lol I just wanted to know what you thought of the quote... It's a side-track that I may later bring up, it's actually paraphrased St. Augustine.
It's also of particular interest to me that you only picked out one of my points. What do you have to say to my claim that I could give equal service to harry potter stories as you could to the bible?
When he made light, the world it took a day. A day, sure. Thing is, he made day and night around 3-4 "days" AFTER the made lightness and darkness, the world, waters, etc. Thus, the sense of a day in the bible being a lunar day (i.e 24hrs) is wrong, because day and night, neccesary to establish the sense of the lunar, could not exist.
Why use the language of 'a day' then? It's a perfectly plausible explanation but I just see it as confabulous defence of something you hold dear.
What? You think your argument is new to me? Give me a little more credit SIMO...
And generally, its not so much that they pick and choose which laws, but their sense of morality is guided by Chrisitan ideals.
This seems to be circular logic to me.
How do we decide which laws/ideals from the bible to follow?
Well we follow them by our christian ideals?
Where do we find our christian ideals?
The bible.
Ad infinitum.
It seems obvious to me that your pre-determined morality sets out which parts of the bible you will choose to accept.
NTB - be more specific. Give an example and I'll be in a better position to answer your question.
If it turns out we have strong scientific proof that species evolved that means we must re-interpret the bible to allow for such evolution to take place.