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Folks that do those things seem to know very well why they do, and you seem not to know much in comparison. At this moment, our son in law and a group from their church up in WA (including several youths on Spring break) are in Guatemala- living out in small native villages - installing simple yet very effective metal cooking stoves for families who normally have cooked over open fires. That is their mission this week. Does that assist your understanding?

So, when are you going to reenter your mother's womb and be born again. If you must take everything literally in the Bible, you must do that to be saved.

The solution is that Jesus was speaking figuratively, as the Bible often does.

What are you fools smoking? But sure glad he saved deer ticks, eh?

What are you fools smoking? But if you truly believe? sure glad he saved deer ticks, eh? And can ya see a whale on the ark?

And this my friend is the only reason all religions exist.
To place fear into people to turn them into sheep.
If you believe, then I am glad your life is better as a result.

You seem to forget that I've spent some time in a Church, so when I talk of Evangelicals going on missions to save the Catholic from Hell, those are not my words, but those of the Evangelical ministry. Perhaps your son in law is on a mission the to improve the lives of fellow Christians who happen to be Catholic. Perhaps he's installing stoves as his "way in" to the village so he can save their poor dammed Catholic souls. I don't know, if it's the former, good for him, but if it's the latter, well, that has it's own implications.

You left out the part about keeping the Priests well housed, well fed, and well laid.

To paraphrase Mel Brooks, "It's good to be the Priest."

I don't have any explanation of how it could have occurred , But , I know of at least a couple of fossils of large 3'plus sea fish on the top of buttes in central Wyoming. Many shell fish also, And if you look at a topo map of the area , it looks like a rather impressive flood raged through there and the buttes would have been High points.....

I don't know where you live in Wyoming but there is a National Park service National Monument called Fossil Butte that might could clear up some questions about unusual fish fossils in your state. It is in the SW part of the state near Kemmerer Wy. The visitor center has a lot of informative exhibits and displays. This old world has been through lots of changes and upheavals over the last few hundreds of millions of years. The visitor center has fossils of fish that are similar to our gars and bowfins in Louisiana. One display claims CO2 was 20X higher in the distant past on earth than it is now. Supposedly there was an ancient sea that connected the Gulf of Mexico to the Artic Ocean up through the middle of the present U.S. The oceans have in the past been much lower than they are now and also much higher. And some of our mountains have been pushed up out of the sea bed and taken their fossils along for the ride.

I once had an idiot Baptist preacher claim the sea shells found at 8000 feet elevation in Guatemala was prof of the world wide flood. As if.

Yes.

I think maybe a return trip is in order, either to get a refund or to pick up whatever it was that you missed out on.
I don’t know what your beef is, but if you don’t mind, I’ll put in a word for you with the Boss. He can fix any and all problems, but like I said, it’s up to you to approach Him.
Reon

I’ve found marine fossils in the Texas Hill Country; and I’ve found marine fossils in the Guadalupe Mountains of West Texas; and I’ve found marine fossils in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. But I think all of these fossils are likely the result of plate tectonics and mountain-building tectonics. These deposits were likely once at the bottom of oceans…and through the above processes…they were thrusted up into their current positions and created the hills and mountains.

lmao

No offense as, but that was funny af.

Yes, there was no rain until the ark was finished, which took 50+ years.

Uhhhhh, okay. But that begs the question of how did people, including Noah, his family, and millions of people and animals around the world eat?? It takes rain to grow crops and vegetation. In 50 years, everyone and everything living would have starved to death. God wouldn't have needed to kill everyone as everyone would already have died.

L.W.

If you read the story from the beginning of the Book, you will understand why rain was not required. The story of creation and the Flood is only about six or eight pages at the start of the Bible.

Let's stay real - I haven't forgotten that stuff because I never knew it, have no idea how much time you might have spent in a church, and have no way to understand what some "Evangelicals" may have told you. I based my reply on what you stated.

You can "perhaps" as you wish, but those folks are traditional Lutherans and I know exactly why they are working and serving in Guatemala. In that you seem concerned with form, would you care to identify the "form" of Christianity you have chosen?

John Chau tried to spread the good word to the North Sentinelese islanders - they responded with a firm and unambiguous "no thanks".

I don't consider Traditional Lutherans among the Modern Evangicals. IME, typically they are more about the good deeds for the sake of the deeds, vs for the sake of the conversions. A lot of Lutherans are what I call "functional Atheist". Sure, they believe (or at least claim to), attend church, say grace, and go on the occasional mission, but there's no practical difference between them and they typical Atheist, no science denying, or wacky beliefs or politics rooted in fundamentalist religious beliefs. In general, they are not the droids I'm looking for.