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great so you can spout anything that you wish and as long as it is at least mildly based upon scripture you are absolved of any responsibility to defend your statements because 1 God said it so it must be true and 2 any inconsistency is a flaw of our ability to understand or just another one of God's mysteries.I don't know --- I suppose the same thing that kept Shadrach, Meshach, and Abnego alive in the burning, fiery furnace, which was heated to seven times its capacity.
Not necessarily ---
[bible]Deuteronomy 29:29[/bible]
Answers in Genesis said:The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics began at the Fall.
This law says that the entropy (disorder) of the universe increases over time, and some have thought that this was the result of the Curse. However, disorder isnt always harmful. An obvious example is digestion, breaking down large complex food molecules into their simple building blocks. Another is friction, which turns ordered mechanical energy into disordered heatotherwise Adam and Eve would have slipped as they walked with God in Eden! A less obvious example to laymen might be the sun heating the earthto a physical chemist, heat transfer from a hot object to a cold one is the classic case of the Second Law in action. Also, breathing is based on another classic Second Law process, gas moving from a high pressure to low pressure. Finally, all beneficial processes in the world, including the development from embryo to adult, increase the overall disorder of the universe, showing that the Second Law is not inherently a curse.
Then why would God give us evidence to the contrary? I'm just trying to understand how such a great, loving, and just being would deceive us and leave us just a book to go on; especially when there are texts like the Bhagavad Gita that are in direct opposition to the Bible.
great so you can spout anything that you wish and as long as it is at least mildly based upon scripture you are absolved of any responsibility to defend your statements because 1 God said it so it must be true and 2 any inconsistency is a flaw of our ability to understand or just another one of God's mysteries.
AV, does evidence hold any importance or meaning to you?
Why wasn't I deceived? Why wasn't my whole church deceived?
Why is it the only ones who cry "deceived" are the ones who put "science" above Scripture?
It's interesting that you [plural] use the word "deceive" in describing God, in light of:
[bible]Matthew 27:63[/bible]
You want to see a real deceiver?
[bible]2 John 1:7[/bible]
Do you disagree with them about this?
AV, a question: Was the second law of thermodynamics in effect before the fall?
I don't think so --- at least not the way it operates today.
Read the book of Job.Why wasn't I deceived? Why wasn't my whole church deceived?
Why is it the only ones who cry "deceived" are the ones who put "science" above Scripture?
You want to see a real deceiver?
What about the other religions in the world? Are they deceivers as well?
What about those that existed before Judaism and Christianity?
Or the ones that existed in places other places after the birth of Christianity who have never heard of Jesus?
Read the book of Job.
It shows your god to be the greatest deciever there is.
A bully, a megalomaniac who picked on a rightous man because he could.
Despite the obvious plagerism of the egyptian book of the dead to produce the 10 commandments....
Even AiG seems to demand that scripture be interpreted in a way at least somewhat consistent with the physical world, although they tend to not apply this standard consistently. Do you disagree with them about this?
No, I don't disagree --- in fact --- this is the first time I ever answered this question:
AV, a question:
Was the second law of thermodynamics in effect before the fall?
--- with this answer:
I don't think so --- at least not the way it operates today.
So youre saying you dont disagree with them that scripture has to be interpreted in a way thats consistent with the physical world?
I know youve said elsewhere that most of the time, you dont think people should allow physical evidence to affect their interpretations of scripture. How do you determine in what situations its acceptable to do this?
I know you’ve said elsewhere that most of the time, you don’t think people should allow physical evidence to affect their interpretations of scripture. How do you determine in what situations it’s acceptable to do this?
Not even close, Nails --- not even close.
Does this sound like the testimony of someone being picked on by God?
Dunno...lets ask his first wife and family...oh, that's right, we cannot, God let them be slaughtered. I always chuckle when Job comes up, like the fact he got a new wife and some new animals somehow makes up for the god-condoned slaughter of his original family.
Only where there's no contradiction between the evidence and the Scriptures.
If evidence says this earth is 6100 years old, that's fine with me.
If evidence says this earth is 6100[sup]6100[/sup] years old, that's fine with me.
It's where evidence and Scripture disagree, that I have to choose --- and guess what I'm going to choose every time?
While you're chuckling, show me where Job's wife got slaughtered.
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