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I pinched my arm and I felt pain - therefore Noah's Flood. Checkmate, atheistz!
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
(November 11, 2014 at 11:58 am)polar bear Wrote: 1. If the holy spirit inspired which books of the bible were to be canonized, why were hebrews, james and 3 john left out the first few times? Did the spirit change it's mind?:
angel-cloud: Your question is ambiguous, but let me see if I can help. The Bible is the word of God - His word. All scripture is therefore God-breathed. If there were any books of the Bible that were "left out the first few times", they were not "left out" by God. God didn't "canonize" the Bible. He simply declared it to be the truth.
Finally, the Spirit did not "change its mind" since God is immutable. And the Spirit is not an "it"; He's one of the Persons of the Godhead.
2. Do you believe jonah really was able to live in a fish and survive?
Yup.
3. Is the entire bible the truth?
Yup.
4. If the entire bible is the truth, how do we not accept slavery anymore? How do we say homosexuality is ok?
First, who's the "we" who don't accept slavery anymore, and what kind of "slavery" are you talking about? Can't answer an unclear question. You need to clarify it.
Second, practiced homosexuality is not accepted by everyone, and God never has accepted it. He classifies it as an abomination.
5. Was the flood through out the entire earth? If so, do we have fossil evidence of a massive killing of everything?
The flood was worldwide. Don't know about the fossils. Do you?
Noah's flood is simply a war story. It tells how he evaded the invading enemy army that swept through the area destroying and pillaging everything it encountered. The story uses number of war and peace words to show that it was just a war story.
BTW, have you forgotten how Ethiopia, Assyria, Persia, and Arabia were just down the road from the Garden of Eden where Adam & Ever were and how those places and all their people were just fine after the "flood"? So where's the record that those places were ever flooded to their highest mountain?
And remember, the stories about how the Egyptians periodically swept through the land as well as the Ethiopian Emperor and his million man army.
Basically only idiots think that an extra layer of water six miles deep covered the world, disappeared in a month or so, and left all of the fresh water lakes and rivers undisturbed and intact olive trees covered the land.
Please use your 21st Century intellect and stop believing in silly fairy tales concocted by con men over four thousand years ago.
The flood was worldwide. Don't know about the fossils. Do you?
Noah's flood is simply a war story. It tells how he evaded the invading enemy army that swept through the area destroying and pillaging everything it encountered. The story uses number of war and peace words to show that it was just a war story.
BTW, have you forgotten how Ethiopia, Assyria, Persia, and Arabia were just down the road from the Garden of Eden where Adam & Ever were and how those places and all their people were just fine after the "flood"? So where's the record that those places were ever flooded to their highest mountain?
And remember, the stories about how the Egyptians periodically swept through the land as well as the Ethiopian Emperor and his million man army.
Basically only idiots think that an extra layer of water six miles deep covered the world, disappeared in a month or so, and left all of the fresh water lakes and rivers undisturbed and intact olive trees covered the land.
Please use your 21st Century intellect and stop believing in silly fairy tales concocted by con men over four thousand years ago.
Even to someone who may not be a partisan in this discussion, they should at least be able to comprehend your purposefully slanted, and erroneous depiction of history. But what is amazing is that the Bible also addresses your suppression of the truth:
"For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools...For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen." The letter of St. Paul to the Romans, chapter 1.
November 16, 2014 at 2:36 pm (This post was last modified: November 16, 2014 at 2:38 pm by abaris.)
(November 16, 2014 at 1:56 pm)Harry37 Wrote: Genesis 7:17-24
Why don't you have a look at the evidence presented to you?
You're quoting a single book and think it's superior to scientific discovery. Do you even expect to be taken serious? By the same token I can quote Harry Potter or the Lord of the Rings and claim them to be evidence.
(November 16, 2014 at 2:06 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Right. That's evidence of a worldwide flood in precisely the same way that "A Shortcut to Mushrooms" is evidence of hobbits.
Well, yes, you can gather as much by reading a book. So, it's certainly along those same lines.