oh and God is not mythology He is the one and only True living God.
Jesus is my cornerstone, for my faith.
Jesus is my cornerstone, for my faith.
The Stone the builders reject has become The cornerstone if any man stumble over it it breaks his bones and if it fall on any one it grids their bones to dust.
Do you know what the cornerstone means. Its in the church, it is the master brick that holds the whole church together.
But you can not say i believe in Jesus but reject parts of the Bible. Just like you can not say I hate my brother but love God.
Faith has absolutely nothing to do with whether the flood occurred. It either occurred, or it did not—regardless of anyone’s faith. Faith does NOT turn an epic tale into an accurate account of an historic event. .
Hi friend, sorry you had a bad time posting. It is a salvation issues. Take this parallel God said if you hate your brother but claim to love God you are a lair that if you can not love your brother who you see you can not love God who you do not see. So you see that is a salvation issue. Now look at this if you can not believe all of God's word you can not believe Jesus who is literally God's living Word. So you see it is a salvation issues. Its very much an all or nothing deal. You must surrender your self to God. That mean you must except all God's word but you don't have to understand it all no one does. What that looks like is when I come across something where the bible seems to contradicted its self I say I do not understand and I pray God please show me and he does. My Faith, I have faith God is perfect and makes no errors and his word is with out any, so you see when I don't understand I say I am wrong not God.
On another not in another thread we were in some one was attempting to protect you from me. Indeed I have been called a danger to souls, I think I will wear that like a badge, but the question is which souls am i danger too?
You have to question any one who would tell you stay away from your brother or sister in Christ. That person is actively engaged in warfare with there brother, now we know God's house is not divided, so one of the two fighting brothers is no child of God, because God's children do not fight each other.
Don't take my word for it God says measure everyone who comes in His name with His word. Compare my words to what God says and see how I measure is all I ask Google them and if that doesn't work point them out to me or question me and I will show you where. My words can not stand but God's will never sway an inch.
Indeed I am a danger to some souls. sorry in a v for vendetta moood
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The faith that is most important to God is the faith that rescues us from the dominion of darkness, and transforms us into the kingdom of Gods beloved Son (Col. 1:13). That transformation occurs when we are exposed the Light of the world, and through faith choose to follow Him where ever He may lead us (John 8:12). Jesus (John 3:3, 7) and Peter (1 Peter 1:3, 23) called the transformation being born again. It has nothing at all to do with faith in any particular interpretation of Genesis 1 11. The ancient Hebrew people interpreted these chapters in a manner radically different from the interpretation held by Christian fundamentalists today. Indeed, the Church, up till the Middle Ages, interpreted these chapters in a manner very different from the interpretation held by Christian fundamentalists today.All these are dependent upon FAITH.
None of these things can be researched or made sense of through our logical selves. We can't depend on ourselves...or science. We must believe by FAITH.
The faith that is most important to God is the faith that rescues us from the dominion of darkness, and transforms us into the kingdom of God’s beloved Son (Col. 1:13). That transformation occurs when we are exposed the Light of the world, and through faith choose to follow Him where ever He may lead us (John 8:12). Jesus (John 3:3, 7) and Peter (1 Peter 1:3, 23) called the transformation being “born again.” It has nothing at all to do with faith in any particular interpretation of Genesis 1 – 11. The ancient Hebrew people interpreted these chapters in a manner radically different from the interpretation held by Christian fundamentalists today. Indeed, the Church, up till the Middle Ages, interpreted these chapters in a manner very different from the interpretation held by Christian fundamentalists today.
Today, conservative, evangelical Christian scholars specializing in the study of the Hebrew text of Genesis and publishing their research in peer-reviewed biblical journals interpret these chapters in a manner very different from any of their predecessors. However, most Christian fundamentalists still interpret these chapters very much as did most Christians in the later part of the Middle Ages when the Church began to accept from science that the earth is not flat. Other Christian fundamentalists, however, insist that God is NOT a liar, and that Genesis 1 – 11 is a literal account of historic events. That is, that God opened the windows in the dome over the flat (rather than spherical) earth producing extremely heavy rains that largely contributed to the flood. “The Bible is either true or false; if you reject part of it in favor of science—you reject the whole Bible and the God of the Bible. We know by FAITH that the earth is flat because the Bible explicitly teaches that the earth is flat.”
Gen. 6:6. And God said, “Let there be a dome in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”
7. So God made the dome and separated the waters that were under the dome from the waters that were above the dome. And it was so.
8. God called the dome Sky. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.
9. And God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so.
10. God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good. (NRSV)
Gen. 7:11. In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.
12. The rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights. (NRSV)
Moreover, only a flat earth has four corners:
Isa. 11:12. He will raise a signal for the nations,
and will assemble the outcasts of Israel,
and gather the dispersed of Judah
from the four corners of the earth. (NRSV)
Rev.7:1. After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth so that no wind could blow on earth or sea or against any tree. (NRSV)
The literal four corners of the earth in the Bible gave rise to today’s popular expression.
Furthermore, Jesus was able to see all the kingdoms of the world from “a very high mountain.” This would have been impossible on a spherical earth:
Matt. 4:8. Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor; (NRSV)
So are you saying there can be no figurative language in the bible?
Or that if anything is figurative, then it must all be figurative?
Can you show us where the figurative/allegorical language of Genesis 1-11 is?
Where it starts and where it ends? The markers in language that show it to be non-historical in nature?