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Stugrad98
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| Posted 3/5/2002 3:24 PM (GMT -6) |   | It's great when one of your best friends is a fundamentalist Christian and you are a newcomer to faith (thanks to that friend) but from a vantage point of scientific skepticism. You get into debates like whether or not the flood mentioned in Genesis has to, inherently, be a universal, worldwide flood. I am curious what people on this forum think about the subject. It has two elements to it, really... is what is being described in Scripture a global flood or a local flood? How do you reconcile either choice with general revelation?
By the way, I just got Baptized this past Saturday :-)
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Kyle Essary
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| Posted 3/5/2002 9:29 PM (GMT -6) | | I think whether it was local or global is irrelevant. To be honest, I have never really though much about it, but I believe that many times Gen. 1-11 is more symbolic than historical fact. Moses was not a historian, he was a theologian and a prophet, and his key emphasis is the spiritual message and not the historical. Ok, now that I have officially been termed a "liberal," I want to say CONGRATULATIONS on getting baptized! That is very exciting!
Kyle Essary
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GregBoyd
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| Posted 3/15/2002 5:55 AM (GMT -6) | | Yo Studgrad
Check out the Appendix for Across the Spectrum found on this website. It has an essay on the debate between a local or global flood.
Doc
"Three is the magic number, oh yes it is, it's the Magic Number" - De La Soul | | Back to Top | | |
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Springs
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| Posted 3/15/2002 11:34 AM (GMT -6) | | Congrats Sturgrad!
The angels are rejoicing!
-S
574. Greatness. - Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it, if it be obscure, should be deprived of it. Why, then, do any complain, if it be such as can be found by seeking?" - Pascal | | Back to Top | | |
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