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To: sentis1

God also said he could raise up children from stones, and in Ezekiel, God breathed into dry bones, but he also said the evening and the morning were the first day, the second day,.....etc.

Also, I find it extremely difficult to extrapolate a 4 billion year old earth and evolution from “with God, all things are possible.”, when He clearly states he created. Don’t use the scriptures for your ideas, take your ideas from the scriptures.


75 posted on 06/17/2007 8:53:38 PM PDT by quiverfull (Since my quiver is full at home, the budget will not provide a full quiver in the woods)
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To: quiverfull

All you have to do is open your eyes and look at God’s creation to see that the world is older than 6,000 years. This is what Christ is telling the people when he says to them they worship the tradition and not the father. Of the Old testament Christ only refers to the ten commandments as Law all else he either is dismissive of such as when he tells the Jews they are not the sons of Abraham or he preaches that the people need to stop open their eyes and see God rather than than the word.

Genesis is a parable or even allegory as is most of the old testament. As with the teachings of Christ they are stories that are easily understood by primitive people as morality stories. They are not meant to be literal.

Your salvation doesn’t depend on your belief in a 4 billion year old world merely on your belief in Christ however your belief in a 6,000 year old world does endanger the souls those who see the world more clearly than you because they see your belief as archaic and ignorant. I don’t blame them for that in the least.


79 posted on 06/17/2007 9:01:49 PM PDT by sentis1
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To: quiverfull

If you believe that the Bible is literal and always correct go back and read the three things the Bible got wrong that I posted at the beginning of this debate. These three things are proof that the Bible is not the literal truth. If the Bible is not correct on every point then there are two possibilities.

1. the Bible is false
2. the Bible (especially the old testament) is not to be taken as literal truth but as parable or allegory.

Number 2 is the correct rational answer.


82 posted on 06/17/2007 9:06:03 PM PDT by sentis1
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