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Darwin Brought The Dawn
Darwin, take the letters R and I away
And what do you have? DAWN!
Yes, that's the way it should be,
For Darwin is synonymous with
the dawn of a new day,
Even an endless day.
Endless because the sunlight of
THEISTIC Evolution will never fade away!
The sun of Theistic Evolution (TE) will never set.
TE, as opposed to Naturalistic Evolution,
Acknowledges God as the Creator.
Imagine that the Earth (like the Moon)
Didn't rotate as it revolves around the sun,
Day would be endless,
That's the way it is with Darwin's discovery.
No night will ever fall upon what
Darwin has given to the world!
When a young university student,
he took courses in Christian theology.
But gave up his plans to go into the ministry.
Later, he lost his faith in God after the death of his daughter.
But he retained enuff sense to turn down atheist Karl Marx
Who asked permission to dedicate the 2nd edition
of "Das Capital" to his hero, Charles Darwin.
He got over his astrangement from God in his old age.
Yes, a member of his household staff reportedly
Recalls that "he loved the Book of Hebrews."
I think I know why.
Hebrews says the Jewish priesthood was inferior
To the priesthood established by Christ (Hebrews 7.1-7.28).
And Christ's sacrifice (of Himself) likewise
Was superior to the animal sacrifices of the Jews(Heb ).
Finally, the Jewish sabbath (Heb 4.4) was only
a forerunner of another sabbath "rest," (Heb 4.3),
A rest the Jews had not entered into,
"In My anger I [the LORD] swore,
they shall not enter My [sabbath] rest,"
namely, the Christian sabbath
that succeeded the Jewish one (Hebrews 4.7-11).
Yet the Jewish sabbath lives on.
Sort of like reptiles gave birth
to the mammals but the reptiles still live on.
Though the mammals came afterward,
The reptiles and mammals continue to coexist.
Hebrews describes one religion
developing out of an earlier one,
Somewhat like one species evolving from another.
Thus, Hebrews describes and endorses Darwinism,
Not in biology but in theology, so to speak.
But a more likely reason Darwin "loved the Book of Hebrews"
was because of the Christian account of Creation
Which augments (or replaces certain aspects of)
The Jewish account of Creation in Genesis, chapter 1.
Hebrews 11.3 gives the Christian alternative
to the six 24-hour "days" of Creation Week.
Hebrews in effect demythologizes Genesis One!
By freeing it from the straitjacket of literalism.
Hebrews gives more glory to Genesis One,
And by extension the Torah, which it is a part of!
Hebrews makes Genesis One compatible with science,
With the Big Bang Theory of the origin of the Universe!
In short, Hebrews reconciles science and the Bible!
No small feat!
Hebrews 11.3 says, "By faith we know that the worlds were framed by the Word of God..."
But in the original Greek, the word "worlds" reads, aionos" or eons!! (Or eon?)
So the message is that "the eons were framed by the Word of God" !!!
The creation of "visible things from the invisible" follows the "aionos"(Heb. 11.3).
My point is that the Apostle Paul, the author of Hebrews,
Takes the "Days" of Genesis One and defines them for us as EONS !!!
Why would Darwin have liked - LOVED - that interpretation?
Because Evolution needed long periods of time in which to work!
Darwin would have seen Paul the Apostle as being on his side.
Being an ex-theology student who, no doubt, took Greek,
Darwin would have recognized the value of Hebrews 11.3,
While Christians reading Heb 11.3 in English miss out!
(Even today, 50 full years after the "background radiation"
discovery of 1965 which proved the Big Bang was true,
And that BILLIONS of years is the true age of the universe,
Bible translations, except for 3 of them, all give "worlds,"
A spatial word, as the translation for "aionos," a time word!
That cowardice is unforgivable, totally unjustifiable!)
Christians who believe in an "old Earth" of billions of years,
Are not told by their pastors that Heb 11.3 says in the Greek
Something more than it says in the cowardly English translations.
Lastly, it's only natural for Darwin to have loved Hebrews
For Hebrews demythologized Moses' Creation story,
And that's what Darwin was all about - demythologizing!!
PS: If I'm not mistaken,
I recall being told that the Big Bang was so hot,
trillions of degrees, that the micro-universe had to cool off
for 100 million years before atoms could form or else
before they could form molecules and visible matter could take form.
So the BBT supports Hebrews 11.3 where it says,
"in order that the visible could come
from that which doesn't appear."
And what do you have? DAWN!
Yes, that's the way it should be,
For Darwin is synonymous with
the dawn of a new day,
Even an endless day.
Endless because the sunlight of
THEISTIC Evolution will never fade away!
The sun of Theistic Evolution (TE) will never set.
TE, as opposed to Naturalistic Evolution,
Acknowledges God as the Creator.
Imagine that the Earth (like the Moon)
Didn't rotate as it revolves around the sun,
Day would be endless,
That's the way it is with Darwin's discovery.
No night will ever fall upon what
Darwin has given to the world!
When a young university student,
he took courses in Christian theology.
But gave up his plans to go into the ministry.
Later, he lost his faith in God after the death of his daughter.
But he retained enuff sense to turn down atheist Karl Marx
Who asked permission to dedicate the 2nd edition
of "Das Capital" to his hero, Charles Darwin.
He got over his astrangement from God in his old age.
Yes, a member of his household staff reportedly
Recalls that "he loved the Book of Hebrews."
I think I know why.
Hebrews says the Jewish priesthood was inferior
To the priesthood established by Christ (Hebrews 7.1-7.28).
And Christ's sacrifice (of Himself) likewise
Was superior to the animal sacrifices of the Jews(Heb ).
