How can I believe after read certainly things here?

[Justin Adams]

1 hour ago, Who me said:

A far better idea than reading the weird and wacky posts you'll find here.

I resemble that remark I'll have you know...

[GandalfTheWise]

17 hours ago, Felipe said:

I'm NOT an atheist, I'm someone strongly struggling. I came to this forum today and became scared at seeing people here saying things like "evolution didn't happen", "Old Earth is a lie", "Dinosaurs didn't existed (WHAT?)"... Atheists constantly claim Christians are irrational and delusional, and seeing this sort of things here is scaring me.

The key belief of Christians is that there is a Creator.  If there is no Creator, the main question about such things is *how* did things come to be.  If there is no Creator, the question *why* did things come to be has no meaning.   It is the Christian view that the question of *why* we exist is ultimately much more important that *how* we came to exist.

The big difference among evangelical Christians on these types of issues is how important the details of creation are to them.  For some Christians, having scientific proof that Genesis 1 is literally accurate as 6 days of creation about 6000 years ago is a critical matter of faith in the trustworthiness of scripture.  For them, the starting point is scripture and anything that contradicts that must be in error somehow.  Some of those with this view don't believe it is possible for a Christian to believe in an old earth without rejecting scripture.  Indeed, I've heard some say it is impossible to believe in an old earth and be a Christian.  For other Christians, this is not a big deal since symbolism is used all the time in scripture.  They comfortably say Jesus is a lamb, a lion, the Word, a root, bread of life, a light, a rock, the door, the vine, and cornerstone without actually thinking Jesus is a literal lamb, lion, or rock.   The Bible talks in a literal way about angels at the 4 corners of the earth in Rev 7:1 which few Christians would consider essential to believe as being a literal description of the earth having 4 physical corners.