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Your post was pretty heavy handed. You suggest that because you have memorized the words of the Scriptures (I assume in their original languages), that you are somehow excluded from human interpretation.

Dude,

Where are you getting this stuff. I don't have those passages memorized. I am not trying to impress anyone. Those passages relate specifically to scripture teaching a non-evolutionary beginning to mankind. Don't you agree that it is good to look at the evidence?

I am an admitted irrecoverably flawed individual. My only hope is in the flawless One. He has commissioned me to let others know they are in the same predicament as me. This message tends to tick people off.

Dude, Where are you getting this stuff.

Your posts.

I don't have those passages memorized. I am not trying to impress anyone. Those passages relate specifically to scripture teaching a non-evolutionary beginning to mankind.

But now you admit that 1) You aren't reading the originals so you have no idea what the Scriptures say and 2)the Scriptures are silent on TToE and are subject to interpretation (unless we want to return to YOUR interpretation, but we have covered that, haven't we?)

Don't you agree that it is good to look at the evidence?

Sure. Do you have any? A faith-based text which has been able to spawn hundreds of sects all basing their belief system on a particular interpretation of that text isn't "evidence." Even if I was to concede (which I don't) the Bible as a proper reference, we would still have to deal with which interpretation.

Admitting you are flawed is OK. Not correcting that flaw (in your case, extreme hubris), is NOT OK.

Your message of us all being flawed isn't ticking anyone off. All Christians know they are flawed. Your self-important designation as "flaw-teller" is more quaint (and sad) than off-putting.

But your trying to tie a more general (and appropriate) interpretation of Genesis with somehow not "knowing" Christ is egotistical in the least.

I'll leave you with a classic joke (I hope you'll understand when you read it and apologies [if needed] to my Jewish friends).

Two Rabbis go into the Temple after some serious, serious and extreme Holy reading. The first Rabbi, overtaken with his love and devotion for G-d, prostrates himself and says "Oh Lord! Before you I am NOTHING!"

The second Rabbi, overtaken by his love and devotion, also prostrates himself and says "Oh Lord! Before you I am NOTHING!"

A janitor working in the back of the Temple sees these and hears these Rabbis and, in a moment of pure love, prostates HIMSELF and says "Oh Lord! Before you I am NOTHING!"

The first Rabbi looks at the janitor and then tells the other Rabbi "so look who thinks he's nothing."