Rob Bell has nothing on Ian Smith

So Wednesday night is house church night and we have been working our way through the nooma series by Rob Bell which as controversial as his thoughts are other than Sam taking exception to Rob Bell opening his mouth no real good conversation has come out of most of it. Kind of just like going through the paces. So we watched the video, went through the questions and that was it. Then I got the idea to throw out soemthing that Ian had said earlier in the day. I believe in evolution just not the theory of evolution. Or something to that effect. It was great People got mad, people left the room, people got hung up on terminology and in the end it was really interesting. I was surprised that some dont believe the biblical account of creation. The find it easier to believe an evolution based account triggered by God. This was something I had never heard before but was pretty interested in. They could accept that the earth was formless and void and that in that area God had stirred things up and out of that something like the big bang or darwins theory of evolution had been born. Still giving all the credit to God for the creation of everything in Heaven and on earth but Not believing in a literal seven day creation story. Magnificent. I dont buy it myself but I thought that in itself was a pretty interesting vien of thought. I explained that the reason for Darwins original theory of evolution had been an attempt at establishing a creation of life on earth that was contrary to a God involved and also that much of the work poured into the theory of the big bang had also been motivated by attempts at disproving God as originator of life on earth. The thing that interests me is always whats the motivation behind the research. Quantum physics is struggling with the thought that no matter how much research they do there is something missing. And the same is happening in other scientific fields. No matter how far they go they keep coming to a point where it doesnt make sense. Much of darwins work on adaptation of species was right on and very ground breaking for its time and i think very relevent today. But the motivation was poor and when some one now states that they believe in evolution it has become a catch phrase that catagorizes you no different than claiming to be a christian or a budhist. There has to be a different way to define your self. Old terminology needs to be doen away with. What do you believe in? I believe in evolution. Means to people that you dont believe in Gods creation. But science has proven much of evolution to be true. And if you believe that God created all things then you believe that God created things to evolve and adapt. The frusteration came when discussing the bible and some people just could not get there heads around the old testament history and the parables of the new testament. I tried to explain that there many truths in the old testament that were good to know wether we belived in the validity of the scriptures. the foods that were forbiden were even untill recent years still known to carry disease and while the new covenant abolished the food issues maybe still we would be better off without pork and tuna from a health perspective. And also the hair braiding beard growing tattooing makeup wearing stuff. What if we hadnt adopted these things into our culture. Remove vanity fromour society today and how different would it look. We would be less concerned about how we looked and possibly have more time for what surounds us. So in looking at some of these things It makes me take the old testamnet seriously and the parables in the new testament while they were used to speak to uneducated people that didnt have our advancements in technology they are still good solid truths for us to live by 2000 years later. It ended up just two of us at the end and we were discussing how people that dont know God do good things. My perspective was that God can do good through all people because he created us all. but when we enter into a relationship with him we give him the use of all our time to do good things. And if we know good people then why wouldnt we want them to have a relationship with God because it would give more purpose to their lives and give glory to God. I could go on and on but thats the coles notes and I hope that a good blogg post is as entertaining as my messy ones. :)