AZGrizFan wrote:Question for D1B: Is it possible to NOT believe ANY of THAT and still believe in God? I'm a firm believer, but also believe that the bible is more a book of fables handed down through the generations than a documentary of life on earth during those times. I doubt anybody lived to be 600 years old...I don't think anyone walked in the desert for 40 years...I don't think the earth was covered with water from a giant flood, and I don't think God rained fire down on Soddom and Gomorrah (sp?) because they were "sinners". I DO believe, however, that there may have been a great flood (precipitated by God knows what) that covered the majority of the earth near where the story originated...I believe that there may have been a scientific explanation for the destruction of Soddom and Gomorrah...etc., etc., etc. Does that make me a bad Christian?D1B wrote: Inability to acknowledge that believing the world is 6,000 years old, god cloned himself just to get his ass kicked to save us from something who the F knows what, Noah built an ark cuz god got pissed, again, and killed every man, woman and child, and loaded two of every living beast on the planet, mary was knocked up by a ghost and so on, is utter bullshit. It's jokingly called "being a complete dumbass".
Answer - yes, of course. But how boring would that be?
