(June 12, 2013 at 4:40 pm)Ryantology Wrote: Whether one accepts evolution as fact or not has no bearing on whether evolution is factual. The evidence is abundant and speaks for itself. It requires no special understanding to accept. You do not have to a/s/k according to a vague passage in a book for answers that can never be verified, nor risk the possibility that you a/s/k exactly as proscribed and come away with nothing.
Drich personally informed me that my Christian experience failed because I didn't a/s/k properly. Evolution makes no such demand. The evidence is not only available to those who assume ahead of time that the concept is certain truth. It is available, in full and without restriction, for even those who are most stringently in denial of reality.
We might very well 'jump on' someone who denied science, but the difference between science and Christianity is that one is rooted in physical evidence, and one is rooted in tales entirely indistinguishable from fiction. Your beliefs are beneath anything revealed by physical evidence.
I informed you that you did not A/S/K as outlined by what Jesus said do in Luke 11, after you shared with me what you did do. It really simple. Christ says do x,y,z and this is what it looks like... And you do w,y,x, but feel it is close enough because you meant it. Either you've done what you've been asked to do or you haven't.
It's not about the x,y,z. God doesn't even need you to do x,y,z He already knows who is or will do what he has been asked to do. The x,y,z is for you to see and understand the hard callous heart you possess that will not allow you the humility to follow God where He may lead you. For if you can not simply do x,y,z as trivial as it is to save yourself then, nothing else will matter to you. The XYZ here or A/S/K as Christ describes in luke 11 is a self measure of ones own heart. If you know you can not or will not ASK as Christ commanded here, but want to, or even want to, want to then just ASK for that desire.
