And you still didn’t tell me where you stood.You asked for it.
In your estimation, what exactly are ‘God’s works’? Did the earth form naturally by accretion? How exactly would this work, establishing a stable orbit with gravity exerting it’s force?
It’s no game. I didn’t intend it to be.I'm not playing this game.
Now, why do you say that? You know very well - or at least you should - that I accept how animals have adapted / evolved on a limited scale.You claim that science is wrong and there was a global flood and no evolution.
You’re trying to create a strawman, using sweeping generalizations. What do you call that? Honesty?
“…this was a misinterpretation that grew in the retelling from residue found on teeth to being a mouthful of plants instantly frozen in time has been refuted”??The original claim was that buttercups had been found in the mouth of a single mammoth carcass as if they were just chomped on and the animal was instantly frozen. Selective references to material irrelevant to that and ignoring the information that is available explaining how this was a misinterpretation that grew in the retelling from residue found on teeth to being a mouthful of plants instantly frozen in time has been refuted.
Did I ever say “mouthful”? No.
So this is not only inaccurate, but a weak rebuttal anyway…
From dying thousands of years ago and still finding even small ‘residues’— how can that happen , unless they were frozen quickly?! Such delicate material would have deteriorated, if it hadn’t frozen.
And whether a little or a mouthful was found, it still shows it existed in those climes, which were apparently much warmer — “50 to 75 (degrees) F” — than is accepted.
What?And if the argument was that mammoths didn't eat buttercups you could rest comfortably providing these references as evidence that they did eat them.
What was my previous claim? It hasn’t changed.Unfortunately, for you, and for us, that isn't the argument or what you previously claimed about buttercups.
I notice you didn't respond to my response about the relevance of discussing talking to dead people in a thread that isn't about that and has no bearing on what the is thread is about.
I wonder why?
But it does have bearing. A lot of bearing.
I’m going to post 5 Scriptures in a certain order, with no commentary from me. Only a few questions, to aid reasoning. (Read the context around each verse, if you’d like.)
Put the ideas together. I know you’re smart enough.
Genesis 6:1-4, ASV…
“And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all that they chose. And Jehovah said, My spirit shall not strive with man for ever, for that he also is flesh: yet shall his days be a hundred and twenty years. The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them: the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.”
2 Peter 2:4-6, Holman…
“For if God didn’t spare the angels who sinned but threw them down into Tartarus and delivered them to be kept in chains of darkness until judgment; and if He didn’t spare the ancient world, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others, when He brought a flood on the world of the ungodly…making them an example to those who were going to be ungodly…”
(Jude 1:6, NASB…
“And angels who did not keep their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling place…”
Revelation 12:9, NIV…
“The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.”
Deuteronomy 18:10-12, NKJV…
“There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, ora soothsayer*, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer,
or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead.
For all who do these things are an abomination to the LORD, and because of these abominations the LORD your God drives them out from before you.”
(*=Fortune-telling.)
Why does God impose such a heavy penalty on trying to speak with the dead, tying it in with witchcraft, sorcery & fortune-telling?
If God doesn’t approve of these things, could the intelligent power who “leads the whole world astray” be the source of these activities that attract humans?
I quoted from a variety of translations, so you can’t accuse me of using only JW material.
Since you claim your worship is based on Christ - for which I’m glad - and Christ is only based on the Bible, maybe you should have more faith in its words? Jesus did - John 17:17
I hope I didn’t waste my time. But even if you don’t appreciate it, I’m sure others who read it, will.
Goodnight.