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    where is the Ark of the covenant? some say here, some say there, where is it?

    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.
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    who said"All Scripture is literal, and metaphor. The metaphor is more sophisticated"

    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...
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    So... God ALLOWS you to choose to be tortured forever?

    No it doesn't. That word, and its variants are exclusively translated "punish" in the bible to the best of my knowledge.
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    So... God ALLOWS you to choose to be tortured forever?

    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...
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    Does having sex make you married under God?

    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...
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    Does having sex make you married under God?

    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...
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    The Flood

    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.
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    The Flood

    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...
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    The Flood

    "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...
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    The Flood

    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.
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    The Flood

    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...
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    The Flood

    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...
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    The Flood

    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...
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    The Flood

    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...
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    The Flood

    I moved the last part of your post up to the top because it seems relevant at this time. I don't really have a problem with the theory. But I doubt it has everything explained perfectly. What I do have a problem with is "conventional" science and its methodologies. Warren Beaty says it much...
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    The Flood

    wow, there is a lot of misinformation here about what the theory postulates. Nobody has to believe it, but at least know what it says. briefly, here are a couple things that it postulates 1) the question about the strata and layers, all the geologic column would be flood layers via hydrologic...
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    John Piper says "young Earth" is viable biblical view

    Piper presumes Romans 5 is trustworthy, therefore he concludes that Adam must be historical. I did just the opposite. I started by presuming Genesis 1-2 was trustworthy. From there I concluded that the rest of the bible (including Romans 5) was historical. (i.e. written by real historical...
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    Why I believe in a young earth.

    Actually, I have not been convinced. Although I would not theologically have a problem with genesis if the earth were old. I would have a problem with the genealogy of Luke, and probably a theological problem with the ten commandments, but not really with Genesis so much. However,I do have an...
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    What came first?

    ok, this is starting to make sense. so the planets on the outer perimeter are moving slower than the planets near the center both because they must move slower as the gravitational attraction to the center of the galaxy is not as strong out there and also they have farther to travel by a factor...