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Belief in evolution has nothing to do with belief in God. Hence, roughly 1/3rd of American scientists who accept evolution are also Christians.

Well the Bible states that all virgin women will bleed on their first time. That’s the indication of the virgin blood test. You should read through my entire original post. Then maybe you’ll understand what is happening.

Ultimately all I can do is base my decision off of what best makes sense and it seems so did the majority of scholars who translated it. I don’t see any other way to interpret it that makes sense.

When we look at the context for the spirit moving above the water the only clear interpretation is hovering above like a bird floating on the wind. Shaking would make no sense here. We know it’s hovering because the word for spirit is the same for the words used for wind. We also see this...

Or it was how the ancient Jewish people believed. Since for them the entire cosmos was water , a giant sea in darkness, when that water got separated into the waters above and the waters below, the waters above became clouds. They did not understand evaporation or the weather cycle like us. They...

somewhere in the thread I listed some books and podcasts that deal with this exact topic. They are all Old Testament biblical scholars with multiple doctorates and decades of being professors. They lay it out fairly well citing dozens of more sources.

I did not read your post past the first sentence or two. The post is very clear. It’s a post about the psychological aspects of the uneducated who believe they know more than the collective experts in any given field. Take any field. Gather all the experts in that field. Get their general...

None of that is relevant to the post.

The comparison makes no sense. It’s more like this. you have an ancient text from a culture that is mostly gone that speaks a language you don’t know, translated from over 5,000 manuscripts to convey ideas that you have to covert into modern ones to make sense of. I don’t even have the...

I agree that the sea is not literal. If the sea is not literal then what is it? What does it symbolizes? That was one of the points of my post. The sea symbolizes chaos and hostility to life. The sea represents the formless void. Which is why in genesis 1, it never mentions the creation of the...

But why do I find it amusing? I find it amusing when the dumbest of the dumb try to correct the smartest by using silly arguments and yet the dumbest of the dumb are so convinced they are so right.

I’m not jumping into the evolution vs pseudoscientific beliefs based on terrible biblical hermeneutics on this thread. There are threads out there on it.

Why would I think it’s literal? Nothing I’ve said in the entire post would logically lead anyone to that thought about me. so why did I think you took it literally? you stated, “ why would there be a sea when there is the river of life”. do you think there is literally no sea? Or will there...

Its incredibly amusing, and really proves the point of the post, that some actually believe experts are useless. Lol.

Because it fit.

So simple a child could understand it huh? Yet so many of y’all are so completely missing it. No contextual analysis, no genre mentions, not patterns and so on. I listed a handful of books and podcasts. You may want to check them out.

so just to be clear….. you think those verses in revelation are not symbolic but are all literal?

So you believe that all virgin women will bleed the first time they have sex?

If you can’t read a post then you’re thoughts don’t matter. Or if you lie. You seem to enjoy lying. such as saying the Bible is not inerrant is not rejecting it as the word of god. But I know you don’t know anything about the debate. You also don’t know how to read a post and understand its...

So before engaging in this conversation I ask that you use wisdom. To use wisdom means to read the whole post and then respond by either agreeing, by asking clarifying questions, by disagreeing by countering my points or either by further elaborating on the story. Trigger warning for the...