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Christianity means to follow Christ, not to pick and choose what he said that you'll believe, though that is what many people who believe themselves to be Christians today do.

How do you judge who's the 'better' Christian amongst millions who genuinely believe in Christ and his teachings and who profess and practice the Christian Faith?

Of course Christians 'pick and choose' what and how they believe, otherwise there'd not be the huge number of different Christian denominations. The argument that if a person doesn't believe in this bit (like the Genesis creation account) then question how that person can believe the rest of the Bible doesn't wash. For example, you don't hear about people being encouraged to perform the filthy sacrificial acts specified in Leviticus, nor do you follow this instruction from Deuteronomy:-


You don't believe in this (at least I hope you don't)! Christians have to rationalise their faith with many things, not just with science.
 
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And of course there are these verses:-

Job 37:4,6 &10, Job 38:11-12, Ps 107:25, Ps 107:29-30, Nah 1:3-4, and Zech 10:1

which reveal how ordinary weather phenomena have a supernatural rather than a natural origin.

If YECs wish to be taken seriously wrt Gen 1, and their claim that it must be read in a straightforward manner, then it is hard to see how they can seriously rationalize away the intent of all these verses.


Regards, Roland
 
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So the TEs are correct after all.

Gen1s mention of creation is an excellent example also.

To "Moses", it is God's creation ex nihilo; but to us, it's God's creation by evolution?


Or do you now wish, AV, to jam on your brakes, do a 180 degree about face, and insist that only you can undertake ancient to modern Biblical interpretation?



Regards, Roland
 
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I'm afraid the creationist would have to turn the same thing back on the evolutionist. Evolutionist lie every day. They must, for if they do not, they will find that there is a God and they most strongly do NOT want to submit to them.

*ahem*

*points to faith icon*



Not the only one either


Generalisation.

ETA: Nevermind, I see laconic has been handling things admirably. What he said.
 
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Really? Who was his ISP and who laid down the cabling?
 
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So the TEs are correct after all.
Not even close.
To "Moses", it is God's creation ex nihilo; but to us, it's God's creation by evolution?
Nope --- the details are all wrong.

Especially the order of Creation.

If Genesis 1 is evolution, then our alphabet owes us an apology.
Or do you now wish, AV, to jam on your brakes, do a 180 degree about face, and insist that only you can undertake ancient to modern Biblical interpretation?
No --- I'll let you insist "only I" for awhile --- then I'll pwn you by quoting [the late] Henry M. Morris.

That's where I got it.

Your attitude is the source of your mistakes.
 
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I love how you feel you can shoehorn science into your literal readings of the Bible wherever it suits and yet IN NO WAY CAN EVOLUTION BE INVOLVED.

Gotta love it.
 
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A true seeker would seek --- not take sides.

Well then maybe creationists should come up with some good arguments? I'm seeking, I'm not suspending logic. Creationism is still as stupid an idea before I changed my icon as it is after - that has nothing to do with me.

And besides, I changed my icon semi-ironically - it says "Christian-Seeker", not Christ-Seeker, and frankly I would love to find a bunch of Christians who weren't as sanctimonious as creationists are, because that's something sorely lacking in my life right now.
 
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Jesus said all one must do to be saved is to accept him as lord and savior. There's nothing in that condition which says you must also accept a literal interpretation of Genesis.
 
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Except for all the evolutionists who believe in God. Google the clergy letter project, Ken Miller, or the Vatican's stance on evolution.
la,la,la,la she not listening, la,la,la. it's all lies, it's all lies, go away, go away I don't want to hear your lies, not listening.
Why does every one keep calling her names and throwing abuse? I wonder?? beats me because everything she writes makes perfect sense, well it would to a ???
 
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I love how you feel you can shoehorn science into your literal readings of the Bible wherever it suits and yet IN NO WAY CAN EVOLUTION BE INVOLVED.

Gotta love it.
Cabal, if you set your attitude aside for a moment, and take a real look at my posts, you'll see that it's not evolution, per se, that I discredit --- it is science.

Since evolution runs on science, and since God did not rely on science*, but on omnipotence, I am against evolution.

Read my caption: it says SCIENCE can take a hike, not EVOLUTION.

Evolution is just one aspect of science.

* Which didn't even exist at the time.
 
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Whatever.

You single out evolution by shoehorning it into the words of Solomon and Paul out of context.

And yet you claim that retroactively noticing science in the Bible - Big Bang, Internet, etc - somehow validates it.

You can't have it both ways with the attitude you have here.
 
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Then why aren't you conversing with: Emmy, sister in Christ?

(And to be honest, I don't know if you are or not.)
 
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Right...so the fact I haven't heard of one CF user out of bajillions and the fact that I've never debated her on this issue or anything else somehow is a point against what I just said?

Wow.

Way to blow off someone's concerns there, AV.

I notice she has .5% your post count total, AV. People on this board are more likely to have heard of you, and frankly that's a concept I find depressing.
 
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