12 Ideas You Must Embrace to Affirm Theistic Evolution

The Accuracy of Genesis 1-3

Theistic evolution is a viewpoint that God created matter and after that, God didn't guide, intervene, or act directly to cause any empirically detectable change in the natural behavior of matter until all living things had evolved by purely natural processes.

But, what that belief implies is that there are actually twelve details in Genesis 1-3 that simply didn't happen. If you hold to theistic evolution (in the most common form in which it is held today), you would say:


  2. Adam and Eve were born from human parents.

  3. God didn't act directly or specially to create Adam out of dust from the ground.

  4. God didn't act directly to create Eve from a rib taken from Adam's side.

  5. Adam and Eve were never sinless human beings.


  7. Human death did not begin as a result of Adam's sin because human beings existed long before Adam and Eve and they were always subject to death.






Theistic Evolution

Theistic Evolution

J. P. Moreland, Stephen C. Meyer, Christopher Shaw, Ann K. Gauger, Wayne Grudem

This volume of more than two dozen essays written by highly credentialed scientists, philosophers, and theologians from Europe and North America provides the most comprehensive critique of theistic evolution yet produced, opening the door to scientific and theological alternatives.

Those are twelve events in Genesis 1-3 that the Bible records as historically accurate, truthful events, but that are denied by advocates of theistic evolution.

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