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Again, quite long!

arguments: " It's just a story that isn't proven to be true." And HOW do you know this?
Bible's chronology: the earth is 6,000 years old
Darwinism: no its millions years!!
Findings: Dinosaur soft tissue that wouldve decayed by now if there was no flood and the world was millisons years. This proves 1. millions years is a lie. 2. planetwide flood was real.
It's not too surprising if the Bible is the most scientific Book that isn't dedicated to science. Humans could just make those discoveries on their own. How could "bronze/iron age" people know that the "life is in the blood"?? And what about the dietary laws in Leviticus that would prevent disease?
I bet you will say "there is no evidence of dinosaur soft tissue, it's manmade!!" to protect the Chant of Ignorance that goes: "no evidence for God, God fake!"
"if they were perfect then they wouldn't ever be able to make any mistakes. Only someone that is flawed and fallible is able to make mistakes."
No. They CHOSE to break their perfection by rebelling. They knew full well what God said. So should God have created robots??

Adam and eve sinning is NOT an excuse for you to sin, too. God can and will set you free. If you choose sin then God will let you go on, but if you choose God then you will be liberated. Believe the Gospel.

""Also, it is immoral for a god or for anyone else" If Christianity is false, then why do you believe this? Morality originates from God. God has placed His Laws on your heart, but you cherrypick which ones to break and follow. Oh hey, the Bible is right again!
Romans 2:15 "in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them," You MUST take ideas from Christianity. This finding confirming this verse written 2,000+ years ago shows that God is the reason we and morality exist.

"to force other life forms into the type of existence where they will suffer against their will"
If something doesnt exist then how can it have a will? Your argument is nonsense. Psalm 14:1 "For the choir director. A Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they have committed abominable deeds; There is no one who does good."
The fact you used such a ridiculous argument PROVESS Psalm 14:1 RIGHT!! Christianity is strong, your view is wrong!!
"because they might not want to suffer against their will at all and that's why forcing them into existence is immoral and that's why I'm an antinatalist." If ya wanna stop suffering being a Christian is your best bet. Christianity is the ONLY SOLID foundation for loving God and loving other humans. Antinatalism is silly and fruitless, if your mom had your view you wouldnt be talking here. Be grateful that antinatalism is incorrect.


Jesus loves you, athiesm offers nothing. I hope our debate will make you a better person. :biggrin"
Suspicion razor: If a worldview raises up more tough questions, than has answers to them, then it is likely your belief is not true. "Be suspiscious" of beliefs that do it.
Christianity has more answers. Therefore it is untouched by this razor. However, probably all beliefs contradicting the Bible do this.


Secular views on the origin of life & the universe are, sadly, the dominant view in Western science. Christian Creation believers are suppressed and 'cancelled' when they question the main views. Athiesm is one of the biggest threats to humanity. Stalin, mao, marx (the kommunist one, not the funny ones) , hitler (evolutionist, NOT Christian. The 'Christian hiltler' argument is VERY easy to refute.), Mengels, Goebbels, and very likely china's Xi and KimJongUn of NKorea. The rotten fruits of athiesm and unBiblical origin stories crop up TIME and TIME again. On the other hand, Christianity and believing the Biblical origins revealed by Genesis bear so much good fruit. Examples, less sin, higher truth tendency, REAL free thought, advances in science (Newton, Pascal, the MRI inventor), and more. The Bible says, ""So then, you will know them by their fruits." (Matthew 7:20) The Bible is proven right time after time, and this is one of those times.

