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Because it is who we are? Does there need to be a reason.

And I did answer - I said that I do not know. And, I am comfortable with that answer.

If you want to remain ignorant as to why...then there really isn't much I can say to you.
You basically said there was no Adam made from the dust...and no Eve made from Adams rib, no garden, no snake and consequently NO FALL. You said it was all make believe....despite the biblical fact that it happened...and s presented as very literal and historical in other parts of the Bible.

But you don't need a reason. You simply accept your belief in evolutionism is correct...DESPITE...what the Bible says.
 
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There you go again, misconstruing my argument. I am not accepting science despite the "facts" that the Bible reports.

By my interpretation, the facts are the lessons that are taught allegorically.

I see no reason they the stories need to be literally true for the lessons to be learned.
 
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Your simple "say so" without a thought out response..which answers the contradictions evolutionism presents....clearly indicates your "Yeah, that's not true" statement is hog wash.

You claim that evolution and theology are mutually exclusive. In order to disprove your contention, I need to show one example where they coexist. I will use myself.

I have faith in God and His Son Jesus, yet I believe in evolution. I study theology and science. Ergo, evolution/science and a belief in God/theology are not mutually exclusive. One does not destroy the other.
 
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Evolutionism destroys theology. It destroys the reason why the Bible sys we need Jesus.
I'm sorry you believe that. I think you are wrong, but it certainly explains why you stand against "evolutionism."
 
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Because it is who we are? Does there need to be a reason.

And I did answer - I said that I do not know. And, I am comfortable with that answer.

Fine, then don't come here pushing your anti-ark, anti-Genesis, Anti-fall doctrine....if you can't handle the biblical repercussion.
 
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Fine, then don't come here pushing your anti-ark, anti-Genesis, Anti-fall doctrine....if you can't handle the biblical repercussion.

I thought this forum was for debate? If you do not want to debate literalism vs allegory, then what are you doing here?

And, as I requested before, I would ask you not to question the depth of my faith - I don't question yours.
 
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Where would you like me to begin?
Evolutionism directly contradicts Eve being created from Adams rib...as well as being the mother of all.
Evolutionism contradicts the biblical concept of Adam causing our sin nature. In fact it even contradicts how and why they fell.

So, please don't push that "I study theology and science"argument when you can't even begin to answer those basic questions.
 
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How, not why. And perhaps not even how. You assume that it must only have had something to do with biological evolution, but you have no evidence of that.
 
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I thought this forum was for debate? If you do not want to debate literalism vs allegory, then what are you doing here?

And, as I requested before, I would ask you not to question the depth of my faith - I don't question yours.

You've been asked to explain your allegory...and how it relates to what the rest of the bible has to say about the topic.
 
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Now you are getting it. Except for the last sentence. I make no effort to explain how we fell, I just accept that we did.

You've been asked to explain your allegory...and how it relates to what the rest of the bible has to say about the topic.

I have explained, numerous times in fact. Go back and read the posts.
 
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SkyWriting said:
The writer and readers didn't believe in a global world.

The first sentence of Genesis.

People so often think they can quote scripture
and then not quote scripture. Again, scripture
is not about geology or geography. It's not
about science.

Ok. Now where is any globe...or even shape.

erets: earth, land
Original Word: אָ֫רֶץ
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Transliteration: erets
Phonetic Spelling: (eh'-rets)
Short Definition: land
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
a prim. root
Definition
earth, land
NASB Translation
common (1), countries (15), countries and their lands (1), country (44), countryside (1), distance* (3), dust (1), earth (655), earth the ground (1), earth's (1), fail* (1), floor (1), ground (119), land (1581), lands (57), lands have their land (2), open (1), other* (2), piece (1), plateau* (1), region (1), territories (1), wild (1), world (3).

1In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.

New International Version
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

New Living Translation
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

English Standard Version
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

New American Standard Bible
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

King James Bible
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

International Standard Version
In the beginning, God created the universe.

NET Bible
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

New Heart English Bible
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
In the beginning God created heaven and earth.

JPS Tanakh 1917
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
 
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Evolutionism destroys theology. It destroys the reason why the Bible sys we need Jesus. It is a false doctrine.

Evolution has no effect on theology at all. Evolution describes the real world as we experiment with it.
Man-made natural breeding selection is documented in scripture.
 
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There's a Creation Museum in the Midwest where they show Dinosaurs walking up into the Ark, along with other animals.

Big lizards, small lizards, it's hard to say exactly what lizards God choose to repopulate the earth.
 
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There are galaxies that we cannot observe, but we do have a notion of a universe. The inspired author of Genesis, and his contemporaries, also had a concept of everything-there-is. David felt small when he considered the heavens (Psalm 8). Job is the oldest book in the Bible and it says, "He hangs the Earth on nothing." So yes, they did believe in a global world.
 
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Ya, that doesn't really cover what all the writers and all the readers believed. Scripture says the earth is more like a tent.

21 Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been declared to you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? 22 It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.
 
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If it contradicts the Bible, it won't be true.

Its a hypothetical question. What if the earth showed a calm history, without evidence of a global flood? What would it mean to you?
 
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