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Old 11-06-2008, 02:27 PM
 
Location: Mississippi
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If God did it and that's the explanation what basis for support do you have to tell me in so much as why I should believe it?
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Old 11-06-2008, 02:35 PM
 
Location: Montrose, CA
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Ahhh, the old God did it argument that pops up when Christians have no answers..I was wondering how long it would take.
This thread is chock FULL of incredibly funny and impossible things that people believe. A+++ would read and laugh again!
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Old 11-06-2008, 02:36 PM
 
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If God did it and that's the explanation what basis for support do you have to tell me in so much as why I should believe it?
What I find funny, Troop, is that threads like this are usually started by, and well visited by, people who are talking about an event they don't believe, found in a book they don't believe, and then they think it's ridiculous when a Christian suggests that the event is supernatural!

I find that rather humorous!

Obviously, if I believe in God and the Bible, I've passed that hurdle long ago...
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Old 11-06-2008, 02:36 PM
 
Location: Montrose, CA
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"God did it" is the answer.
More like the punch line.
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Old 11-06-2008, 02:53 PM
 
Location: Mississippi
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What I find funny, Troop, is that threads like this are usually started by, and well visited by, people who are talking about an event they don't believe, found in a book they don't believe, and then they think it's ridiculous when a Christian suggests that the event is supernatural!

I find that rather humorous!

Obviously, if I believe in God and the Bible, I've passed that hurdle long ago...
I think that's because most of us find it absolutely mind-boggling how anyone could believe this stuff. I have to be honest, I couldn't actually look someone in the eye and tell them that I believed in any of it. The Noah's Ark story is one of the most far-fetched and... well... ridiculous stories in the Bible, in my opinion.

My point was that you can say a supernatural event occurred but that's just it... You can't prove it. You can't even say there's evidence for it - because there isn't. And as long as we're both willing to agree that it takes an extraordinary leap of illogical faith to believe something such as this than that's fine.
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Old 11-06-2008, 02:59 PM
 
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And as long as we're both willing to agree that it takes an extraordinary leap of illogical faith to believe something such as this than that's fine.
All I'm going to say that anything's possible when God is involved. Illogical to our human senses? Sure. But faith is not illogical... in fact, as I know God, I believe that the flood was perfectly supernaturally logical.
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Old 11-06-2008, 03:07 PM
 
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But faith is not illogical... in fact, as I know God, I believe that the flood was perfectly supernaturally logical.
Sure. And a man who flies across the sky at a million miles per hour on a sled led by eight flying reindeer who proceeds to stop at every individual home across the world and drop off presents to the children of the world of whom were good and that is known because of the list of 'naughty' and 'nice' that he has been keeping throughout the year at his home on the North Pole that is run by migrant slave workers of elves who construct the toys could be seen as perfectly supernaturally logical as well.

But, I have faith that happens every year so therefore it's not illogical.
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Old 11-06-2008, 03:08 PM
 
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But, I have faith that happens every year so therefore it's not illogical.
Do you really?
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Old 11-06-2008, 03:16 PM
 
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Do you really?
Yep.
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Old 11-06-2008, 03:43 PM
 
Location: Nashville, Tn
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I knew this would be entertaining. I like the part about how insects survived by using floating vegetation like little life rafts. So I guess they must have eaten part of their rafts to stay alive for all of those months but there was still enough of them left to save the little critters from drowning and for some reason none of this stuff sank. It was also very fortunate that when the waters receded that all of the millions of species of insects that are adapted to particular locations just happened to touch down on dry land again at the exact locations where they could survive. Yeah, that makes sense.
So we had a big boat for all of the larger animals and then we had millions of baby arcs so to speak for all of God's creatures from the insect world. Thanks for clearing that up.
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