EVOLUTIONARY CENSORSHIP:

[[[Here's a retracted pro-evolution article from PLOS ONE, ("following the evolutionary remodeling of the ancestral hand for millions of years") attacked by evolutionists just b/c it contradicted their worldview. This confirms Crev's claims of censorship. It sounds like a Thiestic Evolution paper. The bioevoists will even attack their own!
Pre-retraction: web.archive.org/web/20160303194250/https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0146193
The link between biochemical architecture and hand coordination was explained and its Inventor is the inventor of the Creator. So what?
Posted by TheMatrixDNA on 16 Mar 2016 at 14:21 GMT
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See? If you really think that Athiest "Nature-god" people will give ANY mercy to alternate viewpoints in their Castle, you are blind. "Actually, we would like to refer the word to another meaning like Nature (造化 in Chinese). " Calling it "nature god" is a valid accusation. "This retraction seems more like a punishment rather than a peer-review concern."
"The furor over the single mention of the word Creator in this paper is shocking! A huge mountain made out of a molehill. At best, the reactions show prejudicial bias. At worst, it can be considered intolerant and bigoted. I am thoroughly disgusted at the anti-scientific witch hunt that has taken place here! Retraction of the paper was bad enough, because it was not done for scientific reasons! If it was, you would have focused on the methodology, the data, and the conclusions, citing specific methodological flaws, or specific flaws in the data or conclusions, rather than ignore the science and zero in on the use of one word that by no means reflected the focus of the paper.

But firing the reviewing editor was not only total overkill, it looks vindictive, petty, and spiteful! He appears to have focused on the paper itself during his review, not allowing the one-time use of one word to distract him from the meat of the paper, and he did not deserve to be fired over his approval of this study. All you critics should have behaved in a more rational, open-minded, and tolerant way, and let the science presented speak for itself, rather than get your knickers in a knot because the paper contained one word you obviously couldn't stomach. You certainly did your scientific reputations no favours by over-reacting to it. And by insisting on the censorship of papers that use terms that offend your personal biases, you have transformed the term "peer review" from a term connoting quality control in scientific publications to a political term more suggestive of "peer pressure," which guarantees suppression of both innovative science and of scientists that deviate even slightly from the status quo. You have also undermined science itself, because true science is supposed to be dictated by the data. It is supposed to be free of personal bias and censorship. Innovative, groundbreaking discoveries don't come from those committed to the status quo and who practice and insist on consensus science. They come from those able and willing to think outside the box and to follow wherever the science leads. But who will be willing to practice science this way as long as the old school dinosaurs have the power to threaten their careers?
This above sounds like something a Bible-trusting Christian would say. And it's accurate.

By succumbing to hostile peer pressure and choosing to engage in a witch hunt, PLOS has revealed itself to be a journal prepared to do no more than merely rubber stamp the status quo, rather than one that fairly evaluates the evidence and boldly goes wherever it leads, no matter what. So it seems that in future, we need not expect much in the way of cutting edge, revolutionary new discoveries being first revealed in PLOS, as long as personal bias reigns supreme!"

By retracting this article for 'inappropriate language', you've just shown the world exactly how far 'behind the Iron Curtain' the world of secular academia has now fallen. Thank you so much, because you've just provided incontrovertible proof to the world that free debate and exchange is NOT open on the topic of the Creator, and any reference to a Creator will not be tolerated.

Free debate and exchange is certainly open on the topic of supernatural entities... just not in this particular forum. Such claims have no place in a scientific journal because they are not falsifiable and cannot be disproven.

Sorry, but that's a double standard. The claims of Darwinism about events spanning millions of years in the non-repeatable, non-observable past are ALSO not falsifiable; the history of Darwinism has proven this, as the theory has been constantly rewritten to attempt to 'account' for the consistent failure of the evidence to support the theory. This is nothing more than blatant censorship to maintain the hegemony of the 'ruling paradigm', which cannot stand on its own-- the evidence fails to support Darwinian naturalism. Those responsible will one day be held to account for what they've done.
journals.plos.org/plosone/article/comment?id=10.1371/annotation/10a580a2-8b5c-465f-a3e8-e4f4871425f2]]]
Strats vs ATHS:
question: 'What is the point in believing that we are monkeys?'
'If your worldview is true, why should we be moral? If we are made in the image of God, Bible-based morality is justified. But if we are just chemicals, why not act like everything else made of chemicals?'
question: "So you BELIEVE there's a 'lack' of evidence for God? What caused you to come to that conclusion?"
 
For your consideration.

Satan’s fall from heaven is symbolically described in Isaiah 14:12-14 and Ezekiel 28:12-18. These two passages are referring to the kings of Babylon and Tyre, but also have a dual reference to the spiritual power behind them, known as Satan.

