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Author Topic:   Christ making statements about Creation
Phage0070
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Message 6 of 83 (520710)
08-23-2009 12:28 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by New Cat's Eye
08-22-2009 7:39 PM


Catholic Scientist writes:
Jesus doesn't have to be saying that the flood actually ocurred in real life if he is just referencing a story, that he knows is fictional, but that the audience was familiar with and probably believed.
Then it seems an incredibly poor choice to use a fictional story as an analogy to one that you want to present as being true. If the audience knows it is fiction then in essence Jesus is informing his audience that it is just a story; instructive and with moral tones, but not true. If the audience does *not* know it is fictional, then Jesus is equating another story with a lie they were too gullible to see through.
Either way it seems clear that Jesus is either incompetent or lying about the "coming of the Son of Man".

mike the wiz writes:
Rest-assured, I have thought it all through, as per usual.
ICANT writes:
If I don't know the answer what am I supposed to say I don't know.

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Phage0070
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Message 10 of 83 (520754)
08-23-2009 6:47 PM
Reply to: Message 9 by ochaye
08-23-2009 5:33 PM


ochaye writes:
Like telling a parable, you mean?
Parables are more of a problem because anything can be claimed to be a parable. Whenever anything is proved to be false or is simply inconvenient, it becomes a parable. In essence it is an excuse to make it mean anything you please. They are not so bad if you can tell the difference between parables and non-parables... magic might be a clue-in, no....

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