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To: bondserv

>> Disregarding the Creation story representing Adam as the first man that brought death into the world, we no longer need a Savior, for death would be a natural event created by God's use of Evolution.<<

I am not disregarding the creation story! I am saying it is myth, not history, but I am asserting it is true myth! God have mercy on the soul of anyone who would disregard it. The entirety of the Pope's "theology of the body" is based on the creation story, even while the Catholic Church does not cling to the notion that the Earth is only 7000 years old. What the creation story teaches us about our relationship to God, to evil, to each other, and to our spouses is absolutely central to the Christian life.


36 posted on 01/16/2005 9:16:54 PM PST by dangus
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To: dangus
What the creation story teaches us about our relationship to God, to evil, to each other, and to our spouses is absolutely central to the Christian life.

I recognize that your intentions are good. I also believe the discussion of the creation is not an essential in regard to Salvation.

Consider the possibility that in creating the universe God stretched the stars across the millions of light years instantaneously. The Bible describes it in that way. Light can be stretched like a scroll by God. The billions of years predicted by scientists is a materialistic view of a supernatural event. They have it wrong.

For the same reason the geology we examine is more consistent with a world wide flood than with any model science posits. As God created the matter that makes up our universe, who can say that in the process the atomic makeup was unbelievably accelerated. Scientists force themselves to disregard what we know to be valid data. Supernatural data.

Walking on water, raising the dead, transporting Phillip to the desert, appearing in a locked room, the virgin birth... All of these truths can play no part in science, because science must reject the unprovable. Science is good for some things, but inept at understanding our origins or our originator. We are forced to trust God's eyewitness description of what He did, and that He could accurately convey it to a human being for our admonition.

There is no reason to twist the revelation to line up with science. Science is limited in it's truth seeking apparatus.

37 posted on 01/16/2005 9:48:05 PM PST by bondserv (Sincerity with God is the most powerful instigator for change! † [Check out my profile page])
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