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Just a bit of sharing from me and the rest of the brethren
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JerryL
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Sure thing. How many people were killed in the name of science? How many genocides? How many wars?
You list yours and I'll double it.
Except that he's unregenerate. Perhaps God has just not chosen to save him.
Or perhaps the problem is that he's a skeptic and you are delusional.
It is truly beyond me how anyone, pro or con, could read such an argument and respect it.AV1611 said:
Feathers in Hair
World's Tallest Hobbit
Do you mean 'person who fears books' or 'person who fears the Bible'? Either way, I'm not sure if I understand it.AV1611 said:
Scientists are not out to get theists. They have a curious nature, and a delightful one at that.
Feathers in Hair
World's Tallest Hobbit
I'm sorry if my comment was interpreted that way. What I meant was to reassure you that scientists are not out to get theists. (I may have been wrong, but that was the impression I was getting that you had.)AV1611 said:
Well, the unregenerate ones usually are.FeathersinHair said:
In Genesis 1, God created the Earth before He created the Sun.
ANY scientist that says the Sun was created first, is not supporting Genesis 1.
And, if "I" didn't believe Genesis 1, and I was a scientist, I would say the Sun came first, also. But if some Christian accused me of not believing Genesis 1 because I gave a lecture on the Sun being created first, I would reply, "You're absolutely right".
Feathers in Hair
World's Tallest Hobbit
Ahhhh... So by 'thiest' you mean "a very specific type of Christianity"?
Well, I had looked 'theist' up on my online dictionary and it said:FeathersinHair said:
BELIEF IN THE EXISTENCT OF A GOD OR GODS, ESPECIALLY BELIEF IN A PERSONAL GOD AS CREATOR AND RULER OF THE WORLD.
That's the only definition it gave, and that's the definition I went with.
Feathers in Hair
World's Tallest Hobbit
So you wouldn't see people who subscribed to other faiths as theists?AV1611 said:
Wel-l-l-l-l, I'd hafta know what their writings say, and what they believe about it.FeathersinHair said:
For instance, as I understand it, Jews are theists.
Catholics are theists. Mormons are theists (I think). Theists, per se, are theists.
Hindus are theists. Buddhists are not (I think). Neither are athiests.
Agnostics abstain from deciding.
etc
Feathers in Hair
World's Tallest Hobbit
So, for example, a scientist could be a Hindu. Therefore, he might have a different interpretation of Genesis. (Or for that matter, a Christian who also has a different interpretation than you might.)
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Are you then saying that anyone 'not supporting' Genesis is therefore attacking theisim? (The belief in a higher power.) Or are you saying something else?