No, you do not get to cherry pick.
As I go through your response I wil be looking for your known fact which renders one of the 31 verses in Gen. 1 unquestionably false.
So far I don't see it.
We know that life is the product of evolution.
Do you mean that something like the DNA molecule arose over a tremendously long period of lucky accidents?
If that is the evolution you speak of I would say that is your religion.
I don't believe things like the DNA molecule just happened without a planning mind with purpose.
If that is what you mean to me by saying
"We know that life is a product of evolution"
Still looking for what scientific FACT pretty much universally agreed upon renders which verse in Genesis 1 false.
We know that there was no global flood.
I don't "know" there was no flood of Noah. I believe there was.
We are uncovering more and more megalithic structures which modern engineering cannot understand how they were achieved.
We are discovering that there must be some history of people long pre-dating the traditional concept of hunter gatherers becomming
the earliest civilizations.
Some thoughtful people are questioning the history of civilization as we have been taught.
How come these people were able to build huge structures with a precision that modern engineering can hardly accomplish.
I think secular history re-examination is inching closer to what we are told in the Bible.
Many ancient buildings were built UPON far anticedeint structures the origin of which is unknown.
I believe what we have been traditionally taught in school about the human past is woefully incomplete.
You better dust off your Bible and give it another look.
Check out videos from "The Universe Within" for documentaries about mysterious possibly pre-flood megalithic buildings.
We know that languages arose naturally from the start of humans being humans.
Are you evading my challenge with a bunch of
"We know this and that"?
I would think it would have been easy to examine one or two of 31 verses to indicate
"We know this sentence is not true."
You seem to want to jump to a general reference to the flood of Noah.
You know in the collective memory of earlier people there is the account of a flood which wiped out everything except for a few people.
The Chinese characters in their language are pictures which depict things told us in the Genesis flood account.
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That is a bit better, but you are still going to run into some problems when it comes to morality and the Bible.
You're jumping off to another discussion. Before its
"But I have this OTHER problem over here"
How about first showing me which of the 31 verses in Genesis 1 you know to be impossible to be true?
That sounds quite a bit like dodging, though sometimes an "I don't know" is an appropriate answer.
That's pretty much what I said. Admitting that a question I cannot answer.
That's "Don't know."
You see I have no problem saying that I have a faith.
You have a problem admitting that you have not observed your evolution but embrace it as a religious belief.
Do you think a purposeless, aimless, series of lucky accidents gave rise over a long time to, say, the human brain ?
I think we have to look to intelligent and purposeful design for something like the human brain.
Because I was born. I think that you meant to ask something else. You could ask again.
Okay. You were born. Great. Why? Just to die and turn back into dust?
Will your last thought be as you look back over your life "Well, that certainly was strange!"
I was born and born again for the mingling of the uncreated life of God with the created humanity.
The love of Christ gives me all the meaning possible. Like here where Paul writes -
But in all these things we more than conquer through Him who loved us.
For I am persuaded that neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities nor things present nor things to come nor powers
Nor height nor depth nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Rom. 8:37-39)
God's indestructible love and eternal life to be dispensed into my being is my reason for existence.
Nothing in creation visible or invisible can seperate me from this uncorruptible affection of God.
I mean because God loves me eternally and redeemed me to impart Himself into my being.
Most of the evolutionists I talk to say evolution HAS no purpose, no goal, no plan, no intended direction.
It is just lonnnnnnnnnng time and lucky accidents with no purpose at all.
I'm more impressed with the Gospel of Christ.
And I like science just as much as the next guy. But I want to know not just the mechanical hows of everything but the WHY.
Once again, because I was born. I know what you want to ask, why don't you do that/
I think you have told me what I wish to know.
Life itself has no inherent purpose. Any purpose that we give it is a human invention. That does not mean that it is worthless, and mine is actually worth a lot more than many religious purposes of life.
I think you have told me what I asked of you. " Life itself has no inherent purpose. "
I have a problem with this because now you can bring in the matter of morality.
I mean if Stalin has his purpose and Pol Pot has his purpose and Adolf Hitler has his purpose (just to name three)
that has moral problems.
In your system there is no final justice. There is no final accountability.
Like Adolf Eichman said - upon being hung he would jump into his grave laughing at what he got away with.
With Christ there is redemption yet also final judgement. The balancing of the scales of justice is inevitable though long in arriving.
Your system just has monstereous immorality melt peacefully into the dust with no ultimate Governor of the wickedness of sinful men.
Accountability to ultimate rightousness is nonexistent. This is the grand absurdness of it all.
Today I was driving and saw an ambulance on the road with a police car. There was a smashed motor bike on the road and they were evidently picking up the person that got hit. Why am I saying this? Because there are many parts of life that are difficult but I also believe that God will remove all obstacles to happiness one day, including death. Revelation 21:1-5 is a wonderful prophecy and I look forward to that time, when death will be no more and all mankind will get along in peace.*Please note that I do not answer everyone, after trial and trial I have put certain people on ignore, but thank you.
