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To: Thatcherite; mike182d
It is Orthodox Christianities perspective that the Creator of our marvelous universe is capable of preserving the information He wants His message to be available to all generations. The original documents which were written by the actual person God inspired were perfect.

To be intellectually honest, converting a document to a new language can come with potential problems. However, being that we believe that God has overseen the inspiration as well as preservation of the Word, we are confident that His message is fully recognizable.

The discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls, which have been determined to have been from the time of Jesus Christ, give us evidence of how carefully the copyists transcribed the text over the last 2000 years.

The creation of the world and the creation of man are connected repeatedly throughout scripture:

Isa 45:12 I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, [even] my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.

Zec 12:1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.

Isa 42:5 Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:

Isa 45:18 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I [am] the LORD; and [there is] none else.

Isa 40:21-22
Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?

Isa 64:4 For since the beginning of the world [men] have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, [what] he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.

Again, more passages speaking about Adam being created:

Gen 2:7 And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Gen 5:1 This [is] the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

Mat 19:4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made [them] at the beginning made them male and female,

Deu 4:32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth,

And the myth called Adam lived a specific number of years, then the myth died.

Gen 5:5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.

528 posted on 02/22/2005 12:10:13 PM PST by bondserv (Sincerity with God is the most powerful instigator for change! † [Check out my profile page])
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To: bondserv
It is Orthodox Christianities perspective that the Creator of our marvelous universe is capable of preserving the information He wants His message to be available to all generations. The original documents which were written by the actual person God inspired were perfect. To be intellectually honest, converting a document to a new language can come with potential problems. However, being that we believe that God has overseen the inspiration as well as preservation of the Word, we are confident that His message is fully recognizable.

But that just comes back to saying that people who don't agree with you that the Bible can be interpreted totally literally as if it were a science text aren't Christians.

Well, I've got news for you, a sizable majority of people who call themselves Christians worldwide don't agree with you...You appear to worship the simplest possible literal interpretation of the words of the Bible more than you worship God (except when some clever guy who you've set up as a commentator gives you a free pass on some passage or other). That is my impression as someone from outside your religion, but I believe that many others who nominally share your religion would agree with me on that.

531 posted on 02/22/2005 12:22:57 PM PST by Thatcherite (Conservative and Biblical Literalist are not synonymous)
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