In order to believe the Christian message...
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In order to believe the Christian message you have to believe this. That those hundred thousand years, people were born and died. Many of them probably in child birth. Either the mother or child. The average life expectancy was probably around 25 years. They died of micro organisms they didn't know existed. Genesis doesn't mention them because the people who wrote Genesis didn't know there were micro organisms. Earth quakes would have been terrifying. Tsunamis and Volcanoes; mysterious events. War and famine, were super imposed on us. You can all fill out this picture for yourselves I'm sure. That was our life for tens of thousands of years on and on it went. Maybe a gradual upward curve. We seem to have made some progress. Very painfully. And with infinite suffering and labor.
And now here's what you have to believe. You have to believe that Heaven watched that. That Heaven watched that for 98 thousand years. And that after 98 thousand years, 2,000 years ago, decided that maybe it was time to intervene. And that the best way to do that would be to have a filthy human sacrifice in a very remote part of Palestine.
And the news of this still hasn't penetrated the rest of the world, and I don't think it will be believed when it does. It can't be believed by me, and can't be believed by a thinking person.
Thank you.
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I always saw this as a type of spiritual test. What I don't understand are the people who say God is going to save us from some disasters, and then say it was someone's time to die, when they die of illness.
Couldn't it also be seen as "their time" in the disaster too?
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