Can you provide evidence such a tree would cause Noah to be sure it was no OK to leave the ark? Or how such trees or plants could feed all the animals and people on the ark?? We need real live trees with fruit for that.
[BIBLE]Genesis 8:11[/BIBLE]
No mention of a flowering tree or fruit, just one with leaves.
There is, and i repeat this,
no indication that it was a young tree or super-matured.
I must confess I had never even contemplated the idea before you mentioned it, and it sound absurd. Sorry.
Yes, a combination of hibernation, semi hibernation, and fast gwoth rates still in effect. A few seeds in the planter in fron of the cows room, and voila! All the grass one could stuff themselves with. Piece of cake.
Conjecture.
A better answer would be one based around the story being a myth - it makes much more sense.
Yes, the fast evolution rates in effect mean just a sampling of the animals needed to be there. Or a kind.
This is ludicrous.
Visible doesn't do anyone any good. Alive and well is needed. Growing fast too, I might add, or there is no way to feed all creatures.
Exactly my point. So why complicate things any more by adding in a magical increase in growth rates, of which there is even no biblical evidence?
Another evidence of this is the tree of life, it grows fruit every month of the year. That is different. Another evidence is that plants were made (planted, in the case of Eden) only days before we ate them.
The tree of life is again only present in mythology.
And there is the possibility that, if genesis 1 is literal truth (which I very much doubt) then the plants were made fully mature, ready to eat and reproduce.
In my opinion, that is more logical than a temporary increase in growth rates - especially without the sun being present in the beginning.
Games aside, you just can't invent reasons God said there was a flood. He said it in many places, and Jesus also talked of it. No way round it.
Jesus would have known about the teachings in the OT, as would virtually everyone else (maybe excluding the romans).
Still doesn't provide evidence of a flood, only a myth.
Yes. How a bout a little freedom!!?? let the local population decide. If it is Christian, then let them teach that.
If you study other religions (even other versions of christanity, such as mormans) would you like to live under their rule and have your children educated that way?
School is not the only place non Christians could learn the gospel.
True, but if they are not taught it at home......
Because God's people are always here. The universe change that resulted from the sins of man can't be dismissed willy nilly. Far as I can tell, there even was a 120 year warning leading up to it. Changing the universe back would affect all men, not just His people, and maybe they again would live a thousand years. That will have to wait till His rule comes.
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What warning?
Who lived a thousand years?
I must confess we can't see the heart. Some of us take people's word at face value. Obviously a mistake for politicians. Especially ones that have murderous fruits on their tree. If I see a thorn, I know it is a thorn bush.
I must confess that it is never productive to slur any group with a few examples, there are planty more good people to outnumber the fundamentalist idiots who give humanity a bad name.
It just appears that many of these people hide uder the cloak of religion and work to preach their filth to the masses.
No, I can't make much of it either. Must have been written in haste. I think the gist of it has to do with a different past.
I was kind of hoping you would have attempted to debate the issue, but it seems you are too wise for a little trick like that.
After all, Abraham's tone changes dramtically later:
[BIBLE]Genesis 22:10[/BIBLE]
Despite this:
[BIBLE]Exodus 20:13[/BIBLE]
The stories are so contradictory (and so absurd) it is hard to imagine they are the same person, or even the same god.
Gravity as it is in this state universe, but not in the future or past.
Now this is touching on something I really don't understand - I assume you mean the concept that the laws of physics are not fixed, and have varied at different times in the history of the universe.
If you could provide some hard evidence, it is an interesting hypothesis.
But until then, it is merely conjecture, I'm afraid.
Don't think so. Unless they hid it.
I'll give this up as a bad job, it's going nowhere.
My own experience of devil worshippers is totally non-existant, and I assume yours is too.
If abraham can barter with god, maybe I will try the same. This is one of the core problems with all religion in my opinion; the damnation of all non-believers for that reason alone.
It is hard to fathom how my lack of belief is any worse than some religious people who spout hatred to the masses or rape children.
No, look at the billions around now. The act will be played out right here as scheduled.
Ah yes, the six billion people who could not be here if the earth was 6,000 years old and started again with one family approx. 2,000 years later - just do the maths.
The stars are mentioned, and the moon.
Agreed.
The ancients considered almost any light in the night sky a star. But there is an added depth to stars modern stoned age men do not know.
Yes, many of them are not stars. Or at least, not sinlge stars.
That is because we only are aware of the present temporary physical stars.
Which will one day become a nova or a red giant etc.
They actually have influence on men, and other significances than we know.
No, they don't - I hope you're not going all astrological on me now! Horoscopes are total [wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth], I hope you realise this.
And I can assert that quite confidently.
The only effect that stars really have on humans is that of awe when we look at them.
So, what we call a star is merely a limited and temporary classification.
Maybe you need to look at space in a new way:
http://video.google.com.au/videoplay?docid=-7367794459123820452