The angels were created before the foundation of the earth, Job 38:4-7, and Satan fell before he tempted Adam and Eve, Genesis 3:1-14. Scripture does not say when Satan fell, but we see that it was before tempting Adam and Eve as per Ezekiel 28:12-18. Satan was the guardian set over the garden of Eden before the creation of man. According to Job 1:6, 7 Satan still has access to heaven and the throne of God as he was roaming through the earth moving freely between the two and giving account to God as he spoke to Him. Satan has not yet been cast out of heaven as this will take place in the end of days with the war between him and his angels and Michael and his angels, Revelation Chapter 12.


Scripture is silent as giving an exact time when God will cast Satan out of the Throne Room of heaven and having access to the throne of God, but it was before that of the Assyrian mentioned in Ezekiel 31 that were Pre-Adamic human beings living in or near the garden of God which is/was somewhere close to Lebanon as the river Hiddekel flowed into it.

Genesis 1:28 God told Adam and Eve to replenish the earth, Genesis 9:1 God told Noah to replenish the earth after the flood. By these passages from the Bible we can see that this world is much older than 6000 years and was inhabited by man way before the creation of Adam and Eve as the key word here is replenish. Why would God tell them to replenish the earth if there were not others here before Adam and Eve.

From the time God created the heavens and the earth until that of creating Adam and Eve could have spanned more than 6000 years as we do see Dinosaurs and dragons mention throughout scripture, Job 30: 29; Job 40:15-18, 23; Job 41; Isaiah 27:1; Isaiah 34:13; Isaiah 35:7; Isaiah 51:9; Deu 32:33; Psalms 44:19; Psalms 74:13; Isaiah 43:20; Jer 9:11; Jer 10:22; Jer 49:33; Micah 1:8; Mal 1:3.

When God cast out Cain in Genesis Chapter four Cain made the statement that everyone that finds him will slay him and Cain went to dwell in the land of Nod. We only hear at this time in Genesis chapter four that there were only Adam, Eve, Cain and Abel as they were their first two children. When Cain was cast out scripture says he went to Nod, knew his wife and conceived a son, so where did she come from if there were not others created before Adam.

My question is who decided man has only been here for 6000 years?
 
My question is who decided man has only been here for 6000 years?

I don't think this can be asigned to anyone person, as those scholars and Christians who have looked into the bible chronology all come up with a timeline in the region of 6k.

A major problem for those who believe in a pre Adam race is the bible asigns death to Adams fall, so any pre Adam race would not have died.
Alternatively if death is only spiritual, then one has God declaring that death is good.
Which is a contradiction if death is an enemy.
 
I don't think this can be asigned to anyone person, as those scholars and Christians who have looked into the bible chronology all come up with a timeline in the region of 6k.

A major problem for those who believe in a pre Adam race is the bible asigns death to Adams fall, so any pre Adam race would not have died.
Alternatively if death is only spiritual, then one has God declaring that death is good.
Which is a contradiction if death is an enemy.
I think it's something that we could ever know for sure, but we do take the timeline starting with Adam, which is all we need.
 
Hey All,
KV-44-v1, actually Darwinism needs billions of years. And like it or not, it is the most plausible theory the secular community has. Yes there are holes in the theory. But we cannot ignore the hole they see in ours. We accept by faith what we believe. We cannot scientifically prove that God exists. If we could, we would not need faith.

The world of Science does not accept faith. (Although, believing a theory, is exactly what faith is.) Science needs facts and data. Since we have no idea when day 1 occurred, we cannot completely dismiss the long earth theory. Further, why does a short time period matter so much? If you have to have a young earth, then you have to explain what is clearly evidence of pre-Adamic human society. Stonehenge, the Pyramids (and not just in Egypt), Angcor Wat, and the independent societies the explorers found; where no known humans were expected to exist, I might add. So sticking to a short earth theory is problematic as well.

Dinosaurs, for example, are actually more explainable using the long earth theory. Reptiles never stop growing. Crocodiles live 50-70 years depending upon species. Imagine a 1000 year old crocodile. It would be gargantuan, maybe even dinosauric.

