Rusra02
In an earlier reply to DeitySlayer you said: “As to where the waters could have gone, the oceans are the obvious answer.”
If you believe in a global flood scenario, there were no oceans for the water to flow into – the whole world would have been an ocean.
Genesis...
Hang on, hang on!!!
One christian says it's global, another says it's local. Are you guys reading the same book?!
It seems this book can be interpreted in such a variety of ways to render it meaningless.
Rusra02. Okay, I'll respond to you from your view that it was global. I'll get back to you.
There may well have been someone called Moses at that time who proclaimed to hear the voice of god. There may well have been someone called Jesus who claimed to heal the sick.
Mythologies develop around real people.
Alternatively, they are all fictional characters, in which case, within the...
Because it implies that Moses, like many, hear voices and interpret the voices as commands from a 'higher being'. It is a real phenomenon, hence my choice.
Hope they went well. I'm a teacher (biology and geology) so my pupils recently went through what you did. I think I was more nervous than they were!
Anyway - on with the battle for reason and rationality.
MaDDMIke
Your thread title referred to religion, but you seem to be dealing exclusively with christianity. Do you see ALL religions as contributing to the downfall of mankind?
As ChristineES said above, people are free to believe whatever they wish, and those beliefs, however illogical they...
Thanks for your response.
My main concern was with the punishment administered to the man that picked up sticks. I felt that it was completely inappropriate. Under what jurisdiction was it administered?
Regarding the sabbath, yes it isn't, strictly speaking, a Sunday, but that's the day...
Runewolf
I left another forum recently and, to my surprise, I found it a difficult experience. There were about 15 people that I regularly conversed with and leaving some of them was hard. I left due to excessive and damaging name-calling from 2 of them, which I had had enough of. If I were to...