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To: ConservativeDude
Your ignorance of Scripture is now blaring. Throughout Scripture, God intervenes according to His good pleasure. He does not do so through "natural" processes which I take to mean processes which look natural to the naked eye. Take for one obvious example near the beginning of the book, the entire episode of the plagues, the flight from Egypt, the crossing of the Red Sea and so on. These events were obviously not "natural" and even Pharoah knew before it was over that they were not natural.

I'll beg to differ. For instance, two French researchers have discovered how a constant wind could push the waters of the Red Sea back a bit to let folks cross.

243 posted on 08/02/2005 8:23:19 AM PDT by Junior (Just because the voices in your head tell you to do things doesn't mean you have to listen to them)
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To: Junior

Save us. Push it back a bit? How about make a part two miles wide so that millions of people could cross? Research has shown that to feed the Israelites, all the millions of them, required hundreds of train cars of food and water every day. Crossing the red sea in one night required a part approximatly two miles wide. A bit of wind could never do that.


253 posted on 08/02/2005 8:28:06 AM PDT by Asphalt (Join my NFL ping list! FReepmail me| The best things in life aren't things)
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To: Junior

That is precisely my point. And it shows that you are missing it entirely.

That is not what Scripture attributes the parting of the Red Sea to...it attributes it to the overwhelming and decidedly non-natural power of God Almighty, acting on behalf of His people, just as He told Abraham that He would. (Read the psalms and subsequent recollections of this event thoughout the Bible...it is not remembered as some sort of wind). Moreover, parting it a bit would not have allowed the million or so Jews leave on dry ground, which is how it is described. Nothing in the history of the natural world occurs like that. And then...interestingly...it flooded back to kill most of the Egyptian army. I doubt if the French researchers can account for that timing.

Finally....that is only one single example. These episodes occur throughout Scripture. Read the book of Daniel, for example. The examples would number in the thousands.

A naturalistic interpretation of Scripture is not an interpretation. It is a renunciation of Scripture.

You are free to reject Scripture. But don't reject its heart and sould and pretend that you aren't.


277 posted on 08/02/2005 8:39:14 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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