In the beginning of the human race there was no genetic load which would cause undesirable traits such as appear in offspring of marriages between relatives today. |
It seems we will continue to have problems with this classification and it may be because it comes under the heading of creation rather than preservation. |
Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it. |
Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings. |
No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake. |
Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space. |
Sex is not sinful, but sin has perverted it. |
Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world. |
The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork. |
There are also scientific problems with the concept that each of the creation days was a long period of time. |
There is always a pressure to separate the Bible from science and to separate the Christian religion from things material. |
Therefore, sins of sex are punished in this life to a greater degree than some other sins. |
This means that all of nature was made primarily for the benefit of man and that he was to exercise dominion over it. |
This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful. |
This unwillingness to admit guilt is traced back to the Garden of Eden. Adam blamed Eve and she blamed the serpent. It is an ingrained trait because of sin. |