I would rather be wrong about the time frame than about who Jesus is. How does an old earth theory nullify what Jesus did? See? I would encourage you to stay focused on the part that matters.

Keep walking everybody.
May God bless,
Taz
 
I don't think this can be asigned to anyone person, as those scholars and Christians who have looked into the bible chronology all come up with a timeline in the region of 6k.

A major problem for those who believe in a pre Adam race is the bible asigns death to Adams fall, so any pre Adam race would not have died.
Alternatively if death is only spiritual, then one has God declaring that death is good.
Which is a contradiction if death is an enemy.
Hey All,
We have no proof that Adam's was the one and only fall. Genesis 1:2 reads like a flood event. Only water existed. Only darkness.

Keep walking everybody.
May God bless,
Taz
 
Hey All,
KV-44-v1, actually Darwinism needs billions of years. And like it or not, it is the most plausible theory the secular community has. Yes there are holes in the theory. But we cannot ignore the hole they see in ours. We accept by faith what we believe. We cannot scientifically prove that God exists. If we could, we would not need faith.

The world of Science does not accept faith. (Although, believing a theory, is exactly what faith is.) Science needs facts and data. Since we have no idea when day 1 occurred, we cannot completely dismiss the long earth theory. Further, why does a short time period matter so much? If you have to have a young earth, then you have to explain what is clearly evidence of pre-Adamic human society. Stonehenge, the Pyramids (and not just in Egypt), Angcor Wat, and the independent societies the explorers found; where no known humans were expected to exist, I might add. So sticking to a short earth theory is problematic as well.

Dinosaurs, for example, are actually more explainable using the long earth theory. Reptiles never stop growing. Crocodiles live 50-70 years depending upon species. Imagine a 1000 year old crocodile. It would be gargantuan, maybe even dinosauric.

I would rather be wrong about the time frame than about who Jesus is. How does an old earth theory nullify what Jesus did? See? I would encourage you to stay focused on the part that matters.

Keep walking everybody.
May God bless,
Taz

All man made structures were made AFTER Adam. The Bible defeats athiestic ideas. The Bible is much more plausible.

Yes, it DOES matter the age of earth. We must stand on the Bible as final authority in all matters, including origins and age matters, not only moral and spiritual ones.

The dinosaurs were created by GOD. They're explainable by young earth, even better than old, because 6,000 year earth was gotten by plain reading of the Bible + various evidence.

Why aren't all our Bibles many times thicker?? Why do we have only ONE Bible and not many?? Surely a TON of events should have happened over ILLIONS of years! if earth is so super old we must have really mad advanced tech. Like scifi. But we don't, we are only just recently developing ai tech. Remember, man was smart from the start.

Old earth theory just doesn't make sense. Its holes are bigger than you think - and our "holes" are a moot point.

Why [does universe age matter]? Because the God revealed in Scripture created a perfect world, a world with no death, suffering, or disease. Yet to believe that He used evolution is to deny what God says He did in creating everything in six normal-length days. It also denies that He created a perfect universe, perfect world, and a perfect first man and woman (who was made from the man).

Genesis 1:31 states that everything God made was “very good.” Since 1 Corinthians 15:26 calls death the “last enemy” that will be destroyed, how could we possibly think that God called death very good? Why did Jesus (who is the same yesterday, today, and forever according to Hebrews 13:8) heal the sick and raise the dead if sicknesses and death are very good?

If God used evolution, then it logically follows that death and disease were His doing rather than ours, and Jesus would have been sent to cover God’s mistakes. That is, if the Lord gave the first spark of energy and life to the universe, and then let it run amok, He would have sent His Son to atone for His own mistakes. This is not an accurate description of the God of the Bible.

While old-earth creationists may believe the Gospel, they unwittingly ascribe false attributes to God and thus essentially attack God’s character. Most old-earth creationists either do not recognize this truth or have chosen to ignore the dichotomy their belief creates. Also, theistic evolutionists generally accept the big bang theory, which creates additional problems.
 
Satan was the guardian set over the garden of Eden before the creation of man.
Bible Source?


