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To: Scully
Oh, it sounds as if you've missed one of the great blessings of being a Christian! You see, we aren't members of some mystical mind-trip cult. We all share the SAME God who gave the SAME revelation to EACH of us! Nobody has a private, individual, contrasting revelation!

So you and I both have access to the SAME DATA about creation, data that is EXTERNAL to us, that can be examined and discussed. And, to a Christian, the issue is seldom what God can do, but what He has done, or has promised that He will do.

And so in this case. We have the data. God states He made the universe in six days, days identical with the six-day work week He enjoined upon Israel (Exodus 20:11). So, regardless of how we feel about it, you and I are both left with identical objective data, to wit: God states He created all in a 6/24 period. As Christians, we pledge to believe Him.

So I still wonder — how do you fit the hundreds of millions of years of supposed processes or lurches guessed at by non-eyewitnesses within that time-frame?

Dan

310 posted on 02/22/2002 7:10:44 AM PST by BibChr
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To: BibChr
Psalm 90:4 "For a thousand years in Your sight are like a day that has just gone by; or like a watch in the night."

2 Peter 3:8 "But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day."

Metaphor, brother. Doesn't this suggest to you the timelessness of God? He is not bound by the arms of a clock, nor by our feeble, finite understanding of Him. Be very careful in professing to understand the mind of God, it's been my experience that He reveals startling truths through misfortune at such moments of arrogance.

326 posted on 02/22/2002 7:55:17 AM PST by Scully
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