[freedumb2003]

Where do you draw the line between what the Bible says, and what you believe? I don't want to seem intellectually challenged or anything, because I am not, but when and at what point do you pick it all apart and say,"That part is right, no that part is wrong, there it's OK again." And then ask yourself if you really believe int he infallibility of God, that the whole Bible is THE word of God. You can't pick parts, that is the slippery sploe and the highway to hell. And I am not judging injustly.

Nice try. The "slippery slope" argument, although amusing, carries no weight. Keep in mind the following:

1. Unless you are reading the Bible in its original Arameic, you are reading a translation and thus an interpretation.

2. There are 2 Creation stories. There is a 6 day one and a 7 day one. They have been "blended" in what people read today.

3. EVERYTHING a human being reads is filtered through a lens of interpretation. It is physically impossible not to.

I am not picking and choosing at all. I am seeing the Bible in its entirety as a spiritual guide, not a scientific text. It refers to historic events (the largest being the birth, death and resurrection of Christ), but those events are highlighted to provide a context and framework.

Are you saying Catholics (who IIRC agree with TToE as a matter of doctrine) or Calvinists (who interpret the Bible quite differently than mainstream Protestantism) or Angicans, Methodists, Lutherans, etc. etc. etc ALL OF WHICH interpret the Bible differently are all on the highway to hell?

When God speaks to me through the scriptures, he speaks to my Immortal Soul, not the transitory Mortal Sciences.

[vpintheak]

1:1
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

1:2
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

1:3
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

1:4
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

1:5
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

What part of day don't you understand? You start throwing our from the beginning, it is all over brother.