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Originally posted by CelandineBaggins
I would like to say one thing, I am sorry for losing my temper. It probably sounded very childish, and I sincerely apologize. I cannot see where anyone would get the notion that I am wrapping myself in blind faith. Let's just say that you are all right, and that there is no God, or that we were created from monkeys, or whatever your theories are. If I sincerely follow my faith, and it really doesn't exist, what have I got to lose? But if you guys (and girls) are wrong, you have a lot more to lose than just your seemingly logical science. I am not calling you wrong, at least not in this post.I am not afraid to face the real world, bacause I face the real world every day. I don't live in a hologram, you know. I see signs of God every where I look. To me, it just makes more sense. And thank you very much to all of you who presented your ideas to me in a polite and tolerable manner. I appreciate it much more than you know. I will not change my mind unless a monkey walks up to me and talks, explaining the whole theory of evolution, but I will tolerate you and your ideas, and do my best to be patient, not lose my temper, and treat you like other human beings. After all, nobody knows everything.
Celandine
Originally posted by DARRIONS
What Scripture's in the Bible, indicate that the Earth is flat?
Originally posted by DARRIONS
Because you're referencing Science in specific detail, and the scriptures only in general with no book, chapter and verse.
Originally posted by RufusAtticus
I don't want to say the Bible advocates a flat earth, it's just that the consequences of a litteral [sic] interpretation can lead one to believe as such.
Originally posted by CelandineBaggins
I am beginning to see where you are coming from. I still have a hard time accepting it, however. Genesis 1:26 says and I quote- "Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, in our likeness...'"
Can you argue with that? And if We came orignally from monkeys, why don't monkeys have souls also?
It says in Genesis that God created man. Not monkeys to eventually over thousands of years branch off and evolve into man. That's what really confuses me.
Genesis 1:26-27 (NIV)
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
Originally posted by npetreley
No scripture is as flexible as when it is put in the hands of an anti-creationist. Bring up Genesis, and they say the Bible story can only be interpreted as allegory and not literally. But when the occasion arises to ridicul Bible believers in some other way, suddenly a common figure of speech such as "the four corners of the earth" MUST be taken literally to mean the author believed the earth was a square.
But none of this is surprising. Evolutionists apply the same flexible techniques when they interpret data and evidence.
Originally posted by RufusAtticus
In fact, it's the creationsts who argue almost exactly what you accuse me of doing. "'Four corners' is obviously supposed to be metaphorical but Genesis must be taken literally." How is that anymore intellectually honest than what you accused me of doing?
Originally posted by npetreley
3. There are no texts that require "the 4 corners of the earth" to be taken literally. It's not a fundamental concept that is repeated throughout the Bible, and upon which related texts depend. [/B]
That's a theological question. Souls are a theological concept.So here's a question.- If monkeys over thousands of years gave birth to animals a little different from them, which eventually became humans, did God only give a soul to Man after he became completely human?
There is no turning back the clock, no backwards evolution.And do you think that over another thousand years Man might eventually turn back into apes
, or something else? I've heard from somewhere we're turning into lizards
Originally posted by CelandineBaggins
So here's a question.- If monkeys over thousands of years gave birth to animals a little different from them, which eventually became humans, did God only give a soul to Man after he became completely human?
And do you think that over another thousand years Man might eventually turn back into apes, or something else?
I've heard from somewhere we're turning into lizards.
Originally posted by npetreley
3. There are no texts that require "the 4 corners of the earth" to be taken literally. It's not a fundamental concept that is repeated throughout the Bible, and upon which related texts depend.