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To: wmfights; Diego1618; D-fendr; Frumanchu; xzins; Forest Keeper; Seven_0
The TRUTH is not that hard to find.

No, it isn't hard to find but it appears to be difficult for some to see.

2Cor. 11:3 But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

There is simplicity in the story that I am telling you. To me, it is more difficult to believe Eve ate an apple and God threw them out of the Garden. It is more difficult to believe this earth is 6,000 years old, and that Cain married a sister and then "builded a city" (a city???). If it was just he and a wife and perhaps by that time children, who was the city for? Where did the races come from in the beginning? Where did the races come from after Noah's flood? Were they the only ones on the ark? Why did Paul say he was taken to the 3rd. age if there has only been one age? Why do Peter and Paul tell us of an age before this one if it isn't true, etc., etc., etc.???

There are many questions and there are answers taught in the "simplicity that is in Christ". Some chose to understand the simplicity and others do not.

So..."as the serpent deceived Eve through his craftiness", we have to ask ourselves if he has been deceiving us too. Is there more to the story than we have been taught. Are there answers to the questions?

I believe there are Wmfights. He gives us those answers.

.........Ping

2,530 posted on 08/15/2007 12:08:56 PM PDT by Ping-Pong
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To: Ping-Pong; wmfights; Diego1618; D-fendr; Frumanchu; xzins; Forest Keeper; Seven_0
To me, it is more difficult to believe Eve ate an apple and God threw them out of the Garden. It is more difficult to believe this earth is 6,000 years old, and that Cain married a sister and then "builded a city" (a city???). If it was just he and a wife and perhaps by that time children, who was the city for? Where did the races come from in the beginning?...

You guys are talking about MYTHOLOGY as if it were a "fact!" None of the books of the Torah have any basis in fact. It's mythology. The biggest mistake everyone makes is to assume that it all happened just the way it says it did. You will get just as far discussing how many angels can fit on the heat of a pin.

The myth is there for a reason. It is supposed to treach us morality through a narrative. It's not a historical encyclopedia, an eyewitness news account. It's allegorical mythology.

2,533 posted on 08/15/2007 1:05:59 PM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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