[quote]Charlie Horse wrote:
[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
[quote]Makavali wrote:
[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
[quote]Makavali wrote:
[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
[quote]Charlie Horse wrote:
We can be funny too.[/quote]
Eh.[/quote]
Oh get your knickers out of that twist, it was funny.[/quote]
Some parts, maybe. [/quote]
Butthurt.[/quote]
It’s not the material…I just don’t find Jim Jeffries funny.[/quote]
His language can definitely be more provocative than Dave Allen’s. Also I wonder if believers still believe in the Adam and Eve story and the Noah’s Ark Story any more.
I’m not up on what stories are believed and what are seen as just stories these days.
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It matters what you mean by believe. And, it matters if you mean literalistic or literally.
I have no problem with the Adam and Eve story (both of them), I think there is more to it than the literalistic story though (which I find hard to take because there is two different stories of the same thing). Ratzinger makes good points on it in his book.
Noah’s Ark, I believe too, again difference between literalistic or literal. Could there be a flood? Yes, that covered the whole world? Doesn’t look like it, how about localized? Yes. Did the ancients think of the world as the entire planet earth? No evidence for that.
I haven’t studied to much into it, so I don’t know. My little hypothesis is that the flood was localized (relative) to Noah’s world. We have reports of ‘great’ floods all over the world, I don’t suppose it be too much if there was one where Noah lived.