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To: WMarshal

Ah, no. They are incongruous, incompatible. False premise: “I believe that many religious people are uneasy with the concept of evolution because it makes them feel smaller and God more remote over vast gulfs of time.” Your belief has no historical or scientific justification or basis. This is not an issue that can be addressed in a few paragraphs.


56 posted on 09/23/2016 7:39:28 PM PDT by Fungi (Soy sauce, you want soy sauce? Enjoy your soy sauce with all the fungi in it!)
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To: Fungi
I believe that it is sometimes pointless to get wrapped around the axle trying to reconcile religious texts against the reality that the creator has given us. Who is to say that the King James Bible is the final word of God when it went through numerous translations even before it went through the sausage factory of the Nicaean Council, sponsored and directed by a Roman emperor in order to standardize and harmonize Christian theology to the a Nicaen Creed, and the translated again?

“The First Council of Nicaea, held in Nicaea in Bithynia (In present — day Turkey), convened by the Roman Emperor Constantine I in 325, was the first ecumenical conference of bishops of the Christian Church, and most significantly resulted in the first uniform Christian doctrine, called the Nicaean Creed.”

I believe that the word of God, the essence of God, and the nature of God is also revealed in the reality that we live in every day as well as in scripture.

I too believe Satan is real but that he has no control of reality which is a manifestation of God. Who could argue that reality, as experience by all living things, is totally subordinate to the Bible?

I am not a deist, I believe that most of the Bible is divinely inspired, however we live in a fallen world and the text of the Bible, as we know it may have been corrupted by man. The Bible enables man, with his limited capacity to understand the deeper reality of creation, to understand the deeper, spiritual meaning of reality and God, but that does not mean that science and critical thinking based on observing and testing the rules and behavior of the reality that was created by God as another "form of scripture" has no place in understanding God.

Sorry... But kinda not.

61 posted on 09/23/2016 11:13:27 PM PDT by WMarshal (Trump 2016)
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