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Tintin
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What's really sad to me is that while we can debate until we're exhausted on this subject, no one will ever be convinced of anything unless they invite God into their lives. I often encourage people to give it one shot, just speak to him, in an honest tone, he will match your faith because you have opened an avenue for him to speak to you. People just don't understand that we are simply not strong enough to handle his splendor and glorious being. He expresses himself in the physical plane through the beauty and design in his creations, and in his designs we remember on a deep level that we are of him. Too much thinking is the parable represented by Eve and the apple. Once we try and conceptualize the world on our own without God's instruction, we become lost as he is too great for our minds to understand. If you don't open yourself to him, he cannot show you his miracles because you wouldn't believe it even if he presented them to you. Life in itself is a miracle, and they are missing and missing it, very sad they can't see.
The Creation, the Fall, the Flood, the Tower etc. aren't parables but brief accounts of actual human history. If people aren't grounded in God's Word and can't accept it as truth, all of it, then there's no reason to believe any of it. Of course, I understand the Bible is made up of many different genres but Genesis is a historical narrative and the whole Bible is God-breathed truth.