John Oxios, Anaximander, Pythagoras and Aristotle knew nothing of genetics, evolutionary biology, cell biology, or paleontology. Neither did Saint Paul.
No but they knew and discussed Evolution, ,maybe they didn’t call it Evolution, but Darwin didn’t make it up he and Herbert Spencer gave it a new twist.
My point is Paul is hard to understand because of the Volume of Study God provided for him throughout his life, and through revelation, and if there was any inkling of truth to so called Man evolving from other forms of life He would have at least mentioned it.
2Pe 3:15 and regard the patience of our Lord {as} salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you
16 as also in all {his} letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand,
which the untaught and unstable distort, as {they do} also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.
wsu.edu/~dee/CHRIST/PAUL.HTM
…Paul was a product of the Jewish diaspora and was born in the Cilician city of Tarsus in Asia Minor; unlike all the other earliest followers of Christianity, he was not a native of Palestine. As a citizen of Tarsus he was also officially a citizen of Rome.
Raised in Greek culture and fluent in Greek, it was natural that he would take the side of the Hellenists in the dispute over the direction of the church. He was, however, also a member of the Pharisees, a zealous group of Jews that focussed rigorously on Jewish Law and the strict adherence to that law.
His natural orientation towards the Greek world led to his most significant innovations in the new religion; it’s not unfair to say that the religion Paul left the world was a substantially different religion than what he started with. The most salient aspect of the theology and ethics of Paul is his emphasis on Christianity as a universal religion. Whereas Jesus of Nazareth and many of his followers seemed to narrowly conceive of the religion as a religion of the Jews, Paul, in the context of the debate between the Hebrews and the Hellenists, tirelessly and creatively recast Christianity as a religion for all peoples.
…Paul was magnificently tolerant of Greek practices of eating or circumcision, he did not tolerate other aspects, such as homosexuality. In pursuit of this, he took a contradictory course to his universal stance and declared salvation off-limits to an entire set of people engaged in certain behaviors. In social and political terms, his list of excluded peoples would reverberate throughout Christian history in social tensions and, in some cases, violent oppression of excluded groups.
God bless,
John
