From what the Bible tells us man was intellectually as capable as today’s man. Catholic Dogma actually states that they had preternatural gifts that we do not.
Since the Godhead is ungendered pure Spirit,it is neither male nor female. It is both and neither. I have no idea how the Spirit receives my particular appelation. I imagine with a smile, since it but touches the surface of the Spirit’s reality. How do you feel She likes your reference as male? Please don’t bother with the biblical references which were all written by men.
Hi, buffalo!
Hi!
Thanks – that was interesting.
Hi, mulligan!
SpiritMeadow, I agree with you that God is quite beyond gender, and that is why I have a slight problem with the popular ascription of femininity to the Holy Spirit. This seems too much an afterthought, trying to balance a trinity already top-heavy with masculinity in the person of the Father and the Son.
What is wrong with you guys? There is NOTHING scientific about the “theory” of evolution. There are no transistions, no “missing links”, your cave-men or ape-men are just imaginary constructs. There are no bones. Just drawings spun from fancy. It absolutely boggles the mind to see how completely and thoroughly this hoax has penetrated our understanding (or lack of to be more apt). Evolution has not been observed, it cannot be predicted or repeated. Many proven scinetific principles (entropy for example) refute it. It is utterly ridiculous. Look, the earth is no more than 6,000 years old and Adam and Eve were created in far superior form than we. The Bible is simply TRUE. Means what it says, sort of like the US Constitution was supposed to do.
In the New Testament, Jesus gives us the prayer, “Our Father”. This why we refer to the Lord as Father. Saint Thomas Aquinas teaches us that the Holy Spirit is God’s ‘Love’ and His Son, Jesus is ‘The Word’. God is compatable with all things in the universe. He is the Uncaused Caused that began everything. And if this reference of referring to God as Him still bothers you, just remember that in literature the term ‘he’ or ‘him’ encompasses both she and he.
Wow. Are you for real? The Bible is a problem because men wrote it? So you aren’t a Catholic (but you need to be). Why play around here?
I agree with you that evolution is only a theory. What references are you using that states the Earth is 6000 years old? If that is the case, what is your opinion on the age of the universe? The Bible is not all narrative. There are other forms of literature used.
This is really very similar to what is called Intelligent Design. Through observations, one can see some remarkable features in nature. Statistics can show that certain events are extremely improbable also. The idea that these constants or the order in nature could have “happened by accident” should be ruled out.
I think that a rough Biblically derived time line comes to about 6,000 years. Maybe it is 8,000 or maybe it is 5,000. But it isn;t billions! The universe is probably no older. I don’t know that it matters. Evolution is not a theory any longer, it is a hoax. Enough is known or knowable that honest scientist have to conclude it isn’t true. It is impossible. The Devil is (as characterized by Christ) the “father of lies”. And we also know that pride makes us to believe lying. I was stunned to have learned over the last few years just how little, virutally nothing, is behind these evolutionary fairy tales that are continually trotted out as fact. Much of it remains in textbooks (like the English moths) long after they were totally debunked as deliberate hoaxes. But the fact is that in nature, nothing left to itself ever becomes more complex. Rather everything left to itself degenerates, breaks down, “devolves”. This is true in chemistry and in genetics. Think “rust”. They’ll tell you that your DNA is 99% identical to a chimpanzees. What they don’t tell you is that it is also 78% identical to a dandelions. Think common designer, not common ancestor.
Hi, mulligan!
This is just explosive! :extrahappy:
Gravity is only a theory. Plate tectonics is only a theory. Relativity is only a theory.
If evolution is only a hoax, why do 100,000 biologists use it productively every day to advance science? Meanwhile Young Earth Creationists with missing teeth and only high school educations (if that) sit around their trailers complaining that evolution is a hoax, and doing nothing for humanity.