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To: Antonello
You are inflating your personal distaste of the possibility that God may have used alliteration (apparently without checking with you first to see if you would allow Him to do so) into an empty argument that He is not allowed to even help someone understand what He meant.

I see, so the bible doesn't mean what it says? God is saying one thing but it is tricky so that you have to be a God-hating naturalist to understand it? I am the one taking scrpture at face value, you are the one reading weird things (like NATURALISTIC science) into it. Hmmm....

47 posted on 09/30/2005 4:30:49 PM PDT by SmartCitizen
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To: SmartCitizen

I prefer to devote time and effort into learning about the scriptures, not just their words but their origins as well. I may read a passage, search out what is known about how it came to be included in the Bible, ponder it, consider how it relates to other biblical passages, pray about it, etc. After all this, I accept that the understanding my studies grant to me is God's answer to my questions about it.

I gather that you, on the other hand, are content to lazily accept with blind faith the opinion of someone else who may or may not have pursued their own research.

I daresay that between you and I, it is not I that has the least amount of respect and love for His Word.


51 posted on 09/30/2005 5:50:30 PM PDT by Antonello
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