psychoslice
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No more excuses, Ha.
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Why is the theory of evolution...still considered a theory?
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Thief
Rogue Theologian
so....the story of Moses is believable?
or do you have cause to say....nay
psychoslice
Veteran Member
No, the story of Moses is just that, a story.
Thief
Rogue Theologian
that's not an excuse.....
Genesis tells the truth
or you have cause to say it is a lie?
psychoslice
Veteran Member
Genesis never said it was the truth, it was a story that had meaning to those who have are spiritually discerned.
Thief
Rogue Theologian
so then....you read the book....
assuming it was nothing but fiction?
psychoslice
Veteran Member
Yes I have read it over and over, I was a Christian for many years.
Thief
Rogue Theologian
so now you regard the book.....especially the books of Moses....
as fictional works?
Noah & his family built a big floating boat, loaded it up with 2 of every critter on Earth.
It rained so much the entire planet was covered with water covering even mountains.
Noah floated around knee deep in critter crap for 40 days and nights.
Yeah, I totally believe that.
Why does about every picture or painting of that ark show it as being a boat with a prow
and stern?
X cubits by X cubits by X cubits is a rectangle.
Artists envision it as a boat.
It wasn't a boat.
It was supposed to float. That's all, just float.
Is Noah's story a true story or a pretty fable? A bit of fine prose written for the people of the day
that thought the earth was flat!
A fable to explain where the rainbow came from.
I Christian I am. I Bible reader also.
Stupid I ain't.
I've read accounts that the flood could have happened because back in the day the earth was surrounded
by water vapor muck like Venus.
God caused that layer of water to fall as rain causing a global flood.
Could be maybe. I dunno?
Size of Noah's big box: 450 feet long 75 feet wide 45 feet tall.
Pretty big floating box what?
It rained so much the entire planet was covered with water covering even mountains.
Noah floated around knee deep in critter crap for 40 days and nights.
Yeah, I totally believe that.
Why does about every picture or painting of that ark show it as being a boat with a prow
and stern?
X cubits by X cubits by X cubits is a rectangle.
Artists envision it as a boat.
It wasn't a boat.
It was supposed to float. That's all, just float.
Is Noah's story a true story or a pretty fable? A bit of fine prose written for the people of the day
that thought the earth was flat!
A fable to explain where the rainbow came from.
I Christian I am. I Bible reader also.
Stupid I ain't.
I've read accounts that the flood could have happened because back in the day the earth was surrounded
by water vapor muck like Venus.
God caused that layer of water to fall as rain causing a global flood.
Could be maybe. I dunno?
Size of Noah's big box: 450 feet long 75 feet wide 45 feet tall.
Pretty big floating box what?
Thief
Rogue Theologian
and insufficient to carry two of all speciesNoah & his family built a big floating boat, loaded it up with 2 of every critter on Earth.
It rained so much the entire planet was covered with water covering even mountains.
Noah floated around knee deep in critter crap for 40 days and nights.
Yeah, I totally believe that.
Why does about every picture or painting of that ark show it as being a boat with a prow
and stern?
X cubits by X cubits by X cubits is a rectangle.
Artists envision it as a boat.
It wasn't a boat.
It was supposed to float. That's all, just float.
Is Noah's story a true story or a pretty fable? A bit of fine prose written for the people of the day
that thought the earth was flat!
A fable to explain where the rainbow came from.
I Christian I am. I Bible reader also.
Stupid I ain't.
I've read accounts that the flood could have happened because back in the day the earth was surrounded
by water vapor muck like Venus.
God caused that layer of water to fall as rain causing a global flood.
Could be maybe. I dunno?
Size of Noah's big box: 450 feet long 75 feet wide 45 feet tall.
Pretty big floating box what?
not to mention provision for all
yeah I know.....some of the old books ARE too hard to confess as truth
but I do believe in evolution
and I do believe 'something happened' to suddenly change the nature and attitude of Man
and Chapter Two of Genesis reads like a science experiment
intended to alter the nature of Man
psychoslice
Veteran Member
Yes of course, the story being real or not doesn't concern me, its what the story points to that I am interested on.
The Story of Adam and Even we Baha'is don't believe is literal. I
It has many beautiful meanings one of which I'd like to share. We were born as spiritual, godly and virtuous beings. The Garden of Eden represents life around us while living a spiritual life and obeying God's laws and Teachings such as love one another.
The snake represents our ego or insistent lower base self. If we listen to the promptings of our lower base instincts and choose to disobey God's laws and commit evil then we shall 'fall' from once spiritual beings to 'materialistic' beings. From the paradise of the Garden of Happiness to the misery of a world of hell.
Only interested in the materials things of life and through greed and selfishness the world eventually became the hell it is now. We always have a choice of choosing good or evil from the tree of life. One leads to heaven on earth, the other hell.
We can have our Garden of Eden again if we make the right choices.
It has many beautiful meanings one of which I'd like to share. We were born as spiritual, godly and virtuous beings. The Garden of Eden represents life around us while living a spiritual life and obeying God's laws and Teachings such as love one another.
The snake represents our ego or insistent lower base self. If we listen to the promptings of our lower base instincts and choose to disobey God's laws and commit evil then we shall 'fall' from once spiritual beings to 'materialistic' beings. From the paradise of the Garden of Happiness to the misery of a world of hell.
Only interested in the materials things of life and through greed and selfishness the world eventually became the hell it is now. We always have a choice of choosing good or evil from the tree of life. One leads to heaven on earth, the other hell.
We can have our Garden of Eden again if we make the right choices.
Thief
Rogue Theologian
nay....
the garden was a petri dish and the need of it is gone
we are heaven bound ...if heaven allows it
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