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Author Topic:   If the Bible is metaphorical then perhaps so is the God of the Bible
mike the wiz
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Message 168 of 243 (510646)
06-02-2009 6:07 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by CarlinKnew
05-21-2009 6:31 PM


I agree. I think a person has to make a decision based on history. You have to ask, looking around at the brilliance of the creation - "can God provide a Holy book which is factually true, which is a book of books stretched over thousands of years, which is His word?"
Now, in reality, there are no reasons to reject the bible as inerrant except doubting disbelieving skeptical type reasons which are seldom anything more than vacuous, stemming from the person's doubting sinful nature, which has enmity with God.
I think it's a choice. You place faith in two theories, each completely unproven, and assumed as fact, or you believe what you see - that the creation has no choice but to have been created, because it is self-evident that no organism could create itself, nor a universe. The number of assumptions behind such a naturalist position, are innumerable, if you look into it.
So I think that anyone can understand the bible.
The false church has lost it's battle against the evolutionists because it whimped out long ago. The pressure of scientific consensus got to them, and Christ didn't give them wisdom, because their hearts were far from him. Those who believe in Christ, all his miracles, and the true Adam He talked about, as an actual literal human, who brought in sin and suffering, have been given the answers. They know that micro-evolution removes information, and gives an "illusion" of something "new" existing, when infact that creative information was always in the previous gene pool. We know now that the fossils show 90 odd % recognisable creatures, which is what would follow if creation flood was true. We now know that only wet mud layers would preserve fossils ALL OVER the world, rather than isolated distributions, somehow being preserved in such a vast number. We know that bacteria is found in the fossils, as we recognise it - and we see that in billions of bacteria years, all bacteria can do is adapt to survive, as with flaggellum example. So even though they replicate thousands of times faster than humans, still they are bacteria becoming, guess what? Bacteria. It's like finding a human that is a zillion years old and still insisting that he evolved.
There are innumerable facts and evidences in favour of creation, IF and ONLY IF you are willing to accept this possibility. Atheists DENY everything because of their sinful nature, because they have already CHOSEN to either lie, whether it's to themselves or others, or are simply given over to their own sin. If they were honest - they would admitt that these amazing facts favour creation. I am yet to meet such a person who is willing to admitt those facts.
Every creature, every design, is clearly created, as it is impossible for it to come about alone. Nobody will have an excuse when they die - even if they give God a thousand opinions and apparent evidences. They can see that the world is created.

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