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Can God create a rock bigger than He can lift?
Topic Started: Jan 23 2006, 11:07 PM (2,038 Views)
Benjamin
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I don't think anyone could disregard the Great Flood. Almost every religion has a story of some sort of Great Flood, so I don't doubt that it occured.

And, the format's right. I don't believe there is any other record from that time other than the Bible, and if you find another one, please post it.
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I agree with format and Benjamin, but thats not to say that books like the Coran lack insight to history in that culture in that time.
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Vulcan
Jan 27 2006, 06:08 PM
So I take it you've read all of them?

It's all about a God that is angered by man, and brings forth a global flood. He selects one family to be saved, in which they need to collect several animals in order to save the planet.


The only variables are the family's names, and the religion.

My ass it is. The one in China sure doesn't involve one family being saved.

Islam branched off of the same religion as Christianity. You can't count it as a seperate source...
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Jan 28 2006, 05:25 PM
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Jan 27 2006, 06:08 PM
So I take it you've read all of them?

It's all about a God that is angered by man, and brings forth a global flood. He selects one family to be saved, in which they need to collect several animals in order to save the planet.


The only variables are the family's names, and the religion.

My ass it is. The one in China sure doesn't involve one family being saved.

Islam branched off of the same religion as Christianity. You can't count it as a seperate source...

But doe the one in China tell of a group of people being saved?

So... where did the Aztec branch off of? The Mayans? They have a Great Flood story.
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How did Islam branch off of Christianity? Mohammed went off on his own into solitude and claimed an angel met him, he didn't revise Christianity to come up with Islam.
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Jan 28 2006, 07:26 PM
How did Islam branch off of Christianity? Mohammed went off on his own into solitude and claimed an angel met him, he didn't revise Christianity to come up with Islam.

I never said Islam branched off of Christianity. Islam did, more or less, branch off of Judiasm.

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But doe the one in China tell of a group of people being saved?

So... where did the Aztec branch off of? The Mayans? They have a Great Flood story.

The "flood story" in Chinese mythology is generic anyway. There are many stories of multiple floods, each one different. None of them are truly "global" floods, actually.

Find me those Aztec and Mayan stories. I'm interested.
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Glitch
Jan 28 2006, 06:15 PM
Find me those Aztec and Mayan stories. I'm interested.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deluge_(mythology)

It says the Aztec story is questionable of accuracy, but it's the closest thing.
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Jan 28 2006, 08:15 PM
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Jan 28 2006, 07:26 PM
How did Islam branch off of Christianity?  Mohammed went off on his own into solitude and claimed an angel met him, he didn't revise Christianity to come up with Islam.

I never said Islam branched off of Christianity. Islam did, more or less, branch off of Judiasm.

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But doe the one in China tell of a group of people being saved?

So... where did the Aztec branch off of? The Mayans? They have a Great Flood story.

The "flood story" in Chinese mythology is generic anyway. There are many stories of multiple floods, each one different. None of them are truly "global" floods, actually.

Find me those Aztec and Mayan stories. I'm interested.

http://www.nwcreation.net/noahlegends.html

EDIT: Sorry, it was the Incas, not the Mayans.
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Why don't you find me a non-biased, reliable secular source? I'm sure if these myths were all true there'd be sites dedicated to each.
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Glitch
Jan 28 2006, 06:29 PM
Why don't you find me a non-biased, reliable secular source? I'm sure if these myths were all true there'd be sites dedicated to each.

Try my link.
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Jan 28 2006, 08:29 PM
Why don't you find me a non-biased, reliable secular source? I'm sure if these myths were all true there'd be sites dedicated to each.

Oh, so I take it any site that supports creation in any way is biased?
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Jan 28 2006, 08:32 PM
Oh, so I take it any site that supports creation in any way is biased?

Yes. By unbiased I mean a site devoted to mythology that does not have an agenda to press.

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Try my link.

You know, I linked to a Wikipedia article about scientific theories earlier, but since you so gracefully rejected the truth in that one, what makes you think I should accept this article?
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Where was this?
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Jan 28 2006, 08:35 PM
Yes. By unbiased I mean a site devoted to mythology that does not have an agenda to press.

No. By unbiased, you mean a site that doesn't support creation.
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I'm pretty sure it was in the other topic, but since I'm not going to bother to sift through 40 pages, I'll post it again:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_theory

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In scientific usage, a theory does not mean an unsubstantiated guess or hunch, as it often does in other contexts.
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