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Okay, thanks.The mass of the sun pulls smaller masses towards it, slightly derailing their path. Everything is still moving outward though, as the sun is doing it too, and pulling the detracted masses along with it.
-_- earth had a point in it's history that it didn't have water on it at all, neither above or underground, in significant amounts. The water had to come from an outside source, and a comet is the most reasonable explanation.
When have atheists ever "blamed God"? Now they may be able to show by your reasoning that God is at fault for various actions, but since that explanation comes from your beliefs you would actually be the person that is "blaming God".
Sorry but they haven't. They have only demonstrated their own incompetence which is only trumped by their incredible dishonesty. Those sites can be refuted by bright high school students. That does not say too much for those sites that openly tell their contributors that they cannot use the scientific method.
If you take it literally, rather than for the allegory this obviously is. After all, our hands and feet cannot force us to do anything we don't want to do (except in exceedingly rare medical conditions that biblical authors would be unlikely to know about. And in those cases, the left hand does stuff all on its own, but not necessarily sinful things).
I could easily interpret the Matthew and Mark verses as telling people to take accountability for their actions, not cut limbs off. Not that it would be the most insane thing that the bible has advised; context beyond a sentence would be nice.
Theistic evolution is the least of your worries if you are going with a literal translation.
"First, . . . to want to affirm that in reality the sun is at the center of the world and only turns on itself without moving from east to west, and the earth . . . revolves with great speed about the sun . . . is a very dangerous thing, likely not only to irritate all scholastic philosophers and theologians, but also to harm the Holy Faith by rendering Holy Scripture false."--Cardinal Bellarmine, 1615
The reason why atheists blame God for evil is that this is exactly what many segments of Christianity did and still do. You have your church fathers, such as Calvin, who argued for predestination. That meant, yes, God is responsible for all the suffering. Calvin stated that murders larcenists and other evil doers are the instruments by which God exercises his judgments. If bad things, happen, such it up. It's well-deserved punishment. The way the OT depicts God is also an issue here, as it presents essentially a warrior God who can be merciless, kill innocent children, hand down draconian punishments, etc. The result that that many churches present a double-bind message in which they have God saying in effect, "Love me, or I'll beat the tar out of you." Because of this major contradiction, many have left the church and become atheists.
To the people that know god and his word, all of which have different interpretations of said word, and all who think theirs is the best.When taken in context the meaning is perfectly clear to anyone who knows God and his word. As you don't all you can do is offer your opinion which is about as useful as a thimbleful of petrol to a vehicle that has run out of it.
Earth was getting bashed from all sides at that early stage of existence. That kept the mass fairly round, but it is noteworthy that Earth isn't actually a perfect sphere. It is somewhat pear shaped. I don't know how many comets ended up providing the water either.
You can't be serious right now.Then there's the truth.....
Genesis 1:6 And God said, Let an expanse be in the midst of the waters, and let it be dividing between the waters and the waters. And God made the expanse, and He separated between the waters which were under the expanse and the waters which were above the expanse. And it was so. And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be collected to one place, and let the dry land appear. And it was so. And God called the dry land, Earth. And He called the collection of the waters, Seas. And God saw that it was good.
This part of scripture has been peer reviewed thousands of time by theologians and language specialists and found to be correct. How many times has your theory about comets been peer reviewed...by anyone?
http://i.imgur.com/3AY1W.jpg a more precise shape of the earth. Looks like a slightly misshapen pear to me. Earth doesn't have a high enough mass for it's shape to be completely gravity driven by the mechanism you mentioned. But hey, feel free to disagree with me on the fruit I chose to describe the shape; the point was that earth is not a perfect sphere.it is somewhat a figment of your imagination as this article shows.....
Gravity is a force that causes planets to form the shape of a sphere by pulling the mass of the planet close to the center of gravity. In the case of the Earth, gravity pulls the planet as close to the core as possible. The sphere-like shape of the Earth is distorted slightly by the centrifugal force of its rotation. This force causes the mass of the planet to move away from the center of gravity, which is located at the equator. For that reason, there is a minor outward bulge at the equator, creating a larger circumference and diameter.
