Posted on 11/24/2014 1:07:14 PM PST by NYer
Just the intense level of attack on those that present the strong evidence in artifacts that support Biblical accounts should be sufficient proof!
You can almost feel the hate radiating off of the monitor screen.
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Arguing with an unbeliever is like arguing with the wind.
They’ll spend their time declaring the gift false, rather than examining the gift.
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“no it doesn’t.”
You do realize that the concept of evolution did not exist until a couple of centuries ago, right? It’s simply impossible for any doctrine containing elements of evolution to be unchanged from the time of Christ.
“Being resurrected is just as impossible as Creation is. So if I believe in the resurrection, it isn’t much of a stretch to believe in Creation.”
It seems to me the converse is also true. By that I mean, if the creation seems too far-fetched for one to believe, how much faith can they really have in the resurrection?
“I think it is reasonable to believe that Adam was not in the sixt5h day creation but later.”
The sixth day was the last day of creation, so there was no later, as far as that goes.
The sixth day was the last day of creation, so there was no later, as far as that goes.
If we say we are to take the word of God literally shouldn’t we take that into consideration?
“The sixth day was the last day of creation, so there was no later, as far as that goes.”
Bullcrap! That was NOT end of creation, because we are created in God’s image and we never stop creating as long as we exist...
Oh by the way Christians are eternal beings just like God, it’s just a matter of where we spend that time and how long. God did not quit creating with the sixth day, that is NOT in the Bible.
Not trying to do a thread Hijack here, but I used to have the LDS come to my house on a regular basis back up north.
I asked them where the proof was of this huge battle that took place. I told them that there was evidence in the Red sea of Moses crossing and that this took place near the same time according to the LDS. None could ever give me an answer.
Bullcrap! That was NOT end of creation,
If we take the Bible literally we can see that Adam was made after the six day creation because there was no man to till the ground even though every thing including man was already made.
“I think the Bible tells us that God rested on the seventh day and it was only after that that he made Adam from the dirt.”
No, if you read Genesis 1, we are told that man was created on day 6. Chapter 2 tells us HOW He did it.
Adam and Eve only had to raise their own food because they sinned....if they had not sinned we would all still be living in the Garden of Eden, no work, no hate, no problems....However, Lucifer (in the snake) the greatest angel ever created...deceived Eve and Adam (not deceived but to please the woman) did as the snake said, because they decided NOT to believe God when he said not to eat from the tree ‘of the knowledge of good and evil’.
Man still refuses to trust or believe God, and things just keep getting worse. The devil keeps talking and they keep doing, just like Ferguson last night. Those arrested last night are repenting today, but the consequences of those court dates, fines, and jail will still remain.
The word that is translated as "generations" in Genesis does not mean what you seem to think it means. It is not referring to an era of time. The word in question is "towlĕdah", which means:
I. descendants, results, proceedings, generations, genealogies
A. account of men and their descendants
i. genealogical list of one's descendants
ii. one's contemporaries
iii. course of history (of creation etc)
B. begetting or account of heaven (metaph)
http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/Lexicon/Lexicon.cfm?strongs=H8435&t=KJV
No, if you read Genesis 1, we are told that man was created on day 6. Chapter 2 tells us HOW He did it.
“Genesis is not written symbolically, nor as parable, nor poetry, etc.”
Indeed, the Bible usually very clearly delineates those sections. When Jesus tells a parable, the Bible says something like “and then Jesus told them the parable of ...”, or a postscript is attached explaining that the story was a parable. When the prophets see a vision, they wrote down stuff like “and then the Angel of the Lord showed me a vision of ...”. So we are not left to wonder what parts of the Bible are symbolic or allegorical, although that is what the Biblical fantasists would like.
“I am a Catholic Roman rite. The First Christians.”
I hate to break it to you, but the first Christians didn’t worship in Latin.
“though we hear of women giving birth to multiples all the time...”
Not to invalidate your main point, but this is mainly due to the rise of fertility treatments. It’s still very rare to have multiple births through natural conception.
I think it is something else, not intellectual, but emotional. They want to avoid shame.
If you say you believe in the creation account of Genesis nowadays, the world will mock you for it, and for those that are of the world, and value the praise of the world more than the praise of God, they will feel foolish and ashamed because of that mockery. So, only those who are able to put aside their worldly pride are going to want to endure that.
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