I am thinking that Paul, while a brilliant speaker and rhetorician, made
a mess of Christian theology, and created a fissure between Messianic Jews
and Christians which is still not healed very well today.
If I don’t believe in the literal version of Adam and Eve that Paul believed,
you should not expect me to think Paul was perfect in his comprehension.
He never met Jesus . . . and yet insisted on explaining to his relatives, apostles
and followers that they had things all wrong.
Today’s student are a lot smarter than you think that they are. Our age group are dinosaurs, as it has been my experience that young millennials grasp the details of complex systems much quicker and easier today than in our time.
I am not saying “smarter”. What I am saying is that to survive (thrive) (compete)(excel) in today’s fast paced, scientific, secular US, today’s millennials are better adapted than we were and are today. We are dinosaurs soon to be fossils.
Abiogenesis is not impossible, it happened here on Earth billions of years ago. All life on Earth is the result of abiogenesis happening at least once in the universe.
This thread has become 5 different conversations at once. I’m closing it. Continue conversations with the (much-neglected) “reply as new topic” button.