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Bigthink — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:47:57 +0100

well first of all i dont think you are crazy for your beliefs, we all have them and we all need to know the reality of our own situations...

however i do think that ignoring the well founded science that supports issues such as the age of the earth or evolution is slightly ignorant (scientific theory carries way more weight then notions of a young earth)...

I would like you to still defend the question i posed to you... what exactly overlaps on these issues? The fact that the OT suppots points like i presented means that that they need to be defended against what has arisin since then. Slavery as depicted in the OT was by no means an indentured serventude, it was for life!!! In fact the childen of slaves were born into slavery!!!. In fact if you read books that document early x-ian hist you will learn that in the early days they took slaves like the romans..FOR LIFE!!! and they didn't treat them all that well... HOWEVER... my question to you was how do you view the OT??? and how do you defend the passages i chose to present to you? if you choose to brush these particular passages off i would be glad to present more that i take issue with. So please defend your position of the OT and address all the issues i brought up... slavery is just one and i honestly think that you are wrong in you view of it as just a mild (treated better.) form of indenture servitude. so please defend you view with some real evidence or referece.

Cheers: CP

Comment on: Re: human life span [if you havent read genisis you wont know what im talking ab

Bigthink — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:43:08 +0100

well yeah as long as the NT dosnt overlap with OT then i belive them word for word thats just the kind of faith i have and i belive that faith is why my life is going so much better recently
about slavery slavery from coloneal days and like way way back then are different those slaves where more like [sorry spelling] indentierd severnts that word just wasnt there back then so they called them slaves now im not saying that the other kind of slave didnt exsist slaves in isreal were treated better then anywhere else in the world and were useally temporary to pay of depts
so yes i belive people lived to be hunderdeds of years old and this happened cause before the flood there was a extra layer on the atmopher [srry spelling] and it guarded us agaist the suns rays that cause us to age. also there was a sample of tree sap taken from way back then witch had a oxagen lvl of like 70% [today its only 32] and i belive that this made us age

sorry this is getting too long
just know all this stuff is theroy not fact.

for more info on this look up a man named 'Kent Hovan' alota athiests have hate sites about him so be carful
and all those athiest on this site that hate me for my belefs thats where i get the one you call crazy like 6000 year old earth and evolution is fake

Comment on: Re: human life span [if you havent read genisis you wont know what im talking ab

Bigthink — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 22:43:29 +0100

hey thatguy,
I know this is a little off topic but id like to jump back to issues of the old testament. i understand if you have strong faith in the OT and from many of your postings it seems your faith is sideing with some very literal interpretations. For example your questions regarding the notion that Noah was several hundred years old, or the 7 day creation or a 6000 yr old earth... Is this correct? I personaly feel there is much in the old testament that is simply no longer applicable... how do you feel about it? in particular i am concerned with issues like slavery (exodus 21:7 says its ok to sell my daughter into slavery. Levidicus 25:44 says is ok for me to buy slaves only if thier from my another nation), but even more mudane issues like it being forbiddin to wher clothing from 2 types of material or planting multi crops...(Lev. 19:19). i feel the OT is based in a specific socio-culteral context that we no longer live... however those who take it as what it claims to be (the infallibal word of God) are sometimes unsure how passages such as these should be interpreted. If you feel this way i would like to know how you feel about these passages.

Cheers Mate: CodyP

Comment on: Re: human life span [if you havent read genisis you wont know what im talking ab

Bigthink — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:07:55 +0100

sorry i text to much

Comment on: Re: human life span [if you havent read genisis you wont know what im talking ab

Bigthink — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:00:59 +0100

Okay, sorry thatguy, but I just have to say this: PLEASE at least try to spell things correctly, and use at least a semblance of proper grammar. I don't like having to translate thatguy-speak into English every time I read one of your posts.

Go ahead an give me a "interesting/not interesting" rating if you want. I'm really not trying to be mean (okay, maybe a little mean, it needs to be said), but you really need to at least make things readable.

Suggestion: If you aren't going to use grammar and punctuation to separate your sentences, use intervening lines.