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God works in mysterious ways, doesn't He?Don't worry, I'm certain you have an exegesis that will get God off the hook.
God works in mysterious ways, doesn't He?
Actually you were. You responded to Obliquinaut.
By the way, studying the Bible "honestly" would mean NOT assuming that it is true when one began. Also it would mean NOT assuming that it is false. Sadly for you if one does this one finds all sorts of fallacies in the Bible.
And how do you determine when someone is studying the bible honestly? Would it happen to be, when they agree with you?
I don't judge what others get from their study. And if they never come to the same conclusions I do it's ok with me. Much of the understanding of scripture comes from experiencing it over time. The older you are the more experience you have, and thus understanding.....if you were paying attention in the first place.
In other words, folks can honestly study scripture and reach completely different conclusions than you.
You should fear Him.And I'm also saying (out loud) that such a God that would command genocide is not a God worthy of worship. He is a God worthy of abject terror and fear.
You should fear Him.
All humans have an immortal soul. You are going to live forever somewhere.
If you remove yourself from the Lord in this life, you will be permanently removed in the next.
You don't understand the Bible because you have no faith, and your self righteous acclamation over what is good and evil doesn't impress us.
The Amalekites were human predators outside of God's grace.
However, Christ had not come yet and the world was under the original covenant. While not suitable for Heaven, the Amalekites did not go to Hell. They just died.
You, however, have a choice. You have an offer of salvation. If you reject it, then you go where your sinful, unforgiven nature takes you.
Christians have the same sinful nature but we have a personal savior and you do not. If you died today, do you think you could convince God, who you defame, to give you another chance?
Good luck.
Absolutely.
I don't judge what others get from their study. And if they never come to the same conclusions I do it's ok with me. Much of the understanding of scripture comes from experiencing it over time. The older you are the more experience you have, and thus understanding.....if you were paying attention in the first place.
I'm "older" now and the older I got the less "understanding" I had for what I was told the Bible was telling me. Probably because the older I got the less "accepting" I was to simply accept what someone else told me to accept. I had learned enough of the world.
This is also why I disliked the fact that religion was planted in my head from my earliest years of life. It was provided to me when I wasn't capable of assessing its validity. That made it much harder for me to reject it when it was maladaptive to me later in life.
I'm "older" now and the older I got the less "understanding" I had for what I was told the Bible was telling me. Probably because the older I got the less "accepting" I was to simply accept what someone else told me to accept. I had learned enough of the world.
This is also why I disliked the fact that religion was planted in my head from my earliest years of life. It was provided to me when I wasn't capable of assessing its validity. That made it much harder for me to reject it when it was maladaptive to me later in life.
Unfortunately the same thing cannot always be said for science. That is why if you wish to invoke scientific concepts to justify your belief in the Flood you should work to make a more convincing argument than simply hand waving away with laminar flow.
And yet, here you you are, on a Christian website.Yet I simply couldn't "feel" His presence. I tried and tried and prayed and prayed.
I knew I couldn't "earn" salvation, that isn't how it works in Christianity, but I was pretty sure that I needed to truly LOVE God and truly loving something I didn't really "feel" felt...fake to me.
And yet, here you you are, on a Christian website.
You can't find God on your terms.
You can't find Him intellectually. You can't find Him through logic and reason.
The ancients had direct contact with God's miracles to convince them that He is real. We have only the history of them,
Now, however, not accepting Christ's sacrifice is an even greater affront to the Creator.
Faith is an easy passage to Heaven... but faith comes HARD.
Nothing you're going to read on the internet is going to help you find Christ.
Find a good church near you where the pastor is doing the Lord's work, not just trying to line his pockets, and take your questions to him.
You seem focused on my use of 'laminar flow',
which is just the separation of layers of water according to their different velocities.
Closer to the ground the slower thus less erosive, even given the turbulence of obstacles. At a certain depth bottom water stops moving altogether.
I never had religion forced on me.
My father told us kids that if we wanted to join a church or a religion that was our choice. My mother was the lifelong Lutheran but kept her beliefs to herself. Thus I had no baggage when I came into the church at as an adult.
Me neither. It was just a "given". As it is for almost everyone in the US since the 17th century. It's woven into just about every aspect of our lives.
Good for you. And you had never heard anything as a youth about God or Jesus? You just discovered them on your own as an adult? That's really quite interesting. And I'm absolutely fascinated by such a "faith journey". Were born in a foreign country? Or were you born in some isolated place that didn't have any cities or large groups of people?
This is actually pretty fascinating.
To be fair to me, so far that is about the only technical topic you've mentioned. I assumed it was one of the few you've actually heard about, but clearly you are not planning on answering my questions about the Reynold's number. So....
Ummm, you might want to go back re-read the definition of laminar flow. It's a bit more detailed than that.
You're going to have to point me to a reference there. You see if I'm moving 4x10^19 cubic feet of water as it comes up on land I'm going to have a lot of moving water and moving BED LOAD.
I'm willing to consider your math and your references, but so far you haven't offered any. You just make claims. And I'm not wired to just take your claims at face value. And I'm guessing I've got a bit more experience in this area than you might think. The fact that so far you have shown no real facility with the topic from a technical stand point makes me think you are just handwaving.
But I could be convinced...if you provide a little bit of actual detail (references, math, etc.)
(But also I realize you won't actually do that, few people who do as much handwaving as you seem to do are willing to ever actually commit to the topic at hand.)
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