[biblewonk]

PERHAPS You'd be willing to show me the Scriptures you assert affirm your position.

Have read The Word through a number of times. Slept with it like a teddy bear in Jr High, High school & University. . . . it would be interesting to see something I haven't seen before.

Has never been anything in The Word I haven't believed (to the best of my faith and rational ability to believe anything). I believe The Word far more than I believe "normal" reality. The Word has rescued me from death in more ways than one multiple times. I believe the entire Word as the infallible Word of God [in the original documents]--more than sufficient guide and Life for this life as well as sufficient Light on The Way to the next. It would be very hard to imagine that you or anyone else believed The Word more fully; at a higher level; more faithfully; more emphatically, more acceptingly . . . than I do. . . . Perhaps with the exception of Kenneth Hagin--perhaps.

I do try and avoid treating INFERENCES from/about The Word as emphatic, crystal clear declarations OF The Word. All kinds of people and denominations have taken INFERENCES sky-west-and-crooked through the centuries.

But I have been wrong about some things before. Perhaps you could enlighten me.

Countless Catholics have almost the same bible I have and claim to believe it as well as I do yet they have no problem with Marian doctrine. That proves to me that I can't prove anything to anyone when it comes to the bible. If you are a person that reads Genesis and still believes the world is billions of years old and maybe the big bang is true and maybe a day is millions of years and maybe evolution is Gods plan, then I wouldn't even try to argue anything about UFO's.

[Quix]

I don't believe in evolution per se. I used to.

I think it's a deception of satan. He has had a long time to concoct a lot of deceptions.

I believe post Adam, we are dealing with a whole new setup.

I don't know what the world was BEFORE it was "formless and void." It's evidently not an important thing for God to enlighten us on.

I would assume that for you to hold such a strong position on the topic starting our exchange, that you'd be prepared to offer "to every man an answer"--particularly when it was a Brother honestly interested in where you get your perspective from. Because I'm honestly at a loss even trying to guess about that.

If you are not in the habit of being charitable in discussions with Christian Brothers, then I don't know what I can say that would encourage you to be candid and forthcoming with the Scriptural foundations for your convictions on the matter.

I'm authentically curious. I'm authentically fascinated with your position though it's not the first time I've come across it. It is the first time I've felt like looking into it further in a decade or more.

The Marian thing is also a deception from the pit--clearly in my mind. The Bible is quite clear about Christ's half-siblings. No inferences involved there at all.

Blessings,