Shaking Matt's Faith
Derek Pomery dpomery@cuc.edu
Sun, 31 Jan 1999 11:07:03 -0500 (EST) (00917820423, Pine.LNX.3.95.990131110321.26097C-100000@helix.cs.cuc.edu)
On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Brian Malcolm wrote:
> Achilles
>
> 7:4
> For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days
> and
> forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy
> from
> off the face of the earth.
>
> (That was YHWH speaking.)
>
> Still think you can have both an inerrant bible and a local flood? I would
> love
> to hear your rationale.
>
> POOBAH
> Based on the Turkel website, I expect to hear that since this is the same
> writer as Gen1 & 2, that "living substance of the face of the earth" is not
> the same as "living substance of the field" and that "earth" refers to
> Palestine only, whereas "living substance of the field" is a more general
> description, so therefore God only meant he would destroy everything in the
> path of the flood, not everywhere on earth.
DEREK
But what about all those poor dinosaurs in America waiting to be buried by
a world wide flood in order of complexity? Surely we cannot neglect these
unfortunates, and doom them to burying themselves in order to be found in
5000 years or so...
Due to some of the absurdities presented in forums like these, I've
noticed that a weak sense of humour such as my own disappears completely.
I would like to clarify right off that I am aware of all the other
contradictions in a Christian Scientist world wide flood theory, and
geological evidence.