06-01-2014, 04:01 PM
(06-01-2014, 03:27 PM)crazysam23 Wrote: [ -> ]I would hardly say "most". In fact, the Catholic Church is the only big one that does that. Every other large denomination is either mum on it or says that they believe that Creation period lasted a literal 7 days.But it's hardly a large chunk of them. The majority of Young Earth Creationists I would think live in the United States and in underdeveloped countries, and even they don't have unanimity regarding their creation; Danjo believes it happened some 10 000 years ago while the most popular view is that it occurred 6000 years ago. Then again, there are Christians who believe that people like Krishna and Mohammed are also messengers of God (although they aren't mainline, but neither are literalists, according to that wiki page).
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Actually, just see this wiki. It's more accurate than my above words were. lol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceptance_...ristianity
Even with that in mind, many Christians still take the Biblical account of Creationism as literal, including that it lasted 7 literal days.
(06-01-2014, 03:27 PM)crazysam23 Wrote: [ -> ]Be careful though, as it is just as dangerous to take it all literally as it is to take it all allegorically - the Bible has both metaphorical books (Song of Songs, Revelation, Book of Daniel, etc. - don't tell me Revelation isn't some bad acid trip if taken literally) and allegedly historical accounts (Herod's condemnation of Jesus, Exodus, Paul of Tarsus' execution, Judas' suicide, etc.) which have historical evidence - I don't buy any of the theories that Jesus never existed. You might as well believe Julius Caesar or heck - Napoleon never existed while you're at it. Whether he was the son of God and/or divine is a different story.(06-01-2014, 08:22 AM)Mr Maps Wrote: [ -> ]Much of the bible is allegorical anyway, or at least most modern views are it that way.There's a lot of Christians who believe it is literal. The Jews take it even further and consider it a direct history. (Of course, other than Messianics, most Jews don't believe or follow the New Testament. They believe Jesus was a living rabbi around 30AD, though.)
If you reject the historicity of a man of the Levant named Yeshua who began a sect of Judaism around 30 A.D. you might as well reject any and all other history (and I myself am skeptical of history as a subject in general).
(06-01-2014, 03:31 PM)FantasyFanMan Wrote: [ -> ]I meant the seperation of churhc and state.Ah, okay.
(06-01-2014, 03:31 PM)FantasyFanMan Wrote: [ -> ]Another thought, odd thought, that I have had was what happens when technology surpasses God, if there is a God? So according to the Bible God created Earth, what if 1,000 years in the future we no longer live on Earth? Will religion still be governed by God even though we are no longer in God's domain?I don't understand this thought. It makes no theological sense to me - God cannot, by very nature, be "surpassed" by anything - far less technology.
God created everything that isn't part of Him (the Son and Holy Spirit are what you call generated entities as opposed to created), so saying that you "left" His creation is nonsensical - let alone leaving just the Earth.
(06-01-2014, 03:31 PM)FantasyFanMan Wrote: [ -> ]And the thing is, I am Christian buut in my mind the idea of a God, or at least the God written in the Bible, seems unfeasable, yet I still somehow believe in God.Maybe it's time to take an existential quest and study religion and philosophy, to both better understand what could and could not be, and find a definitive faith - whether that be Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Sikhism, Hinduism, Buddhism, atheism, agnosticism, deism, Paganism, Jainism, New Age, Theosophy, Scientology, and so on. It seems to me you are following a somewhat blind faith, which I generally frown upon. No offense.