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To: MarDav

You are disrespectful and smug but I expect that nonsense from evangelicals who have blinded themselves to rational truth.

Let's turn your question around.

What is your faith in? Is it in the bible or in God? Are the two the same or is the bible a bunch of fanciful stories written by primitive people to explain the universe but failing miserably in doing that? Do I need to tell you what your supposed to have faith in? Shouldn't you know?

If you have faith I want you to say in this forum that you believe god made a pile of mud and breathed into it life. I want you to tell us you really believe Eve was made from a rib. I want you to tell us God made different languages because men built a building too high. I want you to admit there was a flood that totally covered the Earth. If you can't admit these things then you might want to look into some real science that explains the Earth and doesn't use obvious myth to explain the world.


201 posted on 08/16/2006 6:40:45 PM PDT by Sentis
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To: Sentis

Why do you continue to duck my question? Further, why do you resort to such heated rhetoric--what are you so angry about? My guess is that one has to do with the other. Perhaps you've become angry and agitated because you have no answer to the question I posed to you based on what you, yourself, acknowledged--that you believe in some god, but can't explain what leads you to that belief. What is your god like? What is He/She/It capable of? What does She/He/It do? What role, if any did It/He/She play in creating, say, the energy that brought about the Big Bang? The matter that impacted at the Big Bang? Initiating the processes you call evolution? Creating the first protein? Producing the system of information we call DNA? Your unwillingness to give answers about the god you believe in and, more importantly, what leads you to faith in this god shows you to be both disingenuous (when it comes to talking about the belief-systems of others) and arrogant (by spewing invectives at those trying to engage in conversation, instead of giving answers to simple questions.

Further, why do you believe in this god? What stirred your heart to faith in the first place? What is faith anyhow? Why do you (why does anyone) have it? Why do you have faith in a god? Again, why does anyone have such faith? Do you (do we) need there to be a god out there? Why?

As to my beliefs, I admit to placing my faith in the Bible and the God of the Bible--though I wouldn't exactly describe the creation He intitiated in exactly the same way as you, I believe in the Biblical account. Makes far too much sense to me to believe that, given all the order, all the precision, all the detail, all the vastness, all the delicacy of creation, that it is evident there is a mind at work, and not some vast series of events that, by all statistical accounts, are impossible.


207 posted on 08/16/2006 8:13:11 PM PDT by MarDav
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