Originally posted by Jorge
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Suppose you don't do that - you accept the story as historically factual.
Then you will be accused of "believing in things that oppose established scientific laws and principles" (such as gravity and fluid surface tension). You can hide behind your faith and say, "it was a miracle and I choose to believe it" but the accusers will not be satisfied because they will come back at you with, "Ah, yet you choose to NOT accept the 6-day creation because of the empirical observations - you are being inconsistent".
No, I'm not. The only inconsistency here is YOU trying to apply the same rigid hermeneutic to two radically different types of scripture.
As I've explained over and over and over again, I am not saying God COULD not have created the universe in 6 days as we humans measure them, which is one way to INTERPRET Genesis 1. I am not and NEVER have said that scientific principles can be used to dismiss the POSSIBILITY of miracles. What I am saying is that the evidence strongly indicates God did NOT create that way and that your INTERPRETATION of Genesis is ill informed. That is, evidence ALSO indicates VERY STRONGLY that Genesis 1 is not a technical passage that can be used to DERIVE a scientific description of or timeframe for the creation.
Okay, so suppose you choose to NOT accept the "walking on water" account because it opposes the aforementioned scientific laws and principles. Then you think to yourself, "Which is more critical to my spiritual life: the theological implications of dismissing the miracles in the Bible or the scientific implications of accepting the miracles of the Bible?"
The answer is rather obvious - methinks. If a person dismisses the miracles in the Bible because they oppose scientific laws and principles then that person may as well throw the Bible away and with that his/her claim that (s)he is a Christian. BTW, I used only one example (walking on water) but there are, as you know, well over a hundred miracles.
WE CANNOT HAVE IT BOTH WAYS ... WE CANNOT PICK-N-CHOOSE ... IT'S ONE OR THE OTHER!
The answer is rather obvious - methinks. If a person dismisses the miracles in the Bible because they oppose scientific laws and principles then that person may as well throw the Bible away and with that his/her claim that (s)he is a Christian. BTW, I used only one example (walking on water) but there are, as you know, well over a hundred miracles.
WE CANNOT HAVE IT BOTH WAYS ... WE CANNOT PICK-N-CHOOSE ... IT'S ONE OR THE OTHER!
Jim
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