(June 30, 2015 at 6:41 pm)abaris Wrote:(June 30, 2015 at 4:18 pm)SteveII Wrote: What does any of that have to do with heaven, hell, and purpose?
You are assuming I am a literal creationist. Stop making assumptions.
So how does a god cropping up in the desert work in your world? 3000 years ago. After billions of years of nothing happening. How do you make ends meet, given that kind of model?
How do you know what God was doing for those billions of years? That is less than a blink of an eye for God. How do I know how God created us (and when)? No one was there. Is Genesis 1-3 symbolic? Perhaps. Did it take 6 days or 6 billion years, I don't know. Does original sin have to be an apple? No. Does it matter much? Not as much as you seem to think.
