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It's called "faith".Consided, if you have definitly no way to evidence an ex-nilhilo creation... how would you know that you have a note from the one who did it?
As I said, Nazzul, I could repeat the process 1000[sup]1000[/sup] times, and it wouldn't prove that I created the first apple ex nihilo.If you refuse to repeat the process then theres really no point in trying to prove anything.
God's Word did not come to us via the Telephone Game.Anybody who has played the game "telephone" realizes how much something can change as it is passed orally.
As I said, Nazzul, I could repeat the process 1000[sup]1000[/sup] times, and it wouldn't prove that I created the first apple ex nihilo.
God's Word did not come to us via the Telephone Game.
That is a poor analogy.
In the Telephone Game:
- The goal is to distort the message.
- The more distorted the message, the more fun the game was.
- There is no message verification routine.
- The message is only conveyed one time, it is not repeated.
- The message is oral, and subject to distortion from outside interference.
God would not trust His Word to be conveyed to us in such a manner.
God's Word did not come to us via the Telephone Game.
That is a poor analogy.
In the Telephone Game:God would not trust His Word to be conveyed to us in such a manner.
- The goal is to distort the message.
- The more distorted the message, the more fun the game was.
- There is no message verification routine.
- The message is only conveyed one time, it is not repeated.
- The message is oral, and subject to distortion from outside interference.
Again --- they weren't just telling a story --- they were documenting it --- putting it down in written form for corroboration, independent verification, and preservation by: 1) the previous generation, 2) the current generation, 3) the future generation.But if you've ever heard anyone tell a story, it changes slightly each time they tell it. Spread the story over several generations and you may get something that is entirely different from the original.
In my college days, many moons ago, that was known as Retroactive Falsification, a process that I'm sure God is well-aware.A guy telling a tale about catching a ten pound bass could become a story about a hero who battle a shark (told over several generations of course).
Again --- they weren't just telling a story --- they were documenting it --- putting it down in written form for corroboration, independent verification, and preservation by: 1) the previous generation, 2) the current generation, 3) the future generation.
In my college days, many moons ago, that was known as Retroactive Falsification, a process that I'm sure God is well-aware.
Again --- they weren't just telling a story --- they were documenting it --- putting it down in written form for corroboration, independent verification, and preservation by: 1) the previous generation, 2) the current generation, 3) the future generation.
Bingo ---Written language was not made until 4th millennium BC...
Bingo ---
Adam --- 4004 BC.
Uh-huh --- funny that the Chinese don't come about until Genesis 10 --- well after the Flood.Oh wait, I forgot China- 6000 BC.
The oldest know Hebrew writing is 3000 years old. 1004 years after Adam.
Uh-huh --- funny that the Chinese don't come about until Genesis 10 --- well after the Flood.
Uh-huh --- funny that the Chinese don't come about until Genesis 10 --- well after the Flood.
I disagree, and for reasons I don't particularly care to get into.Funny that the Bible never mentions anything Chinese, or Native American, or Australian.
Uh-huh --- funny that the Chinese don't come about until Genesis 10 --- well after the Flood.
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