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That is not reading skills. No more than we need an electron microscope to see the nose on your face.
Psalms 148:5 -- Let them praise the name of the LORD, For He commanded and they were created.
Here is God speaking Personally
It's interesting that you pick the Psalms for your argument, which are poetry. Perhaps you favor them because you like poetry. What other poetry do you like? What other poems do you like to read as if they were modern historical narrative?
The bible suggests this
Yes the flesh is different from the spirit. Yes the natural is different from the spiritual. We should not accept the beliefs based solely on the natural over the beliefs God told us to accept.
God speaking though some men is like poetry. That does not mean it is a lie.
Science does not deny that God commanded.
Shall the thing made not say, "here is how my maker formed me."
No, some people will say that person who honors a God who lives in a magical book, a God who can't do anything that isn't literally written there, some will say that person who honors that God lacks understanding.
It becomes a lie for those, like you, who insist that it must be taken as literal narrative, You are the one calling the Bible a lie. You are the one calling the Gospel of Christ a lie. You are the one calling the faith of millions of Christians a lie. Why are you doing it? I can only think of evil reasons.
It denies He spoke and it was made
Yes, when God gave the story to us Himself and confirmed it in a multitude or ways in the rest of Scripture. At the very least one should not say, 'Hath God said He created you and the universe? What really happened is that you descended from worms and monkeys and that the sun came from an explosion in space etc' You do know who that sounds like?
Others would say that calling His word to man that Jesus confirmed and honoured and fulfilled some 'magic fable' or 'magical little book' was the opposite of honouring Him
No one suggested He could not do anything at all. Be honest. One thing He does not do i lie, like the spirit behind naturalonlydunnit so called science.
We already saw such accusations in this thread.
Isaiah 45:12 -- I have made the earth, And created man on it. I; My hands; stretched out the heavens, And all their host I have commanded.
Believing the very words of God Himself talking is not a lie. You hold up the natural only derived concepts of where it all came from as the ultimate truth and call the bible a lie for what it says that you cast away as false
I'll let that whopper slide for now. I guess we'll take it that you are angry and just mouthing off.
Disrespecting and disbelieving God and Scripture should not be the 'faith' of millions of Christians.
What your wanting to be accepted are your religious beliefs. The thing is, science has opened a wide window into Creation as God Created it which just do no line up with your religious beliefs.
Or so you believe. But God's Creation, as Created by God is right there for all to see. It's not at all hidden.
Of course it's not. I don''t believe He meant it as a literal narrative. It is obviously figurative language; science doesn't even come into it.
Now you're lying about me. Nothing to do with science, as far as I am concerned. I don't care that much about science, But I sincerely believe, as I believe Christ is my Savior, that your literal inerrancy is a degenerate corruption of God's inspired word, regardless of whether it disagrees with science or not.
No, you should face up to it honestly.
Disbelieving you might be the best thing thing for their faith.
Naruralonlydunnit is a figment of your imagination.
I posted some verses with God Himself talking first person. I do not see that as 'my religious beliefs'
It shut the window on God actually and sits in the dark with the natural only fiddling with it.
Nor is it a mystery or something other than what a child sees, or a bird!
These are all your religious "beliefs. But the spiritual is something one personally experiences. For instance a person can personally experience the Divine with in God's Creation. The thing is, to personally experience God's Hand in Creation is way different than"believing" God said something. Or perhaps a person could experience the infinite Creating hand of God within the power of Life that permeates all of existence. That's when it gets spiritual.
Contrary to being hidden, whether we like it or not the weather effects every single bit of this Creation. It's not at all hidden. Sometimes science even finds the effects of the weather in an area that happened many million of years ago.
