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That does not answer the question. If your faith doesn't have to make sense, then how do you tell the Davidians that they're wrong?

So you'll say "we can't know" when it comes to the Bible, but you put your faith in what men say about the earth being billions of years...

Another case of missing the forest for the trees. Take a step back. There is an average MILE DEEP layer of sediment and sedimentary...

Yet @Clete himself acknowledged that physical death is a result of Adam's sin. And all human beings, with the exception of Jesus, are...

Who is doing that? I stated what was written in the scripture.

Since @Clete has me in his doghouse for daring to question his theology, this is more just to whoever is interested. I don't think...

None of that lessens the idea that Abraham questioned God's righteousness and God was OK with it.

So you say, but Adam's sin brought death to all of his descendants. If you prefer to lump that in with "long term ramifications", that's...

Yes, that seems like a reasonable possibility, but the point was that the very chapter the text is in refutes the limitation of it being...

I would think that to begin to die is to die; I mean, you can't begin dying without dying. Perhaps he began dying, bodily, at the very...

But Ez 18 isn't on its own. It follows, and must be understood in context of the law, which says: [Exo 20:5 KJV] Thou shalt not bow down...