Finally, the Jewish sabbath (Heb 4.4) was only
a forerunner of another sabbath "rest," (Heb 4.3),
A rest the Jews had not entered into,
"In My anger I [the LORD] swore,
they shall not enter My [sabbath] rest,"
namely, the Christian sabbath
that succeeded the Jewish one (Hebrews 4.7-11).
Yet the Jewish sabbath lives on.
Sort of like reptiles gave birth
to the mammals but the reptiles still live on.
Though the mammals came afterward,
The reptiles and mammals continue to coexist.
Hebrews describes one religion
developing out of an earlier one,
Somewhat like one species evolving from another.
Thus, Hebrews describes and endorses Darwinism,
Not in biology but in theology, so to speak.
But a more likely reason Darwin "loved the Book of Hebrews"
was because of the Christian account of Creation
Which augments (or replaces certain aspects of)
The Jewish account of Creation in Genesis, chapter 1.
Hebrews 11.3 gives the Christian alternative
to the six 24-hour "days" of Creation Week.
Hebrews in effect demythologizes Genesis One!
By freeing it from the straitjacket of literalism.
Hebrews gives more glory to Genesis One,
And by extension the Torah, which it is a part of!
Hebrews makes Genesis One compatible with science,
With the Big Bang Theory of the origin of the Universe!
In short, Hebrews reconciles science and the Bible!
No small feat!
Hebrews 11.3 says, "By faith we know that the worlds were framed by the Word of God..."
But in the original Greek, the word "worlds" reads, aionos" or eons!! (Or eon?)
So the message is that "the eons were framed by the Word of God" !!!
The creation of "visible things from the invisible" follows the "aionos"(Heb. 11.3).
My point is that the Apostle Paul, the author of Hebrews,
Takes the "Days" of Genesis One and defines them for us as EONS !!!
Why would Darwin have liked - LOVED - that interpretation?
Because Evolution needed long periods of time in which to work!
Darwin would have seen Paul the Apostle as being on his side.
Being an ex-theology student who, no doubt, took Greek,
Darwin would have recognized the value of Hebrews 11.3,
While Christians reading Heb 11.3 in English miss out!
(Even today, 50 full years after the "background radiation"
discovery of 1965 which proved the Big Bang was true,
And that BILLIONS of years is the true age of the universe,
Bible translations, except for 3 of them, all give "worlds,"
A spatial word, as the translation for "aionos," a time word!
That cowardice is unforgivable, totally unjustifiable!)
Christians who believe in an "old Earth" of billions of years,
Are not told by their pastors that Heb 11.3 says in the Greek
Something more than it says in the cowardly English translations.
Lastly, it's only natural for Darwin to have loved Hebrews
For Hebrews demythologized Moses' Creation story,
And that's what Darwin was all about - demythologizing!!
PS: If I'm not mistaken,
I recall being told that the Big Bang was so hot,
trillions of degrees, that the micro-universe had to cool off
for 100 million years before atoms could form or else
before they could form molecules and visible matter could take form.
So the BBT supports Hebrews 11.3 where it says,
"in order that the visible could come
from that which doesn't appear."
Published 4th Oct 2015
| Edited 7th Oct 2015
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5th Oct 2015 10:11pm
Just one thing technically "wrong with the picture". Having lived locally to Darwin's home town and therefore read much about his early life, I can point out it would be inaccurate to call him "a Christian seminary student" (in my country "seminary" = theology college). He did not go to a seminary but to one of the Cambridge University colleges with the initial intention of being ordained after he graduated (this was 1820s, pre his Beagle voyage, there were then no specialist theology colleges in the Church of England in which he aspired to serve). He gave up pursuing a future priesthood while there, as he never sought ordination and became more deeply interested in the natural world. Apart from this I give a Like.
5th Oct 2015 10:47pm
Thanks as always. So if not a seminary, at least a "major" in theology/Religion but only for a while. I mean if he didn't attend a free standing seminary, at least he did take religion courses, right? In a religion school within the larger university? Oh, one more thing, do you know if he ever did get over the death of his daughter enuff to get reconciled to God and Christianity? Have you heard that he "loved the Book of Hebrews" in the Bible? I read that somewhere. A servant claimed that in a memoir or something.
There is no evidence corroborating the assertion (known as "the Darwin legend") that he reconciled on his deathbed. As late as 1880 he was writing letters to correspondents asking about his faith, that he no longer accepted Jesus as Son of God. He did have a conception of God, because he declined to be dedicated to by Karl Marx (whom Darwin helped as a refugee in England) in Das Kapital because he did not want his own name associated with what Darwin called "an atheistical work", and he did take the then compulsory oath on the Bible when he became a county magistrate (JP) for Kent, England.
7th Oct 2015 9:31pm
Thanks so much for responding. It's great that you are up on Darwin. I didn't know he had helped Marx, nor that he became a county magistrate. About him becoming agnostic about Jesus as the Son of God, it probably is where Darwin keeps his faith in (the existence of) God, as a theist, rather than as a Christian. But even John the Baptist had his questioning phase.
6th Oct 2015 00:29am
The BBT or Big Bang theory says the universe is 14 (13.8) billion years old.While Genesis One says from Creation til Man was only six days or seven days, since we include the Sabbath in "Creation Week." The SABBATH is very needed here. For if we start with 7 instead of 6, and then divide the 7 days each into 2 halves (on the basis of "the evening and the morning"), we have 14 periods! The 14 (periods) in Genesis One agrees with the 14 (billion years) in the BBT!
Glory to God. Who says the Bible is not divinely inspired!!!!
Glory to God. Who says the Bible is not divinely inspired!!!!
