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To: wyattearp
You are requiring God's Holy Spirit to use words of classification and description approved by human scientists. You would seat yourself above God. You are going to be surprised at the sentence against such arrogance one day. God prepared a great fish in Jonah ch. 2, and our Lord Jesus called it a whale. You will say that the Bible is a mess for calling a whale a fish when it is, by humanly written textbooks, a mammal. We know how to distinguish between these things when reading humanly written textbooks. That does not change the fact that God has the prerogative to call a butterfly an elephant if He were to so desire. It changes nothing--it only tests you, to see whether you will let God be God, or whether you will continue to consider yourself smarter than Him.
173 posted on 12/26/2005 2:17:12 PM PST by Free Baptist
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To: Free Baptist
You are requiring God's Holy Spirit to use words of classification and description approved by human scientists.

No, I am just remarking on the fact that God can't seem to be able to count the number of legs on the grasshopper that he supposedly created. Or maybe the problem is that God didn't write the bible, but man did?

You would seat yourself above God.

No, but thank you for your false judgement of me.

You are going to be surprised at the sentence against such arrogance one day.

There is no such thing, so there is nothing to be surprised about.

God prepared a great fish in Jonah ch. 2, and our Lord Jesus called it a whale. You will say that the Bible is a mess for calling a whale a fish when it is, by humanly written textbooks, a mammal.

No, but I do find it surprising that two parts of a tri-partite God system disagree on what kind of critter supposedly swallowed Jonah.

We know how to distinguish between these things when reading humanly written textbooks. That does not change the fact that God has the prerogative to call a butterfly an elephant if He were to so desire.

That would make it really difficult to understand him, and would also make him look totally ridiculous. The errors in the bible are bad enough as it is.

It changes nothing--it only tests you, to see whether you will let God be God, or whether you will continue to consider yourself smarter than Him.

I do not consider myself smarter than God. I do consider myself more knowledgable than the bronze age nomads that wrote the bible. It is obvious to me that God did not write that book. It has way too many errors to be divine.

267 posted on 12/26/2005 7:59:50 PM PST by wyattearp (The best weapon to have in a gunfight is a shotgun - preferably from ambush.)
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