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Originally Posted by Aquila
I wouldn't tell them that they'll burn in Hell. But I would tell them that this is God's Word.
Think of it like this... the Bible has been preserved without any major alteration for thousands of years. Evolutionary discoveries are retracted every year because of fraudulent data. Who's report will you believe?
Being a believer means believing in an all powerful God who isn't limited by scientific laws or theories. He is so grand he leaves all scientists, and even many many believers baffled. Welcome to the world of the mystical and supernatural.
I believe that the more we water it down for their "acceptance" the more we'll loose in the long run.
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True, but the bible has never been under the scrutiny as it is now. It needs to be able to survive the test of simple common sense if it is to be accepted. It is impossible to get someone to the cross of Jesus Christ (the only place that matters) if they keep tripping over whales eating people, arks carrying 2 billion elephants, and God ordering people to kill people.
After all, why don't we believe in Santa Claus? Well, for starters, it's impossible for one guy to visit every house on earth in one night. How can one guy be in that many malls across the U.S.? Enquiring minds wanna know. And as insulting as that may sound, we're up against a culture that sees Noah like Santa Claus. If the best line we can come up with is, "Because the bible says so", we're gonna lose, and statistically, we are losing. Big time. The American Church is sliding numerically just like the European church did a few decades ago. We're headed toward dormancy. If we don't step up our game, the "latter rain" is going to become a drought.
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