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Quote by: Zhavric In other words, most modern scholars recognize that they'd sound like idiots in front of their scholar buddies if they say "The earth is 6000 years old |
You seem to divide the world into two groups
Atheists
People who hate evidence
I believe in evolution. I accept evidence. I also believe in God. I don't think that science and Christianity are mutually exclusive.
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so they've come up with an excuse.
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sigh, we base our logic the same way you do, except we assume God exists as opposed to you who say God doesn't exist.
So when one hypothesis is struck down, we move on to the next.
Plus, being religious, we get to throw out logic every now and again (I just love being Christian).
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Instead, they conclude that the wrong stuff is "figurative" and look for other meanings.
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"What? The earth isn't 6000 years old? Well... uhm... it couldn't be the case that the bible is just wrong... so what silly meaning can we invent that sounds sorta like what's in there? I know! Ethnic lines! Sure. Let's run with it..."
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Is there a logical problem with the actual explanation?
As for the "figurative". Well I only do it 'cause the Bible tells me so.
The best way to explain the discrepancy is by saying that Christ does not change, but the people do and therefore, so does God's relationship with the people
Also I may have said earlier that Jesus completely changed the law. If i said that, I was wrong. Jesus came to update it and make sure it stayed fresh. Change interpretation of it rather then abolish it.
"Likewise, no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the skins are ruined. Rather, new wine is poured into fresh wineskins."
Mark 2:22
"Then he said to them, "The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath."
Mark 2:27
Found the final nail
"In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away."
Hebrew 8:13
Also, Jesus agrees with me.
God acts through man. Jesus was not happy with those who followed the letter of the Bible before he changed it. He did not politely say "I know that was then, but this is now". He called them hypocrites.
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Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered
A translation (i don't put words in mouth, just clean up the old english): You idiot, lawyers! You have the key to knowledge. You're smart. I know, because God gave you that key. And yet you don't use your head! You don't use the key. You just stick to stopping others from using the key (brains).
Not objectionable. (i think...)
He expected that humans would have tended to the wine and not just cling to the wineskin.
He expects that from us. And how is this possible? How can humans be allowed to change anything?
Because God lives inside us.
God gave us the Bible in the (maybe vain) hope that we would use our brains when reading it. That we would be able to change wineskins by ourselves.
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our sufficiency is from God, who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
2 Corinthians 3:5-6:
not the letter but the Spirit.
We don't "pick and choose" at all. We find the spirit.
I think I nailed it this time.
Oh one last thing.
Calm down. It's all for fun anywho