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Quote Originally Posted by maquiscat
Any forensic specialist will tell you that while looking at the physical evidence can reveal many truths, 1) they do not reveal the whole truth and 2) can be just as subject to bias interpretation.
I have yet to find any evidence that causes us to wholesale discount the Bible. Now I am honest enough to say that one certainly cannot take it on a literal word for word basis with no accounting for translation errors, errors in copying (prior to mechanical methods and even then....Adulterer's Bible anyone?), and cultural/era context writing. I will say that there is plenty of evidence that allows us to completely discount many things that the various churches tell us is "right and proper" that really aren't covered by the bible, such as evolution.
Are you saying that evolution is wrong?
Are you saying that the world/universe is a few thousand year sold?
Actually no. The earth is several million years old as determined by science and the universe is many billions or more. I and many other, indeed most, Christians find no conflict with evolution and the concept that God created everything. Do not mistake the rantings of a vocal minority, or of the "official church", as representative of most of us. Science can show us how the universe works, but it does nothing to disprove that God "built the machinery" by which it works. Nor does it prove that He did or even exists. That's where faith comes in.
I love how you try to take what those of us disagreeing with you are saying and force our words into the fundamentalist Christian worldview. Highly dishonest.
I don't see how I have put words in your mouth at all. You expressed a view that seemed to be not a creationist one and I asked questions to clarify it.
Since you say that Genesis is wrong or mythical, that there was never a world flood etc as is proven by every river valley without the marks of such an event and with the geology of the billions of years of the earth's past, which bits of the new Testament are also mythical?
And how exactly is asking a question dishonest?