@JonathonByrd: I hope you'll elaborate a bit on what you're trying to accomplish with that question. It looks like it's designed to stir controversy, which of course isn't very useful... but it also seems a bit uncharacteristic of you, so I'm assuming it's just in need of clarification.
@Flimzy I have been a bit frustrated these last few days. learning server administration is not easy, specially on amazon cloud. nightmare... I'm also running low on sleep. Thus I'm short and stupid with my tongue atm.
@Flimzy But the question has been on my mind. I just don't know how to phrase it
@Flimzy The main conclusion I got from his sentence is "trusting something that disagrees with God is to not trust God", which seems tautological. Maybe I missed something
Well, I didn't see a question in there anywhere :). I'm not sure what you're trying to ask; I'm guessing from what @Flimzy said that it's something like "Do OECs not trust God?"?
Science suggest that the earth is millions of years old and many Christians accept this premise. Instead of accepting that God created everything in six days, they accept the finding of scientists based on scientific evidence.
I am a literal interpretation Christian and I have strong faith that ...
So I think the real question (Unless you actually believe every word is meant to be taken literally) is, "Should the Genesis accounts of creation and the flood be taken literally?"
Well, if you phrase your premise as "The Genesis account of creation and the flood are meant to be taken literally," then at least you won't draw as much violent opposition
I still disagree with that premise... but I think that is at least a reasonable premise... hehe
For me it's more like "The purpose of Genesis has nothing* to do with science. It's a figurative narrative to explain our relationship with God."
*I think a "proper" reading of Genesis still makes it at least mostly compatible with modern science, where science actually knows what it's talking about.
But the key is that the purpose of Genesis is not to describe the mechanism of creation, but more the means of creation.
So I'm trying install php-mcrypt on one server and git-core on another server. It seems like locating packages is were I'm falling short. (just learning server administration)
I'm very ignorant of repositories and how they play into the whole installation bit. I know that I need to add additiona...
The system should search posts for the word "please" in proximity to the phrase "don't close" or "do not close", and if found together disable the close link for the following reasons:
They asked nicely
They knew enough about the system to understand that posts can be closed, and thus are exper...
I've maybe mentioned this before, but I've heard from a reputable source that a more accurate translation of the start of Genesis 1:1 is "In a beginning..."
Mental illness is a fairly recent idea (in terms of human history). As far as I know, the concept did not exist at all at the time the Bible was written.
I have heard some Christians speculate that some of the instances of demon possession recorded in the Bible may have been cases of schizophre...
@flimzy I see your edits here christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/2871/… that's a pretty cool site with all the different bible translations. Unfortunately it doesn't actually link to the New American Bible. Dredges up some nccb bible link from like 15 years ago. It'd work if they changed the domain to usccb.org,
@PeterTurner: yeah, Just ran across that today... I know many people (perhaps you included) prefer not to use links when they don't want to show preference for any specific translation, so I thought that'd make for a handy tool.
It's disappointing if it doesn't include your choice translation, though :(
Mental illness is a fairly recent idea (in terms of human history). As far as I know, the concept did not exist at all at the time the Bible was written.
I have heard some Christians speculate that some of the instances of demon possession recorded in the Bible may have been cases of schizophre...
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