Oh boy Drich - you have so gone off into the deep end on this one its just impossible to know where to start.
Now the story of creation is not the story of creation but the account as it would have been seen from the garden. Aside from this meaning that the garden would have to have existed prior to the creation of anything else its just not supported in the text. I know this doesn't bother you - we've been down this road before (Mary's examination, special bricks used for Babel, billions of years for the garden to run alongside evolution...) but I'd say its pretty obvious you are leaving the Bible behind in your belief.
Well all power to you in that but it does kinda remove you from Christianity, not just as I know it, but as it presents itself to the outside world.
Other than that.
OK - show me where you got Mary's examination from.
Nice dodge on telling me what nice stories I tell - but Ireland is an example of people going to war over Christian interpretation - which was the point.
Pride has nothing to do with thinking you are in error, and error doesn't necessarily mean you haven't tied up all the lose ends - which you are very good at, but more and more I see pride in you that has seen you append to your own religion things that are your own inventions. Again - no skin off my nose, but as we exchange messages your personal religion appears to get more personal by the minute. In other words - from what you have described so far you must be the only person that believes exactly like you do.
That, my friend, is ego, you even now regard yourself as an expert....and I'm the proud one?
Now the story of creation is not the story of creation but the account as it would have been seen from the garden. Aside from this meaning that the garden would have to have existed prior to the creation of anything else its just not supported in the text. I know this doesn't bother you - we've been down this road before (Mary's examination, special bricks used for Babel, billions of years for the garden to run alongside evolution...) but I'd say its pretty obvious you are leaving the Bible behind in your belief.
Well all power to you in that but it does kinda remove you from Christianity, not just as I know it, but as it presents itself to the outside world.
Other than that.
OK - show me where you got Mary's examination from.
Nice dodge on telling me what nice stories I tell - but Ireland is an example of people going to war over Christian interpretation - which was the point.
Pride has nothing to do with thinking you are in error, and error doesn't necessarily mean you haven't tied up all the lose ends - which you are very good at, but more and more I see pride in you that has seen you append to your own religion things that are your own inventions. Again - no skin off my nose, but as we exchange messages your personal religion appears to get more personal by the minute. In other words - from what you have described so far you must be the only person that believes exactly like you do.
That, my friend, is ego, you even now regard yourself as an expert....and I'm the proud one?
