Kitty said...If humans are a "special creation" why do we share more than 90% of our DNA with the other Great Apes?  Why do we see the same exact pattern when it comes to endogenous retroviruses?

I would say first and foremost, what we are is not what we will be. Because Christians are a new creation we understand by walking by faith according the words of faith, that we will be all changed in the twinkling of an eye.as we receive or immortal bodies, which the scripture reveal as nether male or female but will become one new body, called the bride of Christ .Scripture identifies that body as made up of many lively stones that makes up the spiritual house of God called the church ,His bride.

When we look to dna, I believe it comes from this creation which is corrupted and produces mortal bodies of clay because of the fall. Clay or our flesh and blood are made up and formed of the elements as rudiments of this world, as the media  which scripture declares we do not know Christ by or after. Seeing our salvation is spiritual in nature and not after the flesh or the dna that makes up this worldism.

 And because we do not know Christ after the things seen, the temporal, that will be burned up and carried away by the smoke of the fiery judgment of God. We do not look to the kind of philosophical vain theories of the atheists or some men who make a profession of Christian faith, which the scriptures call the oral tradition, as ordinances and laws of men coming after the doctrines of men.

But we can, and do know Christ after His spiritual words that are our life, and therefore not after the flesh and therefore dna which profits for nothing.in knowing Christ .

I believe this is what the book of Colossians is teaching us. Christian are to walk by faith a faith that comes from hearing Him who is invisible. And not by sight after the temporal things of this world

 

Colossians 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

 

Colossians 2:20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,

 


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