Ezekiel 31 that were Pre-Adamic human beings living in or near the garden of God which is/was somewhere close to Lebanon as the river Hiddekel flowed into it.
Preadamic?? Where is that? The Bible CLEARLY states that Adam was the 1st man. There is 0 good evidence of a pre adamic race. 1 Corinthians 15:45.


Genesis 1:28 God told Adam and Eve to replenish the earth, Genesis 9:1 God told Noah to replenish the earth after the flood. By these passages from the Bible we can see that this world is much older than 6000 years and was inhabited by man way before the creation of Adam and Eve as the key word here is replenish. Why would God tell them to replenish the earth if there were not others here before Adam and Eve.
What made you think "older than 6000"??

In very old Latin it did mean ‘again’, but by the time the Bible went into Latin it had lost some of this meaning. We see this in the later French word remplir, which doesn’t mean ‘refill’, but ‘fill’. In late Latin it was re-in-plere, and re- had already lost its basic idea of ‘again’. In many other words it now meant ‘completely’ or ‘altogether’. Compare ‘research’, meaning to ‘search completely’.

We notice also that two of the meanings in history include ‘making full’. In similar English words we have this meaning: ‘refresh’ means to make fresh; ‘relax’ to make lax; ‘release’ to make loose or free. But when the KJV was translated, ‘replenish’ was just a scholarly word for ‘fill’. They almost certainly came to use it because an old word ‘plenish’ was dying out.

We have seen that Latin re- originally meant ‘again’ but then developed new overtones. Before the Bible was translated, repleo, the word that gave us ‘replenish’, normally meant just ‘fill’. Here are some examples from Latin authors:

  • what they lacked in votes they made up for in noise (Ovid)
  • he filled the battlefield with men (before the battle) (Livy)
  • filled the crowd with his speech (Virgil)
  • civil law full of right knowledge (Cicero)
There’s another English word that comes from repleo. It is ‘replete’. We can say ‘I am replete’, using a politer word than ‘full up’ with food. It doesn’t mean ‘full again’.

So my understanding of the word in the KJV is that ‘replenish’ then just meant ‘fill up’, though some hundred years later it began to mean ‘refill’ when some scholars convinced people that re- should really mean ‘again’. So in 1611 it’s quite clear the translators didn’t necessarily convey anything about a second filling of the earth in Genesis 1:28 (KJV).

3. Now as to the Hebrew word itself: it is male’, the simple verb ‘fill’. (Strong’s concordance No. 4390.) In its various forms it occurs 306 times in the Old Testament. Only seven times does the KJV translate it as ‘replenish’, but 195 times ‘fill’, ‘filled’ or ‘full’.

4. Other times it becomes ‘fulfil’ or has some idiomatic meaning. Quite clearly the idea of refilling is completely absent from the Hebrew. There’s no doubt on that score. So the English of the KJV is the only problem. We all know that languages change over the years. So that’s the real explanation of the misunderstanding about this verse that tells us that God commanded the first humans to fill up completely the earth He had prepared for them.

Finally, the proof is that the similar phrase in verse 22 has the translation ‘fill’ in the KJV. Here are the parallel cases

Verse 22:peru u - rbu u - mil’u eth hammayim
be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters
Verse 28:peru u - rbu u - mil’u eth ha’arets
be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
Thus it appears that the change to ‘replenish’ was merely a stylish variation.

Summary

  1. The word translated ‘replenish’ (KJV) simply means ‘fill’ in the Hebrew.
  2. In the English of King James’ day, ‘replenish’ also usually meant ‘fill’, not ‘refill’.
  3. The word ‘replenish’ therefore cannot be used to support ideas about a previous creation, which was destroyed. In any case, such erroneous theories, invented in response to the ‘millions of years’ idea, must hold to the unbiblical notion that there was death and suffering before Adam’s sin.


