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Technology and Science advancement is often one step forward and one step backwards. I mean does evolution need a animal so smart as to be able to extinguish all life on earth with the push of some buttons in nuclear war?
Satellites are quite useful, I agree. There will is about to be a glut more thousands of them launched. There be so much junk floating around in outer space as to be like the plastic infecting the oceans of the world today. Stuff stops operating and stays up there. And it has to come down sometime.
We have to consider also what mining all fossil fuel out of the ground has done for climate change. And what are we going to do with all this spent nuclear fuel?
It only needs a few hundred thousand years to not be poisoness. And we're making more and more and more of this deadly waste. Brave New Garbage Can?
"Not in my back yard. In your's is ok."
So technological advancement is a step forward and backwards very often.
Today they HACK computers.
Tomorrow there will be HACKERS of human genes.
Wait until they start hacking babies to get the kinds of people born somebody
wants.
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@sonship saidWith respect, I think you overrate the Bible and are too willing to gloss over its scientific inaccuracies.
You miss my point. Of course every book has some unique characteristics.
The accumulative effect of Genesis revealing so many critical things about man on earth in as few words as it does, I think is unparalleled.
Sure, Huckleberry Finn ALONE talks about a white kid and a black slave on a raft on the Mississippi.
As for the Quran, it was the product ...[text shortened]... , they are both books the Bible and the Quran. No one is saying the Bible is the only book on earth.
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@sonship saidWhy do you look at the Bible through rose-tinted glasses? There is some pretty horrendous stuff in there.
As for the Quran, it was the product of one person - a supposed collection of his sayings. These was produced from about 30 years or so of his life. He HIMSELF thought the messages were from demons at first. Then a couple of women in his life encouraged him to keep going.
The Bible is a library of books written by 40 different authors, in three languages, over the ...[text shortened]... , they are both books the Bible and the Quran. No one is saying the Bible is the only book on earth.
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@ghost-of-a-duke saidNo I do not see it through rose-tinted glasses.
Why do you look at the Bible through rose-tinted glasses? There is some pretty horrendous stuff in there.
For one I know all of it not just the pieces that support opinions I brought to it.
I also know the difference between what the Bible records as having HAPPENED and what it TEACHES. There is a difference. Lots of the "horrendous" stuff people wave hands about is showing the horrendous sinful things man can do.
But we're in whack-a-mole mode now. " I have this problem here. And I have this other problem over there. Yea, but I have also this problem over here."
Back to our initial exchange: With economically few words very many critical things about the history of the universe and the origins of important things are revealed in a way which convinces me that more than mere human wisdom is speaking in Genesis 1 - 11.
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@ghost-of-a-duke saidWhack-a-mole.
With respect, I think you overrate the Bible and are too willing to gloss over its scientific inaccuracies.
You're jumping around like a grasshopper in a hen house.
Rather than my usual way of dealing with this criticism, I am going to ask something else.
Why do you think that when Jesus sat down with His disciples He didn't take much more time to describe to them how gravity works? I mean instead of the Sermon on the Mount why didn't this One claiming He was Son of God spend the time to explain how to go to the planet Mars or make an electron microscope?
Seriously. He says He is God become a man.
Why isn't the 27 books of the New Testament filled with How To instructions pushing technology far ahead?
Wouldn't that have been more interesting than speaking about the glory of love, patience, forgiveness, holiness, dedication to God's kingdom verses things like the sinfulness of adultery, idolatry, unforgiveness, anxiety, selfishness, greed, death, judgment.
I mean didn't the God of the universe want to tell channel the natural laws so as to build a better scientific world? Why didn't Jesus Christ tell us much much more how to make ourselves independent from His Father because we know how to manipulate the laws of nature scientifically?
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To those who agree that the Bible is overrated by me, please tell me
what other books tells you why you are here living in this universe.
What is the book?
Where can I read in it why human beings exist?
My "overrated" Bible tells me that God made everything. Yet when it came to man He had a special purpose. Image and Dominion.
"And God said, Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of heaven, and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth. And God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them." (Gen. 1:26,27)
Like, of all the things the Creator created He took special counsel and care to create man to express God, in some way manifest God and look like God and be deputy authority over all creation. Not that everything went well.
But this book explains who we are and why exist - to express the image and likeness of God the eternal life and reign for Him as superintendent over all He created. That is in CHAPTER ONE of the Holy Bible.
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@sonship saidI think you will find it was God who sent the bears to rip the children apart, not sinful man.
I also know the difference between what the Bible records as having HAPPENED and what it TEACHES. There is a difference. Lots of the "horrendous" stuff people wave hands about is showing the horrendous sinful things man can do.
What does that teach?
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I think you will find it was God who sent the bears to rip the children apart, not sinful man.
What does that teach?
It teaches me that you are somewhat naïve.
It tells me that you think these were little kids and that its quite okay
in any circumstances to mock and insult God's nation saving prophets an always
expect no example of divine discipline should be EVER displayed.
It tells me gangs of roving unruly youths from a town prone to idolatry were not a menace to society and they should always have a right to insult God's servants thus mocking their national Redeemer and Deliverer with unthankfulness, impudence, mob like unruliness. It tells me perhaps that you are drunken with ultra liberal permissivist philosophy and wouldn't care to warn your own kids that a roving gang life can be dangerous particularly one showing disrespect to servants of God whose prayers, intercessions, and service was a national blessing to a people surrounded by hostile enemies.
@sonship saidThere's something seriously wrong in your head, dude.
@BigDoggProblemWhoa, Jack. Relax. What's with the histrionics?
Feel free to delete your post in the morning; I'll forgive you.
You've given no reason why I should not stand by what I wrote in that post.
Maybe wait to see if I take it back before you offer your gracious forgiveness.
It might not be necessary.
@sonship saidI don't have the patience for that. It's easier to just say what I actually think.
@BigDoggProblem
Work on your gaslighting.
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@sonship saidYes, yes, you've said before they were rowdy youths taunting the prophets bald head, and so totally deserved having a bear sent by God to rip them to pieces.
@Ghost-of-a-DukeI think you will find it was God who sent the bears to rip the children apart, not sinful man.
What does that teach?
It teaches me that you are somewhat naïve.
It tells me that you think these were little kids and that its quite okay
in any circumstances to mock and insult God's nation saving prophets an always
expect no exam ...[text shortened]... ayers, intercessions, and service was a national blessing to a people surrounded by hostile enemies.
And you call me naïve?
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@Ghost-of-a-Duke
It was not just a matter of some naughty kids yelling "Baldy!".
Why did Elisha's Bears Maul Boys? Dr. Michael Heiser
@lemondrop saidGenerally, the other gods are believed to be angels. Some of whom are theoretically obedient, and others of whom are demonic, and thus have asked for praise and worship that was only due to God.
from my understanding
the Hebrew God was one of many
and a minor god at that
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Yes, yes, you've said before they were rowdy youths taunting the prophets bald head, and so totally deserved having a bear sent by God to rip them to pieces.
There is no "yes, yes" because I have never claimed that that was all that was going there.
Where did you get the "yes, yes" ?