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To: Cronos
Let's take Noah's ark's story here. If is it "shown incorrect" does it in any way change Jewish or Christian dogma? No, not really.

Yes, I agree. But the inerrancy believers on FR do not. They have told me that if even one sentence of Genesis is not literally and exactly true, then Christ is a liar and his sacrifice a sham.

So just as the LDS have had to tap dance their way through archaeology to try and keep the Nephites and Lamanites in the historical records, so have the YEC's had to do much the same thing with geology and astrophysics.

201 posted on 10/20/2011 7:55:09 AM PDT by Notary Sojac
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To: Notary Sojac
Nephites and Laminites are ‘part of the historical records’ the same way Hobbits are ‘part of the Historical record’ ... as fictional projections.

The purposed stupidity is becoming more than amusing.

202 posted on 10/20/2011 7:58:25 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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To: Notary Sojac
They have told me that if even one sentence of Genesis is not literally and exactly true, then Christ is a liar and his sacrifice a sham.

Well, I believe that Genesis is true. These folks are not correct if you take this objectively. Objectively (i.e. trying to not look at it from a religious point of view), Mormonism fails due to the fact that the native americans are not semites.

if someone proved that the resurrection did not happen, then christianity would be disproven.

Mormonism has this failure point because J Smith put his religion in a historical context that was disproven after his death.

At least L Ron Hubbard chose something that would take millenia to disprove (when we set up the Terran Empire!)

205 posted on 10/20/2011 12:19:59 PM PDT by Cronos (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2787101/posts?page=58#58)
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