Can God Evolve? (Jesus, Earth, blood, creation, genesis)

[Rex]

The bible was written some 2,000 years or so ago. We as humans have changed our mind alot on alot of topics in 2,000 years.

Can or has God? Does God still think exactly the same? or Has God evolved like us?

[cardero]

If we are to believe that GOD was integral to the Bible and that the stories in the Bible about GOD are TRUE than I would admit that GOD has evolved quite a bit. Take the examples of Genesis where GOD’s wraith towards humanity was vengeful and malicious. GOD doesn’t do that anymore. So either someone changed his medication or the stories in the Bible were not about GOD or GOD does indeed change and evolve.

[DianJo]

God does not and cannot evolve.
God has no time constraints. He is past, present and future.
In the Old Testament, God taught us according to our understanding at the time. We were a primitive people with primitive ways. I wouldn't have thought that God really wanted animal sacrifice either but that's what the people had grown to know and so God worked within the ways that we could comprehend. They could understand the covenant nature of sacrifice. God worked with the everyday things that people lived with - dirt, water, example - the ten plagues. He used water, blood, snakes, locusts, disease. These the people knew very well on a daily basis. Jesus did the same thing; He used dirt and spit to make mud to give sight to a blind man. God "educated" us slowly over time so it is we who have evolved (at God's promting) not God.

God could not spring Jesus (Himself) on us at the time of the Old Testament - we were not ready for Him then. We could not have comprehended what God wanted to teach us. He had to teach us some basic first. He brought us along, little by little. Even before Jesus left the earth, there were still things that He could not tell us because we could not take it. He left that job of helping us to understand His revelations to the Holy Spirit. That was the purpose of the Holy Spirit - to help the Apostles remember and understand all that Jesus had left them so they could pass and teach the "good news".

God is as He is. It is our intellect that grows thus our understanding grows. God does not evolve. God has been, is now and will always be.

[Paraprakrti]

It is not necessary for God to evolve because He is eternally complete and full in all transcendental qualities.

What does evolve is our understanding of God.

[Green Gaia]

"God" as a deity is a creation of man. So of course the idea of what "God" is will change as man evolves.

[starofjacob]

God does have the capacity to grow. That is why he/she created us, so that he/she could grow in love toward us his/her creation

[nomad438]

I believe he does evolve, he evolves to each persons needs of him

[Ceridwen018]

He is eternally complete and full in all transcendental qualities.

What about physical qualities? Because you see, we live in and are only able to percieve the physical world, so wouldn't it be more beneficial to us if he were complete by physical standards?

[cardero]

Starofjacob writes:God does have the capacity to grow. That is why he/she created us, so that he/she could grow in love toward us his/her creation

Starofjacob why do you write he/she when describing GOD? I was just curious because that was the way I use to write of him/her until many people complained that it was difficult to understand my sentences.

[cardero]

Nomad 438 writes: I believe he does evolve, he evolves to each persons needs of him.

I agree that GOD evolves too. There was a time that GOD had to come into some kind of UNDERSTANDING just like we are experiencing but I also believe his UNDERSTANDING had come along way before there was any other entities around.
I also do not believe that GOD waits for our understanding to define his own. This sounds like a Christian theory.