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No, you believe your interpretation is correct. Which is fine. But I fear your confidence is misplaced.

Wow, Dutch Sheets. One of those NAR folks. Steer clear.

The Bible does not support these as absolute rights. Salvation is by grace, a gift of God, not by some declaration a selection of deists, theists and miscellaneous others. God desires the best for us, but that often means suffering into this world (Jeremiah, Job, etc). It is explicitly stated that we will experience suffering for the faith. I don't disagree with the intent of the US declaration as it is an excellent document for the basis of a more equitable society. Of course, it still took them a lot of time to even figure out the equitable part.

That sounds like idolatry to me.

The preamble does not have any Biblical justification despite the appeal to a "Creator". It's a deeply humanistic concept stemming from the Enlightenment. God grants us life, but he clearly can demand our lives at his pleasure.

There have been other times in history that have had better reason to think the end was nigh than now.

Nice red herring. Why don't you address your fallacious arguments instead of committing more?

Sure, but the argument you seem to be advancing is not supported by the Biblical narrative. There is no Sun, Moon or stars until Day 4. Days 1-3 is only a description of an ethereal "light" separated from the "dark". While evening and morning are used in the text, the Hebrew definition of those concepts are predicated on the Sun being present. The creation account language is borrowing familiar concepts and imagery and applying them as a rhythm or pattern of the Creation story. I see no need to assume a hard literal application of the language, especially in our present culture shaped by Modernity and rationalism.

I don't think this line of argument is particularly persuasive when advancing the Biblical narrative. Scripture explicitly says that the sun was not created until Day 4. For Days 1, 2, and 3, all we have is the division of the "light" from the "dark". This is a bit of a more difficult concept to conceive because our concept of light and dark is essentially defined by the day/night cycle. Despite the ash clouds of Mt St Helen's, the sun was still where it should be. We could confirm that from multiple other locations that the sun appeared as it should (like where I was when the eruption happened).

Advancing such obvious logical fallacies does not make your point very strong.

If something contravenes an Act there is not much a court can do about it other than recommend that an amendment to the act be made. If it's in conflict with another act, then there also has to be amendments, or a rewrite, or figure out which one supersedes the other. As someone who deals with certain government acts and regulations fairly regularly, you can only argue with government using the act and subsidiary regulations.

I get the sense he is asking what types of mutations are there - like substitution, insertion, deletion, etc. @FreeGrace - if above is what you are asking, I think this link explains the various mechanisms.

What, 17 years ago? with no election since then?

@other one is on the money here. A Christian education for your kids is a good idea, but one should ask why are they in that school. If it is just to act as a barrier or cloister from "the rest of the world", that's a disservice to them. I appreciate the Christian school my kids are at because its stated goal is to prepare kids for kingdom service in whatever sphere of human activity they choose or are led to participate in. The school ensures that they interact with public schools in sports events, they do various community projects and so on.

We've been in the end times since Christ ascended.

I said that in the context of a subset of people that seem continually discontented in their relationships, worried that there is the better person out there. I don't know how common it is, but I find the soul mate concept feeds that idea. Oh yeah, it's only been 20 years for me any my wife. We've remarkably had virtually no conflict within out marriage. We both come from a very similar cultural and religious background, so we share a lot of the same assumptions that which probably minimizes that potential.

Our kids, all teens now, have been fantastic and I can't really say why that is - but for the grace of God, I suppose. Neither my wife and I were hell-raisers as kids so maybe there is that. I think we have been blessed with a stable and relatively drama-free marriage and good family and church support surrounding us. We don't know how they will be in the future concerning their faith or other matters in life, but all we've tried to do is set a foundation for them. Rather amusingly, there was a parenting seminar being hosted by a local church that my wife and I considered attending (we were unable to attend). As we were discussing it at the dinner table our son states (paraphrasing): "You can go, but don't change anything when you get back." I am assuming that was a compliment.

Sure. It's an amazing country with incredible landscapes and hospitable, friendly people. I don't like the idolatrous politics of Evangelicals which is also rife with hypocrisy and double standards.

Answers in Genesis have suggested progenitor kinds roughly equivalent to the Family level. They may have the breakdown somewhere on their site. I know it's at the Ark Encounter as a display. If whomever you are taking with has familiarity with biology and genetics they will likely quickly torpedo that view. You'd be better off by acknowledging that you don't know and attribute it to divine providence although the Bible makes no claim of that either.

Even if they are right, that Federalist piece is pretty over the top.

I was not exactly outgoing about asking women out. It took me nearly killing myself on a job that made me get around to asking my eventual wife out on a date. But we had known each other as part of a larger group of friends for awhile.

No. But they allowed the forced migration, cultural assimilation, and occasional slaughter of the indigenous peoples along with importation of slaves.

Don't get into that nonsense of a "soul mate" or that God has that one person picked out for him. I cringe at the "waiting on God" thing, as it sounds like an empty platitude and not advice. You've got to meet and get to know a person. They will rarely just show up one day with a sign above their head saying "pick me".

You posted this several days ago, and I was curious about the Biblical references you are using to support this claim. I asked previously. Can you point me to those verses? Thanks.

He is now lumping other YEC'ers who accept certain elements of evolution into that bag as well, calling them Young Earth Evolutionists. That would be the previously mentioned Kurt Wise and Todd Wood. AiG has now declared themselves the arbiter of the YEC purity test.