06-22-2003, 10:56 PM
In response to Vandiablo's post, many people think all Christians don't believe in evolution or the Big Bang, where lots of Christians like Methodists interpret the "First seven days where God created the world" into millions of years, and believe that the God caused the Big Bang, and so on.
As a fellow Methodist, I must say that our Church is so lax that people can believe virtually anything they want to believe. Then they can have a fun time arguing about it at General Conference :) I don't worry too much about whether to take the Seven Day concept literally or as a symbolic story. In a single human lifetime, Tolkien made the languages of the elves to look as though they had evolved from ancient roots over many ages and generations. I'm sure God could pull the same trick on us if he so desired :)
As a fellow Methodist, I must say that our Church is so lax that people can believe virtually anything they want to believe. Then they can have a fun time arguing about it at General Conference :) I don't worry too much about whether to take the Seven Day concept literally or as a symbolic story. In a single human lifetime, Tolkien made the languages of the elves to look as though they had evolved from ancient roots over many ages and generations. I'm sure God could pull the same trick on us if he so desired :)