Christian News! All mainline Protestant denominations accepts theistic evolution!

[drifteri]

All of the traditional mainline Protestant denominations support or accept theistic evolution. For example, on 12 February 2006, the 197th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth was commemorated by "Evolution Sunday" where the message that followers of Christ do not have to choose between biblical stories of creation and evolution was taught in classes and sermons at many Methodist, Lutheran, Episcopalian, Presbyterian, Unitarian, Congregationalist, United Church of Christ, Baptist and community churches.

Additionally, the National Council of Churches USA has issued a teaching resource to "assist people of faith who experience no conflict between science and their faith and who embrace science as one way of appreciating the beauty and complexity of God's creation." This resource cites the Episcopal Church, according to whom the stories of creation in Genesis "should not be understood as historical and scientific accounts of origins but as proclamations of basic theological truths about creation."

 

[Frodo]

DIVA is a blind atheist who needs to read The Blind Atheist and see the light!

http://www.puretolerance.com/BlindAtheist/intro.php

 

[Frodo]

DIVA is so misleading with his subject heading. Just because there are believers in every mainline denomination believing in theistic evolution, it does not therefore mean that every mainline denomination supports or accept theistic evolution. A more intellectually honest (which DIVA is not capable of being so) is to say that there are believers in all mainline denominations that support or accept theistic evolution.

Having said that, here's what every Christian SHOULD believe about creation in this free ebook:p

http://genesisapologetics.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/BIDDLE_Creation_v_Evolution-7-1-2014.pdf

Atheists like DIVA will not want to read works like this lest they see the light and turn from atheism. LOL!

 

[drifteri]

United Methodist Church official stance on evolution:
The United Methodist Church affirms a Creator God and supports the scientific study of evolution.

“We recognize science as a legitimate interpretation of God’s natural world. We affirm the validity of the claims of science in describing the natural world and in determining what is scientific. We preclude science from making authoritative claims about theological issues and theology from making authoritative claims about scientific issues. We find that science’s descriptions of cosmological, geological, and biological evolution are not in conflict with theology.”

 

[Frodo]

United Methodist Church official stance on evolution:
The United Methodist Church affirms a Creator God and supports the scientific study of evolution.

“We recognize science as a legitimate interpretation of God’s natural world. We affirm the validity of the claims of science in describing the natural world and in determining what is scientific. We preclude science from making authoritative claims about theological issues and theology from making authoritative claims about scientific issues. We find that science’s descriptions of cosmological, geological, and biological evolution are not in conflict with theology.”

Just because a view is official does not automatically mean it is true. It can mean that the view is officially wrong. LOL!!!

DIVA fallacious argument debunked yet again! LOL!!!

 

[drifteri]

DIVA is so misleading with his subject heading. Just because there are believers in every mainline denomination believing in theistic evolution, it does not therefore mean that every mainline denomination supports or accept theistic evolution.

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You call heads(clergies) of mainline protestant churches individual believers? They represent the church, you delusional twist!

 

[Frodo]

You call heads(clergies) of mainline protestant churches individual believers? They represent the church, you delusional twist!

DIVA theology is really pathetic. Let me ask you this, in the Bible who is the HEAD of the Church?

Please get ready to have your candy-ass whooped by me.

 

[drifteri]

DIVA theology is really pathetic. Let me ask you this, in the Bible who is the HEAD of the Church?

Please get ready to have your candy-ass whooped by me.

Don't twist and turn, this thread is about the acceptance of evolution by mainline protestant churches.

 

[drifteri]

Anglican christians please read:

Anglicans (including the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, the Church of England and others) believe that the Bible "contains all things necessary to salvation," while believing that "science and Christian theology can complement one another in the quest for truth and understanding." Specifically on the subject of creation/evolution, some Anglicans view "Big Bang cosmology" as being "in tune with both the concepts of creation out of nothing and continuous creation." Their position is clearly set out in the Catechism of Creation Part II: Creation and Science