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To: narby
If you insist that humans were "created" instantly out of the dust of ground, then you're believing in a fantasy.

There is only one who wants me to believe that such is a fantasy, and with all due respect to your intelligence and conviction, that being certainly is not you.

You are but a mere messenger, just as I, but my message is life....yours is death.

On the other hand, if you believe that humans are a special species, guided by God via evolution over billions of years, then at least you're not denying the plentiful evidence at hand.

Evidence is in the eye of the beholder, and such evidence as mine can be beheld by anyone, including a child. That is real evidence my friend.

Some Christians believe the former, some the latter, and both consider themselves "created" by God.

Some people believe in all manner of things. I prefer to believe the words of my Creator...he that is, was, and always will be...and these words do and stand on their own such that even a child can understand. Such is the nature of Genesis one.

It is we who make things difficult where they need not be.

693 posted on 12/22/2006 1:17:15 PM PST by csense
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To: csense
my message is life....yours is death.

At one time I had faith in Christ as well. Until some Christians insisted I accept obvious fantasy, and forced me to reject Him. It is not science with the message of death, it is the Creationists that made it impossible for me to believe.

such evidence as mine can be beheld by anyone, including a child. That is real evidence my friend.

Children believe anything they are told, and often hold those false beliefs for life. That is how faith is propagated. Ever wonder how come most Americans are Christian, and most Arabs Muslim? The truth of a faith is irrelevant, it's what children are taught in the home that makes a Christian, or Muslim, or Jew, or Hindu, or Shinto.

It is we who make things difficult where they need not be.

It is sometimes difficult to accept the truth, when the fantasy is so appealing. I will always detest the person that forced me to reject my faith in God, because they convinced me that I must accept Genesis literally, or reject Him. I was living in a fantasy faith, but it was a good fantasy, and now I've lost it.

75 years ago most Christians abandoned the fight against Evolution and there was little conflict on the issue. In the 80's "Creation Science" was invented, and Christians with knowledge have fled God ever since.

It is not "Evolution" that is the problem. It is the promoting of ideas like Creationism that is the problem. Creationism does no good for Christianity, only harm.

709 posted on 12/22/2006 4:36:13 PM PST by narby
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