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After giving this topic a lot of thought and considering that it is a very sensitive issue, it will take several articles to do it justice. I will clarify my purpose repeatedly to avoid misunderstanding. Impetus The key issue in spirituality concerns subjectivity vs. objectivity, or reason vs. emotion. I will go so far as…
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Introduction: I have put off discussing this topic for years. I could imagine that nearly 100% of Christians, at this point in cultural history, believe that their faith is centered on “spirituality” or subjective truths rather than objectivity. That objectivity, looking at evidence, is driven by arrogance or a lack of faith, a deep spiritual…
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Maybe I was feeling a little guilty, writing a series of articles on the problem of evolution and the Christian narrative. As I had promised, I did not end the series with a simple answer; I offered only plausible options. But I did, as always, promise to be honest. I also pointed out that when…
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Here is the problem. When you seek the truth, you must recognize that there is overwhelming evidence not only for a 4.5-billion-year-old Earth but also for evolution, including human evolution. This contradicts the literal reading of the book of Genesis. Lying about the evidence and creating baseless conspiracy theories about the scientists who have found…
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Silly me. I woke up at 2 AM, realizing that I had not yet addressed the central question I’m asking. Are the pre-Homo sapiens in need of redemption, and did Jesus die for them? In answer 1, of course not, because the fossils are all fake. Delusional. In answer 2, no. In that answer, pre-Homo…
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Spoiler alert: At the end of this discussion, we will not reach an answer with any level of certainty. I tell you this now, to dampen your expectations. However, I promise you that I will do my best to make this an honest discussion, which is hard to find in a church setting. Answer Number…
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Someone has asked, “Mike, aren’t you doing the same thing that you are accusing other Christians of doing… requiring them to believe in an old Earth and evolution to be Christians or at least good Christians?” Pardon my French, but hell no! Jesus never said to his followers, “Deny yourself, take up your cross, believe…
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I will state once more that I spent over forty years believing the typical Christian perspective, that the Earth is six thousand years old, humans were created from scratch, and physical death came into the world by original sin. Even after leaving evangelicalism and beginning to seek factual truth, I first turned to Young Earth…
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PROLOG I suspect that many readers will wonder why I am writing about this topic. Three years ago, I had the privilege of filling in our church’s Adult Ministries team. Coming out of several years of cancer-driven isolation, it was a chance for me to test the waters to see if my ideas were still…
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Introduction I was taught, as a child in the Bible Belt and later as an adult in an evangelical discipleship group, that the Earth is only 6,000 years old and that Genesis is a literal, historical account of the Earth’s creation and the origin of the human species. Therefore, humans were created fully formed in…
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J. Michael Jones 