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joshua221 
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Message 8 of 220 (51653)
08-21-2003 6:51 PM


Why.
I like the quote that is on messenjah's signature, "I believe in christianity as I believe the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."-C.S. Lewis
That is exactly the way I feel.
I accepted Christ when I was 9 at a Bible camp way upstate in New York. Then through the years of going to camp, I was given all the answers I have ever needed in life. I learned about Creation. It changed my life, I actually started to love what I believed more then ever.
The speaker was a Creationist from Chicago. He met with Ken Ham, and the person he looked up to the most, Kent Hovind. This guy knew a lot and I ammend him for his work because he showed me the correct path. But Andy (his name) was wrong on a couple points, that I would never find out about until I joined this forum. (If you want to know what the points are just ask.) I intend to go back to that camp, maybe as as a worker, might be a camper and tell Andy his flaws and thank him for his work. Andy used slides to give his information to us. He got most of his work from Kent Hovind's site drdino.com or from meeting him in person (I think.)
From then on I have been searching around just gathering information for both sides of the spectrum. (Evolution and Creation) I found this site just searching around and was amazed at it's size and title (evc). I actually was debating on comedycentral.com (wierd huh?) Some guy was posting insults about creation and I got into a debate. Then I found this site and quickly converted my debating to here. I've learned a lot and I have gained knowledge on a lot of things also.
I believe in God, my religion of Christianity, and Jesus Christ's coming, death, resurrection, and his coming again soon to be, because I love and cherish God for giving me life, that of which I should savor, guiding my every step, and loving me in return eternally.
When you feel his love, you start to love with an incredible difference. When you feel that feeling you know he exists.
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"As by this theory innumerable transitional forms must have existed, why do we not find them embedded in countless numbers in the crust of the earth? The number of intermediate links between all living and extinct species must have been inconceivably great!" (emphasis added) -- Charles Darwin

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