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[cheddar cheese]

Well I just dont see how its possible at all, going for any religion. I respect the beliefs of others but personally I just dont see how any of it can be possible. Science has proved pretty much all of it wrong. Im really truely sorry if anyone is offended by my views.

[Nonskimmer]

Your views are your views, m8. Don't ever apologize for them.
It's good to be respectful of others, but don't apologize for what you believe.

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

I agree and by the way CC what you said up there is true. Science has shown how many of these things could have happened. Sometimes I believe the bible is just a early history book. The people back then did not know how to explain things that happened. Like the great flood. They wanted to know why a large Tsunami came and flooded everything and they did not know why, so god had to be angry and flood the lands.

Dont ever apologize for your beliefs such as these, there is nothing wrong with believing them.

[the lancaster kicks ass]

but at the same time, years ago science "proved" the sun and all the planets revolved around the earth, science isn't always right, years from now the theorys of today may be proved wrong.........

[cheddar cheese]

That was just someones theory. Like people had theories the the earth was flat, No-one ever proved them, because if they did they'd be true.

[mosquitoman]

Everything is a theory until it is proven by experiment.
Although I'm a scientist I'm also a Christian and most things from the bible can be proved either through going back to the original language of the writes or through science.

[Maestro]

Originally Posted by cheddar cheese

That was just someones theory. Like people had theories the the earth was flat, No-one ever proved them, because if they did they'd be true.

Theories that killed a lot of poeples.

Was it Copernic or Gallilé who was executed by the Roman Church for saying that the Earth was round and that the Earth was orbiting around the sun and NOT the opposite ? Hundreds years laters, Magellan proved that they were right by going around the planet by the West.

Or like the thing the Roman Church was saying : "If you go too far on the ocean, you'll get to the Edge of the World and fall into the nowhere." However, around the year 1000, Vickings prooved that they were wrong by landing in New-Foundland 500 years before Colomb landed in America.

Why did the Vikings abandoned their "colony" on New-Foundland ? It remains unknow. Historians beleive that it was because it was too far away from Denmark. (Yeah, the Viking who landed here (Erik The Red) was Danish ! Hmmm... may be he's an ancestor of my great grand-father... But I derive from the subject. )

[BombTaxi]

I dont have any particular religious belief, but I agree with Adler on the Bible being a piece of serious historical writing. Behind the genealogies and legends, there is a chronicle of the existence of some very old tribes of the Middle East, and a history of a social and political leader who was executed by the Romans. These are certainly histories worth studying, and in the case of the New Testament, appear to be factually valid. As a histoy and philosophy student (specialising in histriography and the philosophy of history), I find the Bible fascinatimg... I'll leave the theology to those who are better qualified though

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

As do I.