I was simply pointing out that many Christians do not stop to consider the context. Again, it's easy to forget - I'm not slamming anyone. It is just so difficult to get outside our culture and biases...
what if it is Noah's Ark
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I was simply pointing out that many Christians do not stop to consider the context. Again, it's easy to forget - I'm not slamming anyone. It is just so difficult to get outside our culture and biases...
Faith has no legitimacy from your perspective, nor perhaps the perspective of material science, yet that doesn't mean that is has no legitimacy.
You are hardly the ultimate authority on what is or is not legitimate when it comes to human experience.
Were we computers, bound by only the digital processing of linear and relativistic logic, I would agree with your conclusion.
However, we are more than computers with more than limited senses and relativistic intellect at our disposal.
You have made so many references in the past to validation on the basis of scientific "fact" as to make your present denial of science validating anything quite Kerryesque.
You are hardly the ultimate authority on what is or is not legitimate when it comes to human experience.
Were we computers, bound by only the digital processing of linear and relativistic logic, I would agree with your conclusion.
However, we are more than computers with more than limited senses and relativistic intellect at our disposal.
You have made so many references in the past to validation on the basis of scientific "fact" as to make your present denial of science validating anything quite Kerryesque.
I'm blown away cuzz it's the first time I haven't my intellect and a couple dozen expletives placed together in a "relgious" discussion...
This is the vanity of the atheist, that they denounce the existence of God, and at the same time have a faith of how God should, could, or would act.
How absurd that they would claim to know more about how God should act than God Himself, given that God is understood to be an Omniscient, Omnipresent, and Eternal Personality.
Given it is by the limits of their intellect that they evaluate and judge God, is it any wonder that they never find Him?
How absurd that they would claim to know more about how God should act than God Himself, given that God is understood to be an Omniscient, Omnipresent, and Eternal Personality.
Given it is by the limits of their intellect that they evaluate and judge God, is it any wonder that they never find Him?
because it would make for a piss poor flood story if someone wasn't floating around in a boat while everything was being drowned, obviously. these are *stories* first and foremost: before you can hope to take them seriously as moral object lessons, you have to treat them as literature. a story needs a plot, it needs drama, it needs action.
a wave of a ex machina hand would make for a damn boring - not to mention short - story.