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To: Lurking Libertarian
God created the laws of nature, so saying that something happened in a natural way is not to contradict that God did it.

Not bothering to look it up just now, but in the book of Amos God is said to "create" the wind. (The word is the same as used in Genesis, which biblical apologists sometimes -- falsely -- claim only refers to creation "out of nothing.") The bible also informs us that God creates each generation of Israel, praise on the lips, and that he is involved intimately, personally and actively in the embryological development of individual human beings, "forming inward parts," "knitting together bones and sinew," and the like.

In short there are many instances were the Bible uses creationistic language to describe what even the most literalistic modern fundamentalist understands to be perfectly "natural" phenomena.

629 posted on 05/15/2003 5:39:25 PM PDT by Stultis
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To: Stultis
In short there are many instances were the Bible uses creationistic language to describe what even the most literalistic modern fundamentalist understands to be perfectly "natural" phenomena.

As the Talmud says, "All miracles happen in a natural way."

632 posted on 05/15/2003 5:43:28 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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