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I'm just going to stick with my Thomas Aquinas point of view on this one. :[

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The vast and overwhelming majority of Christians in the world accept scientific theory as to the origins of the Earth - which are, in any case, Jewish Scripture. Jewish scholarship has never, ever, once, proposed that the creation narrative should be taken literally. The Jewish calendar might ****** a Biblical date but this is, as it has always been, notional. It is a very narrow branch of Christianity indeed that insists on a literal understanding rather than allegorical interpretation of the creation and so you are in very good company indeed in believing what you do, and there is absolutely no reason at all for you to consider yourself a bad anything for accepting a scientific explanation for our world.
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being Christian is about love/ forgiveness / & being u self....................the earth's age has nothing to do with those things
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You're a realist. Most christians don't take every word in the bible literally.
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lol cute :P
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marie cat sticking out tongue gif X3
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*yanks yer tongue away and runs away giggling maniacally* WHAT NOW MS TS WHAT NOW?!
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:P
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Obviously, Ms TS HOW CAN YOU EVEN LIVE WITH YOURSELF WITH SUCH BELIEFS! ? :p
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also to teach the kids good moral lessons in life so they don't have to hurt themselves or be hurt like I had to.
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The word ''day'' in the Bible is ''Yom'' in Hebrew. Yom can be translated as ''Long period of time''. The seven days of creation could've been thousands or even millions of years.

I don't think the entire Bible is meant to be taken literally. The Bible is just here to tell us that there is a *** and He sent His Son to die for us.
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The vast and overwhelming majority of Christians in the world accept scientific theory as to the origins of the Earth - which are, in any case, Jewish Scripture. Jewish scholarship has never, ever, once, proposed that the creation narrative should be taken literally. The Jewish calendar might ****** a Biblical date but this is, as it has always been, notional. It is a very narrow branch of Christianity indeed that insists on a literal understanding rather than allegorical interpretation of the creation and so you are in very good company indeed in believing what you do, and there is absolutely no reason at all for you to consider yourself a bad anything for accepting a scientific explanation for our world.
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No, but Christians and education don't exactly mesh well. You should keep your knowledge to yourself while you're among other Christians.
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bad christian
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Thank you. :P The cherry picking is just me trying to be like Thomas Aquinas. :/
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WEEEELL yes and no. You're an intelligent one! And a good person! But I never got the point of all this cherry picking. Oh well, this is literal but this bit over here is just a metaphor and blah blah blah. Everyone **** up with their own interpretation to the point where I just threw the whole thing out.
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Not at all! We have no idea how long the Earth stood before *** used it to create all that's here now. We have no idea since the Bible tells us "one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day" exactly how long creation truly took. We simply know it happened because we see it all around us. And this is how dinosaurs, cave men, Neanderthal Man, and millions of years are understood to have existed. Don't allow "cookie cutter" beliefs to cause you to trip up, that's what satan wants. :)
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dr who shrug gif
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During the California Gold Rush a state geologist found artifacts which included human remains with tools millions of years old. That was written about in a book called Forbidden Archaeology by Michael Cremo.
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You're an intelligent Christian who doesn't believe in fairy tales.
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Six Thousand-Year-Old Earth

Topic#: 668
When you are literally made out of words...literally...it's eternally critical that the words you live your life by are the correct ones. (For more information on this phenomenal secret click on to "Everything Made of Words" on this site.) Over and over again this web site, www.**************.com, proves the veracity of the Authorized King James Version of the Bible. Every Thursday (*** willing) we air a brand new subject that proves that *** is and that His word is true.

Psalm 119, Verse 105:

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

His word is the light of life. It never changes and is always correct. Build your "house" upon it. ***'s word is the solid rock.

*** SAID that He created the heavens and the earth in six literal days. When you track the genealogical record in ***'s Word you will discover that the earth is just over 6,000 years old.

MAN SAID, "That's absurd! Every intelligent human knows that the earth is billions of years old. That's just another reason to discard that archaic Bible."

Now THE RECORD. You have probably sat in a school classroom and heard or someone has said to you that the world is billions of years old or that bones have been discovered that are millions of years old. The next opport...































































Six Thousand-Year-Old Earth

Topic#: 668
When you are literally made out of words...literally...it's eternally critical that the words you live your life by are the correct ones. (For more information on this phenomenal secret click on to "Everything Made of Words" on this site.) Over and over again this web site, www.**************.com, proves the veracity of the Authorized King James Version of the Bible. Every Thursday (*** willing) we air a brand new subject that proves that *** is and that His word is true.

Psalm 119, Verse 105:

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

His word is the light of life. It never changes and is always correct. Build your "house" upon it. ***'s word is the solid rock.

*** SAID that He created the heavens and the earth in six literal days. When you track the genealogical record in ***'s Word you will discover that the earth is just over 6,000 years old.

MAN SAID, "That's absurd! Every intelligent human knows that the earth is billions of years old. That's just another reason to discard that archaic Bible."

