Posted on 11/10/2005 4:43:24 AM PST by Nicholas Conradin
Because there were no modern chimps or modern humans until the last million or so years. Nor are there woolly mammoths or saber-toothed cats today. Modern life forms evolved from earlier life forms.
I have a problem with those who profess to be Christians, yet they publicly profess to disbelieve the Word of God and call God a liar.
Still waiting on your comments on Exodus 21.
Why wouldn't it be?
Jesus put his stamp of approval on the Law, did he not?
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. (Matthew 5:17-18 KJV)
Who is DS? Who is any of us? Still, it's running about 30 to one, but I'm not going back thru all the posts.
This link re: Fossils supports Intelligent Design
http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/filesDB-download.php?id=119
Go figure.
Why wouldn't it be?
So you believe this is the word of God?
Exodus 21:20-21: "If a man beats his male or female slave with a rod and the slave dies as a direct result, he must be punished, but he is not to be punished if the slave gets up after a day or two, since the slave is his property"
They found one on a dump just the other day. I think they find the "missing link" several times a year.
My point was the nature of Doc Savage's post.
"once again, this whole conversation has been in regard to Ichy's post on classifying hominid skulls and obviously there is difficulty in doing so, or there would be no issue. We are not talking about modern chimps and humans."
Well if those aren't modern human skulls in Ichy's post, then they must have evolved into modern humans, huh?
"To somehow say those skulls were ape,human, or somewhere in between is probably not possible given only the skull and no supporting skeleton or other info."
Argument from personal incredulity. Your personal rejection of the knowledge and expertise of others who can, in fact, make such determinations is not in of itself an argument that discredits that knowledge.
I'm sure those 90+ of those "Christians" take drugs, have no respect for the law, God's or the State's, have tattoos and other mangled barbarian features, and care mostly about themselves. They are pagans.
Does they?
Not obviously. I chat with the Almighty daily. I would be an atheist except for the fact that He chats back (yes, I know I'm probably as loony as they come, but I'm pretty much harmless). I'm far too much of a rationalist, though, to just accept anything without investigation, which is why I no longer accept the Bible as inerrant. If God had any hand in its creation, its long been overwritten by later editors and redactors.
Fascinating. What did He say today?
You don't?
From Albert Barnes commentary:
Exo 21:20-21 - The Jewish authorities appear to be right in referring this law, like those in Exo_21:26-27, Exo_21:32, to foreign slaves (see Lev_25:44-46). The protection here afforded to the life of a slave may seem to us but a slight one; but it is the very earliest trace of such protection in legislation, and it stands in strong and favorable contrast with the old laws of Greece, Rome, and other nations. If the slave survived the castigation a day or two, the master did not become amenable to the law, because the loss of the slave was accounted, under the circumstances, as a punishment.
Are you a Christian?
Or should I say, do you claim to be a Christian?
Thanks, however I done fell off the turnip wagon.
It's a sad fact, we know from Josephus for one, that Jews kept slaves. However, Christians in the US and Britain ended it the best they could, and can, in modern times.
From Albert Barnes commentary:
You are dodging. I'm not interested in commentary. Is this the word of God?
Exodus 21:20-21: "If a man beats his male or female slave with a rod and the slave dies as a direct result, he must be punished, but he is not to be punished if the slave gets up after a day or two, since the slave is his property"
"Does they?"
Yep.
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