“If the Lord can turn water to wine in an instance, why does he need to work in natural sense. Did the wedding feast wait for the fermentation process to complete?”
Do you interpret the entire Bible literally?
Yes
There is plenty of evidence of evolution and an “old Earth”. Do you believe, then, that God is playing tricks on us? That he made the Earth appear old to test us, maybe? That he put transitional fossils in the earth to fool us?
When he made Adam, he made him as an adult. Maybe he appeared to be a 30 year old man. Yet, on day 7, hew was only 1 day. Just like God made wine instantly in the wedding feast of Canaan, and it did not age.
The Bible doesn’t mention oodles of animals. There’s no way that Noah could’ve fit every animal in the world on that boat, and of course, the animals that the writers had never heard of weren’t included in the list. Doesn’t this last fact strike you as telling?
If you look at the dimensions of the boat, I do not find that so difficult to believe. 2 of each kind (only 2 dogs, not 2 of each type of dog).
If you believe in a literal translation of the entire Bible, and if you believe that everything has to come from the Bible only, that you can’t add anything to it, that it is where you get your scientific knowledge of the world from, how do you account for things like fossils, more species than listed in the Bible, an obviously old Earth, that Bonobos are closest living ape to us as shown through DNA, and that Neandertals are closer yet?
The fact that complex DNA looks similar shows special creation more than anything. I am an engineer at IBM. We design many things. Things like the chips inside a Playstation 3 and a PC are very similar. The engine of a car looks similar to the engine of cars 20 years ago. Did a car give birth to another. It is the silliest thing I hae ever heard, that similarities in DNA proves relation, when in every other aspect of engineering, similarity proves common design, since computers, cars, building, etc… do not happen by accident. DNA is much more complex. It shows we used a common design. So if Adam descendant from someone how did sin and death enter the world through him if things die.
If God can make water from wine, and that is proof that God created each species independantly, in it’s present form, why isn’t a mouse as close to us as a Neandertal, or even a Bonobo? If God made everything in a poof-there-it-is, Chris Angel-like Vegas show, why is it that forms that we think are most like another are most like the other?
Don’t understand this question. But I have shown that siilarities in DNA and build up only prove special design like it does in the engineering field (cars similar design to trucks, buildings have common architecture, etc…)
BTW, there isn’t, at this point, any evidence that Neandertals and humans mixed. They appear to be a different species, so much more like us than bonobos, and, as expected, that much more like us in DNA make-up. If God made each of them in a “poof”, why is the neanderthal more like us (in form and dna) than the less-similar bonobo?
Again, similar DNA does not prove one gives birth to another, only an intelligent designer using common DNA structure. Neandertals IU believe was exposed as a hoax. Most of these supposed ancestors have turned out to be something else, or they just found a piece of a bone + artist redemption, or just a hoax. Nonetheless, how does similar DNA prove evolution when in engineering it proves common design to have things of similar makeup.
You say that God could take water and make wine, and you say that that is proof that he made man as is.
I just say the Bible, shows in the New Testament an instance of where God made something that takes age to happen in an instance. Plus this is a special verse to catholics, who use it in other arguments about Mary, so you cannot deny it as allegory.
Why, if God can make wine from water, couldn’t he have created man through evolution? Why have you decided that God is capable of this, but not that?
Because His word says otherwise. He could do anything, but His inspired word recorded that His spoken words did it.
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Psalm 8
3 When I consider your heavens,
the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which you have set in place,
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God spoke the world into existence through Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ who manifested miracles to show Him as our Creator. And you deny Christ’s work of creation. That is written plain and simply in His Word.
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John 1.
1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was with God in the beginning.
3Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
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And to say God used evolution is a joke.
Romans 1
18The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.** 20For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.**
21For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
