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To: Dustbunny
"I am a 'fundie' but have NEVER believed that the universe was 6,000 years old. The Bible uses what we know as time that has passed, I have always been sure that GOD's time frame is much vaster. A second to him could be like a million years to us."

Sorry, but if that is what you believe--you are NOT a "fundie"---whose belief setting is the "language absolutist" idea that creation happened in seven 24-hour days. Once you depart from that language absolutism, you are in there with us "parable Biblicists", who believe that the Bible cannot be interpreted "exactly as written", but requires interpretation based on both Church tradition and our current "state of knowledge" about the universe.

39 posted on 11/07/2005 6:49:13 AM PST by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel)
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To: Wonder Warthog
Sorry, but if that is what you believe--you are NOT a "fundie"---whose belief setting is the "language absolutist" idea that creation happened in seven 24-hour days. Once you depart from that language absolutism, you are in there with us "parable Biblicists", who believe that the Bible cannot be interpreted "exactly as written", but requires interpretation based on both Church tradition and our current "state of knowledge" about the universe.

Cut me a break, you are babbling total crap.

42 posted on 11/07/2005 1:11:03 PM PST by Dustbunny (Main Stream Media -- Making 'Max Headroom' a reality.)
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