06 Feb '10 06:42>
Originally posted by wolfgang59ohh touchy touchy touchy!
[b]firstly there is no confusion except for the uninitiated
So only those that know, know?
That really isn't helping much!
http://www.dictionary.net/initiated
And how does one get 'initiated'?[/b]
what is it about the sequence of creative days you do not understand, God knows i have made them plain enough. Your insistence that the events relating to the creation of humans happens at some other time than the sixth day is based on what? that is correct, a superficial reading of the ancient text. The assertion that there is also two creation accounts is also based on what? Nothing but a superficial reading of the text.
As for being initiated, are you unaware that those who deny the divine and thus try to understand scripture without the help of Gods spirit cannot indeed come to an accurate knowledge of these things? why is that? because it is the folly of the rationalist to evaluate spiritual things from a merely human standpoint, indeed, in doing so they perceive these spiritual values as foolishness. Please consider the text.
(1 Corinthians 1:18-25) For the speech about the torture stake is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is Gods power. For it is written: “I will make the wisdom of the wise men perish, and the intelligence of the intellectual men I will shove aside.” Where is the wise man? Where the scribe? Where the debater of this system of things? Did not God make the wisdom of the world foolish? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom did not get to know God, God saw good through the foolishness of what is preached to save those believing. For both the Jews ask for signs and the Greeks look for wisdom; but we preach Christ impaled, to the Jews a cause for stumbling but to the nations foolishness; however, to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. Because a foolish thing of God is wiser than men, and a weak thing of God is stronger than men.