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I am just following the logic.Sorry, that is contradicted by the huge number of Christians who have no problem with the findings of science. It's just a story creationists tell each other to feel better about themselves.
If you go back and edit your response while part of a conversation please have the decency to mark your edit so everyone can know that your counterpart in conversation is not taking you out of context.Sorry, that is contradicted by the huge number of Christians who have no problem with the findings of science. It's just a story creationists tell each other to feel better about themselves. Not all of them; many creationists are no less Christian than the rest of us. A minority of them have made an idol of their new interpretations of scripture. They don't represent all creationists.
Unless they misrepresent something I actually said, it doesn't matter. And I thought I was being more firm with the edit.If you go back and edit your response while part of a conversation please have the decency to mark your edit so everyone can know that your counterpart in conversation is not taking you out of context.
It sounded more like you were covering your behind.Unless they misrepresent something I actually said, it doesn't matter. And I thought I was being more firm with the edit.
I don't see how pointing out that most creationists are no less Christian than the rest of us, is "dividing the body of Christ." I would think that trying to make one's position on this issue into a salvation issue would be doing that. Fact is, God doesn't care about what you think of the age of the Earth, or how He makes species. That won't be the way He divides the sheep from the goats.I am just following the logic.
You are the one trying to divide the body of Christ over this issue.
I don't see how saying that being a creationist does not mean one is not a Christian, would be making them into the enemy. Could you explain that?It does matter, but then again you don't see the compassion in the Young Earth argument and you place them in the position of your enemy.
That is the message I get from your posts.
That assertion is surely is far more certain to divide the Body of Christ than to accept that the issue is not a salvation issue at all.So yes, at the root, the age of the Earth is salvational.
And I see that in this defense of your post you leave out the accusation you made one sentence earlier.I don't see how pointing out that most creationists are no less Christian than the rest of us, is "dividing the body of Christ." I would think that trying to make one's position on this issue into a salvation issue would be doing that. Fact is, God doesn't care about what you think of the age of the Earth, or how He makes species. That won't be the way He divides the sheep from the goats.
Check Matthew 25 for details.
So my compassion to reach out to my fellow believers and to steady their faith in hard times is now considered divisive?That assertion is surely is far more certain to divide the Body of Christ than to accept that the issue is not a salvation issue at all.
This is the key. If scripture was clear about these things, then all Christians would agree. Anyone who tells you that it is clear on the way God created living things, is asking you to believe him, not God.
Oh, I dunno, maybe just the "believe what I do as touching Creation or you aren't a Christian" rubbish seems a trifle "y'all all going to hell"ish, don't you reckon?So my compassion to reach out to my fellow believers and to steady their faith in hard times is now considered divisive?
Why?
Oh, I'm sure it's really important to cull out misbelievers like myself. A little leaven leavens the whole lump, right? First it's not believing that God took precisely 518400 seconds to create the universe, and the next thing you know they'll be saying that Jesus was an Alien. Gotta nip it in the bud.So my compassion to reach out to my fellow believers and to steady their faith in hard times is now considered divisive? Why?
When did I ever say that? Please address the person in front of you and not some straw man.Oh, I dunno, maybe just the "believe what I do as touching Creation or you aren't a Christian" rubbish seems a trifle "y'all all going to hell"ish, don't you reckon?
I never said anyone is not a real Christian.There are a good many Christians who have become such without any shred of knowledge of the Bible other than the Gospels. No OT at all. Should they be required to read the Old Testament and sign off on such OT based doctrines as some other believers require before they can properly be considered real Christians?
Your words not mine.Oh, I'm sure it's really important to cull out misbelievers like myself. A little leaven leavens the whole lump, right? First it's not believing that God took precisely 518400 seconds to create the universe, and the next thing you know they'll be saying that Jesus was an Alien. Gotta nip it in the bud.
And the first step is believing that God created the uiniverse in six 86400 second days. Otherwise it's straight to perdition.-The Bible is clear on how to receive God's free gift of Eternal Life.
"So yes, at the root, the age of the Earth is salvational.You or strawman?When did I ever say that? Please address the person in front of you and not some straw man.
"So yes, at the root, the age of the Earth is salvational."When did I ever say that? Please address the person in front of you and not some straw man.
I never said anyone is not a real Christian.
And off to hell with the rest. Right?All the virgins were invited to the feast... but only half were prepared for what was coming.
I stand by what I said... and not the version you posted."So yes, at the root, the age of the Earth is salvational.You or strawman?
Yes that is what I said... and I still stand by it."So yes, at the root, the age of the Earth is salvational."
Your words not mine.And off to hell with the rest. Right?
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