From the time God created the heavens and the earth until that of creating Adam and Eve could have spanned more than 6000 years as we do see Dinosaurs and dragons mention throughout scripture, Job 30: 29; Job 40:15-18, 23; Job 41; Isaiah 27:1; Isaiah 34:13; Isaiah 35:7; Isaiah 51:9; Deu 32:33; Psalms 44:19; Psalms 74:13; Isaiah 43:20; Jer 9:11; Jer 10:22; Jer 49:33; Micah 1:8; Mal 1:3.
Could have, but did not. There is no reason to think that dinoes and YE are incompatible. They are very much compatible because the history we discover in the Bible makes it such.

Athiests HATE the fact that Dino and Man coexisted. Evidence for that fact blasts their worldview like a cannon!!

When God cast out Cain in Genesis Chapter four Cain made the statement that everyone that finds him will slay him and Cain went to dwell in the land of Nod. We only hear at this time in Genesis chapter four that there were only Adam, Eve, Cain and Abel as they were their first two children. When Cain was cast out scripture says he went to Nod, knew his wife and conceived a son, so where did she come from if there were not others created before Adam.
What a classic arg athiests use. Now, Not saying you are athiest - you arent!

The Bible says that Adam and Eve "had other sons and daughters". Nod can mean wandering, so mabye nod isnt a place.

My question is who decided man has only been here for 6000 years?
What, not who. Literally the natural flow of time did.

6,000 years is an estimate that was arrived at by concluding from evidence & Biblical timeframes. There's a lot of 'who begat who' we can use.
Why do Hebrews only have ~6000 yrs on their calendar? They should have TONS if the earth was so old.
 
Hey All,
We have no proof that Adam's was the one and only fall. Genesis 1:2 reads like a flood event. Only water existed. Only darkness.

Keep walking everybody.
May God bless,
Taz
The proof is the bible.

Either one believes the bible or one has to invent stories to explain away the bible and that ultimately explains away Christianity.
 
The proof is the bible.

Either one believes the bible or one has to invent stories to explain away the bible and that ultimately explains away Christianity.
Hey All,
Who Me, just to make sure you understand, I am a believer. I am saved by grace through faith in Jesus; the same as everybody else.
We are not saved by proof. If you read the Bible, it tells us that God exists, and that He loves us, and wants to have fellowship with us. The Bible never attempts to prove God exists. It simply tells us He does. God gives everyone enough faith to believe. But God does not provide 100% without a doubt proof that He exists. It will always take faith to believe.

Keep walking everybody.
May God bless,
Taz
 
Hey All,
KV-44-v1, if this young earth/old earth really mattered that much, you would think the Bible would be lasar accurate on the dates. It isn't. So it doesn't. As accurate as the Bible is, is how accurate we need to be.

Earth is depicted as a water world in Genesis 1:2. How did the water get there? The Bible doesn't say. And the water is not vitally important to the creation story. But you have to ask, why is it there at all? We had another extinction event in Genesis; the great deluge, Noah's flood. When it was over, there were eight people alive on the earth.

It's like humanity could not get started. But this time God makes a promise to never again wipe out mankind with a flood.

We won't know for sure, until Jesus comes back.
And again, why does it matter so much?

Keep walking everybody.
May God bless,
Taz
 
But God does not provide 100% without a doubt proof that He exists. It will always take faith to believe.
No God doesn't provide 100% evidence for his existence, the Bible simple assumes he is.

All we have to do is demonstrate that it is more reasonable to believe in God and Jesus, than to not believe in him.

For those who doubt there is a God, the fact the universe and life exists is an enormous problem.
Then there is the problem of fine tuning, morality, reason and order in creation and of course the problem of the historical facts of the resurrection.
It is reasonable to be a Christian and conversely unreasonable not to be.
 
Hey All,
Who Me, just to make sure you understand, I am a believer. I am saved by grace through faith in Jesus; the same as everybody else.
We are not saved by proof. If you read the Bible, it tells us that God exists, and that He loves us, and wants to have fellowship with us. The Bible never attempts to prove God exists. It simply tells us He does. God gives everyone enough faith to believe. But God does not provide 100% without a doubt proof that He exists. It will always take faith to believe.

Keep walking everybody.
May God bless,
Taz
Actually, I'd say 100% of worldviews needs at least some faith. I think Christianity needs the least faith of all, to the surprise of many. After all, Jesus mentioned a "MUSTARD SEED" of faith.
 
