I've Been To Church Today.

[Theland]

Having been disappointed in the past from unbiblical teaching from the Church Of England and a Gospel Hall, my sins have been weighing heavy on me lately, and I felt the need for Christian community.
So, today I attended a local Evangelical church.
I enjoyed it and was made very welcome.
This could be my spiritual home for the future.
Do any of you have any thoughts on Evangelical churches?

[Theland]

As a general rule of thumb, if two animals can breed together, they are the same, ''kind.''

https://answersingenesis.org/creation-science/baraminology/what-are-kinds-in-genesis/

[pixie374]

They are the same species, in real terms then. OK. So, how have we ended up with new species?

[Theland]

We haven't.
We still have the same, ''kinds,'' as we ever have.

[pixie374]

Theland- that is our own definition... that a species is something that can only reproduce within itself. We have defined species, genus, family etc...
But how do you explain the difference, say, between a wolf and chihuahua, or a neanderthal and home sapiens. Are you suggesting (lol) that if a rabbit doesn't turn into an earwig.... that it proves macroevolution doesn't happen?
What is the precise difference? When do small changes, become "big"?

[mibn2cweus]

At the very least creationists have clearly demonstrated that evolution of a species is not inevitable.

https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-066cc6733cad5a1c2f14a9570bdb119c.webp

[Radagast]

Creationists have been taught a bogus version of the theory of evolution which bears very little resemblance to the real thing.

[naomi24]

Your link doesn’t work, mibs.

[Mamyalynne]

Does this work Naomi?

https://tinyurl.com/wacm96jc

[mibn2cweus]

Strike two - https://cdn.ebaumsworld.com/mediaFiles/picture/77662/82969541.jpg

[naomi24]

No, mamyalynne but thanks for trying.

Strike 2 works mibs. Never a truer word. :o)

[Theland]

MIBs instead of silly jokes, try addressing the issues.

[naomi24]

Carry on with your jokes, mibs. Far more sensible than making it up to suit. ;o)

[Theland]

Quite unreasonable for the man of reason.

[mibn2cweus]

"Reason", you say. That ship sailed with your first act of faith. Any attempt to subjugate reason to faith is doomed from the start. Reason and reality are not subject to compromise. Nor is knowledge subject to belief. You choose one, you abandon the other. That's just the way it is.

[Theland]

And faith based on knowledge and revelation?
Not blind faith. That would be unresonablle.i

[Theland]

Unreasonable.

[naomi24]

Faith based on fear and fantasy.

[gness]

It is indeed faith based on fear and fantasy...and an evil, destructive blind faith.

[mibn2cweus]

//And faith based on knowledge and revelation?//

Faith based on knowledge or knowledge based on faith, either way you're redefining knowledge and faith. Neither require or rely on the other. They are in fact mutually exclusive.

Here's what is at stake. You claim to have evidence to support your belief but evidence is not proof, especially when what lies in the balance is justice, human dignity and human life. It is easy to conjure up evidence that appears to support a cherished belief. But your seeming coincidences between alleged prophecies and vague circumstance are insufficient to condemn a single human being to the electric chair let alone the vast majority of everyone that has ever lived to eternal torment. You better be damned sure, not just believe your right while refusing to question the legitimacy and voracity of your own reasoning, before acting as virtual judge, jury and executioner over the human race.

Acting as assigned spokesperson for an alleged creator of the universe is a grave responsibility, one that no one should presume no matter how many or few have been able to persuade or convince each other of their supposed god given right to do so.
You claim to have the answers to all of the asserted 'big questions' and yet you obviously have not even determined what the important questions are let alone have the answer to. For heavens sake, if not for the sake of humanity, if you learn nothing else, learn to know and understand the limitations imposed by the human mind on the means and process of reason before determining you've tapped into some undefined incomprehensible source of revealed superior knowledge.
A little knowledge is often a dangerous thing, no less so when what one thinks is knowledge is nothing of the sort but is treated as and acted upon as though it was.

[Theland]

1 Corinthians 1:19