Religion????????
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What is amazing is that you can't see how the Bible was inspired by God and written by men. Over 40 men wrote the Bible in a period of about 1600 years and yet all the books (66 to be exact) still harmonize. It’s not insulting to give credit to God for doing something he gave us, it is insulting to kill innocent people and claim God told you to do it. I’m not saying you have done this but some “religions” promote this. Why are people so incline to violence instead of love? God doesn’t want violence and neither should we. Christians promote Peace, Love, and Repentance and yet we are still insulted (see the above post) and called names by others who differ in opinion. Why? Are y’all so afraid of the truth that you must try to kill it and us? Get real and ask for God to truly teach you and take this hatred out of your hearts. Then maybe you can have a rational conversation about God and begin to understand his true nature. -Richard
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Oh, I see. I thought Druze were a offshoot of Islam, influnced by other religions as well. My mom told me once that "while we all don't speak the same language, everyone in the world undestands an asskicking"
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Based upon what principle?
Based on the "theory" that life evolves. It is a logical assumption that if the earth split than both it and the moon would contain at least some kind of life that would have continued until now.
Stan Shannon wrote:
The moon is being shot away from the earth. Its just doing it rather slowly.
Yes but if it had always moved that slow then when it split to begin with the earth and moon would have pulled themselves back together unless the moon was moving faster away than earth's gravity could pull it back. That lead to the next statement I made that if it was moving that fast then why all the sudden did it slow down? It most likely would have come from yet another collision with another "object" to stop it just in time to still be held by earth's gravity but it also stopped just far enough away that it wouldn't be pulled back to earth killing us all. Seems like a lot of coincidence went into that all working out for us.
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Ever stop to consider that perhaps conincidence is how God gets his work done? Maybe that is why he created such a huge universe - in order to provide sufficient probability of getting the desired results.
Sure I have thought of it. God's word says that there is a time and place for everything and it actually list "chance" as one of those things that just happens. I however don't believe that it was by chance that everything came into existence because we are told that God created everything in six days and then rested on the seventh. -Richard
One of God's "days" is not one of ours, as you well know. The 1000 man-years per God-Day that is mentioned in scripture, is meant to say "one hell-of-a-long period", too long for you (moses) to understand. So we don't really know how long each "Day" was. While I don't entirely agree with evolution and I do believe God created the earth in six creative periods (however long), the 6000 years thing is just plain stupid. ---sig---
Silence is the voice of complicity Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. -- Vincent Reynolds Might I suggest that the universe was always the size of the cosmos. It is just that at one point the cosmos was the size of a marble. -- Colin Angus Mackay PS. If you don't understand my sarcasm -- go to hell! -
One of God's "days" is not one of ours, as you well know. The 1000 man-years per God-Day that is mentioned in scripture, is meant to say "one hell-of-a-long period", too long for you (moses) to understand. So we don't really know how long each "Day" was. While I don't entirely agree with evolution and I do believe God created the earth in six creative periods (however long), the 6000 years thing is just plain stupid. ---sig---
Silence is the voice of complicity Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. -- Vincent Reynolds Might I suggest that the universe was always the size of the cosmos. It is just that at one point the cosmos was the size of a marble. -- Colin Angus Mackay PS. If you don't understand my sarcasm -- go to hell!Actually we do, because the Hebrew word for day in Genesis was never used to mean anything but a single day. Plus you have the fact that it was written that the evening and the morning were the first day. If it were 1000 years a whole lot of evenings and mornings would have occurred. One last point. God set up the old law in a way that imitated his creation, by that I mean 6 days then the 7th for rest. If it would have been 1000 years per day in the creation then the Hebrews would have had to work for 6000 years without a single break before they got their day off from work. -Richard
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Actually we do, because the Hebrew word for day in Genesis was never used to mean anything but a single day. Plus you have the fact that it was written that the evening and the morning were the first day. If it were 1000 years a whole lot of evenings and mornings would have occurred. One last point. God set up the old law in a way that imitated his creation, by that I mean 6 days then the 7th for rest. If it would have been 1000 years per day in the creation then the Hebrews would have had to work for 6000 years without a single break before they got their day off from work. -Richard
you lack understanding. given what you have just said, then the earth would only be 6 1/2 days old ---sig---
Silence is the voice of complicity Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. -- Vincent Reynolds Might I suggest that the universe was always the size of the cosmos. It is just that at one point the cosmos was the size of a marble. -- Colin Angus Mackay PS. If you don't understand my sarcasm -- go to hell! -
you lack understanding. given what you have just said, then the earth would only be 6 1/2 days old ---sig---
Silence is the voice of complicity Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. -- Vincent Reynolds Might I suggest that the universe was always the size of the cosmos. It is just that at one point the cosmos was the size of a marble. -- Colin Angus Mackay PS. If you don't understand my sarcasm -- go to hell!Or perhaps you are misinterpreting the scriptures to justify your beliefs. 2 Peter 3:8 (KJV) But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. This verse wasn’t put here to make us understand that to God 1000 of our years is a single day. If you were to interpret it that way and leave off the end of the verse (which you did) then I could just as easily and wrongly use the same verse and leave off the beginning and say that God could do in a single day what it would take us 1000 years to accomplish. Neither is entirely wrong but both miss the point of the verse at hand. Look at the scripture in context and you will see that it was given as an example (not a literal equation: 1000 years = 1 day) and it was meant to give comfort to the people Peter was writing to, they were to not give up hope because the Lord would keep his promises in his own time. -Richard