"The Jeffersons was right!"
Posted on 07/06/2020 1:43:46 PM PDT by knighthawk
“He could have had reddish hair-Esau did. He could have had green eyes-I’ve read that that is sometimes a characteristic of people from the Galilee area.”
Absolutely! I do not care how Jesus is depicted as long as it is tasteful and reverent. He is still my Lord and Savior.
Scots-Irish.
Charles is not of the same blood as Richard the Lion Heart. The present British Crown has been swamped by German blood. The younger generation is changing that, but I am not sure they are Christian.
How does this fool know that Jesus was “a black man”? Was he there? Prove it!
Jesus spoke Aramaic/Hebrew. Not too many blacks in that part of the world did at that time. More likely Latin, Arabic, or some African tribal lingo.
England sure has a problem with its religious leaders. That is why many were named “The Red Bishop of Canterbury”.
Does that mean Jews are black?
According to the anthropologists, we’re all originally ‘Out of Africa’ anyway...
"The Jeffersons was right!"
Anthropologists also say we descended from some common ancestor of apes, presumably out of Africa. But this would be extremely ancient by their speculations. However, by the time of Moses only some approx 3000 years ago these are not subsaharan people groups.
(As a Christian I believe the Genesis account. No one knows where Eden was located. Two great rivers are mentioned and these seem to correspond to two in mesopotamia, not Africa. But this is pre-deluge and no saying if this was the same region or not.)
I have no problem with accepting both the concept of evolution - (albeit not precisely as the concept has been classically presented) - and that of a Creator God.
I’ve never understood why evolutionists seem to have a problem with the idea of Intelligent Design, and vice versa.
I figure God was smart enough to think up evolution.
"What difference does it make?"
I do. God rested on the 7th day. The 7th day had an evening and morning like days one thru six. These are 24 hour periods. If they had not been, the Holy Spirit is able to accurately convey the period of time.
Evolution excludes God. God is unnecessary. A 6 day creation is a miracle of God. It is not an arbitrarily long period for material forces to act which does not require God, specifically excuses God.
Well, with all respect, I believe you may be confusing poetry, symbology, and allegory with how things were actually conceived.
But, those things have their own realities in their own spaces, so I guess it’s all good.
(I don’t think my way of seeing it is any less miraculous.)
I am familiar with literary forms (BA Classics and Classical Civilization). Genesis 1 uses days as days not as ages. There is no “symbology” or “allegory” employed. The evening/morning formula shows the orderly progression of creation in periods we know as days. All of creation was completed at the end of the sixth day. On the seventh day God rested from his creative effort. Exodus 20 establishes Sabbath observance to commemorate that first Sabbath and point us to the Lord of the Sabbath, Jesus Christ. (To be saved we must enter into his rest.)
I think the reason why men reject this manifest understanding from explicit language is because of pride, I.e. not wanting to appear dumb before scientific colleagues. Many see a day/age theory as a way to reconcile the Bible’s six day creation with evolution’s presumptive requirement for vast periods of time. Putting that improbability aside I think Genty’s white hole cosmogony, which explains apparent antiquity with a young earth, is a biblically compatible theory which does not require the abandonment of scripture.
Well, I don’t agree with your particular understanding of the language of myth, symbology and poetry, or of the mentality of ancient seers who were attempting to convey a higher knowledge in a way that more primitive (less evolved?) people might understand.
And I don’t believe that God deals in ‘Days’ or in time at all - that’s just the way Man has presented things to make them understandable. God must exist entirely outside of time and space - which is something that we cannot understand, being stuck here in our three dimensions, and Time. Time and Space are just mechanisms God put in place so that we could actually engage in Experience - and learn and grow.
But, I’m probably going to hell anyway - so don’t worry. You can pity me from up above.
At least I’ll go there having been true to the very good mind that only God could have blessed me with - and which I assume He expects me to use.
Have an apple.
God desires all men to be saved, to come to the knowledge of the truth. All men. He wants you.
You don’t need to spend eternity tormented in the lake of fire. God paid our sin debt. One need only appropriate forgiveness by trusting in his finished work on the cross.
Sounds too good to be true. Many try to earn salvation thru good works but that is no longer possible — sin is a disqualifier. Only the perfect Lamb of God is qualified to pay that debt. He was faithful unto death and God raised him from the dead. In the same way he will raise all who trust in him.
You do not have to die in your trespasses and sins. The free gift of God is eternal life thru Jesus Christ.
I appreciate your faith and encouragement.
Obviously this character has no clue what the key of David means... course there is that prophecy of Amos, about hearing the Word of the Lord.
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