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> ""Rev Dr" Lenny Flank" <lflank_nospam@ij.net> wrote in message
> news:402d78cf$1_4@corp.newsgroups.com...
> >
> > Uncle Davey wrote:
> > >
> > > It's a good question, and I believe I have worked out the answer to
it.
> >
> > God told you?
> >
> > > There are a number of Christians who believe in a theistic evolution,
as
> > > most Jewish believers seem to do, but for those who take seriously the
> > > central Christian doctrine of the Resurrection, and, what goes hand in
> hand
> > > with that, a new heavens and a new earth, all resurrected, so, in
other
> > > words, a new creation, a problem occurs which doesn't occur for the
> Jewish
> > > believer, for whom the resurrected form of the afterlife is not a
> central
> > > doctrine. This problem is, if we say that God was unable to create the
> old
> > > world directly, and miraculously, without waiting for billions of
years,
> > > then what of the new creation?
> >
> > Thanks for sharing your religious opinions with us.
> >
> > Why should anyone give a flying fuck about them. And what makes your
> > religious opinion any better than those of my pizza delivery kid.
> >
> > > In other words, it is the doctrine and the hope of bodily resurrection
> and
> > > new creation, which is not a central tenet of Judaism, which is the
> single
> > > biggest stumbling block to our understanding Genesis as a metaphor for
> > > massive periods of time.
> > >
> > > I hope that makes sense to you.
> >
> > Not a shred. But please go ahead and tell us (again) how you think all
> > the Jews are gonna convert to Christianity at the end-times (and thus
> > won't be Jews any more).
>
> Why the hostility Rev. Dr. Flank? I realize there's some kind of hostile
> history between you and Uncle Davey, but this particular analysis seems
more
> like dispassionate observation than raving fundie opinion.
>
>
Thank you for that.
Uncle Davey
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