Science & Scripture

1 Corinthians

passages

6

fields

3

New Testament · passages in 1 Corinthians compared with current science.

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• Eating or drinking with an insufficiently reverent attitude directly causes illness and death.

  1 Corinthians 11:30

  What it means: Illness from eating and drinking is caused by pathogens (Salmonella, E.

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• No organism of any kind died anywhere on Earth before the first human moral failure about 6,000 years ago.

  1 Corinthians 15:22

  What it means: If nothing died before ~6,000 years ago, there should be zero fossils older than that.

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• A seed must die before it can sprout into a new plant.

  1 Corinthians 15:36

  What it means: A seed is a living organism in a state of dormancy.

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• Human flesh is fundamentally and categorically different from animal flesh, making human-animal biological similarities impossible.

  1 Corinthians 15:39

  What it means: Human and animal flesh is remarkably similar at the molecular level.

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• The entire human species descended from a single man who was the first human ever created.

  1 Corinthians 15:45

  What it means: Humans didn't descend from a single individual.

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• Physical forms developed first in nature, and spiritual awareness came later.

  1 Corinthians 15:46

  What it means: This is an interesting case where someone tried to harmonize scripture with science.

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