@MadCornishBiker Said 
Not if, as science confirms may have been the case, there was too dense a cloud layer or dust cloud for the light to be visible on earth.
Your trouble is you are so determined to prove the bible wrong to justify ourself that you aren't prepred to think it through past the point that suits what you want.
What is the use of crating su with colour vision? We don't need it. There are so many things like that, some of whihc have obvious answers, some of which, literally, only God knows. Maybe we will one day.
Do you not think that some of it was designed simply for something good to look at, for us and for Him?
However the moon does have other uses. It's gravity causes tides which keep the oceans from going stagnant on us. It is, as the bible says "a luminary for the night". It is also a means of measuring time periods longer than one day. That's why the early calendars were usually lunar ones, especially the Hebrew Calendar.
Again, don;t just read
think.
It's called "the English Language."
How about the fact that all of the first 6 days were carefully closed off with very much the same phrase, and yet the 7th has never been closed down? Could that be because it is not yet over? It was the basis for the "Sabbath" in the law, both the weekly one and the one every 7th years. Christ was called the "Lord of the Sabbath". Could that be because that day is still open for him to be called that?
Once again, lol,
think.
It is not God's fault we have made English so ambiguous over the years. It was less so when I was a child, and even less so in Shakespeare's day, even less so in Chaucer's day, so much less ambiguous that we can barely understand it now.
What makes you think that the original language wasn't perfect before God was forced to confuse it to slow us down in our suicidal course back at Babel? You accuse me of making assumptions and yet your belief is full of them, as full of them as it is lacking in true thought and consideration. That is why your posts are always so easy to answer.
As you display so eloquently, the lack of joined up thinking is all yours I'm afraid.
No, you have only thought of it as a slave to your own bodily impulses, not with any intention to truly understand it. It is you who is the slave, slave to your own desires. To our own self interests.
If I am a slave, I am a slave of God and Christ, and there is no better way to be a slave. Better than being enslaved by the mt of freedom. There is no such thing. In this war you can only be a slave to God or a slave to Satan. There are not alternatives because simply refusing to be a slave of God makes you a slave of Satan.
You have chosen to swap an eternal future in peace and happiness fro a few short years of sexual ecstasy in this life. Your choice, but you will reap what you sow unless you stop sowing it.
I think our differences are irreconcilable. I have tried to engage with you on a variety of levels.... on the site and in private conversation. I once invited you to come and meet with me and my wife, and our friends in a social situation and received a flat rejection. Only this week I tried to invite you to meet with me at a library meeting... I even offered to pay for the tea and got no response.
I've gone out of my way to befriend you in a spirit of open cameraderie and have been totally blanked.
The principle difference between our viewpoints is that I see the world from the point of view of progressive scientific advancement, and you see it from the viewpoint of primitive superstition. It has become clear that there is no overcoming these differences and this saddens me. I don't admit defeat readily, but your single-minded obsessiveness is something that, frankly, I find more than a little scary. I'm glad we didn't meet now. I don't think I'd want to make contact with somebody who my wife suggests (yes, I've shown her your messages) could be potentially unstable, possibly even dangerous.
You speak on issues such as homosexuality from a position of absolute ignorance and condemn it out of hand on the say-so of a few scribblings from the backwoods of an ignorant history. You refuse to listen to those who have actual 21st Century, living-in-the-here-and-now experience of the situation, preferring instead to lecture them again on a subject of which you have no knowledge or experience.
I respect your right to believe as you wish, but when you attempt to use your so-called faith as a weapon to intimidate, bully and oppress me, then I speak out. Now I see the futility of discussion with you, I take the view that I have had my say and see no point in taking any discussion further.
I fear we will never see eye to eye on anything, and the point at which any attempt to make amicable discussion in a spirit of mutual respect, in the hope that we might both learn something has proven fruitless. You are interested only in battering people into submission of your views to the exclusion of all else.
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Mar 04, 2012 @ 00:42:20
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