Theistic Evolution Anti-Biblical?

[NordicLutheran]

Is the theistic evolution unbiblical? Also what is the lcms view on the end of times? Just asking because I have read the left behind series and it is an amazing thriller, but I got the feeling the whole time it was taking the apocolyptic literature maybe too literally.

[DaRev]

Is the theistic evolution unbiblical?

Yes.

Also what is the lcms view on the end of times? Just asking because I have read the left behind series and it is an amazing thriller, but I got the feeling the whole time it was taking the apocolyptic literature maybe too literally.

Left Behind is fiction, based on a gross misinterpretation of Scripture. The Lutheran view of the end times is what is known as "realized millenialism." Some may refer to it as Amillenialism, but that isn't really our teaching. Amillenial literally means "no millenium" referring to the symbolic 1000 years of the Church age, the reign of Christ, between Christ's first coming (birth) and His second coming on the last day. The LCMS holds that we are currently in the "millenium," that the "millenium" is currently being realized. At the end of the age, Christ will return according to the events in Matthew 24 & 25 and in 1 Thessalonians 4. These happen on the last day, not some 1007 years before the last day as the Left Behind fiction describes it.


DaRev

[NordicLutheran]

Are all lutheran church bodies sort of amillenial? What churches theistic evolution? I have heard that the RCC believes in theistic evolution, is this true?

[DaRev]

Are all lutheran church bodies sort of amillenial? What churches theistic evolution? I have heard that the RCC believes in theistic evolution, is this true?

Most Lutheran church bodies are "realized millenialists." I honestly don't know about the ELCA. Like most issues, they probably don't have an "official position" on the matter.

Those church bodies that dismiss the first chapters of Genesis, declaring them to be myth rather than the word of God, may be considered theistic evolutionists. The Roman Catholic Church is one such body.


DaRev

[NordicLutheran]

Oh yea I forgot the RCC isn't sola scriptura. Oh wait I guess we can hope sometime in the future that Benedict(who should be lutheran because he's german!) will declare the first couple of pages of genises to be inerrant. It may happen:thumbsup: