Featured Is the Bible compatible with the theory of evolution?

I don't know where you heard this. The Cambrian Explosion is actually great evidence for creation. It shows life appearing abruptly or instantly, just as the Bible says.

 

Did physical death or spiritual death enter by sin? Why evade the question?

Did the plants Adam and Eve ate die before the Fall. Why evade the question. Your dogmatic assertion needs to address Genesis 1:29. The only way to look at this issue, when did death occur is to accept death at least of plants consumed occurred before the fall. That means all those verses you cited must refer to spiritual death brought about by sin.

It is a lock.

 

I tend to believe it was speaking of spiritual death. When Adam and Eve sinned they both died spiritually.

And the reason they died is because they now had the knowledge of good and evil.

Gen3:22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

The reason Adam and Eve spiritually died is because now they understood between good and evil. They now understood they had sinned against God and were convicted.

That is why babies are not born dead in sin, because they do not understand between good and evil.

Deu 1:39 Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.

It is not a sin to know between good and evil, God knows this, but it makes one accountable when they know between good and evil.

This is why Paul said he was alive without the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and he died (Rom 7:9). Paul was speaking of learning the law as a young Jewish man. When he learned the law he became accountable and spiritually died.

 

And your point is???

 

Actually, their sin did not cause physical death. They could have eaten of the tree of life and lived forever as sinners;

Gen 3:22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

The moment Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit they spiritually died, and so God had to sacrifice an animal for them to be reconciled to him, a figure of Christ.

Their sin did not cause physical death, at least not directly. God forced them out of the garden and prevented them from eating of the tree of life, and this is why men and animals physically die.

This is why folks misunderstand Romans 5, it is speaking of spiritual death not physical.

 

Joh_14:23 Jesus answered him, "If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.



Rev_3:8 "'I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.


Evolution directly contradicts the Word of God. A person who denies the Word of God, is not saved. "Faith" means something. It is not "faith" in yourself, or "faith" in some nebulous concept of God, conjured up in one's own imagination.
"Faith" is faith in Christ, as revealed in the Scriptures. Since Christ said the whole book (or all 66 books) is about Him, denying the Bible or part of the Bible, equates to a lack of faith. God's Word is not something to be parceled out, and split asunder. It is a unified whole.

 

Then why did God shed the blood of an animal?

That the earth is "quite old" is debatable! As far as I know all dating methods assume an old earth! As for the "Cambrian Explosion" my first thought was that the worldwide flood could well explain the abundance of fossils.

It is not a scientific journal but it is true. Scripture says God spoke and it was. He did not have to shuffle His feet [speaking anthropomorphically] before deciding the next evolutionary step.

 

Winman, I am very pleased to see you confessing that the unsaved man is spiritually dead!

 

Assumptions are at the foundation of all science, mathematics and logic
Assumptions are also at the foundation of any FAITH.

 

When have I ever said otherwise?

 

http://www.godandscience.org/youngearth/death.html

http://paleo.cc/ce/nodeath.htm

http://www.catholic.com/blog/matt-fradd/was-there-death-before-the-fall

http://www.comereason.org/theo_issues/theo022.asp

http://biologos.org/questions/death-before-the-fall

 

I will only caution you once about this.

 

I believe theistic evolution is heresy but that does not make them unsaved. Claiming those who hold to theistic evolution are not saved is unnecessary and goes to far.

 

I believe the earth is young because the scriptures say so. They say God created the heavens and earth in six days.

If God wanted us to believe the heavens and earth were created over a long period, then why couldn't he simply say so?

Gen 5:3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
4 And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:

The scriptures tell us Adam lived 930 years. God did not have any trouble telling us Adam lived almost a thousand years, so why couldn't God tell us he took billions of years to create the universe?

A person has to believe that God is incapable of properly expressing himself to believe the scriptures teach an old age for the earth. I find that ridiculous.

 

1. I do not understand your point
2. I think for most, other than YEC, the age of the earth as being quite old is reasonably settled and the methods for measurement utilize solid methods and mathematics. I realize that there are some "outlier" arguments such as the "c-decay" conjecture, but such are not recognized by large numbers of physicists and mathematicians
3. I do agree with you on the truth of God's Word, our "problem" is our understanding and interpretations of it (Pregnant with meaning)