[demshateGod]

Which is easier for a scientist to believe:
* Moses parting the Red Sea, or recent creation?
* The walls of Jericho falling down due to marching and shouting, or recent creation?
* The virgin birth of Christ, or recent creation?
* Jesus feeding the 5,000 with just a few pieces of bread and fish, or recent creation?
* Jesus rising from the dead, or recent creation?

That’s a good question to ask the Freepers who try to say their Christians but don’t believe God’s word about creation. Are all of those things listed metaphors?

[donna]

“To say that the banana happened by accident is even more unintelligent than to say that no one designed the Coca Cola can.”
- Kirk Cameron -

[RaceBannon]

1. _____ DAY 1 (Genesis 1:1-5) A. The creation of plant life (vegetation)—LIFE BEGINS!
2. _____ DAY 2 (Genesis 1:6-8) B. The creation of land mammals and creeping things (insects & reptiles)—THE CREATION OF MAN!.
3. _____ DAY 3 (Genesis 1:9-13) C. The creation of the sun, moon and stars
4. _____ DAY 4 (Genesis 1:14-19) D. The creation of the heavens and the earth—the creation of light.
5. _____ DAY 5 (Genesis 1:20-23) E. The creation of the firmament (heavenly expanse)
6. _____ DAY 6 (Genesis 1:24-31) F. The creation of sea life (including sea mammals) and fowl (birds)
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Now ask someone who believes in old earth and day age theories to explain how the order of creation happened with long ages.

[opaque soul]

Is Satan a literal snake in the grass? If not then why did God tell Satan (the serpent)that he was more cursed than all the animals and that he would slither on the ground and eat dust? Either this is literal or allegorical representing a heavenly concept in earthly terms.

Another thought... How is it that a God who is eternally existent and only just started creating 6 or 10K years ago?

It is my conclusion that finite minds will never come to fully understand until we see Him... and that is the real nut in the shell... Him. God is ever so clear as to the condition of man's soul and the need for redemption and only tangentially concerned that we understand all of history.

Yes, God could have created the earth 6 to 10k years ago and have created it to appear as though it had been here billions of years... but what's the point?