And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
7 pairs. Lots of myths of large, hairy hominids all around the world. Bigfoot, Skunk-ape, Yeti/Abominable snowman, Peter Mayhew before his made it big in Hollywood & afford a beard trimmer.....
As a theist, I wonder how many times people use such a question as a conversational springboard to elicit negative criticism of elected officials and less because of any theological concerns?
Country's don't make decisions as that is an option only available to individuals, and putting that "we" qualifier up front doesn't make your ponder subject any less retarded, Christina.
If you believe in Bigfoot, it's obvious why belief in something with far more actual evidence, like Christianity, was a foregone conclusion.
The question more on-point is whether you also believe in the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, and the Loch Ness Monster, which points out that this isn't a question for theology, but rather one of mental sanity.
As a (not very devout) Christian, the Noah's Ark story is one of the least convincing parts of the Bible, along with the Book of Revelations and the @6000 years since Creation.
There probably was a great flood, but not to the extent recorded in Genesis; it probably happened during the last stages of the glacial retreat around 9000 BC.
So God couldn't have done something he said he did? How does that work? In your theology, why would God find it necessary to prefer a lie rather than the truth? How does he still get to be God if that is the case? How could he generate an entire universe with a word, yet couldn't do a mere flood? How did he ever become a man? Or rise from the dead? Which of those do you reckon is the more difficult feat?
It would seem your God is too small. Perhaps let him out of the box you've constructed, and let him stretch his legs a bit. Just a thought.
Two of them, or seven pairs?
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7 pairs. Lots of myths of large, hairy hominids all around the world. Bigfoot, Skunk-ape, Yeti/Abominable snowman, Peter Mayhew before his made it big in Hollywood & afford a beard trimmer.....
DeleteAs a Christina I quite often ponder the question would, Christ approve of the decisions we have made as a country?
ReplyDeleteAs a theist, I wonder how many times people use such a question as a conversational springboard to elicit negative criticism of elected officials and less because of any theological concerns?
DeleteCountry's don't make decisions as that is an option only available to individuals, and putting that "we" qualifier up front doesn't make your ponder subject any less retarded, Christina.
DeleteIf you believe in Bigfoot, it's obvious why belief in something with far more actual evidence, like Christianity, was a foregone conclusion.
ReplyDeleteThe question more on-point is whether you also believe in the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, and the Loch Ness Monster, which points out that this isn't a question for theology, but rather one of mental sanity.
As a (not very devout) Christian, the Noah's Ark story is one of the least convincing parts of the Bible, along with the Book of Revelations and the @6000 years since Creation.
ReplyDeleteThere probably was a great flood, but not to the extent recorded in Genesis; it probably happened during the last stages of the glacial retreat around 9000 BC.
It’s the book of Revelation.
DeleteThe Bible is a book unlike any other. It has to be believed to be seen.
So God couldn't have done something he said he did? How does that work? In your theology, why would God find it necessary to prefer a lie rather than the truth? How does he still get to be God if that is the case?
DeleteHow could he generate an entire universe with a word, yet couldn't do a mere flood? How did he ever become a man? Or rise from the dead?
Which of those do you reckon is the more difficult feat?
It would seem your God is too small.
Perhaps let him out of the box you've constructed, and let him stretch his legs a bit.
Just a thought.
I’m glad Monk straightened it all out for us weak minded uninformed.
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