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I'm 63 now ... what keeps me believing (and others) in a global flood?
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I'm 63 now ... what keeps me believing (and others) in a global flood?No, I'm saying a priest or preacher told them from childhood that they HAVE to believe the Bible is an accurate portrayal of what actually happened.
Yes, it is. What part are you having a hard time understanding?Is that so?Is that so?
Probably fear, for you at least. Creationists seem to be afraid to face up to any of the errors in the Bible. Perhaps they fear that their belief is just a house of cards. If one goes the whole belief system goes.I'm 63 now ... what keeps me believing (and others) in a global flood?
Whether it's you or someone else doing the typing.What part are you having a hard time understanding?
And here I thought you were going to say it's my caption.Probably fear, for you at least.
And here I thought you were going to say it's my caption.
Really? It is still far superior to your style of posting. When you keep flaming everyone you should not be surprised when you get just a fraction in return.Whether it's you or someone else doing the typing.
For the record, I believe it's you though.
And I feel very sorry for you, that you have to stoop to this style of posting.
I'm not about to try and 'falsify' my beliefs at this late date; they work just fine.
Regarding flood evidence, I believe there is an abundance of it that is just not accepted as such.
Probably because Noah's flood wouldn't leave such evidence.
Scientists have 'debunked' the flood without having constructing a proper model to study it. It's willful ignorance.
My response was directed at the technical details involved in the world's problems, not the flood details. Technology is applied to solve problems that are caused by faulty thinking. Therefore the technology may be fine but normally unnecessary if people's thought processes were right.
I'm 63 now ... what keeps me believing (and others) in a global flood?
-sigh- And here we have yet another technical detail that I will have to explain.
A falsifiable hypothesis does NOT mean it is necessarily "false", but rather that there is a way for it to be false (again, NOT THAT IT IS FALSE).
It's a subtle concept and one that is often confusing. But if you have a belief in something just imagine what it would look like if that belief were false. It's key in science and helps us learn how to test against an hypothesis. This is the essence of inferrential statistics and how we understand the world.
Is that what you really think?When you keep flaming everyone you should not be surprised when you get just a fraction in return.
Yes, you are constantly trying to flame people and then you get upset when you get just a fraction of it back.Is that what you really think?
And I'm dead serious here.
Do you really think that?
Then their faith was in the age of rocks, not the Rock of A...There were many who came hundreds of years before you who "lost faith" in the Noachian Flood story precisely because they looked at the geology.
... nevermind.Obliquinaut said:(NOTE: This does not mean they had to lose their faith in God.)
Yes, you are constantly trying to flame people and then you get upset when you get just a fraction of it back.
THAT'S EASY !I'm 63 now ... what keeps me believing (and others) in a global flood?
Not "seems". It WAS written down first. More then 1500 years earlier, in fact.Provided we don't find something older. The Eridu Genesis was written before Gilgamesh, though we have only a fragment. That said, the Israelites were a nomadic people not known to be literate, and thus their stories would have been memorized and repeated orally. The Torah was not immediately rejected, so the Israelites obviously knew it was true.You mean like when Jesus really did get born on the 25th of december?
That's not in any Bible that I've ever read.
Jesus was likely conceived in December but was born in September; the ninth month. We know this because Jesus was conceived in the sixth month of pregnancy for John the Baptist's mother, Elizabeth. A supernova which would explain the star in the east happened in early September, 6 BC. This indicated a minor error in the Gregorian calendar... either that or the astronomers are off 6 years.
You mean your version of reality.No. I just don't let me preconceived beliefs get in the way of my understanding of the facts of reality.
No. The event happened long before.What you just said here, is essentially that you merely believe that genesis is older then gilgamesh.
Moses lived from 1350 to 1250 BC. The flood was ancient history when he recorded how it happened. He was educated as an Egyptian. There is no reason to believe that he ever read Sumerian literature.
Here you are attacking religious the beliefs of other Christians.Then their faith was in the age of rocks, not the Rock of A...... nevermind.
Then their faith was in the age of rocks, not the Rock of A...... nevermind.
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