OH that's just awesome (and cute too)

Awesome!

Glad to hear it. In this day and age that's somewhat rare. Hopefully your church still holds to the bible's authority and hasn't gone off the reservation like the USPCA has and some of the PCA has already.

Please don't.

They value men's fallible ideas over God's infallible word when it comes to Creation.

Is that important? Can't christians differ on how God started everything?

Sure, they do, but the issue isn't one of differing interpretations of the text, the issue is one of authority...One view takes the text as written and believes it, the other goes outside the text and gathers current ideas and attempts to support them with scripture.

You cannot get the big bang and anything other than the actual, 6 24 hour day creation from the text itself. If you do try and mix long ages and or what ever other sort of evolutionary idea with the text, you are starting OUTSIDE the text itself and looking for ways to shore up what you believe...not believing the text itself.

Rather, go to http://www.answersingenesis.org for LOTS of good information about creation from a God honoring perspective.

Lol...that's awesome. And a Christian who knows what the reformation and the diet of worms was.

You must be some flavor of Calvinist.

Did I guess correctly?

Free markets work.

Provide a product that people want, at a cost that they are willing to pay, and support that product with service and you will thrive.

Do the opposite and you won't.

Simple stuff.

I don't begrudge WalMart one bit. They have their business model and apparently it's successful. Good for them and all of the folks that they employ.

That's a big "IF".
Anything after the "IF" is pointless.



Error comes from the first assumption.



Yes, Noah had two of every land-dwelling animal on the ark so that would include dinos too. They are extinct just like many many many organisms have gone.
Yes, I'm telling you that God saved them to let them die out.

Don't like that idea?

Then modify your made-up God so that he didn't do that.

I guess the idea that there can be something that's actually "true" is lost on you. By definition, if two conflicting ideas meet, then one is true and the other false, or both are false, both cannot be true. That's basic logic. If you think it's intolerant that a person believes that truth exists and we can know what it is...then I can't help that.



And you also. You believe what you are saying is true otherwise you wouldn't have said it so you can include yourself in that category too (unless you want to say "what I just said about intolerance is wrong")



Which is a 100% false statistic. It tells me what I need to know about your level of experience on the subject...



Guess can be wrong as this one was.



As if we all aren't familiar with John 3:16.

The problem is that you inject lots of meaning into that passage that it doesn't say and also reject other parts of the bible that would completely destroy the idea that all religions lead to God or that anything a person believes that's even remotely Christian-like is acceptable to God and equals salvation.

If anyone on this thread wants a good illustration of why there are so many conflicting ideas on the subject just watch folks slice-and-dice the bible to fit their personal God and ideas just as you and bull-drink-water have.

Yeah...I can read. Just like I can understand what you are writing here.



Actually no they don't. (if you mean Christianity vs Buddhism vs Hinduism etc...)



Sorry...not even close. However I know where you are coming from, making a God to suit ourselves is very common. In the US it's at epidemic levels. No matter what a person can dream up for his/her particular desires, the God that they believe in is the one who agrees with them.

Lol...no, that's the bible talking.



Doesn't jibe?

Jibe with what? What you want it to say?



It's not my way, it's what God has said. If you don't like it, that's something I can't do anything about.

I didn't attack, I merely stated the truth.



Too bad that makes no sense except it lets you believe in a God that you've made up in your mind. (that's called idolatry)



Only if you aren't born-again (actual believer)



The bible states the truth about history.



No argument there.



Allow me to translate: "I've made up a God to suit my own preferences and desires and nobody can tell me that I'm wrong."

Except God himself who said you must be born again to see the kingdom of God. He also said to not neglect meeting with other saints on the Lord's day as established in the early church and stated in the bible.

He said a lot of things that you won't believe. My prayer is that you repent and believe the actual gospel and are born-again so that you will see the kingdom instead of getting your just punishment in Hell.

Please repent of your idolatry before it's too late. God is a merciful savior, cry out to Him.

I have.

You and I both know that you really didn't wonder about these things, you just post this stuff because you hate God and this is a way you express it.

Been there, done that.

Thankfully God changed my heart so that I now love Him and His word instead of thumbing my nose at Him. I pray that He does the same for you before it's too late.

Unfortunately, you don't know the first thing about the history and transmission of the bible except what you've picked from the internet. There is no such thing as the "telephone game" idea when translating from extant manuscripts to another language.

That in itself tells me that you are completely ignorant of the process and the history of the text.

Me.

Oly Trip 35 is my favorite.

I do also use a Nikon FE2 when the Trip can't get 'er done.

I will shoot film exclusively until I can't develop or print the images in my darkroom or can't afford to do it then I will reluctantly go digital.