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To: Natural Law

Answer the question. Quit dodging. How does Science support Jesus rising? Or, put another way, how can you, believing that Genesis is false, convince another that the Gospel is true?


139 posted on 11/25/2009 9:19:54 AM PST by RoadGumby (Ask me about Ducky)
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To: RoadGumby
"Answer the question. Quit dodging."

I can't answer it any better than Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI):

"It says that the Bible is not a natural science textbook, nor does it intend to be such. It is a religious book, and consequently one cannot obtain information about the natural sciences from it. One cannot get from it a scientific explanation of how the world arose; one can only glean religious experience from it. Anything else is an image and a way of describing things whose aim is to make profound realities graspable to human beings. One must distinguish between the form of portrayal and the content that is portrayed. The form would have been chosen from what was understandable at the time -- from the images which surrounded the people who lived then, which they used in speaking and in thinking, and thanks to which they were able to understand the greater realities. And only the reality that shines through these images would be what was intended and what was truly enduring. Thus Scripture would not wish to inform us about how the different species of plant life gradually appeared or how the sun and the moon and the stars were established. Its purpose ultimately would be to say one thing: God created the world."

140 posted on 11/25/2009 9:27:12 AM PST by Natural Law
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