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Originally Posted by C-Mac
Well there you go. As the science books(that have words in them) you put your faith in keep constantly being re-written, proven wrong and corrected, I guess I'll keep putting my faith in a good book that hasn't changed for 4000 years. Any faith in man is obviuosly futile.
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How do you know that the good book hasn't changed for 4000 years? The New Testament wasn't written 4000 years ago for sure. Only a very few people were literate enough to read and write because there was only a limited amount of material to even read. It wasn't until the printing press that we got a technology that made it worth while to have a literate population.
Most people accept that there are two authors or styles of writing in Genesis. The book offers two reading, similar and with imagination non conflicting, of the beginning of things. But there was obviously conflicting focus on what to include in the writings. Probably reflecting the different focus of Israel and Judah divided kingdoms each vying for claim as the real religion and both fed the collection of that material upon the exiles in Babylon that returned to Jerusalem. Those fellows are the sources for the collection of writings that would include the Dead Sea Scrolls and such. (It should be noted that there were a few verses that have been corrected from the King James Version because of the Dead Sea Scrolls)
I am not weded to a specific scientific theory that I won't accept a better one that fits a wider range of facts. That is why we have graduated from Galileo empirical findings of gravity to Newtonian concepts of attraction at a distance to Eisnteins better explanation of distortion in space do to matter to describe gravity. But none of these findings allow for the sun, moon and planets to stop moving in the heavens as claimed by the Bible for Joshua.
I don't have any expectation of changing your mind about your religion. I am confident there is a real emotional tie to your understanding that no words alone would abrupt. I merely stated the thoughts for my reasoning, my testimonial as such. It turns out that I don't expect eternal existence and only a small hope that my decendants will continue to produce decendants. I don't see evidence for life to continue any other way. It is the evidence, if Christians start rising from the dead after 3 days and then rocket off into space after 40 more days, I will be eager to readdress the issue based upon the routine observation available to one and all first hand.