They are valid.
What about flat vs. spherical earth? What about creation vs. evolution? Where do you draw the line between allegory and literal interpretation?
Some think they do.
I never asked that. If you are going to misquote me or try to put words into my mouth, we are not going to get far.
I don't need to ask that question, because if I ask 10 christians I will get ten different answers.
I see your point. Now try to convince everyone in this thread that a spherical earth does not conflict with Genesis.
If you had done any research you wouldn't use the phrase "so called". I wouldn't refer to your views, nor the views of any christian, as "so called christian" views.
You have tried to show some christians in this thread that some of their beliefs are wrong.
There are some theologians who try to reconcile sciences like evolution with scripture.
Again, it all depends on where the theologian draws the line between a literal interpretation and allegory. This is true for all people of all religions.
Hi Professor,
All in all for me, that is a term of respect, and honor. So is Docotor if I ever feel compelled to use my terms for anyone.
I used Professor for you, because although I do not understand you totally, nor you me, on my part it is leaving out this or that piece of information, that you always notice, which causes me to suspect you are Professorial material, and nice also, but objective to the max.
Being objective to the maximum conceivable level, is rare even in that profession, but it puts all Professors in the realm of advanced research also.
A shorter way of saying Objective to the Max for me is this: "I don't care what the answer is, I just want the answer, but only if it is the correct answer, and no other, also provable would be nice." Okay, it's not shorter. When I started, I thought it would be.
You wrote, and I will now claim errancy, as I both say what I left out, and also leave the type of conversation which is formal, and go into an informal mode with you, for now. Actually I have been doing both, as the areas you are drawing me into are not my specialty, only I have not said that before, but notice it in your responses, and some adjustments in my words, needed because I too am learning now from you.
If you had done any research you wouldn't use the phrase "so called". I wouldn't refer to your views, nor the views of any christian, as "so called christian" views.
What I did not say about my research is when I did it, I set up the controlled experiments to find out one item. Are there any true Athesits by my esoteric research definition of Atheism. (I and other researchers as a matter of course, correct the definitions of professionally used words to what they should be, or even make up new words when none exist for the item being studied or found. So Atheism was changed to "No possibility that a God exists out there, who is responsible for all of this.")
Since that work was controlled, no one could be told beforehand anything, while I searched for Atheists everywhere. They were not told after either, as word of mouth could carry and ruin the work. The work finally ended. I found ZERO atheists by that definition in roughly 10 years of research. Since then I have used that information mightily, and keep it under test, to make sure that I find the true number of Atheists, under that definition. Now, I still find no Atheists by that definition, but it is almost impossible, but not entirely, to work with Atheists, once I have told them of that work. I do now, since the research is done, tell eveyone, when appropriate of the results of that research project.
I called you a so-called atheist, from the results of that work, however. However, that is not all I found out about the idea of anyone who could say for certain, That there is no possibility that a God exists out there that is responsible for all of this. I found out, then, and it was before I knew that God is Real, from finding out The Bible is Real, that in all the staunchest Atheists is also the stauchest ethics.
The ethics of the most affirmed Atheists were so amazing, that if they were Christian, I would envy them on their Christianity, from their actions and words of justice and rightness in the world that they adhered to and enforced, constantly.
I did become amazed with all of them. Staunch fighters for truth and justice, and abhorrance to what is wrong was in all of them. They even voted with their feet. They left organizations and Theologies and Ideologies, which were errant to them. They did that rather than try and fit in, despite the errors of the group they were trying to fit in with.
Is there anything higher, in ethics and morality than to vote with your feet, even if those feet said attack, rather than just leave?
LOVE,