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Why do people ask questions like this? I'm a Christian and I believe in the ice age (or ages). Why wouldn't I? The Bible is not a science book. Why would it contain information on the ice age?
Really. How could people back then have possibly known about an ice age?
They ask questions like this because it's fun for some people to believe that all Christians adhere to the 6000-year-old earth story. Stereotyping is always easier than thinking.
Really. How could people back then have possibly known about an ice age?
They ask questions like this because it's fun for some people to believe that all Christians adhere to the 6000-year-old earth story. Stereotyping is always easier than thinking.
lol and many Christians believe in evolution..... I remember going to church as a kid with neighbors and coming home and saying that I couldn't be a christian and believe in evolution....
my dad said nonsence, you can and I do....
He eventually forbade me from going to church with them....lol
But I just don't get some of these questions..... So much is common sense......
Do some Christians really just lose the ability to think??
One of the smartest things my family ever did was to not indoctrinate me....
lol and many Christians believe in evolution..... I remember going to church as a kid with neighbors and coming home and saying that I couldn't be a christian and believe in evolution....
my dad said nonsence, you can and I do....
He eventually forbade me from going to church with them....lol
But I just don't get some of these questions..... So much is common sense......
Do some Christians really just lose the ability to think??
One of the smartest things my family ever did was to not indoctrinate me....
My daughter's high school boyfriend was the son of a pastor of the bible-worshipping type of church. When she first started going to church with him, one of her friends warned her that the church was going to try to tell her that the earth was only 6000 years old and that dinosaurs and humans lived together in peace and harmony. She thought he was kidding, and then she came home one day in shock to tell me that they really did believe that. She was baptized Episcopalian, a church that holds the God-given ability to reason in high regard, and I took her there when she was little, but after 9/11 I became disillusioned for a time with Christianity in general because of some of the reactions of the church to the events, and I stopped going. I've since returned to the Episcopal church for various personal reasons, but she has gone to college, broken up with the boyfriend, and is currently interested in Buddhism and Eastern thought.
My own mother is more of a bible-believer, even though she often misunderstands what it said in sometimes humorous ways, and my father was a devout Christian who kept his religious thoughts private, but he was very intelligent and a thinker and more concerned with how he conducted his own life than in trying to preach to others.
I think you hit the nail on the head. Some Christians do lost the ability to think, or maybe they are just people who never had the tendency in the first place.
My daughter's high school boyfriend was the son of a pastor of the bible-worshipping type of church. When she first started going to church with him, one of her friends warned her that the church was going to try to tell her that the earth was only 6000 years old and that dinosaurs and humans lived together in peace and harmony. She thought he was kidding, and then she came home one day in shock to tell me that they really did believe that. She was baptized Episcopalian, a church that holds the God-given ability to reason in high regard, and I took her there when she was little, but after 9/11 I became disillusioned for a time with Christianity in general because of some of the reactions of the church to the events, and I stopped going. I've since returned to the Episcopal church for various personal reasons, but she has gone to college, broken up with the boyfriend, and is currently interested in Buddhism and Eastern thought.
My own mother is more of a bible-believer, even though she often misunderstands what it said in sometimes humorous ways, and my father was a devout Christian who kept his religious thoughts private, but he was very intelligent and a thinker and more concerned with how he conducted his own life than in trying to preach to others.
I think you hit the nail on the head. Some Christians do lost the ability to think, or maybe they are just people who never had the tendency in the first place.
My parents were non practicing Christians who never brought up in anything and I learned about all kinds of religions growing up. Now I am Jewish because I finally realized that when my son at 8 came home and told me something he learned in Sunday school...... It was a wake up call and I knew then that I needed to change direction. I stopped going and never looked back and finally completely walked away from Christianity permanently. It was the best decision I ever made.....
My parents were non practicing Christians who never brought up in anything and I learned about all kinds of religions growing up. Now I am Jewish because I finally realized that when my son at 8 came home and told me something he learned in Sunday school...... It was a wake up call and I knew then that I needed to change direction. I stopped going and never looked back and finally completely walked away from Christianity permanently. It was the best decision I ever made.....
It seems to me from your posts that you've found the place where you belong.
It seems to me from your posts that you've found the place where you belong.
Yes I have and 2 of my children made the choice to become Jewish too. My oldest will choose what he wants to be when he thinks it is important but at 16 religion is the last thing he thinks of....
The Bible talks about the creation of the heaven and earths, animals, humans and what happened after. I am pretty sure the Bio of Ben Franklin doesn't delve that deep.
I imagine that Christians that believe the bible is literal (The earth was created some 6,000 years ago) would not allow themselves to believe in an ice age since the Earth is in an ice age now. It started about 2 million years ago and is known as the Quaternary Period. Despite the many warm periods since then, we identify the entire time as one ice age because of the continuous existence of at least one large ice sheet—the one over Antarctica. (The glaciers and the Greenland ice sheet are also of long standing, but they are more recent). We are currently enjoying a warm interval: our climate represents an interglacial period that began about 10 000 years ago. The preceding glacial period lasted about 80 000 years.
It is scientifically accepted that there have been ice ages.... But ice ages are not in the bible.....
Neither are corn dogs.
What's your point?
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