Have you seen a pear that has an outward bulge in the middle? All the pears I have ever eaten have had an outward bulge at the bottom.
To the people that know god and his word, all of which have different interpretations of said word, and all who think theirs is the best.
The only difference between my interpretation and yours, is that you think yours represents reality, while I think mine represents what the text was attempting to convey. Not being a believer doesn't mean I lack basic reading comprehension.
Also, nice of you to criticise my interpretation without saying what is "wrong" with it explicitly. Perhaps instead of humoring your religion-based superiority complex, you can spare me the condescension and try to be tactful in your disagreement.
Point one. I belong to a church of 10,000 members as we do not all think differently about the Word of God. We are very united in our understanding of the Word of God and what God is wanting to do through us. So your claim that all those who know God and his word have differing opinions about that word is wrong.
Point two. The scripture is very clear. The natural man CANNOT understand the things of the Spirit which means YOU cannot understand the things of the Spirit. All you can do is give your opinion which in most cases is wrong because you need understanding to discern the spiritual.
Point three. What you call my religious based superior complex is nothing more than me telling you the truth which you obviously can't handle. It is no use you coming onto a christian forum and then crying over spilt milk when someone calls a spade a spade.
You can't be serious right now.
1. To claim that scripture is peer reviewed like a science journal not only is incorrect based on the science bit, but it is sacrilegious to suggest that any human could be a peer reviewer of god's word, which is what you believe the bible to be.
2. Theologians and language specialists translate the bible, but they do not gather evidence that supports what it says, except for a small number of theologians that try to do it. The majority of the time, observations of the world around us contradict what the bible says. Instead of getting all of your information from Answers in Genesis and other biased sites, like the deceptive evolutionnews.com, you should check out a .gov or nonreligious college website.
3. The comet idea has been peer reviewed hundreds of time, and you give me too much credit for implying that I came up with that. In fact, it wouldn't shock me if that theory was older than me.
Unless you have spoken with all of them on every line in the bible, you can't possibly know that for sure. Additionally, you know that there are hundreds of different Christian denominations that sprouted from disagreements in interpretations between believers.
Then what was wrong with my interpretation exactly? Also, try me, give me the benefit of the doubt, I have been a seeker for over 7 years. I have heard many biblical interpretations. I have read the text. I interpreted it for myself.
I could definitely handle not being able to comprehend something. Some of the finer points of physics fall into that category. However, there is no logical reason that I should not be able to comprehend something because I don't believe it to be true. In fact, there is some contradiction there, because that would require that at some point, a person believes it to be true without reading it or interpreting it for themselves... actually, that sounds like the majority of Christians, never mind.
Regardless, how do you expect me or anyone else to believe, if we can't understand the text to begin with? If you are trying to help, you need more tact, and if you don't expect people to believe because of your efforts, then why are you here?
And your Malthusian catastrophes say war, famine and pestilence are nature's way of keeping the human population in balance.The reason why atheists blame God for evil is that this is exactly what many segments of Christianity did and still do. You have your church fathers, such as Calvin, who argued for predestination. That meant, yes, God is responsible for all the suffering. Calvin stated that murders larcenists and other evil doers are the instruments by which God exercises his judgments. If bad things, happen, such it up. It's well-deserved punishment. The way the OT depicts God is also an issue here, as it presents essentially a warrior God who can be merciless, kill innocent children, hand down draconian punishments, etc. The result that that many churches present a double-bind message in which they have God saying in effect, "Love me, or I'll beat the tar out of you." Because of this major contradiction, many have left the church and become atheists.
According to Newton gravity is a pull. According to Einstein gravity is more of a push do to the curvature of space and time.The mass of the sun pulls smaller masses towards it, slightly derailing their path. Everything is still moving outward though, as the sun is doing it too, and pulling the detracted masses along with it.
You are being nitpicky about me calling it a pull rather than a push? Seriously? Because that is probably the least relevant detail of my post.According to Newton gravity is a pull. According to Einstein gravity is more of a push do to the curvature of space and time.
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