In Reply to: Sidewinder posted by Steve Irwin on September 16, 2006 at 20:11:01:
With respect to any persons currently a-theistic, I have read a lot online about certain a-theists linking in great numbers to a fake MySpace page created fraudulently to strengthen the idea that Irwin was a hardcore atheist. Irwin never created the site; a militant a-theist did.
There are also other things to be found online. One was a false rumor that Irwin and his wife and family had gone to a smal Australian church, and had all received Christ, there. Just a rumor; though.
There are interviews of Irwin where he stated his belief that his own mother was in a Christian Heaven, and hoped to see her there, after his own death. That should indicated Steve's earlier belief in Christ.
Some of the propagandizing a-theists (and, yes, there were also propagandizing theists, too; spreading false rumors) claimed that, because it was demonstrable that Irwin believed in evolution, "time plus chance's" natural selection and the causality of mutation on a single organism as the origin of all biological life, that Irwin himself was a hardcore, militant and belief system-propagating a-theist/anti-theist.
My take on that, because of one of the thieves on crosses next to Christ at His crucifixion who was promised "Paradise" that same day, is that there are millions and millions of born-again Christians who still believe in evolution.
Simple faith in Christ is all that's required for that; not someone's "perfect theology", or apologetics system; true or not. It's obviously a gift even a simple child can receive, by faith.
I don't happen to think it's necessary to believe in special creation, nad so forth, to be saved, and have good scientific reasons for not beleiving in rationalist/materialist/a-theism and evolution, but simply because a person beleives in evolution does not necessarily indicate a disbelief in God, or especially the Gospel.
Verifiably honest polls on Americans belief systems readily indicates this, at about an 80% incidence of total population of a belief in the God of the Gospel; our Imannuel, God-in-the-flesh; whom Scripture calls "our God and Savior", inseveral places.
I hope to see Irwin in Heaven. I see no conclusive evidence that I shouldn't.
Who cares what TFI's crazy false prophet's cabal channels from whatever demonic or plain insanity souce? Phooey!
Sincerely,
OT2 (OldtimerToo)