Posted on 07/27/2006 3:00:03 PM PDT by BrandtMichaels
Shirley you're not serious.
That they were, to be sure! (Kind of a prerequisite.) BUT, you miss the point. They were Jewish. You know, real honest-to-goodness Jews by definition, by race, etc.
Were they all Jewish? The Gentiles (Greek) contributed many members to the early Church.
Why not serious? The people Coulter relied on actually accept evolution as a fact. They may believe the game was set up with loaded dice, but they accept the age and history of the earth as described by mainstream biologists.
Dembski's webmaster is my source for this. Other well known evolution critics who accept the fact of evolution include Behe and Michael Denton. Nearly every credentialed biologist in the ID movement accepts evolution as a fact.
If they want to believe god rigged the game, that's OK with me. It makes no difference to the way things work.
The references to the Lord may generally be accepted as Jesus Christ - at least for those who accept Him as Lord.
Also Hebrew names (i.e. Adam = man) have special meanings - if you translate each patriarch named from Adam to Noah you get an interesting 3 sentence sequence describing mankind's need for a Lord and Savior.
Per Genesis 5 genealogy (Thanks to Koinonia House Online)
Adam ~ Man, Seth, Enosh, Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,
Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, Noah ~ Rest or Comfort
Man
appointed
mortal
sorrow
The Blessed God
shall come down
teaching
His death shall bring
the despairing
rest, or comfort
Gen 1:26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness..."
Right, many Gentiles were saved as well. All of the gospels were written either by an apostle (Jewish) or an understudy (Jewish); Paul wrote about a dozen of the books, and he takes great pains to describe his Jewish background; John the Jewish, Beloved disciple (apostle) of course wrote the 3 John Letters and Revelation. The author of Hebrews is not known with certainty, but the title of that book alone argues strongly for a Jewish author - it could have been Paul or maybe Apollos.
How easily you dismiss eternity! The question of whether God exists, and more to the point, if He does whether one has accepted the salvation He offers through His Son Jesus Christ, makes a huge difference in the way things work, not only in eternity, but in this present temporal world as well.
What's a Darwinist?
Well I've seen very many anti-evolutionary arguments based upon Math, Physics, Probability & Statistics, the Laws of Thermodynamics, the Fossil record, etc.
Maybe just start listing the assumptions that must be accpeted in order for evolution to be true? 'Strain at a nat but swallow a camel...'
Basically you need to step out of your purely 'scientific' stance and read some Holy Scripture and related prophecies. Did you know there are many scientific minds that have come to their peace with the Bible and acceptance of Jesus as Lord and Saviour simply by trying to dis-prove the Bible?
Psalm 22 is a good place to start. It is believed to have been written by King David (and regardless of which of the several authors attributed to Psalms - all preceded Jesus Christ by centuries) in reference Jesus Christ dying on the cross.
Accepting that King David wrote Psalm 22 than it was prophesied roughly 1000 years before Jesus Christ!
Last - most biblical prophecies are not completely clear to mankind until after the event has come to pass (i.e. the rebirth of Israel as a country in 1948 and Jerusalem as it's capital in 1967 - this type of event is unheard of in the history of other ancient cultures/countries).
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Whatever is meant by Jesus not making a 'big issue' out of taking the Bible literally is actually a very big and foundational issue. Can a house continue to stand against life's storms if the foundation is removed or weakened?
Jesus affirmed much of the Bible through both his words and actions. Plus don't forget that 'everything contained therein is given by God and recorded by man with the intervention of God's Holy Spirit - Sola Scriptura!!!
The most preposterous notion that H. sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history. - Robert Heinlein
The true church (also referred to Biblically as saints) is composed of any/all true believers in Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour. 2 other things: I have met many from various and sundry christian persuasions who I believe are true christian saints but only God knows the true heart and beliefs of those who profess and claim belief in Christ. Paraphrased: Many will come knocking at the door saying Lord Lord and claiming great wonders and miracles in His name and Jesus will say depart because I knew you not.
I tend to agree with your comments here. Also another definition of religion is those beliefs that are manmade (including evolution) while the Bible says that faith is a gift from God. Furthermore, the Bible only talks about religion in the negative except one passage that reads 'true religion is one that cares for the widows and orphans'...
Excellent post RFC_Gal! I couldn't agree more.
Bravo!
Neither is ID or God for that matter.
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