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I agree in the literal six days of creation... Take some time and listen to this guy... very solid Christian and educated in biblical study.. also, he also always says "don't believe me.. research for yourself"... This is only 7 minutes.. worth the listen.
They say, pictures don't lie but that doesn't apply to the FE crowd. Some say black is white and others say we don't really exist and everything is a grand illusion.
What actually happened was God performed a miracle. You do know God can actually do this don't you, because he holds the whole universe in the palm of His hand.
So part of NASA is operating under the assumption that the earth is a sphere and the part is operating under the assumption that the earth is flat? So how would NASA function?
I am a literalist, but I don't read the Bible at face value. Much of those statements are taken from biblical poetry that is often written from a phenomenological perspective. They are not trying to establish a cosmology. That's why you have things in the Bible like trees clapping their hands or mountains melting and stuff like that. It was not mean to be understood in a wooden, hyper-literal, face value way. They are meant to be understood within the context of the literary genre being employed. That's "literal" means. It means using the figurative imagery to understand the literal meaning and intent supplied by the author.
No, we understand them as figures of speech because that is what they are and they are tools to understand the literal intent of the author. We employ the same figures speech today and we are not proclaiming flat earth nonsense. We use terms like sunset and sunrise, not be cause we believe the sun is rotating around the earth, but it is just a phenomenological reference that has been common all throughout human history.
No, God is. Bible is just a composition of useful texts given to us temporarily together with other tools until we will meet Him.
No, many places in Bible are not even original. There are doubts about books, there are many places, even whole chapters in different readings. There are tuns of translations. So, if you believe that every word is inspired (you sound like a KJV only proponent), tell me, which Bible?
No, Christians believe in apostolic/nicean creeds.
Job 19:27, Ps 16:7
I think the same about you ;-) You are a product of modern American literalism, not knowing that Christians worldwide think differently or ignoring them as being "wrong".
But God communicates through His Word. The Bible has God's authority because it comes from Him. It is not just useful texts. The information in the Bible, all of it comes from God, not man.
Those doubts only exist in the minds of those who set themselves to disbelieve the Bible. The Bible is perfectly preserved for us. There are minor variants, but the Bible, especially the NT enjoys over 25,000 copies that can be tested and have not been changed. They read the same at every point of comparison from the early 2nd century all the way up to the 5th century. Not ONE single change.
Nope, I am talking about the Greek. The whole Bible is inspired and the Greek contains no errors and even the translations are preserved as totally true. Anyone can pick up a Bible in their own language and know they are reading the Word of God.
Not only. He also communicates through His creation and mainly, through His Spirit inside us.
I am totally consistent. I don't have to read every part of the Bible the same way and I should not because the Bible is a collection of different literary genres. You don't read poetry like prophecy. You don't read a proverb like a parable, and so on. And figures of speech abound and you have to have the skill to know when a figure of speech is being employed and when it is not.
Again, it is important to note that those verses are not trying to say the earth is flat. Ancient people knew the earth was not flat.
I read and speak Hebrew and frankly, you don't know what you're talking about and you are spreading false information.
No, that is not true. I am the product of simply understanding the Bible better and I am better at exegeting Scripture than you are.
Nope. God speaks to us through His Word. But you don't believe that the Bible comes from God, so you are relying on a false spirit that teaches you lies.
I am talking about the thousands of copies of the NT in Greek that were sent around the world in ancient times. We have over 5,000 copies that date from early 2nd century to the 5th century and nothing was changed in over a 400 year period. And we have 20,000 copies of early church quotations of the NT in Greek dating from 2nd century through 5th century and again, no changes, no misquotes. At every point of comparison, the texts completely agree with the exception of minor variants like smudges, mispelled words and stuff like that, which do not effect the substance of the texts.
You are totally inconsistent, you are cherry-picking what you like.
This applies to Genesis 1 and 2, too.
Its obvious that you were not looking at it at all. These verses prove that kidneys are your brain. Not that Earth is flat.
And you do not even know that old Hebrews did not believe in a globe?
wow, you are blaspheming again.
Not even two of these copies agree with each other in every place. And the later the copy is, the more it differs from the first ones. So you are either willfully lying that nothing was changed or simply ignorant of the matter.
No, I am not. I am consistent exegetically.
Nope, because both are historical narratives, same genre.
It's not about what they believed. It is about what the Bible says. The Bible's ultimate author is God, not man. God inspired the Bible and the Bible does not claim a flat earth even though you try to pervert and twist Scripture to mean something it doesn't mean.
No I am building on what the Bible you don't believe in, says. I trust God's word and reject your false doctrine.
Nope. I am under NO obligation to believe that the Holy Spirit is telling you that the Bible is not God's Word. Only an evil spirit would spread that kind of lie.
No, the Bible had human writers. It has only ONE divine author. God is the author and men wrote what He inspired the to write.
Wrong. All 25,000 Greek copies completely agree. English translations don't always agree, but the ancient Greek copies totally agree. Again, you don't know what you're talking about.
Are you kidding or just making all this up?
Wrong. They are completely historical.
I didn't say that inspiration was dictation. And the Bbile doesn't say the earth was flat, nor does it say that kidneys are one's center of thinking. You are simply repeating lies fed to you by someone else who also doesn't know what they are talking about.
Nope. More lies.
