Axel"Elf" is truly an ELF and an absolute heretic
Is that an insult? What do you have against elves? Are you prejudiced or something?
Claiming to be a prophet yet contradicting the Bible, claiming its not scientifically or historically accurate.
I am not contradicting any of the spiritual truths that the Bible was intended to teach us. I am contradicting the tendency of human beings to use the Bible in a way that it was NOT intended; i.e., as a history book or as a science book.
The only prophet you are is a prophet of science FALSELY so called.
Prophets of science--that is, people who help other people understand science--are called "scientists." I'm ok with that label.
Whats the wise thing to do? REPENT!
Repent of using the brain that God gave me?
I'll pass...
Here is what the Bible says about you, Peter saw you coming:
2Pe 3:5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
2Pe 3:6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
I understand that you are probably not ready to digest this, but the context of this passage isn't about a literal reading of Genesis, it is about recognizing that God is still the reason for everything that happens. Peter directs this towards those who think that creation is running just fine by itself without any God that they can perceive, and Peter is reminding them that without God, there would be no creation in the first place. He talks about the flood, (because that's what they understood had happened at the time, even though we know better these days), only to illustrate that whatever happens in creation, happens because of God.
And to the extent that Noah may have been a real person who survived some kind of local disaster with his family and livestock, even people who have been through something like that today might say that their whole world was destroyed, when obviously, they don't mean THE whole world. To the extent that a localized flood was real, that would basically amount to their whole world being destroyed (as they had no knowledge of how big THE world really was at that time).
Again: Your own "rational possibility".
It's not "my own" personal impossibility, the occurrence of a worldwide flood is not rationally possible by what we understand to be true about the Earth--unless God is some kind of a liar Who is fooling us all into believing that things that did happen could not have happened--but that's not my idea of God.
For instance, for the entire surface of the Earth to be submerged to the tops of the mountains in the Himalayas would require something over 4 billion cubic kilometers of water. The Earth's entire ecosystem--oceans, lakes, ponds, rivers, clouds and atmosphere--contains only something like 1.5 billion cubic kilometers of water. There would have been no place for 3 times that amount of water to have come from--and no place for it to go afterwards.
Just start your atheist youtube channel already
Why would I do that? I'm not an atheist--I've made it abundantly clear that I am a Christian.
quit deceiving Christians itno believing in "science falsely so called".
I'm not deceiving anyone; this information doesn't come from me. I'm just telling you about it, and it can be discovered independently by anyone who is willing to follow the command of 1 Corinthians 2:15a (Amplified Bible): "But the spiritual man tries all things [he examines, investigates, inquires into, questions, and discerns all things]..."
If Christians were supposed to ignore science, why would we be commanded to examine, investigate, inquire into, question and discern all things?
This is some of the worst possible behavior you can do in a Christian forum, sowing DOUBT in people about the Bible.
The doubt should not be in the spiritual truths that the Bible was intended to teach us--those truths are infallible in all matters. The doubt should be in the human practice of using the Bible in a way that it was NOT intended--as a history or a science book, for instance.
here is to hoping CS1 removes you from the board, LEST YOU OFFEND some new Christian and cause him/her to stumble, you know how the saying goes dont you? Millstone city!
Let's not forget that some rational people might be interested in checking out Christianity for themselves, but they think that they would have to check their brains at the door to become a Christian because, as St. Augustine said...
“Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other elements of this world, about the motion and orbit of the stars and even their size and relative positions, about the predictable eclipses of the sun and moon, the cycles of the years and the seasons, about the kinds of animals, shrubs, stones, and so forth, and this knowledge he holds to as being certain from reason and experience.
"Now, it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics; and we should take all means to prevent such an embarrassing situation, in which people show up vast ignorance in a Christian and laugh it to scorn. The shame is not so much that an ignorant individual is derided, but that people outside the household of faith think our sacred writers held such opinions, and, to the great loss of those for whose salvation we toil, the writers of our Scripture are criticized and rejected as unlearned men.
"If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven, when they think their pages are full of falsehoods and on facts which they themselves have learnt from experience and the light of reason? Reckless and incompetent expounders of Holy Scripture bring untold trouble and sorrow on their wiser brethren when they are caught in one of their mischievous false opinions and are taken to task by those who are not bound by the authority of our sacred books. For then, to defend their utterly foolish and obviously untrue statements, they will try to call upon Holy Scripture for proof and even recite from memory many passages which they think support their position, although they understand neither what they say nor the things about which they make assertion."
Letting people know that you can still be rational and be a Christian at the same time could bring more of them into the fold.
