True. Evolution must undermine both the Old and New Testaments...the very integrity and life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
THAT is why one cannot hold both beliefs consistently. Those who do have gaping holes and are unaware of it.
Yeah. I said the same in the post.
The Roman charge against Him would have amounted to the leader of an insurection. They would have made sure he was dead.
Read more into the links on the puffer fish poisoning. Many times modern doctors have promounced victims dead, only to have them wake up hours later. A Roman soldier, having noted that Jesus didn't react to a spear would conclude he was dead.
Hanging on a cross is suffication. Even if you were on drugs, the lungs are collapsed and you die
And de-hydration, and blood loss, and all kinds of nasty things. It takes many hours to die on a cross. Check out the people who have themselves nailed to a cross in Latin American countries at Easter every year.
All of this was just speculation. But it's interesting that everything would fit with puffer paralysis, right down to taking him off the cross early.
This is because Jesus rescues us from the punishment for sin....death. Those "christians" that accept otherwise, are not understanding their own faith.
They merely have a different understanding of their faith than you.
Thanks for the civil conversation. Neither of us will convince the other, which is what almost always happens when people of different beliefs talk about them.
What I hope to convince you of, or at least some lurkers, is that forcing creationism, by whatever label, into public schools can do no positive good. And it can do a great harm by sparking the kind of discussion we've had here about whether the Bible is true at all. When a young person has such a conversation in a public school, away from parents and church people, it doesn't hold much hope for helping their faith. Some, certianly, will be forced to reject their faith as I was, when I had to make up my mind between physical evidence in front of me, and an old book that my family had followed for generations. That's not a good choice. The policy of non-confrontation with science that the Catholics have (which doesn't mean you have to believe evolution, just not argue about it outside of church) is a much more sound policy.