Posted by The Imp on 12 February 1999 at 01:57:18:

In Reply to: Supreme Names posted by Utahraptor on 11 February 1999 at 09:58:34:

Though I'm not sure I am totally done degrading you, here it goes. There is a school of thought out there that says that the bible should not be taken as a literal history. Rather it uses metaphors for teaching. Maybe that school of thought is on to something.... The ark question..... hmmmmm... Okay assume God is really powerful, not all powerful, but real damn close. Is it possible that God created a temporary rift in Space/Time, centered in the ark, there by making it possible to fit all the animals in there? As for all the shit clean up, I thought Noah had a pretty big family... The ark didn't require any sailors if I remember correctly, so they would have had time to do it. I'll grant that it would have been hard, but possible. Another plausible theory could be that God in his/her near infinate power just stopped some biological needs for awhile, Food intake and excrement might have been a couple that got froze.

Please keep in mind that those are only theories I've heard.... Not what I believe. In fact, I don't subscribe to Christianity, Hebrew, or any other religious affiliation. I go my own demented way.....

As for your dog/god observation, G O D is not the original spelling I'm sure as the oldest bibles seem to be in Hebrew. Don't you think that maybe the spelling is merely a coincidence, and one that occurs only in English. Universally, in all languages you wouldn't get the same results.... so coincidence.

As for D E V I L, see that last bit...

Now for your questioning of truths, I've hit this one already, but here it is again because you might have missed it. Your questioning was styled more like a bunch of cheap shots. Had you stuck with a logical arguement, none of the heated response would have happened. Instead you took off into denoucing the intelligence of any opposed to your disbelief right in your first post. The implication in your writing is what was attacked by wyvern, not your disbelief. Are you with me so far? I'm giving you some facts on how your post sounded to other people. It doesn't matter that you made your claim of ''no offense'' when you so strongly presented quite the opposite.

So here is a calm, rational response, so if you feel like attacking it, we can start again.

Let's just not have any more name calling, okay?

--Gremlin

PS: Sorry for the intrusion =)

--G

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• Re: Okay Utahraptor 12 February 1999 at 09:06:52 (0)