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mlc wrote: So God just lied when in Genesis he said he created the heavens and the earth and all in it?

Lib replied:Is a parent lying when they substitute the stork for genetalia in the answer to their 6-year-old child's query regarding the origin of their baby brother?

I ask: Why can't God's Words in Genesis 1 simply be accepted at their face value?

1,091 posted on 05/15/2006 12:12:54 PM PDT by music_code (Atheists can't find God for the same reason a thief can't find a policeman.)

I ask: Why can't God's Words in Genesis 1 simply be accepted at their face value?

Because if you wish to accept them at literal face value they are falsified by abundant physical evidence and supported by no physical evidence at all. This had been established by creationist geologists and paleontologists prior to the voyage of the Beagle.

1,095 posted on 05/15/2006 12:51:07 PM PDT by Thatcherite (I'm PatrickHenry I'm the real PatrickHenry all the other PatrickHenrys are just imitators)

Why can't God's Words in Genesis 1 simply be accepted at their face value?

You are, of course, free to take Genesis however you like. But some people believe in the evidence that the earth is older than a few thousand years and that life as we see it today emerged not in a matter of days but over millions of years. Yet, they don't believe that makes God a liar. The Bible is full of parables and figurative language and some people simply don't believe in a literal interpretation.

Why can't God's evidence in the world we see simply be accepted at its face value?

1,101 posted on 05/15/2006 1:43:57 PM PDT by LibertarianSchmoe ("...yeah, but, that's different!" - mating call of the North American Ten-Toed Hypocrite)