I understand your frustration and how you are drawing your conclusions. I’m not sure someone must hold to young earth to escape theistic evolution. We have Christians on both sides of the young earth vs. old earth debate as you know.

And yeah, I wish he’d take a more solid stance, but we can still give him grace.

I may want to retract that (just a little). Huckabee says he believes the bible, but then he doesn’t know if God created in 6 days or 6 days that represents thousands and thousands of years.

To me, anyways, and I am admittedly a bit cynical about these things, it is doublespeak, trying to appear “smart” while still remaining a hero to those Christians who don’t see the problem that Biblical Christianity has with “theistic evolution”. Either God created the world in 6 days and nothing died until the fall, or He created it in 6 “ages” and was a purposeful process of death and deformity until man emerged. I don’t see how it can be both.

You can see the confusion yourself at youtube, just type “republican debate evolution” into the search box.

Anyways, my apologies for my hyperbole.

kindest regards,

abclay

I know you’ve been busy. Thanks for stopping by, bro. I had no idea about Huckabee and the origin of species issue.

On Huckabee:
It’s just silliness, the national politics involved. And, not to throw out a litmus test, but Huckabee doesn’t denounce the darwinian theory on the origin of species. I don’t see how you can say you believe the Bible, and then stutter when asked about evolution.

Hope you had a good fourth holiday.

As far as the ‘Great Commission Resurgence’ I will be interested to see what this GC Resurgance will look like. My hope is that it will involve supporting those missionaries that are indigenous to the countries that need to be reached, with no strings attached to the monies that are sent. Our western ways do not work in other countries, especially when we are speaking of Asia. It costs us more money to send out our own missionaries from here (training and keeping them in western comfort) than to support those that are already in those areas. Just my thoughts. Thank you for your blog Mark. I enjoy reading it.

Were you at the Convention? It sounds like you were. I’m curious to know if others felt the same as you.

I don’t deny that Colson and Huckabee are brothers in Christ with good intentions. I really don’t mean to be hard on them, but to just make an observation with an opinion. I understand Huckabee speaking more than Colson. I’m not sure Colson would be allowed to be a deacon or elder/pastor in the SBC. Not that this is the line of decision. It would lead me to question if his theological convictions and understanding of the Gospel line up with the BFM2K.

It’s tough for me because Colson does write some good material.

As far as Huckabee goes, it appears he has chosen politics over spreading the Gospel and that’s his choice. But when he made that decision, he made the decision to no longer be a pastor. I pray that he will serve God well with the vocation that he has chosen and will be a a difficult thing in such a corrupt environment. He will have to remember to love God first and THEN his neighbor, otherwise I’m afraid that God will take a back seat and he will become just another humanitarian. Bottom line is that the only thing that will truly change America is the Gospel. Not social programs, feel good sermons or entertainment in place of Sunday morning worship.

Thank you for this post Mark.