Did God use evolution to create life
 

Why should christians be so opposed to the idea of God using evolution to create life?

What do you think the scriptures mean by this:

Genesis 1-
20And God said, LET THE WATERS BRING FORTH ABUNDANTLY the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

21And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, WHICH THE WATERS BROUGHT FORTH ABUNDANTLY, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.


24And God said, LET THE EARTH BRING FORTH THE LIVING CREATURE after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

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Look at 21 again: And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

It says God created every living creature that moveth and it says these animals gave birth to their own kind. Same thing in verse 24.

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What does this mean?

4And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

5And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

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what ever it means, it does not sound like evolution

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Not sure what this post is all about.
I believe that God truly wants us to know Him and believe Him. If He used evolution to create life, I believe the bible would clearly say so. Why would christians want to set aside what the bible says for the concept of evolution?

One thing I'd add to my prior post; in looking at how God made one man out of the dirt and one woman out of that man's side and then told them to be fruitful and multiply, I'm thinking that God also made a single male and single female of each animal species, and entrusted to them the task of abundantly bringing forth their own species to populate the earth and it's vast oceans.

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That same verse goes against evolution:

24And God said, LET THE EARTH BRING FORTH THE LIVING CREATURE after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

God made everything to reproduce after it's own kind, meaning that apple seeds will produce apple trees, ect. and humans will produce humans, animals will produce animals, ect.

Evolution would have you believe that apes could produce something not after it's own kind that evolved into humans.

Evolution also would indicate that God was not capable of creating things good and perfect from the start, that they had to evolve to improve on the original creation.

God is all powerful, He spoke the billions and billions of stars into existance !

Jeremiah 32:27 Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?

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God appearently hasn't been on AFF very much lately, theres alot of doubters here who disbelieve He is able to do what His Word says He did. Creation is among those things that some HAVE appearently thought too hard for God. As though it was impossible for creation as we know it to come about except through millions (if not billions) of years.

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Mr. Spiritual Badejo, it has nothing to do with God's ability and everything to do with God's methodology. Have you considered that God is powerful enough to have use evolutionary methodology to create our existence?

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Indeed, Dearest Mr. Smith, however His Word specifically and plainly says he did it in 6 days.

EXODUS 20:11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.


Just sayin'.....:bliss

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Surely you're sharp enough to consider the figurative nature of the word, "Day" and the considerable evidence that the word represents an "Age."