EVOLUTION AND SALVATION

Abstract

Based on the assumptions of evolutionary theory, the theology of nature reinterprets the Christian worldview and delivers otherwise to traditional biblical understanding of Creation, free will, sin, fall, and redemption. The present manuscript shows how these variations affect the biblical conception of salvation. One verifies that the entire evolution of man is inconceivable by the triviality of the Darwinian mechanism, whose overvalued application comprises a divine action restricted to ordinary interior tracking compassionate to human suffering. In these aspects, the divine intervention for the immediate salvation is mischaracterized. It is also shown that the Scriptures contain own display of body-spiritual evolution of man, hence it is not necessary to consider the Darwinian paradigm. On the contrary, it appears that variations in Christian conceptions are results of change in basics of thought, whose extrapolation gives way to heresy.