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Recent content by Rod Carty

  1. Rod Carty

    how do people who believe in eternal torture in fire

    You used emotionally loaded phrases in your argument. That's fine for expressing your opinion, but you've gone beyond that into using those emotionally loaded phrases as support for your argument. That makes it propaganda, and the fallacy of loaded question. So let's unpack your emotionally...
  2. Rod Carty

    Why did God say He created evil?

    It would appear you have loaded your question. Yes, the God of the Bible is the Creator, but your use of the term here implies that is His only role. God finished His creation on the 6th day, and so the 7th day was the beginning of God's rest from or cessation from creating. God is still active...
  3. Rod Carty

    Why do Christians have trouble with accepting Evolution?

    Evolution is not the only explanation of diversity. God commanded life to fill the earth, and that requires the ability to adapt to a variety of ecological environments. If evolution alone were doing it then it would take a long time and there would be many failed attempts to fill various...
  4. Rod Carty

    Why do Christians have trouble with accepting Evolution?

    Evolution is not compatible with the central message of the whole Bible, that is, God created man; man brought death into the world; man cannot be reconciled to God through his own efforts; God made a way through Jesus' death on the cross for us to be reconciled to Him. With evolution death is...
  5. Rod Carty

    Here's my problem, I believe in evolution, and it brings up doubts especially in the OT...

    I wasn't the one who started talking about the Bible. I don't see you complaining about others doing so - only it seems when I gave an answer to the claim of evolution and the Bible being compatible.
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    Here's my problem, I believe in evolution, and it brings up doubts especially in the OT...

    It's not the evidence itself but the interpretation of the evidence. Interpretation done by people who deny God exists is immediately suspect. For example, the geologic evidence, literally "mountains of evidence", is used by evolutionists/long agers and creationists/YECs. It's the same evidence...
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    Here's my problem, I believe in evolution, and it brings up doubts especially in the OT...

    Interpret Scripture with Scripture. If an interpretation of one Scripture passage is contradicted by other Scripture passages then we know that interpretation is wrong. The claim that the creation account is myth is contradicted by, for example, the passage that says all Scripture is...
  8. Rod Carty

    Here's my problem, I believe in evolution, and it brings up doubts especially in the OT...

    If it's just a matter of understanding how the original audience would have understood Genesis, then there should be no other problems, no other contradictions. This is, after all, part of hermeneutics: interpreting Scripture with Scripture. If Genesis is only allegory, then the message of...
  9. Rod Carty

    Do you think it's Christian to own guns?

    Once you start rejecting what is authoritative or true in the Bible you start down the road to rejecting the whole Bible. I start with the position that God is the author of the Bible, and people are the writers, inspired by God. I start with God being well able to communicate exactly what He...
  10. Rod Carty

    Do you think it's Christian to own guns?

    Jesus made a whip out of cords and used it to drive the sellers out of the temple courtyard. The idea that Jesus is only about love is incorrect. Read through Jesus' conversations with Pharisees and Saduccees. He called them out on their evil in very plain language.
  11. Rod Carty

    Do you think it's Christian to own guns?

    What exactly would be considered unChristian to collect guns, as opposed to, say, stamps?
  12. Rod Carty

    Evolution is Not Atheistic

    So, Jesus dying for our sins is allegorical? I'll go with the clear intent of the Bible as it's written as far as what is intended to be read as literal history and what is not.
  13. Rod Carty

    Evolution is Not Atheistic

    My point was that supposedly all the dinosaurs died as a result of the Chixculub impact. If it killed the largest animals it seems odd the smaller ones survived. It isn't mentioned in the Bible what Noah had for breakfast either, so by that argument we must conclude Noah never had breakfast or...
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    Evolution is Not Atheistic

    I've already explained how that is a logical conclusion of the central message of the Bible, that is, the central message is contradicted, made illogical, if the earth is old. If you have a way to reconcile the central message with long ages please share it. If you think the central message is...
  15. Rod Carty

    Evolution is Not Atheistic

    You implied before there is only one kind of evolution. I said: "That is because evolution claims life and the whole universe came about through purely natural causes, while the Bible says God specifically and intentionally created." And you replied: "Evolution does not deal with the WHOLE...