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[maestro]

GREAT ARTICLE.....................GREAT READ.....................BOOKMARKED

Thanks for posting this!!
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Maranatha!

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[Commander8]

The Bible is the final authority in all matters of faith and practice. It is infallible and without error.
Is there any other way to interpret God's Word.

[xzins]

I am a literalist. I am not versed in point #5. I didn't even know it was an issue, and to be honest, had never thought about it.

Point number 1 is the hardest and the easiest at the same time for me. The implications of the Intelligent Design data have actually clarified the debate for me. The number of awesome design variations among and within the intelligently designed order of plant and animals (life) is so great as to make the "theistic evolution" position a bit ridiculous. If God were "guiding evolution" He would be intervening every day, every minute, every second, every nano-second to "create or make" another necessary evolutionary leap.

It's easier to believe that He'd just wrap it all up in one week long creative explosion.

[DouglasKC]

I agree with all six, but then there's number 7: Did God really bless and sanctify the 7th day? And did he ever remove his his blessing or sanctification or transfer it to another day that he created? :-)

[Bat_Chemist]

Is not that in high pride to prefer your own understandings before the wisdom of the Spirit of God, who indicted the Scriptures? Should not a humble man rather say, doubtless both are true though I cannot reconcile them.

Wow...I have not heard it said better or more succintly...wow. Humble repentance-of-pride BUMP!

[jswift]

Since we are interpreting the Bible literally, what does this literally mean:

“For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it” (Exodus 20:11).

What does it mean to say the Lord rested? Was He tired? How is what He did on the day He rested different from what He did the other days? Is God different when resting than He is when busy? If He was different on the seventh day (resting) from the other six days (not resting) didn't he change between the sixth and seventh days? Does God change?

You think there's an outside chance this is not literal? If it is literal, don't you have to know what it means to say God rested. If you don't know what it means, well then you don't, but what do you believe? "Well, I don't know what it means, but it must mean something and whatever it means, even though I don't know it, I believe it."

js

[Woodkirk]

Well I think there is #7 -- and this one will really separate the literalists from the figuratives. Revelation 22:15 regarding the New Jerusalem -- "For outside are DOGs, and sorcerers, and fornicators, and murderers, and idolators. . . . ."

My dog here wants to know why he can't be inside, particularly if he is house-trained. Why would he have to be out there with all those unsavory people. What did he do that was so bad. And does that mean "cats" too -- or do they get to go inside. It's just not fair.

I told him that it may not be fair, but it is literal. Needless to say he is now a preterist amillenialist and reading Gary North books.