Does The Great Deluge In Genesis Of Necessity Must Be Local?

[LovelyGiselle]

You have to only be a good person who loves others and treats others as you would like to be treated.

???

That is not what makes a Christian. That is not what leads to slavation

 

[OliviaMay]

Original sin is a myth?

Im assuming you are one of those liberal/progressive "Christians"?

Why do you bring up that "the earth is not six thousand years old"? The bible does not say that and I do not recall myself implying that. You seem to have a hard time comprehending the supernatural. You even mocked the relationship between the old and new testament and the significance of the covenant in another post. Referring to this as God being "Schizophrenic" yet you claim to have respect.

The fact that you claim original sin is a myth just shows your true colors. You also pretty much label Abraham to have never even existed. Amazing the level of arrogance that some folks have towards God yet profess to be a"Christian" who "respects" him.

Genesis is myth. It is moreover obvious myth. Talking snakes and incest, and worldwide floods with all the animals on a wooden boat. Come on. Disrespect is taking an obvious piece of literature and forcing it to try to be literal. It misses the entirety of the point. You miss the forest for the trees. It is childish in lazy.

 

[OliviaMay]

The Bible claims the opposite. Talking serpent is possible but a person entering into heaven on his own righteousness is impossible.
If Jesus didn't actually raise from the dead then eat, drink and be marry for tomorrow you die.

The bible is literature. Genesis is myth. There are no talking snakes.

 

[OliviaMay]

???

That is not what makes a Christian. That is not what leads to slavation

In fact behavior is the only thing that saves. Following the commands of Jesus is how to be a decent person. It is the point of the whole bible.

 

[LovelyGiselle]

Genesis is myth. It is moreover obvious myth. Talking snakes and incest, and worldwide floods with all the animals on a wooden boat. Come on. Disrespect is taking an obvious piece of literature and forcing it to try to be literal. It misses the entirety of the point. You miss the forest for the trees. It is childish in lazy.

You have revealed your true colors by stating that original sin is a myth and that all we have to do is just be good and nice. You have also mocked the word of God in not just this post. You cannot even accept that the supernatural is possible
Who are you kidding?

 

[Smidlee]

Genesis is myth. It is moreover obvious myth. Talking snakes and incest, and worldwide floods with all the animals on a wooden boat. Come on. Disrespect is taking an obvious piece of literature and forcing it to try to be literal. It misses the entirety of the point. You miss the forest for the trees. It is childish in lazy.

The bible is literature. Genesis is myth. There are no talking snakes.

Myth doesn't imply as something not true. http://www.scienceagainstevolution.org/v5i11f.htm

"Combining the relevant definitions, we can say a “creation myth” is “an unverifiable, popular, traditional story of ostensibly historical events that serves to explain the origin of all life on earth.” We assert that this definition fits Biblical creation and the theory of evolution equally well. We hope you will agree. Even if you don’t agree, we want you to understand that we are using the term “myth” to apply to any story which is passionately believed to be true by a large segment of the population but cannot be scientifically proved to be true. A myth, as we are using the term, is not necessarily false."


I do agree that today there is no known talking snake.

 

[OliviaMay]

You have revealed your true colors by stating that original sin is a myth and that all we have to do is just be good and nice. You have also mocked the word of God in not just this post. You cannot even accept that the supernatural is possible
Who are you kidding?

I am not kidding anyone. Genesis is obvious myth. Taking genesis literally is childish and lazy thinking. It is not how an intelligent adult reads a book.

 

[LovelyGiselle]

In fact behavior is the only thing that saves. Following the commands of Jesus is how to be a decent person. It is the point of the whole bible.

Behavior is the only thing that saves? Smh you have been mislead.

 

[OliviaMay]

Myth doesn't imply as something not true. http://www.scienceagainstevolution.org/v5i11f.htm

"Combining the relevant definitions, we can say a “creation myth” is “an unverifiable, popular, traditional story of ostensibly historical events that serves to explain the origin of all life on earth.” We assert that this definition fits Biblical creation and the theory of evolution equally well. We hope you will agree. Even if you don’t agree, we want you to understand that we are using the term “myth” to apply to any story which is passionately believed to be true by a large segment of the population but cannot be scientifically proved to be true. A myth, as we are using the term, is not necessarily false."


