[F. Nietzsche]

Re: Happy birthday, universe!

I would accept your' arguement if you provided a scriptural bases for your "Old Universe" theory. Anyway how do you know the universe is 13.5 billion years old? Were you there?

Causality necessitates it.

The furthest quasars are 13 billion or more light years from Earth, as determined by redshift. Because the speed of light is a constant in a relative vacuum such as space, the overall envelope of causality for our visible universe would be only 6010 light years distance, as opposed to many billions of them.

[Pastor Ezekiel]

Re: Happy 6,010th birthday, universe!

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[Wide-Open]

Re: Happy 6,010th birthday, universe!

universe is much older then 6000 years old

Indeed, 10 years.

[patrickzzz]

Re: Happy 6,010th birthday, universe!

universe is much older then 6000 years old

[Shoebarf]

Re: Happy 6,010th birthday, universe!

Hmmm, the universe is quite a lot older than that. Carbon-14 dating proves it.

[Pastor Billy-Reuben]

Re: Happy 6,010th birthday, universe!

I am sorry pastor i was typing fast and i switched two letters , and i neglect to use capital letters and proper punctuation, like i said, i type fast.

You don't type fast; you type sloppily and lazily. My secretary types fast, about 115 words per minute, and the results are flawless. You could type both fast and accurately if you weren't too lazy to learn to do so.

"Typing fast" is no excuse. This post of mine is free of typos, grammatical errors, and spelling mistakes, yet I typed it at roughly 75 words per minute.

Pastor Billy-Reuben

[tolarence]

Re: Happy 6,010th birthday, universe!

I am sorry pastor i was typing fast and i switched two letters , and i neglect to use capital letters and proper punctuation, like i said, i type fast.

[Pastor Ezekiel]

Re: Happy 6,010th birthday, universe!

it is not , i am sorry to say but there are records of other "non-god" people from before that time, and you know carbon dating shows it is much old, again not bashing or anything just letting u know facts, if you don't think im right , i accept that :]

Son, you can't even spell tolerance much less do you understand the concept. This is a Christian forum; We are not interested in your unsaved opinions.

We follow the Holy Bible. You should too.

And find your "Shift" key before Jesus decides you should be tossed out of here.

[tolarence]

Re: Happy 6,010th birthday, universe!

it is not , i am sorry to say but there are records of other "non-god" people from before that time, and you know carbon dating shows it is much old, again not bashing or anything just letting u know facts, if you don't think im right , i accept that :]

[Pastor Isaac Peters]

Re: Happy 6,010th birthday, universe!

How do you know Sumerians invented glue 1000 years before?

I was wondering the same thing, Brother. Surprisingly enough , the Bible says nothing of the sort.

[Rev. Jim Osborne]

Re: Happy 6,010th birthday, universe!

4,004 B.C...about 1000 years after the Sumerians invented glue? Brilliance.

How do you know Sumerians invented glue 1000 years before? How could anything get invented when there wasn't even humans around, let alone a universe?

[Evolution]

Re: Happy 6,010th birthday, universe!

4,004 B.C...about 1000 years after the Sumerians invented glue? Brilliance.

[ehal]

Re: Happy 6,010th birthday, universe!

The phase "all scripture" means the whole Bible, not every Bible version.


It's not true. The Catholic Church desperately wanted to keep an easy-to-read accurately translated Bible out of the hands of the masses, and one of the tactics they employed to stop it was to spread false rumors about the man who commissioned its translation.

You can learn more about it here.

Pastor Billy-Reuben

Thanks for the clarification.

[Pastor Billy-Reuben]

Re: Happy 6,010th birthday, universe!

I think you can understand if I'm a little confused. Perhaps not all of your group agrees with each other. If all scripture is totally true and trustworthy why do you prefer the King James?

The phase "all scripture" means the whole Bible, not every Bible version.

I'm not the one questioning it. I would assume that you would be more likely to, considering you would be the one to trust this "queer" implying he was divinely inspired. And, it was not a hateful accusation, I was asking a simple question. I've heard that King James was homosexual (this is not hateful), but since I have not done research on the subject myself, I was curious if it were true.

It's not true. The Catholic Church desperately wanted to keep an easy-to-read accurately translated Bible out of the hands of the masses, and one of the tactics they employed to stop it was to spread false rumors about the man who commissioned its translation.

You can learn more about it here.

Pastor Billy-Reuben

[ehal]

Re: Happy birthday, universe!

Please read my sermon on the subject HERE, and ou will have your question answered in full.




Please show us the proof of your hateful accusation.

Even assuming it was true, don't you know that God uses us all as He sees fit? If God wants to use a queer to spread His Holy Word all over the world, then who are you to question it?

I'm not the one questioning it. I would assume that you would be more likely to, considering you would be the one to trust this "queer" implying he was divinely inspired. And, it was not a hateful accusation, I was asking a simple question. I've heard that King James was homosexual (this is not hateful), but since I have not done research on the subject myself, I was curious if it were true.