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Originally Posted by meBNme
You might want to watch how you say that.
It comes across as if you are downing "their God" as well as them.
Now just because someone doesn't understand God, or has a bizar interpritation of his word does not mean that the God they believe in is any other than the one true God.
And if you are talking about God, its never good to speak negatively of him, I think you'd agree.
The people might be kooks, but that doesn't mean that God is, or that they believe in some false god.
Just a though.
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... but a very execellent thought. Point well taken.
It's hard not to get caught up in the language of the debate. Reading the "creationist" literature and talking with them, they will often resort to some rather nasty things themselves. As a believer myself I find that I am often defending the work of "unbelieving" scientists. This sometimes awkward position makes me feel compelled to often point out that "the God of the Bible" doesn't necessarily fit the description of those who claim to be speaking for the Bible.
I lost a very close personal friend a few years back because I simply questioned some things he had said in a book he had just published. "Email me," he said and he gave me his email address. So I emailed him a short list of things that he had apparently gotten wrong or that he had failed to attribute to their correct sources. (YECs use a Hare Krishna published book called Forbidden Archeology for much of the "Age of the Earth" arguments but won't cite that book for obvious reasons).
My friend's response looked something like this: HEY! WHy aRe yOU eMailinG me? I don't ELEVEN KN0W HoW T0 TYPE??
He then went on to say, "I'm trying to be nice here..." then he ceased to be very nice at all. That's the way these people are. Their livelihoods are dependant upon a scam. When you expose their scam you threaten their money tree and more importantly their ego.
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