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To: tjd1454
I am curious as to what kind of universe do you think you are living in? One created by a loving God, or the result of blind, impersonal chance.

False choice. I may choose to believe that we live in a world created by a supreme being, just that it might be slightly more than 6,000 years old. How do you explain billions of years of stellar processes to an illiterate goat herder. How can a person, who has probably never traveled few miles from home, know if the Himalayan mountains were covered in water when he doesn't even know they exist. And those are the people you would need to hold the tradition until writing got invented. I just happen to be a bit more open to errors in transmission during the thousands of years when Genesis was an oral tradition.
55 posted on 03/07/2012 11:11:03 AM PST by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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False choice. I may choose to believe that we live in a world created by a supreme being...

False choice? You seem to want to have things both ways. On the basis of your comprehensive studies (four monumental years of study, I believe you said), you have concluded that God is "unjust" for presuming to judge someone as intellectually honest as yourself.

So the Just God of the Bible does not exist, or certainly does not exist as described in the Bible? But you still want to talk about what is just and what is unjust? What if my concept of justice is diametrically opposed to yours? Who will decide between thee and me? As Einstein postulated in his Special Theory of Relativity: a finite point without an infinite reference point is meaningless.

Sorry, but you cannot appeal to an objective sense of justice which can only be rooted in God, to claim that God is unjust.

As for your smug dismissal of the crude "myths" of the "illiterate" Israelites, and acceptance of the absolute, unquestionable authority of evolutionary theory, I would once again cite a greater Truth:

"For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse." Romans 1:19-21

58 posted on 03/07/2012 11:36:59 AM PST by tjd1454
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