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To: CynicalBear

There are. The title of the second chapter is “An alternative view of creation” or something like that. I don’t have a bible handy but there most certainly are two different creation stories and in both of them events happen differently. In the first the waters come down from the sky and in the other the water springs from the Earth. How is that not different? Am I to believe it happened both ways. Many people are willing to tie themselves into pretzels to believe this story but the one thing they will never do is question the story. They will deny the evidence and denounce man’s mind before they will ever question their beliefs that they take on faith. For me personally I am not willing to do it. Don’t try to tell me that Genesis doesn’t say what it says. Why does the bible not just say how it happened instead of confusing us. Yes the two alternatives are similar but they are most definitely not the same. The standard response is that we are not to question. Well we were made to question. It is in our nature to question. I believe that the Creator made us exactly as we are. He gave us our reasoning minds. I don’t accept the premise that we are evil by nature and I don’t believe the Earth is only 5 thousand years old.


57 posted on 12/22/2011 11:11:49 AM PST by albionin
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To: albionin; CynicalBear

Not to put too fine of a point on it, but you really need to provide proof of your accusations before most here will listen to what you have to say. Just because you claim something doesn’t make it so and, frankly, when two people who know the Bible as well as CB and I know it don’t have a clue what you’re talking about, that’s a pretty clear indication that you’ve got part of the story wrong. Are you sure you’re not confusing the Genesis account in the Bible with the Epic of Gilgamesh?


59 posted on 12/22/2011 11:28:04 AM PST by Avalon Hussar
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