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To: DManA
We can both hold Genesis as the Inspired Living Word of God and have different interpretations of it.

Certain aspects, probably, but the truths contained therein are not up for negotiation. That God created the world in 6 days is not up for interpretation. If you choose to believe that a 'day' is as a thousand 'days' then you are free to do so, I do not believe it effects your salvation. To say that God did not create the world strips Him of omnipotence which is fundamental. So again I ask, which parts do you take umbrage with?

78 posted on 10/03/2011 7:24:44 AM PDT by rjsimmon (1-20-2013 The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: rjsimmon; Dman

When you “take umbrage” with parts of the Bible, or interpretations thereof,

you are inherently applying a standard which you hold above the written Word or the interpretation thereof.

Carefully think about what you are holding as the measuring stick and what you are measuring.

I use the example of telling a child to go get a stick out of the yard, then handing a ruler to him and asking him to tell me how many “sticks long” the ruler is.


81 posted on 10/03/2011 7:29:05 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: rjsimmon

I don’t hold God in a prison of time. Time is his creation.
From His perspective it took 7 days. From our perspective it was 4.6 billion years. The longer I’m aware of that the easier it is to accept.

Before Abraham was He Is. And -

He is in the universe 16 billion years ago.
He is at the genesis of the Earth 4.6 billion years ago.
He is in the world right now.


84 posted on 10/03/2011 7:35:40 AM PDT by DManA
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