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To: OneWingedShark; xzins
If I might ask, have you allegorized the creation story sufficiently in your mind that you believe (based on the evidence of dry bones), that man was not a special creation of God, but that he descended from lower forms of life and ultimately from some simian non-human ancestor?

Do you believe that despite what is stated in Genesis and Exodus and the clear statements of Jesus on the subject, that man is, in fact, the product of a natural evolutionary process?

51 posted on 03/26/2009 11:01:00 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: P-Marlowe
If I might ask, have you allegorized the creation story sufficiently in your mind that you believe (based on the evidence of dry bones), that man was not a special creation of God, but that he descended from lower forms of life and ultimately from some simian non-human ancestor?

Again you refuse to actually dialog. I never said that man was NOT a special creation. Further, I myself brought up the creation of man and woman as a point that there IS an element of story-telling to the creation narrative of Genesis.

(The creation-story appears again, right there in Genesis wherein God creates man and woman at the same time in that account.) Do you mean to say then that, because things SHOULD be read literally, always, that BOTH accounts are factually true down to minuta even though on the literal side they contradict each other? I am a programmer, in logical-thinking contradictions mean something is wrong, usually an assumption. Therefore, because there is a contradiction here under the assumption that both stories are literal-narrative/scientific-documentary style language, that may be the false assumption. There is no problem if these stories are being presented in a more story-telling fashion, that is the second account is merely a refresher/prolog to the story that is being told there, namely the fall of man.

You smugly throw out Paul's verse condemning the wise as foolish (Cor.) when it is manifestly obvious that I was not calling your stance foolish, but rather your inability to dialog & communicate... in other words, even though I apologized for it I was not calling your beliefs foolish but your actions; you.

Again and again you dance away from dialog, reason, and analysis instead imagining non-existent attacks and an arrogance exceeded only by congress... and taking a rebuke in completely the wrong way, even after I explained it.

Answer this: How can there be a meaningful conversation when you have already condemned me? How can I present a defense of my views when you refuse to listen?

Zacheeus asked Jesus "How can a man be born again? Can he enter his mother's womb a second time?" This was a perfectly valid question to a very literal taking of Jesus's own words. But is that what Jesus was talking about?

71 posted on 03/27/2009 7:16:30 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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