info here is backed up by science and more so by the hand in glove fit with science and scripture. It makes me feel like those guys back then were a lot smarter than I ever gave them credit for. I think this speaks to their closeness to God and perhaps should be a lesson to us if we want to discern better His scriptural thoughts and plans. Truly, His ways are above ours in all regards.
This does not mean they were all wrong.I mean as Christians there are the core beliefs that unite all true Christians that are true and never will be changed,but when we get into creation,rapture,trinity,etc type discussions we must be a lot more careful to get these things right by interpretations when there can be so many different views and interpretations and at the end of it I hope we remember to let God be true the best we can because as time goes on more is going to be revealed that can show us to be wrong,but God's word right.
A lot of times we Christians are divided because we are kind of on different teams when it comes to creation and there are different views on things and I think they cannot all be right about everything but yet each have important points to be made but a lot of times we miss perspective when we are too sold out to one or the other.But also people get I think too attached to one and get too offended and even fill attacked if somebody expresses a different view from their view,instead of actually considering why there is the difference and questioning whether it actually has merit or not.Too many times it is just rejected for dogma instead of consideration.This can divide us when we probably both have a lot more in common than we realize.
I know my view is a minority view and so anytime I express it it makes it seem that I'm more dogmatic than I really am.I stick out because I have a different view that is not maybe as popular than the other ideas.Gap theorists are old earth creationists and always have been and we have important information to bring to the table of discussion.
You first must understand that the gap theory is the only creation theory that directly confronts the theory of evolution with I believe a much more believable former world theory based on the same evidence for evolution,this is because Charles Darwin made evolution fit into the known scientific knowledge at the time which was first evidence for a former world.But people who have accepted evolution because of their creation theory are offended without context I think.
You may accept the theory of evolution but if you only look at the evidence in the earth from this perspective then you might see evidence for evolution,but if you take the same science and same evidence but look at it from a former world that perished perspective?I think you'll see the evidence fits a former world perspective better.And I really don't understand why it seems so offensive to some who have only looked at the evidence from an evolution view because a lost world would sell.It is believable based on the evidence.To realize that we had a lost world because of evolution might offend some but if its the truth? Does it matter?