I do agree that today there is no known talking snake.

There never was a talking snake. Just like there never was God on top of Mt Olympus.

 

[Smidlee]

I am not kidding anyone. Genesis is obvious myth. Taking genesis literally is childish and lazy thinking. It is not how an intelligent adult reads a book.

Are you claiming no intelligent adult believe in the Genesis account?

There never was a talking snake.

How do you know?

 

[OliviaMay]

Behavior is the only thing that saves? Smh you have been mislead.

No behavior is what saves. Believing in magic is just childish and lazy. Believing in magic is not the point of the bible. The point of the bible is the outline how moral decent humans behave.

 

[OliviaMay]

Are you claiming no intelligent adult believe in the Genesis account?

I am saying no honest intelligent adult who doesn't have some brain damage can really take Genesis literally.

 

[OliviaMay]

Are you claiming no intelligent adult believe in the Genesis account?

How do you know?

Because talking snakes don't exist.

 

[LovelyGiselle]

I am not kidding anyone. Genesis is obvious myth. Taking genesis literally is childish and lazy thinking. It is not how an intelligent adult reads a book.

Lets summarize what you have already stated:

Adam and Eve did not exist and original sin is not real
Even Abraham did not exist nor his story was true
Claiming the book Genesis being true is like saying the harry potter books are real
Behavior is what makes us saved

Smh

 

[Smidlee]

I am saying no honest intelligent adult who doesn't have some brain damage can really take Genesis literally.

So you are dogmatically claiming any intelligent adult who says they believe in the Genesis account is a liar?

Because talking snakes don't exist.

Today as far as we know. We find surprises in nature all the time. But you wrote "NEVER".

 

[OliviaMay]

Lets summarize what you have already stated:

Adam and Eve did not exist and original sin is not real
Even Abraham did not exist nor his story was true
Claiming the book Genesis being true is like saying the harry potter books are real
Behavior is what makes us saved

Smh

Yep that is just honesty about the sorry state of Protestantism in America. It has become lazy and childish.

 

[OliviaMay]

So you are dogmatically claiming any intelligent adult who says they believe in the Genesis account is a liar?

Today as far as we know. We find surprises in nature all the time.

lol there are no talking snakes. Really. No intelligent adult who doesn't have some some brain damage actually believes it. I am not saying everyone is a liar. Some are just weak minded some have brain damage or something. I am sure there are multiple reasons people believe such silly stuff.

 

[LovelyGiselle]

No behavior is what saves. Believing in magic is just childish and lazy. Believing in magic is not the point of the bible. The point of the bible is the outline how moral decent humans behave.

WOW

Having good deeds is NOT what makes you saved. You have alot to learn .The whole point of the word of God is NOT simply showing us how to behave but also to show and give us WHO to look to in order to seek salvation. That is the goal
Jesus Christ is the only way the truth and light. Through accepting him is what seals our salvation.
The Bible is also a book showing the fulfillment of prophecy. It is more than just a simple daily life guideline for life here on Earth.

 

[Smidlee]

His posts has a lot in common with "consol" posts.

 

[OliviaMay]

WOW

Having good deeds is NOT what makes you saved. You have alot to learn .The whole point of the word of God is NOT simply showing us how to behave but also to show and give us WHO to look to in order to seek salvation. That is the goal
Jesus Christ is the only way the truth and light. Through accepting him is what seals our salvation.
The Bible is also a book showing the fulfillment of prophecy. It is more than just a simple daily life guideline for life here on Earth.

It is certainly not literal. Jesus is the model for moral behavior. That is his purpose. When the bible says Jesus is the way the truth and the light it is speaking of how he acts and commands others to act. Being saved is about endeavoring to live as he lived. That is behavior.

To think that is not important and just believing in magic is what is important is childish and lazy.