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Your not even attempting to apply any sort of intelligence on this particular topic. What you’re doing is ignoring passages that conflict with your scientific beliefs. Either you are incapable of recognizing metaphorical statements or your intentionally using them as an excuse to dismiss the passages that refute your beliefs. So which is it?
Please do explain what FACTS you are referring to. I’m very eager to hear what FACTS science has to offer on the origin of the earth and mankind. Let me just go ahead and say right now, they don’t have any facts. You need to learn the difference between FACTS and EVIDENCE.
Man doesn’t come from a woman in chapter 1.
I told you already this is a direct quote from Paul. "For as woman came from man, so also man is born of woman. But everything comes from God". 1 Corinthians 11:12 We can not ignore Science. There are literally hundreds of thousands of science books that prove beyond any doubt that the Bible is true. But science will step on a few toes and tell you that your traditions are wrong and your understanding and interpretation of the Bible is wrong. Jesus address this issue when He says: "Mark 7:8 You have disregarded the commandment of God to keep the tradition of men.”
”For man does not originate from woman, but woman from man; for indeed man was not created for the woman’s sake, but woman for the man’s sake.“
I’m keeping the traditions of man? That’s hilarious since you’re the one mixing science (man’s tradition) with the word of God. The whole reason you can’t believe what is actually written in the scriptures is because of what science (man’s traditions) tells us. See, you have a choice, you can either believe what God said took place or you can believe what man says took place but here’s the thing, man’s story has been changing over and over and over for hundreds of years if not more. Man has constantly been proving himself wrong decade after decade because their theories and predictions keep changing. God’s story has remained constant since the beginning because He doesn’t have to theorize or make any predictions. You choose to completely ignore the FACT that even scientists themselves ADMIT that their evidence is inconclusive and is based on theories and predictions. Do you deny this fact?
Exactly, you accuse others of what you are guilty of. I do not "mix" anything but apparently you do or you would not accuse me. I USE the Scientific Method as a way to interpret and understand the Bible. Science and Religion are two different classes and people need to be careful not to get confused going from one class and one book (biology) to the other. IN my state students are require students to pass a test to qualify for graduation from High School.
I just call it like I see it according to what you yourself have said in the discussion.
You didn’t answer my question, do you admit the FACT that scientists ADMIT that their evidence is inconclusive and based on theories and predictions?
Yea you pick which ones you want to be metaphorical and the ones you don't is what I'm seeing.
Ok so please explain, why did you choose Matthew 18:8-9 as an example of a metaphorical statement?
Same reason why you chose walking on water and a pillar of salt.
I chose those examples because they were examples of miracles that defy science. The point of asking if you believe in these events was to determine whether or not you believe they actually took place. Obviously you didn’t choose Matthew 18:8-9 because it’s an example of a miracle that defied science because there’s no mention of any miracles or anything contradictory to science in that passage and certainly your point wasn’t to determine whether or not I thought this event actually took place. So I fail to see the correlation between these two very different posts. Perhaps you incorrectly assumed my reasoning for mentioning those events, but in any case I’m still curious why you chose this particular passage as an example of a metaphorical message? Why do you think this message is intended to be metaphorical?
YOU are guilty of what YOU accuse others of. Period the end. That is all there is to it. As you judge... This is in the sermon on the mount. If we only read this sermon we will have all the teachings of Jesus.
The Sea of Galilee is fresh water, not salt water. So it does form ice. Most likely Peter did not know how to balance himself on what we call an ice berg. A hypothesis is a possible answer to a question. Clearly science tells us we can walk on water. Or even ice skate. I also remember the ice breaking and people going into the water when I was a kid skating on a pond near our house.
The oceans have a salinity (salt content) of 35ppt. The Dead Sea has an average salinity of 290ppt, almost nine times saltier than the oceans. If a meteor hit the dead sea and caused a tsunami then science does support that she could have been turned into a pillar of salt.
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