Reading 1 Kings 18 in my daily Bible reading, I thought of theistic evolution. But Terry, what does 1 Kings 18 have to do with evolution? This was 2600 years before Charles Darwin’s Origin of the Species!
Elijah called the people to Mount Carmel for a showdown with the prophets of Baal and Asherah. This is one of my favorite Bible accounts. Elijah said to the people: “How much longer will you waver, hobbling between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him! But if Baal is God, then follow him!” But the people were completely silent.”1
This is exactly what is going on today with theistic evolution. People are wavering between two opinions. Thomas Huxley was “Darwin’s bulldog.” He was the one that publicly went out and argued for Darwinian evolution. Huxley knew the Bible better than most Christians and understood that the Bible and Christianity do not mix with Darwinian evolution. In reference to Jesus quoting Genesis in Matthew 19, Huxley stated: “If divine authority is not here claimed for the twenty-fourth verse of the second chapter of Genesis, what is the value of language? And again, I ask, if one may play fast and loose with the story of the Fall as a “type” or “allegory,” what becomes of the foundation of Pauline theology?”2 And with a few exceptions, the church is like the people of Israel at Mount Carmel – completely silent. Or as in the Pope, the church will argue that you can hobble between the two positions.3
Terry Read
- https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Kings+18
- http://creation.com/darwins-bulldog-thomas-h-huxley
- https://m.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/pope-rules-big-bang-and-evolution-are-real/3123968/
