Pete, > No, they are not in conflict at all. This is why I can hardly believe > that you don't believe the Word of God. Have you some reason to not > believe in the Word, "Got" notwithstanding?
I don't believe that the text we have today is the complete word that God wanted us to hear. The first 5 books of the Hebrew Torah were written by Moses and were never intended to be treated as a factual history of the world. I believe they are an allegory, and since that's what the Hebrews themselves think I certainly don't think I'm off-base in that view. I understand that the young fundamentalist churches do not choose to view it the same way, but that is not a view held by religious groups older than, say, 200 years of age. Fundamentalists tend to be zealots of young religious groups. They tend to have studied less, and have teachers without a full grounding in the history of the texts used for preaching. So no, I don't subscribe to the views that fundamentalists preach. I never have. It just made no sense to me, even when I was a child. Why on earth would God punish a person in hell fire for eternity because they didn't say a prayer just before getting hit by a bus? That just doesn't make any sense to me. I wouldn't even do that to a rattlesnake. God gave me a brain and I will use it, thank you very much. - Kris www.shamrocktrails.com, www.mcstyles.com, www.emryldlife.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
