Posted on 01/13/2009 9:58:56 AM PST by Ron Jeremy
Who said it is ‘collecting dust’.. Most of the layers we see are from major events, volcanic, tectonic, meteoric, etc. HOWEVER, you can see ‘dust’ (to use your term) accumulation create these layers before our eyes in the Sahara where compression sandstone is being created above roads paved just a few decades ago. You can also see layers being created in peat bogs throughout the world as organic matter ‘composts’ I suppose both of these examples would fit the proverbial ‘dust falling’ comment.
The god that can’t get his word properly written is a weak, inadequate god.
>> The god that can’t get his word properly written is a weak, inadequate god.
God does not force man to follow Him. God gave us free will, and free will includes flawed human interpretations and translations of His Word.
I have seen many oddball interpretations of scripture ... interpretations justifying anything from deviant sexual behavior to condemning Christians for judging errant behavior.
These are CLEARLY human misinterpretations of God’s Word. Although some misinterpretations are self-serving and sinful — some are surely honest misinterpretations. People who, for whatever reason, are reading something wrong. Some of yours are honest misinterpretations — some of mine are honest misinterpretations. Free will.
If God can allow you or I (or any other honest reader) to misinterpret His Word ... why is it so far fetched that He might let someone misinterpret His revelation or mistranslate it?
SnakeDoc
I remember watching a show that had a huge herbivore. Said that a herd could lay waste to entire forests and turn them into prairie land. My take is that the bigger herbivores died out because of lack of vegetation (over-grazing, plant die-out, what-have-you). The food chain just kind of went down hill from there. Of course, an extinction-level-event certainly would have affected the lot of them.
I prefer Gary Larson's version: Smoking.
And — might I add — thank God that He sacrificed His Son to absolve me of my sins, known and unknown, including any stemming from the misinterpretation of His Word.
SnakeDoc
This isn't about God's flaws (lack thereof) it is about man's flaws. Man has a nasty habit in history of misreading, misunderstanding, or misinterpreting God's word. Every single time, man held his nose in the air and proclaimed his knowledge of the word perfect, and more often than not, he fell. God's word, however, didn't change.
How do you know God sacrificed His son?
That part isn’t “divine revelation” — those are the words and revelations of Christ Himself, written by direct witnesses and followers. They carry more credence than explanations of events that no human being could’ve witnessed (and events that they probably couldn’t describe accurately even if they had witnessed them) ... such as the Creation of Heaven and Earth.
SnakeDoc
Wanna be?
who doesn’t like the bible?
I like it just fine. That's why I don't discredit it by telling people that is says moronic things.
The basic problem you have is that if you allow for human misinterpretation, then you require humans to use reason and logic along with faith. Most don’t want to do that, they just want to blindly follow something. Hence, otherwise smart people who believe idiot things, like there were dinosaurs on noah’s ark, which in fact existed.
>> The basic problem you have is that if you allow for human misinterpretation, then you require humans to use reason and logic along with faith. Most don’t want to do that, they just want to blindly follow something.
This is a vast overstatement, and a liberal caricature of people of faith. To contend that “most” believers want to “blindly” follow rather than using “reason and logic along with faith” is simply not true.
Many believers, myself included, have arrived at their faith due to reason and logic. I believe this is the state of the VAST majority of the faithful.
Certainly, there are leaps of faith for any believer which requires belief in events which are beyond scientific proof ... but I believe it arrogant to contend that the human mind is fully capable of grasping the divine. True wisdom is knowing when something is beyond one’s understanding — true arrogance is contending that because one cannot understand, it must not be true. To await “proof” prior to any belief is simply ridiculous.
Granted, there are some believers who will blindly buy whatever their pastors tell them — but I’d venture that their numbers are vastly outweighed by the number of people that believe blindly in their own “moral compass” or their own “reasoned” assessment of the world. Personally, I’ll take someone who “blindly” has faith in God over someone whose “blind” faith is in themselves alone.
SnakeDoc
Yes, fair enough. That was a WAY over-exaggeration. I have just been frustrated lately by some here, and elsewhere, who believe silly things.
Don't know.
Still trying to figure out why Noah took two damn mosquitos with him.
That's fine--it is your perfect right to do so. Just don't pretend that you're basing any of your beliefs on observable facts or the scientific process.
You can believe that the stars are holes poked in the blanket pulled over the sky at night for all I care, but don't try to tell me that astronomy is anti-god because it contradicts your particular religious beliefs.
And, they were vegetarians.
Sorry, I’m NOT asking for an apatopawhatever burger. It’s BRONTOburger or nothing!
You might want to re-read the book of Job.
Pope Benedict XVI is a biblical scholar. You betray your ignorance and bigotry in claiming “he was never much of a Bible reader”.
They missed their connecting ark and went extinct waiting for customer service.
Mark Twain always wondered about the house fly. LOL
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