Would you mind stating scripture and verse so it can be checked? Thanks.
Harry G On Wed June 26 2002 2:40 pm, Lee wrote: > On Tuesday 25 June 2002 14:43, you wrote: > > Nicely put. I can't believe the number of people willing to hang their > > hat on chucking the Bible becuase of all sorts of inconsistencies without > > being able to list any. > > > > Inconsistencies > > 1. Book of Genesis: Two creation myths fused together to form an > inconsistent creation story. In the first fthe animals are created and then > man is created both male and female on the sixth day. Second story of > Genesis God plants a garden after the creation and plunks Adam into the > garden on the second day then he creates the animals and brings them to > Adam to name. On the sixth day he creates Eve from a rib of Adam, although > he had already created Mrs Adam on the sixth day of the first creation > story "man both male and female." Must assume that the first Mrs. Adam and > kids were left to shift for themselves after God snatched up Adam. > > 2. The Tree of knowledge. God told Adam and Eve that they could eat of any > the trees save one: the Tree of Knowledge." "For on the day that you do you > will surely die. They ate they didn't die. Book Thumpers try to get around > this little inconsistency by claimimg that man had been created immortal > and died after he was driven from the garden. This is negated by Genesis > and the Tree of Life. Contrary to the thumpers claims man was not driven > from the garden for disobeying God but because God feared that Adam and Eve > would also eat from the Tree of Life and become immortal with the knowledge > of good and evil and be like Gods themselves. The Snake ( and it was a > serpent not the Devil) hadn't lied he just didn't tell the whole truth. The > claim of the thumpers of Original Sin and death are negated by this part of > Genesis. > > 3. This fear of Man's capabilities is also shown in the story of the Tower > of Babel. Man was not afflicted by God with different languages for > presumption. He was afflicted because of capability; for God said, "I see > now that man can do whatever he sets his mind to do." He claimed that man > could do this because he had a common language. So he fixed that by > insuring that everyone spoke his own tongue. Therefore we must lay every > war that different languages had a part in on God's doorstep. A second > inconsistency is the so-called infallibility of God. Somehow he had failed > to notice the capability of man. > > Tune in next week kiddies when we go into the Real Story of Exodus > > Lee > > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux-users mailing list - > > http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe > > info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list - > http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe > info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
