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To: P-Marlowe
IIRC something like that happened on the day of Pentecost.

When I wrote that I thought to myself, “He won’t bring up Pentecost, will he?”

In case you missed the details of the story, the men heard the Word preached in their own, known languages (Acts 2:6,11). They were not speaking heavenly gibberish.

32 posted on 08/06/2007 1:00:59 PM PDT by topcat54 ("... knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience." (James 1:3))
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To: topcat54
What happened at Pentecost was that men were preaching the gospel in a manner in which those hearing it could not naturally understand what was being communicated. The Holy Spirit miraculously made their incomprehensible language fully understandable to those to whom God had chosen to make it understandable.

It is not the power of the preacher or even the eloquence of the message that will bring a skeptic to understanding, but the power of God's word and the moving of the Holy Spirit.

You act as if Henry Morris, by contending for the truth of the flood, is somehow going to be responsible for some skeptic going to hell because he didn't believe Henry Morris. Well that ain't gonna happen. If that skeptic wants to use Henry Morris as an excuse for not believing the Bible, then that skeptic will have nobody but himself to blame when he stands before God on Judgment day.

Personally while I am open to just about any interpretation of the creation, I tend to believe that since the creation was a miracle and since God affirmed in Exodus Chapter 20 that he created the heavens and the earth in six days, that, in fact, God created the heavens and earth and all that in them is in 6 days.

You got a problem with that?

33 posted on 08/06/2007 2:37:00 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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