son of Ishmael wrote:Quasimodo said: "No mention of Chinese, Native Americans, Aborigines or Swedes. There must have been a lot of cursing on God's part shortly after the flood. Otherwise we would have to believe in evolution (can't have that)."
I was taught that at the tower of Babel, beside the whole language changing thing, god also created all the other not as good as white people races
A reasonable explanation as long as the Welsh and Irish are not counted among the "not as good".
Hey, that is not for me to decide...
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo
Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man. - The Dude
Don't you know there ain't no devil, there's just god when he's drunk - Tom Waits
just me wrote: Wow. So, 27 million peeps were murdered. 8 million pregnancies seems too high to me. Less than 14 mil are female. Maybe there were a million pregnant women.
Who knows, but it was certainly more than a few.
You are probably right. I pulled that number (8 million) out of some place you would rather not hear about.
My thought was that, due to a shorter life span in those days, most women would be of child baring age and birth control was hard to come by then. I just figured that there would be a higher percentage of pregnant women. I'm happy (actually appalled) with a figure of one million.
The median age is so low because the infant mortality rate was astronomical. The maternal mortality rate was terrible, as well. But in many areas and for many people starvation and malnutrition were huge problems. That effects fertility. It's been a while since I've researched this topic. I feel like women back then were only having one or two children. Perhaps that is an average. *shrugs*
So, I may be low balling. There's really no way to be certain.
~Those who benefit from the status quo always attribute inequities to the choices of the underdog.~Ann Crittenden ~The Goddess is not separate from the world-She is the world and all things in it.~
Bond James Bond wrote:If God truly did flood the world and kill every living thing except Noah and his family and the animals of the Ark how many abortions do you think he committed that day?
None. An abortion is when someone else plays God. Murder is when someone else decides who lives and dies. This is God's world --- we just live here because God allows it. Nothing is ours.
I have thought about the flood in population terms myself. I use a start of age date of 5810 BC and a flood date of 3554 BC. Then I use the population growth rate of the Jews while they were in Egypt for 400 years. Then I added to that rate the longer life span and longer productive years for offspring. With this all in mind the population should have been at least a billion people.
Bond James Bond wrote:If God truly did flood the world and kill every living thing except Noah and his family and the animals of the Ark how many abortions do you think he committed that day?
None. An abortion is when someone else plays God. Murder is when someone else decides who lives and dies. This is God's world --- we just live here because God allows it. Nothing is ours.
How many pregnancies did God terminate by His own will?
Whatever appears to be against the Book of Mormon is going to be overturned at some time in the future. So we can be pretty open minded.-charity 3/7/07
MASH quotes I peeked in the back [of the Bible] Frank, the Devil did it. I avoid church religiously. This isn't one of my sermons, I expect you to listen.
LittleNipper wrote: None. An abortion is when someone else plays God. Murder is when someone else decides who lives and dies. This is God's world --- we just live here because God allows it. Nothing is ours.
How many pregnancies did God terminate by His own will?
We will never know. Right now all you should be concerned with is where you will spend eternity. That is something which you can influence.
How many pregnancies did God terminate by His own will?
We will never know. Right now all you should be concerned with is where you will spend eternity. That is something which you can influence.
How did the babies drowned in the flood influence their eternity based on their actions on earth?
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Franktalk wrote: So do you convict judges and juries instead of criminals? Is the criminal responsible for his behavior?
If we are here to experience good and evil and the balance becomes two far to one side does God have the moral right to level the learning field?
Ah, I get it. The wages of sin is death. People who sin deserve to die, right? I seem to remember you saying you had the right to kill someone who threatened your family. The wages of sin and all that.
And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love...you make. PMcC
bcuzbcuz wrote:Ah, I get it. The wages of sin is death. People who sin deserve to die, right? I seem to remember you saying you had the right to kill someone who threatened your family. The wages of sin and all that.
