Originally posted by whodey Google it. Even critics who say it does not add up to 500 years exactly conceed it is, in fact, a calendar for the coming of the Messiah. They also conceed that it is around the 500 year mark. The fact that laymen like you and I cannot interpret such time keeping is of no surprise. They simlpy had differnet calendars than we do today as well as described ...[text shortened]... s problematic because they have no reason to point to Christ because they reject him as Messiah.
As it is religion you can belive anything. It doesn't even have to make sense. That's the nice part about religions, it's based upon faith.
Originally posted by whodey I disagree. If the Ark has been discovered, it would present horrible delimmas for those who attack the veracity of scripture. In fact, the two most attacked stories in the Bible are Noah's Ark and Creation. One dilemma is the fact that the same author of Gensis who wrote about Creation also wrote of Noah's Ark. So if Noah's Ark is confirmed to be legitim ...[text shortened]... forseeable flood? In fact, how did they have the technical know how to even build the thing?
Originally posted by FMF So, we're kind of clear here, right? You don't appreciate the difference between the uncountable noun "reason" and the countable noun "reason".
Originally posted by FabianFnas As it is religion you can belive anything. It doesn't even have to make sense. That's the nice part about religions, it's based upon faith.