Posted on 08/28/2004 9:10:46 PM PDT by AskStPhilomena
Well, I'm quite surprised, you being an expert on the bible and all.
LOL
You're too funny...
If I'm a PitA, what does that make you sink?
Ah, so you just joined in for the purpose of making smarmy, insulting remarks, then.
You must be inspired by Ecclesiastes 9:11-a: "For I returned, and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor bread to the wise, but you can prove that you're cooler than anybody by acting like an a$$hole."
No, I'm inspired to teach the Word. If you were listening, you would learn something.
There's no comma after novel and only one "l" in Philip, Dick.
1. You're wrong about the comma.
2. I have better things to do than to care which of the two common spellings of "Phillip" that author used.
3. Only a dick brings such things up in Internet discussion.
"No, I'm inspired to teach the Word."
Some people hear the voice of God; some people just hear voices.
If you think an inspiration to teach the Word involves being unpleasant with people, it's pretty clear which group you belong in.
1) No, you're wrong about the comma.
2) Phillip or Philip doesn't matter. The author, Philip K. Dick, spelled his name with one l. You are wrong, again.
3) Your language is offensive.
You should be able to discuss these topics without getting so emotional. It must be genetic. Go to sleep. When you wake up, look to the east and see the sun rising and feel better.
1) Let's bet a couple of thousand dollars on the comma.
2) I said I had better things to worry about than which of the two spellings the author used. I'm certainly not wrong about that.
3) My language is exactly the language you used. You find it offensive? Look in the mirror.
4) I'm not discussing a topic just now. What's happened is that I've been ambushed by an obnoxious little turd, and have wasted far too much time on it. And this is the end of that.
The Rev. George Coyne, director of the Vatican Observatory, said that evolution is a scientific conclusion that does not deny the existence of God. “Whether evolution is true or not is a separate issue,” he said. “It’s true from a scientific view. God could create an evolutionary world just as He could create a static world.”
I'd heard these evo threads were vicious.
But idiot grammar, too?
Good thing you're not discussing this; it's getting pretty stupid.
One of the basic rules of sound biblical interpretation is that unless something is obviously figurative, or is stated as figurative, it should be taken literally. What textual evidence in Genesis 1-2 points you to an allegory ?
You mean, until proved wrong, assume inerrancy, no matter how ludicrous? It's too much like a criminal saying he's innocent unless caught red handed on tape in front of a live audience.
Difficult to see how that rule produces anything "sound".
I didn't say anything about inerrancy. My point was how to properly read the bible. Apparently some people will read God did this or God did that and saym "Oh that's just a parable", totally without any textual evidence. So again I ask what textual evidence is there of Genesis being an allegory ?
That it's in the Bible.
"unless something is obviously figurative"
The accounts in Genesis are obviously figurative.
You said,"Be a good little Christian:
The Rev. George Coyne, director of the Vatican Observatory, said that evolution is a scientific conclusion that does not deny the existence of God. “Whether evolution is true or not is a separate issue,” he said. “It’s true from a scientific view. God could create an evolutionary world just as He could create a static world.”
I guess you are an atheist or maybe a member of the Church of Satan with such a name????
If you think your name is funny or that you fancy yourself the beast- well many thought they were. If you are using it to be cute- you will find out that such a name is no joke. Those who fancy those numbers are in the place where they will finally meet the man of lawlessness after he is defeated. Evolution is not true in any sense. It is false and straight out of the pits of hell and you know it is. Its from the pits of hell because it contradicts scripture.
It is not true in a philosophical, theological or scientific way. People deny God- science can not and you know that the past popes have said that- if you don’t you should. Science is a mere tool used to understand God's universe.
Sinkspur you said in post 50
"Those are details. It is almost impossible to argue a "start from scratch" creation theory, at least where mankind is concerned."
Your statement is wrong. If you are right then Thomas Aguinas is wrong, Augustine, Pope Leo XIII, Pius XII and most of the Early Church fathers and countless Christians who take the book of Genesis and the creation of Adam and Eve as historical events which happened in the way it was written and not a silly myth as you seem to think it is.
Read my post #321 where I quote all of the above on the origins topic including G.K. Chesterton. You take the side of Aldux Huxley and H.G. Wells except that you admit that it was God who put the soul into our first parents. So do you think our first parents were not one man and one woman but a group of people as Karl Rahner thought? In other words a group of "humanoids" who had souls put in them? He didn’t believe in original sin you know. This was condemned by Pius XII. The Church has always taught that God created the first man as an adult man and that woman was taken from the man. God is God he can do anything. Augustine thought God created the world in one day wherease most of the others taught 6 days. Orthodox Jewish Scholars and non Orthodox libeal Jews say that the author/s of Genesis taught that creation was in 6 24 hour periods and that those who believe in evolution will not find its support in scripture because evolution teaches that man evolved over a perioud of thousands of years.
So are you a fan of Teilhard de Chardin ?
It's just not that important.
A direct correlation written in God's own hand, to eliminate any confusion.
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