Those aren’t my words, I didn’t make that up It literally means that (Christian-follower of Christ). Like a biologist literally means study of life.
Although I need to make a caveat to what I said. Abraham and David may not have been Christians, because Christ has not come to Earth yet… But Christ has always been. Jesus says if you know the Father, than you will know Me. Christ lived to give God the glory and realized God was His Creator and King. So did Abraham and David. So did they live like Christ before the physical manifestation of Christ on this Earth? Again, I don’t have all the answers as to “who gets into heaven”. But I do know without a doubt that God is loving and gracious and merciful and just.
So you believe in 'micro-evolution"? There is no difference… There is no “wall” to stop it, just a lot of time. Do you believe in the sun? Sure we can measure and observe it, 1000 years ago, that is all we knew. We would have called it “micro-evolution of sun”. We had no clue it kept going if time went on. We know the “macro-evolution” of the sun because we see the trillions of other stars all who are at some stage of life.
We can come to the logical conclusion of how stars ‘develop/evolve’ even though we have never been able to measure it because it takes too much time.
Just like fossils. We see millions of other life-forms at various stages, and come to the logical conclusion that we are/were also part of that stage. We can and do measure and observe it on a micro scale, and we can come to the logical conclusion that it happens on a macro scale.
Evolution isn’t proven, isn’t a fact, it is just the most logical conclusion we can come up with based on the evidence we have gathered.
There is no violence to the biblical narrative. God still chose us to be image bearers, He still gave us the vocation of subduing the Earth, and still wants us to love Him and depend on Him to help us love others and use our gifts to glorify Him. That is the biblical narrative I believe in. What difference doesn’t that above sentence make if the Earth was 1 day old or a trillion years old? What if some parts (numbers and dates) of the Bible were wrong or interpreted incorrectly by us? The truth of who God is, why we were created, and what we were created for is still there. We still ended up failing, and God still peruses to rescue us.
It hurts the YEC narrative sure. But do you worship a YEC narrative, or the God who Created and loves us?
If there is any science out there that contradicts something in the Bible, why not believe it. Maybe the science is wrong? Maybe the Earth is 6000 years old? The narrative of God and His love is still the same, unmovable, unshakable, immutable. Though if thousands of scientist say something, I tend to go with them…on matters of science. Because why not? There is not a thing science can say or do, to ever change the truth of who God is, or what He did/does for us and why He created us. The only thing I have seen science do so far though, it is how how incredibly amazing God is. What is more impressive to watch? A guy get up and turn on a light switch? Or a guy hit a ball, which goes down a track, which turns a fan on, that blows a ball, that knocks down a billion dominoes, and that last domino turns on the light? My 2 year old can turn on a light switch, but she can’t set up more than 3 dominoes without them falling.
Why do dominoes fascinate us, or a Rube Goldberg machine get over a million likes? Think of evolution like a Rub Goldberg machine that created humans as the end ‘light switch’. Unfathomable levels of design and engineering love and care/attention to create a human or the earth/universe that way. Unfathomable power to create it in 6 days too, sure, but not as enjoyable to watch maybe?
The more I learn about science, the more awed I am by God, and the more God is glorified.