I read what you wrote. You claimed that the concept of a flat earth was the product of unschooled thought, which was incorrect. And, it certainly wasn't for lack of knowledge.
Are you saying believing the earth is flat is an exhibit of sound mind and intellect? Or do you simply do not comprehend a simple statement and instead attempt to argue your way into agreeing with it?
It appears that you don't read your own post. You made the reference to parting of a sea. Hmmmm.....exactly what historical event is linked to a parting of a sea? What happening, documented for centuries on end, is ceremoniously LINKED to parting of a sea?
Again, I made no reference to any historical event. You try to twist and spin the statement to something you want it to be in order to try to deflect the nature of the discussion elsewhere. Won't work. I never said anything about events or things linked to the parting of the sea. I plainly stating parting a sea - any sea for any event - is impossible and has never and will never happen. Now continue with your whinefest and irrelevant topics.
If this is your way of playing dumb, consider yourself MVP!!
I think that little tiara firmly rests upon your head after your dazzling display of reading ability/comprehension.
I answered your question, gave the specifics and references supporting such, which prompted you to engage in your repeated cluckings and bleatings.
No, you did not. You can not even go back on this thread and provide a link to where you did. You gave "evidence" of global floodings. You gave "evidence" of the ark and it's dimension and how Moses built it.
However, my question was not about a flood. Nor was it about Moses and his ark. My question was asking for proof that some magical caused this flood and not Mother Nature. You instead blubber and flap those gums about everything EXCEPT what would answer the question.
Your irrelevant non answers answered nothing at all. No surprise.
The allegedly stupid people were supposed to "die out" along time ago. Yet, they're still around. Those calling themselves smarter have gone bye-bye.
Really, where? Unlike Moses, I don't see those living for 900 years or whatever. Or time, mankind has gotten smarter and put away silly musings and fables.
So, you'll have to dredge up another silly excuse as to why, despite your hopes to the contrary, the Judeo-Christian faith remains intact and vibrant.
As I said... stupid people are still around.
4000 years plus, and the frustration for skeptics continues, to this day. All it took was those nations being either destroyed or overtaken by a foreign power. Israel's had that done to them more times than I care to count. Yet, that pesky God, religion of theirs, and the Bible (OT and, later, NT) is still around.
Was that God's love that allowed their country to be destroyed? Or maybe the God of the other side was stronger?
Even amidst the presence of pagans like those aforementioed Egyptians, and Greeks, and Roman, (not to mention the Babylonians, Medes, Persians, Philistines, and numerous other oppressors).
And yet, how much of the basis of Christianity was taken from those pagan cultures? How long did people follow those religions?
They've faded away. God, His people, and His word have not (and it ain't been for lack of trying).
When was the last time you saw God? And His Word not fading... oh yeah... like the rape/adultery punishment above. Boy, that sure remained a certain death nowdays for offenders.
You mean evidence like this?
I mean evidence like this :
It was a small detail, a point of comparison buried in the fifth paragraph on the 17th page of a 24-page summary of the 2009 American Religious Identification Survey. But as R. Albert Mohler Jr.—president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, one of the largest on earth—read over the document after its release in March, he was struck by a single sentence. For a believer like Mohler—a starched, unflinchingly conservative Christian, steeped in the theology of his particular province of the faith, devoted to producing ministers who will preach the inerrancy of the Bible and the Gospel of Jesus Christ as the only means to eternal life—the
central news of the survey was troubling enough: the number of Americans who claim no religious affiliation has nearly doubled since 1990, rising from 8 to 15 percent. According to the American Religious Identification Survey that got Mohler's attention, the percentage of self-identified
Christians has fallen 10 percentage points since 1990, from 86 to 76 percent. The Jewish population is 1.2 percent; the Muslim, 0.6 percent.The American Religious Identification Survey conducted by Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut has revealed that the number of Christian believers is on the decline in the United States.
According to the report, “The percentage of Christians in America, which declined in the 1990s from
86.2 percent to 76.7 percent, has now edged down to 76 percent.”
Other key findings as reported by American Religious Identification Survey:
• Baptists, who constitute the largest non-Catholic Christian tradition, have increased their numbers by two million since 2001,
but continue to decline as a proportion of the population.• The number of adherents of Eastern Religions, which more than doubled in the 1990s, has declined slightly, from just over two million to just under. Asian Americans are substantially more likely to indicate no religious identity than other racial or ethnic groups.
• Those who identify religiously as Jews continue to decline numerically, from 3.1 million in 1990 to 2.8 million in 2001 to 2.7 million in 2008–1.2 percent of the population. Defined to include those who identify as Jews by ethnicity alone, the American Jewish population has remained stable over the past two decades.
• Adherents of New Religious movements, including Wiccans and self-described pagans, have grown faster this decade than in the 1990s.
"unChristian" is the title of a new book by David Kinnaman, president of The Barna Group. I think it is safe to say that this book shows in a concrete way the negative impact of the Christian Right.
More from the publishers:
The study shows that 16- to 29-year-olds exhibit a greater degree of criticism toward Christianity than did previous generations when they were at the same stage of life. In fact, in just a decade, many of the Barna measures of the Christian image have shifted substantially downward, fueled in part by a growing sense of disengagement and disillusionment among young people. For instance, a decade ago the vast majority of Americans outside the Christian faith, including young people, felt favorably toward Christianity's role in society. Currently, however, just 16% of non-Christians in their late teens and twenties said they have a "good impression" of Christianity.Christianity = 39% and DROPPING
http://www.religioustolerance.org/worldrel.htmI addressed this earlier, The numbers of Christians HAVE INCREASED, overall, based on sheer numbers (And that's just in the United States). Christianity is THE FASTEST-GROWING religion on the planet and has more converts worldwide than all other organized religions COMBINED.
Irrelevant nonsense. The statement was not about population increases driving up the membership in the ranks, but the entire percentage of the religion as a whole. It is DECLINING. Just like your credibility is when confronted with facts.
It's not going anywhere, despite your wishful musings to the contrary.
As stated... there will always be stupid people. But just less and less of them in the future.
Says who? No one made the claim that God or Christianity would spell the end of those things on Earth. In fact, Scripture cites the very OPPOSITE happening, throughout Earth's existence.
Then that certainly throws a little contradiction into your previous argument about it being a product of a sinful world.
Once again, science has saved more people than God.
