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Evidence.According to whom? Men?
It isn't inconsistent, but just because it may be consistent does not mean that common ancestry is the reason ESVs are shared. That is just an easy explanation from the evolutionary standpoint, and so you take it.How are the patterns of shared ERV's inconsistent with common ancestry?
Well, luckily for you God reveals Himself to the hardest of hearts. Would you believe me if I told you I was once an atheist?The lack of evidence for God is why I don't believe in God.
I elaborated what I meant in the rest of the post you decided not to post. Humans having the position of most intelligent animal is a shaky application, because what qualifies as intelligence isn't standardized, and some animals are better at certain cognitive tasks than humans. And before you mention something like IQ, that is a human exclusive measurement that cannot be applied correctly to any other species.
Well, the Bible is pretty easy to understand if you know what words mean. I'm pretty confident that the Bible doesn't teach evolution.And as I've already stated, you believe YOUR INTERPRETATION of the Bible. Communication requires comprehension of at least two parties. What if God's Word is true, but you haven't interpreted it correctly? You are placing infallible faith, not only in god, but in yourself.
If observations of life contradict what you believe about the Bible, then perhaps it is not the Bible that needs to be twisted, but your understanding of it. For example, maybe that isn't quite what so and so meant, since observing god's creation tells me something different.
Yeah, and I disagree with them. I think the Bible means what it says in Genesis. I know that God will not criticize me for believing His Word.
It isn't inconsistent, but just because it may be consistent does not mean that common ancestry is the reason ESVs are shared.
Well, luckily for you God reveals Himself to the hardest of hearts. Would you believe me if I told you I was once an atheist?
Care to explain how our eyes came to be without a designer? How design arises from chaos?
God is not a liar, man is.
Creationists as a rule do not understand the concept of evidence.Evidence.
Because evolution is a lie.Why not?
Sure, but it's obvious you never had the Spirit. If you did then you would still be a Christian.Would you believe me if I told you I was once a Christian?
Well, the Bible is pretty easy to understand if you know what words mean. I'm pretty confident that the Bible doesn't teach evolution.
I believe the Bible was inspired by God' Spirit and that the theory of evolution is a Godless lie--it creates all sorts of problems, like death before sin.Then why do you take the words of men in the Bible over God's own creation?
Because evolution is a lie.
Sure, but it's obvious you never had the Spirit.
If you did then you would still be a Christian.
It's not that hard to study and figure out. That's what the translators had to do.Do you know what the original (Hebrew/Greek/Aramaic) words meant? The idioms of their times? The writing styles? The literary devices? Etc. Etc.
Please make up your mind. Let me help you, all of the evidence supports the theory of evolution. None of it supports creationism. All of the evidence tells us that there was no worldwide flood. None of it supports the Noah's Ark story. Your God supposedly created this world. That would include the evidence. By saying that the Genesis must be read literally you are saying that God lied.God is not a liar, man is.
I believe the Bible was inspired by God' Spirit
and that the theory of evolution is a Godless lie--it creates all sorts of problems, like death before sin.
Evolution.What lies?
Right, but God's Spirit is present in all of His children. If you had His Spirit then you would be His child.Just as you have never had Leprechaun magic in the soles of your feet, and for the same reason.
Appearances can be deceiving.It would appear that all you need to believe is wanting something to be true, evidence be darned.