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Google "rood secret of Solomons temple" That's the legend I prefer I'm not saying it is for sure true, but it does have the most enthusiastic haters, so that's a big plus in my book.

That is not an exact quote, but I could not fit the exact quote in the title. I believe the exact quote was something closer to: "All Scripture has a literal, and a metaphorical interpretation, but the metaphor is more sophisticated." I have never read the quote myself, but I remember on more...

No it doesn't. That word, and its variants are exclusively translated "punish" in the bible to the best of my knowledge.

Then there are other sects of Christianity that think of God like a battered wife, always living in fear that He might offend somebody, so instead of risking offending anybody, He thinks its just safest to be a big mushy doormat full of love, and to let everybody do everything they want so as...

Tautological is like when you say the same thing two different ways but the second way you say it is useless. For examle, if you got pulled over and told the cop you were speeding because you were late for curfew. But then when you got home you told your parents you were late for curfew...

Grr... double post

according to John 4:18, just having sex with somebody does not automatically make you married to them. Here, Jesus tells a woman that the guy she is sleeping with is not her husband. in addition to that, as you already pointed out, the word "fornication" would be utterly tautological in the...

no worries. I really have no intention of writing a 25k character post again myself. (it took me 2 days to get through it all) I will definitely consolidate thoughts in the future.

Thanks for that. That article starts with the idea that pangea existed before the flood, and North/South America and Europe/Asia/Africa cruised away from each other at such a rate that they were their current distance apart after a year. I don't think that and I never met anyone that did...

"if there were any exit points at all" is tantamount to saying "if my theory were proved true" And you really have to give up on repeatedly [mis]quoting "dirt filled voids" Yeah, voids was probably a poor choice of words, I'm sorry I was not clinical enough for you. Let me try again to...

well we have an aspiring geologist in this very thread that told us all that the mountains are made up of fossilized marine life. Call me crazy, but I bet he thinks the tops of all the mountains we have today were a lot closer to sea level some time ago.

Gen. 1:8 in the KJV says "he called the firmament "heaven" NIV says "he called the vault "sky" and ESV says "he called the expanse "heaven". I tend to expect the more precise representation of any given text to be found in the ESV in general. However, this time the KJV does a fine job as as...

We are observing the same thing. But we are talking past each other to some extent. I believe that that stuff that got eroded all got eroded in one cataclysmic event (not necessarily the biblical flood) and the top layer is in a state of stability. (unless it is subjected to another...

cool! may I ask what the field is? I would think the scientist's quickest path to riches and renown would be to quit being a scientist and go be an actor, or something. but regardless, with pretty much every sub-discipline out there except this one. That is because you really only have...

guilty. The biblical term I should have uses was "fountains of the deep" We still have water underground today. I actually drink some of it on a regular basis. The bible explicitly mentions two sources of the water (Gen 7:11, 8:2) one vrom "above" and one from "the deep" but I was incorrect...