Sam,
You didn't read *all* I said ...
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 19:33:17 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Jan 2003 17:04:44 -0400, L.D. Best wrote:
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>> However, none of the arguments the "Young Earthers" come up with seem to
>> offer any reason why a Creator would pull that sort of BS on creatures
>> S/He loved and made guardians of said Earth.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^^^^^
^^^^^
One who loves you does not tease, does not set tests of faith with the
hope that you should fail.
As far as Job goes, he asked for it ... He was bound and determined to
be "holier than just about anyone" and if I were god he would have
pixxed me off too! As for Abraham and Isaac, I'm surprised the ram
showed up because that particular IQ test was badly flunked.
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> According to the beliefs of the "Young Earthers" and the "Creation
> Scientists", God likes to play games with them to test their faith.
> According to them, God deliberately created things in such a way so
> as to see if they would be tempted into trusting more in their logical
> reasoning faculties than in trusting in their faith that everything in
> the Bible is literally true. They support this belief about how God
> likes to test their faith by pointing out certain stories in the Bible,
> notably the story of Job and the story about Abraham and Isaac, which
> do in fact, according to most interpretations, present the view that
> God does indeed like to test the faith of all who would want to believe
> in Him.
> Whether one is inclined to trust more in science than in religious
> faith, or vice-versa, he will certainly at times get the impression that
> the very foundations of his belief system are being subjected to testing
> and that they are open to question.
> Sam Heywood
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