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To: 21twelve

Nothing to be sorry about - merely, stating satan knows there is a Creator but he doesn’t want anyone to believe it - thus all the deception surrounding it. ‘Doubting God’ which fits nicely into this discussion.


29 posted on 05/01/2009 12:03:15 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: presently no screen name; BubbaBasher; 21twelve

PNSN, why don’t you read post #27 and the link I provided there. There is NO conflict between belief in G-d and the current state of our science regarding the age of the universe.

The Bible passages on which you are relying were not written in English, nor in Latin or Aramaic. They were written in Hebrew, and many scholars of the Bible who used that very same Hebrew on a daily basis from a young age, men who lived well over 1,000 years ago, understood that the Biblical explanation of 6 days of Creation was not meant to be taken literally (and you can hardly accuse them of lacking faith).

Frankly, as a person of faith myself, I find that people who stubbornly stick with literal translations of ancient texts written in a language that they don’t fully understand do more of a disservice to G-d than they’d like to admit. That stubbornness, that lack of any willingness to use those tools that G-d Himself gave to us (like eyes and a brain) paints all religious people as being ignorant, closed-minded, etc., and causes many to lose faith and many others (like the NY Times, Newsweek, etc.) to ridicule faith.


32 posted on 05/01/2009 12:13:55 PM PDT by Ancesthntr (Tyrant: "Spartans, lay down your weapons." Free man: "Persian, come and get them!")
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