The Unworthy Saint

Other than a horribly titled blog post that really reminds me of myself and my own titling conventions, Geoff’s post about evolution was interesting and brought up some thoughts.  So here is my response to his post:

One of the things I’ve been thinking about, after listening to Keller, is major in the majors and minor in the minors, but trying not to get the two switched.  His main point was “Do you believe Christ died and rose again?  If you do, everything else is secondary.” (bad paraphrase) Essentially what he was getting at was, if there are errors in scripture, or at least things that seem contrary to what we know, that shouldn’t be what your faith is based on.  Of course we believe the Word is absolute truth and of course we believe God created the world, but even if those things were proven wrong (they won’t), the fact remains that God came as Christ, died and rose again, for our sins, and you still have to do something with that – believe or disbelieve.  Once you’ve figured that out, your other beliefs should line up from there.  But those beliefs are ultimately secondary or tertiary, not primary.

All that to say, the thought that comes to my mind after reading his post, and the thing that I’ve been thinking on lately, is that it’s an interesting topic and certainly something to meditate on, discuss and research – but not something that should decide someone’s faith one way or the other.  Whether or not evolution happened, whether or not God created things to evolve, those are secondary issues to the question of Christ.  Sadly, I have a tendency to put things like that first.