Now THE RECORD. You have probably sat in a school classroom and heard or someone has said to you that the world is billions of years old or that bones have been discovered that are millions of years old. The next opportunity you have in such a setting ask the individual to prove it. If you find someone who attempts to prove their old age position, they will typically march out flawed circular reasoning or dating systems built up upon unprovable ***********. The results of their dating systems have been proven wrong numerous times. The reason the anti-*** group has never proven its position is quite simple and that is that their position simply isn't true. Keep in mind that proof is established by two or more reliable witnesses. Where are their witnesses? Recorded history goes back approximately 5,000 years and comes to an abrupt halt and the reason for that is obvious...there isn't much history prior to that point.

Because the evolutionists have no recorded history of man prior to the 6,000 plus years declared in ***'s Word which is a reliable history book and witness, the anti-Bible groups have no witnesses to support their pre-6,000 years old claims. In order to debunk the authority of ***'s Word they created an armada of pseudoscientific theories and techniques designed to offset their lack of witnesses...their lack of proof.

I mentioned earlier flawed circular reasoning. For example, if you asked the evolutionists to date a particular fossil they would certify its age by telling you what strata it was found in. And if you pursued and asked how you can tell the age of particular strata they would tell you by the age of the fossil found in it. That kind of sounds like the dog chasing its tail, doesn't it?

I also mentioned erroneous dating techniques. Carbon-14 which is a dating technique used to date once living things is probably the dating system with the most notoriety. After a living thing dies it begins to decay and Carbon-14 decays back to Nitrogen-14. By measuring the levels of Carbon-14 left in the dead specimen a scientist estimates its age. The carbon-14 process has proven far from perfect. On numerous occasions Carbon-14 measurements have shown living things to be of ancient ages as well as attaching ages to dead things, of which their ages have been certified, far older than they actually are. Regarding radiocarbon dating, Dr. G. E. Aardsma, Chairman of the Astro/Geophysics Dept. of the ICR Graduate School, had this to say:

At the present time it appears that the conventional radiocarbon dating technique is on relatively firm ground for dates which fall within the past 3,000 years.

In spite of this 3,000 year limit, anti-creationists have thrown out ages of 70,000 years and more as a result of radiocarbon dating.

Most, due to lack of real interest, are unaware there is a mountain of information to support a 6,000 year old earth. There are 107 scientific measurements alone that prove the earth to be young; scientific research concerning things such as population statistics and the fossil record to Helium in the atmosphere to erosion of the continents.

Perplexing news concerning recent dinosaur bones unearthed in Alaska should have sent a lot of the old-earth proponents back to their bunkers to attempt to shore up their theories. According to the anti-Bible folks there was a huge catastrophe that killed off all the dinosaurs around 70 million years ago. M. Helder in a 1992 article ******, "Fresh Dinosaur Bones Found," published in Creation ex nihilo, Vol. 14, the following information was found:

She could not accept that fresh (not permineralized, meaning unfossilized) dinosaur bones had been found in Alaska. Such bones could never have lasted 70 million years, she said. Unlikely or not, it is a fact that such bones have been found...How these bones could have remained in fresh condition for 70 million years is a perplexing question. One thing is certain: they were not preserved by cold. Everyone recognizes that the climate in these regions was much warmer during the time when the dinosaurs lived...Why then did these bones not decay long ago?...The obvious conclusion is that these bones were deposited in relatively recent times.

Scientists at the University of Montana were shocked when they found T. rex bones that were not totally fossilized. Not only were the bones not fossilized but they appeared to have blood cells which would be impossible if they were millions of years old. The following is part of the report issued by the scientists:

A thin slice of T. rex bone glowed amber beneath the lens of my microscope...the lab filled with murmurs of amazement, for I had focused on something inside the vessels that none of us had ever noticed before: tiny round objects, translucent red with a dark center...red blood cells? The shape and location suggested them, but blood cells are mostly water and couldn't possibly have stayed preserved in the 65-million-year old tyrannosaur.

The bone sample that had us so excited came from a beautiful, nearly complete specimen of Tyrannosaurus rex unearth
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Why exactly do you want to be a good Christian anyways?
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It's just an aspiration I have.
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I don't share your mythology, but this is what I little I think I understand about it.

Christ asks you to love *** and your fellow man and woman. Nothing else.
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Basically that is the definition of Christianity. Love everyone.
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The bible says nothing about the age of the earth. That 4000 year figure is from someone who "computed" from the given ages of various people in the Old Testament, figures which are certainly suspect, and there are gaps in the continuity.
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There is no timestamp left on Genesis 1:1. It merely states "in the beginning, *** created the heaven and the earth."
It's just matter-of-fact. It doesn't say how he created it. It doesn't say why he created, or who he was to create it. All it ever says is this being called *** created the heaven and the earth.
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Well........ I'm not sure anymore. :]
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There are many ways to interpret the Bible in regards to this, and there is no 100% Christian answer. Unless *** himself came to you and told you it was only 6000 years old and you still didn't believe... then you might be a bad Christian.
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Nope.
Think about it this way girl, what really killed the dinosaurs?
*** was playing marbles and lost one, so he used earth.
Why do u think ther3 WAS life on mars, but now there's not?
Jupiter got in the way. XD
now i'm a bad human.
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I never thought of it that way. XD
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neither did I. Came up with it on the spot.
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Nice. :P
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Sorry, were you not looking for an honest answer?
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