Does anyone genuinely call their siblings sis, sister, little/big sis, bro, brother, little/big brother etc. as constantly as this appears to be portrayed in media? I’m extremely sceptical. Now, affectionally addressing them by something like “slug”, “toad”, “fool”, and “bitch”, or even dare I say it, their gotdamn name, is, from my experience, so much more natural.
ok guys, reblog and put in the tag how you name your siblings
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If dinosaurs were around the same time humans were, what happened to them? Did they not make it onto Noah’s ark lol?
I would argue they got wiped out before Noah’s ark timeframe
I would argue shortly after. They were on the ark but they were an endangered species after that point and quickly wiped out by humans. At least that’s my take on it.
Guise.
The bible doesn’t actually contradict a 4.5 byo rarth.
“For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the seventh day and made it holy.” Exodus 20:11
The sun wasn’t there until the 4th “day” (yom) thus rendering the yom into an unspecified amount of time.
Further more, yom, can be used in a sentence like, “in the day of Jared.”
“And the evening and the morning were the first day.”
You are still assuming that “day” = a 24 hour period based on the earth’s rotation relative to the sun.
You have no basis for that assumption, and evidence to the contrary.
My reading of the text is natural. Yours introduces contorted theology to the Bible. Do I need to drag out your contorted theology as evidence?
No yours is absolutely not.
You are taking modern understanding of English words and thrusting them onto an ANE culture. That is the opposite of a natural reading.
To read it naturally you have to read it from THEIR lense. Their lense was that of a flat earth with a hard dome as the sky, to which the celestial lights were fixed.
None of that is correct because genesis was never meant to be a detailed account of how each thing was done. Genesis was a polemic against the gods of babylon. Its purpose is to tell who, not how.
Anyone who literally believes the Earth was created in seven days is so nuts.
There’s a way to inform people without being rude…..
@bransrath where in the original Hebrew is your hypothesis supported? because i’ve read the written and oral tradition of the Jews and nowhere do they make the claim that the days of creation are “akshually” millions of years old
also:
How can you explain away the evidence in this video, since there wouldn’t have been any polonium halos in granite rocks with your statement that the third day was “millions of years long”?
You realize that people have and continue to come to the conclusion that incest, Rape, Pedophilia, and somewhat Adultery bad without the bible, that other books (even science/pyschology books) have wrote them down as bad not just because they are a sin but because the actual physical and mental affects on people. So if the bible wasn’t written I fully believe humans would have come to it bad that (and of course the few who would still do it despite it, just like they do today)
I’m not too sure about that.. because even now, believe it or not, people are pushing for pedophilia to be accepted.
I used to think that too, but I think God’s influence can still touch our imperfect natures without necessarily having us consult the Bible. That’s why there are nice non-Christians- because God already established morality at the very beginning. Not everyone discovers God by picking up the Bible.
@thechristianintrovert how do you know that it’s God you’re discovering, though?
also, please show me these “nice non-christians”, because the “moral atheists” that i’ve met were some of the most vile people; ranging from gleefully deconstructing love (for no purpose other than for the sake of destroying it) to verbalizing their torture and genocide fantasies against Christ and people like me
Do you think it’s possible to believe the Earth is millions of years old and still be a Christian, or is that an impossible combination?
as i have said before, it is in fact impossible because of a verse found in the New Testament: 1st Corinthians 15:21
I’m not quite sure how old the world is. I don’t think it’s a million years old tho
“For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.”
Now before anyone says “but this is talking about a spiritual death”, let me just state that the person writing this epistle is Raf Sha’ul, also known as Paul of Tarsus of the sect of Pharisees: in short, a Jew. To him, what he is referring to (and what he spells out in plain English in the next verse) is the fall of man, to which he references Adam (and by association, Eve) eating the forbidden fruit and bringing death into the world. That being said, Jews had no concept of “spiritual death”, which means that Paul was speaking of a literal death in these verses in his letter to the believers in Corinth (if you read the Book of Acts, you will notice that it was Paul’s custom when preaching to go first to the synagogues and preach to the Jews, then go to the gentiles when he was rejected: this would indicate that there were some Jews among his believers as well as gentiles).
Now you may ask, how does this contradict evolution?
Simply put, natural selection and the Biblical account (both found here and in Genesis 2-3) are mutually exclusive. Assuming that one species could evolve into another given millions of years of time (which is a HUGE assumption, given that we have no evidence of transitional forms and the odds of every existing species living to sexual maturity, in order to pass on the new genetic information, while their immune systems fight off against new evolving material are beyond astronomical), there’s still the problem of death.
If, as evolution assumes, death has always existed, then this contradicts the biblical account (and will result in the biblical account being discarded as a result). However, if death came into the world by the choice of our first parents, then the species could not have lived and died over millions of years and evolved into another.
Some have tried to say that the six days of creation were “not literal days”, but this is nowhere supported in Jewish tradition (even the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, who predates the writing of the medieval Talmud and Midrash – the foundation of Jewish oral tradition – noted that Genesis 1, the Creation Story, was told in a very literal tone in his Antiquities). Also, if anyone tries to assume that there was a “brief” period of natural selection over the millennia or so between the fall of man and the Flood, well that kind of negates the whole idea of “millions of years”, doesn’t it?
In short, natural selection and the Biblical account cannot exist in the same universe.
There’s no physical evidence that the great flood ever happened oh yeah🕺 because it would make no sense oh yeah🕺also just randomly throwing an ice age in there is even more unrealistic oh yeah🕺please stop embarrassing yourselves oh yeah🕺
Oh HO HO HO *john cena voice* are you sure about that?
Let’s take a look at these;
Hawaiians have a flood story that tells of a time when, long after the death of the first man, the world became a wicked, terrible place. Only one good man was left, and his name was Nu-u. He made a great canoe with a house on it and filled it with animals. In this story, the waters came up over all the earth and killed all the people; only Nu-u and his family were saved.
Another flood story is from China. It records that Fuhi, his wife, three sons, and three daughters escaped a great flood and were the only people alive on earth. After the great flood, they repopulated the world.
These are only a few; there are nearly HUNDREDS of versions of Noah’s ark.
How can you sit there and tell me it never happened? Don’t you see how similar the stories are?? Happened because we’ve fallen to sin, because we threw away God and it angered him.
Take a look at this:
here’s some MORE evidence that the Flood actually happened:
1) fossilized trees going straight through many strata of rock. according to evolution, the rock layers were deposited slowly over millions of years of flooding. but if that’s the case, the tree would have rotted away before becoming fossilized
2) fossils of sea creatures found in locations thousands of miles away from the ocean
3) the so-called “dinosaur burial mounds” featuring dinosaurs of many different “eras” all in the same area, with their bodies contorted in death-throes
4) the boat-shaped object in Durupinar Turkey that:
- matches the dimensions of Noah’s Ark in the Bible
- lies within the “mountains of Ararat”, in a region locally known as “the valley of the eight” (significant due to the eight survivors of Noah and his family)
- has various man-made features, such as the symmetry, the iron content in the fittings, and the internal layout as detected by sub-surface radar
- has significantly higher organic carbon content than would be found in ordinary rock, indicative that the petrified superstructure was once wood
- was recognized as Noah’s Ark by the Turkish government
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