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Jesus spoke in parables....that ring a bell with you my friend?
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Why stop at creation, why not apply that to a person spending three days in the belly of a fish, floating axe heads, parting of the waters of Red Sea, people walking on water, people being raised from the dead, people being taken away and appearing miles away from their original location all which go against science.
May be you do, you might need a Jefferson Bible.
That all or nothing view does not do justice to the complex and many layered nature of scripture. It takes discernment to differentiate literal from figurative. And we all know there is plenty of disagreement on interpretations. And yet no one is plucking their eyes out or cutting off their hands.Why stop at creation, why not apply that to a person spending three days in the belly of a fish, floating axe heads, parting of the waters of Red Sea, people walking on water, people being raised from the dead, people being taken away and appearing miles away from their original location all which go against science.
May be you do, you might need a Jefferson Bible.
Jesus spoke in parables....that ring a bell with you my friend?
This is obviously a logical fallacy.Why stop at creation, why not apply that to a person spending three days in the belly of a fish, floating axe heads, parting of the waters of Red Sea, people walking on water, people being raised from the dead, people being taken away and appearing miles away from their original location all which go against science.
May be you do, you might need a Jefferson Bible.
"Jesus spoke in parables" really what does that have to do with creation accounts in the Bible being literally true.
Do you even understand the purpose of Jesus speaking in parables and when Jesus began to speak in parables.
Somehow even worse. We are not just claiming literal 6 day creation a few thousand years ago. We are taking it to extremes of flat Earth and solid dome. Like every book for children and fiction must be literally historically true.This is obviously a logical fallacy.
Its like claiming "we cannot say that the public library has also books for children and fiction, because it would mean everything it has is a fiction!".
Well stars are not light years away, so call that what you want. Deceived men of science stating their beliefs, that they actually believe to be true, but actually is not.
Your confidence is poorly placed. Almost everyone understands the shape of the Earth, and everyone with the means to make the measurements find that the Earth is round and space is very very big.-
Like i have said before, this is not like giving your opinion on whether Rembrandt is better than Rubens or what is the best sports team. Truth will be revealed one day in future about God's creation and i am 100% confident that the creation account is a literal account.
I do every time I fly to the other side of the planet or depend on satellite navigation or schedule a meeting with someone many time zones away.So if you are confident in your science belief, just hang on to that belief we will find out.
I can appreciate your need to be confident in a literal interpretation. I just don't share it.Truth will be revealed one day in future about God's creation and i am 100% confident that the creation account is a literal account.
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Like i have said before, this is not like giving your opinion on whether Rembrandt is better than Rubens or what is the best sports team. Truth will be revealed one day in future about God's creation and i am 100% confident that the creation account is a literal account.
So if you are confident in your science belief, just hang on to that belief we will find out.
I don't think the question is even whether one should accept a literal interpretation of the creation story. Answers In Genesis is an organization specifically devoted to arguing that the creation story in the Bible is absolutely literal and not figurative. They still say the Flat Earth idea is nonsense:Why exactly do you think its important to believe in a literal reading of the creation story, when it contradicts the scientific evidence, when it requires believing in a massive conspiracy for centuries (even from Christian astronomers) and in all countries, when its not needed for the theological message of the story and when it changes nothing about Christianity?
I am in complete awe of our creator when I understand the immense vastness of the universe and the incredible manner in which all matter interacts, especially for the dizzying number of coincidences necessary for our planet to be habitable.
Flat earth cosmologists in comparison, believe in a much lesser god, one who basically just built a container and sealed everything inside.
My God is awesome, and is absolutely worthy of all worship and honour. Their god is rather pathetic in comparison.
Those idiots at LIGO factored in the curvature of the earth when constructing the interferometer arms of their gravitational wave detectors.
"LIGO's arms are long enough that the curvature of the Earth itself was a complicating factor when installing the vacuum tubes. It wasn’t enough for LIGO’s civil engineers to smooth a level path and assemble each arm’s tubes in a straight line. To ensure a perfectly level beam path, the Earth’s curvature (more than a vertical meter over the 4 km length of each arm) was countered by GPS-assisted earth-moving and high-precision concrete work."
Surprisingly how flat earth experts here failed to take into consideration the strongest evidence for why the earth is flat.
A flat earth interpretation of Genesis does not just lead to a lesser creation, it means that the universe around us is deceptive. What we observe is incompatible with the earth being flat. Worse - this implies that God is deceptive.
The flat earth concept doesn't mean the earth doesn't have various elevations. Seems like what they ran across are what we flat-earthers like to call a 'small hill'.
It is basically a finite terrarium reflecting a finite God, as opposed to an essentially unbound universe reflecting an infinite GodHow would you consider flat earth to be a 'lesser creation'?
LIGO has observatories at both Hanford and Livingston.The flat earth concept doesn't mean the earth doesn't have various elevations. Seems like what they ran across are what we flat-earthers like to call a 'small hill'.
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