From: allenroy (allenroy@peoplepc.com)
Date: Thu Oct 09 2003 - 07:27:48 EDT
Walter Hicks wrote:
> allenroy wrote:
> > That is your interpretation that that is what they believed. I believe that it is obvious
> > that the description of the flood is global.
>
> I suggest that you get a map of the world and color in every area that is mentioned at any
> place in the entire Old Testament ---- and New Testament as well. I think that gives a pretty
> good indication of their known world. Why do you say that they speak of more than that?
Why do you think that they would need to mention every place on earth? Just because they mention
those places which are of direct influence to them, does that mean that they did not know of
anything else?
> You ignored my question about kangaroos in Australia -- why?
This one has been addressed by Flood Cataclysmist many times over and can be found by a simple
search on the internet. I'm sure AiG has something on it.
> > My OU/YCW-FC (Old Universe/Young Creation Week -- Flood Cataclysmistism) view point is one
> that is shared by a large portion of the 12 million or so SDAs around the world.
>
> Does quantity make it correct? If so, you loose to the "evolutionists". 12M is a meagre number.
That wasn't the point. The point was that it's not 1 against evolutionists, it is many against
evolutionists. I am not alone with these views.
> > The SDA
> > scientists at GRI (Geoscience Research Institute) of Loma Linda University also accept
> > this position. I find it amusing that Michael Roberts nearly complements me for my
> > adoption of an OU position as a step in the right direction away from YECism. Especially
> > when this position (based as it is upon Revelation 12:7-9, Ezekiel 29:12-19, Isaiah14:12-17,
> > Job 1:6-12, and other related texts) has been promoted by Ellen White since at least 1888.
>
> To me and some other millions, the purpose of the OT is to point people to Jesus Christ -- not
> the other way around. I hate to trivialize what you do for a living, but I don't see any
> lasting value in it. The great commission is to tell the world about Jesus Christ, not
> someone's concept of an ancient flood.
Jesus used the flood as an analogy for his second coming. We are to tell not only about salvation
through Jesus, but also about his second coming. For salvation by grace through faith in Jesus
only has purpose and ultimate fulfillment when sin is finally eradicated from the universe after
the second coming. After which, the saved will live in the New Earth walking and talking with
Jesus, just as before, without end.
Allen
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