KV-44-v1, if this young earth/old earth really mattered that much, you would think the Bible would be lasar accurate on the dates. It isn't. So it doesn't. As accurate as the Bible is, is how accurate we need to be.
Why do you think this?
Obviously, we have started with the Bible and got ~6,000 years estimates.
Time passes.

And the water is not vitally important to the creation story. But you have to ask, why is it there at all? We had another extinction event in Genesis; the great deluge, Noah's flood.
There's no evidence there was death before Man's Fall.
Death came into the world through ONE MAN. Read the Bible. Do you actually think death was in God's very good world before sin???
why does it matter so much?
If the foundations are destroyed what can the righteous do?
Paraphrasing Jesus: "If you don't believe Me on earthly things, why bother believing Me on Heavenly things?" - John 3:12
Genesis is FOUNDATION of Christian worldview. Why is it the VERY 1ST BOOK?

People who compromise Genesis with athiest beliefs (bigbang, bioevo, mils-bills of years, and optionally, naturalistic abiogenesis) tend to compromise elsewhere, like on marrige & abrtion & other hotbutton moral issues.

the Gospel makes sense in the light of Genesis. without Genesis people will think the Gospel is a non sequitur or smth.
 
Fascinating to see Christians saying they should go around telling people that if they want to be Christian, they have to reject and deny a ton of science.....a lot of which has been established for well over a century.

No wonder the number of Christians keeps declining every year.
 
Fascinating to see Christians saying they should go around telling people that if they want to be Christian, they have to reject and deny a ton of science.....a lot of which has been established for well over a century.

No wonder the number of Christians keeps declining every year.
I don't reject science but I also know there are things going on in this world that science can not explain .
 
Fascinating to see Christians saying they should go around telling people that if they want to be Christian, they have to reject and deny a ton of science.....a lot of which has been established for well over a century.

No wonder the number of Christians keeps declining every year.
Let's get it correct.
The science we All know and love depends upon the Christian world view, without it science does not work.
It is scientists who have largely rejected Christianity for a materialistic world view who need to re evaluate what they believe and why.

Why is the universe consistent, maths explains physics/engineering here and in the farthest detected universe.
Only Christianity encouraged its followers to investigate the universe, it is only the christian world view that expects an understandable and explainable universe.

Disagree, could provide the philosophical reasons for a consistent universe, why logic works, why fine tuning is in creation.
 
We accept by faith what we believe. We cannot scientifically prove that God exists. If we could, we would not need faith.

I'd urge you to rethink this statement. Science can't "prove" God exists because science is only capable of investigating the physical, material universe, not what is supernatural. Science, though, has pointed very directly at God in its discovery that the universe had a beginning. Of course, since there was no time, space, matter or energy prior to the beginning of the universe, science can't tell us anything about the state-of-affairs that pre-existed the universe. But philosophy can; logical deduction can.

By well-reasoned inference, these philosophical forms of investigation, which can be just as valid in their conclusions or findings as anything derived from scientific investigation, reveal a necessary First Cause of the universe that is non-material, timeless, spaceless, personal and enormously powerful. This sounds an awful lot like the God revealed to us in the Bible.

For more on this see: The Kalam Cosmological Argument.

www.crossexamined.org
www.reasonablefaith.org

There are also teleological arguments (e.g. the Fine-Tuning Argument), the Moral Argument, and the Argument from the Resurrection that all well-ground Christian faith in evidence and facts.
 
Let's get it correct.
The science we All know and love depends upon the Christian world view, without it science does not work.
It is scientists who have largely rejected Christianity for a materialistic world view who need to re evaluate what they believe and why.

Why is the universe consistent, maths explains physics/engineering here and in the farthest detected universe.
Only Christianity encouraged its followers to investigate the universe, it is only the christian world view that expects an understandable and explainable universe.

Disagree, could provide the philosophical reasons for a consistent universe, why logic works, why fine tuning is in creation.
If that were true, only Christians could conduct science. Obviously that's not the case.
 

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