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   From: andrew.321.remov@usa.net   
      
   "Mitchell Holman" wrote in message news:XnsB2218109ADB20629555@1   
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   > "Andrew" wrote:   
   >> "Mitchell Holman" wrote:   
   >>> "Brother Desmond (Desi) Edward Coughlan" wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Let your roots grow down into Him, and let your lives be built on   
   >>>> Him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught,   
   >>>> and you will overflow with thankfulness.   
   >>>   
   >>> "So the Lord said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from   
   >>>  the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds   
   >>>  of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them."   
   >>>                                               Genesis 6:8   
   >>   
   >> This is what happened according to this inspired writer.   
   >>   
   >   
   >  So a perfect god made an imperfect creation.   
      
   No. It was all  glorious and perfect _   
   before the Fall.   
      
   >  How is that possible?   
      
   Imperfection came..because of the Fall.   
      
   This fallen condition is only 'temporary'.   
      
   If you would read the Bible, it would   
   help you to understand all about it.   
      
   >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   
   >> "In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second   
   >> month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day   
   >> all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and   
   >> the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was   
   >> on the earth forty days and forty nights.   
   >>   
   >> "Now the flood was on the earth forty days. The waters   
   >> increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose high above   
   >> the earth. The waters prevailed and greatly increased on   
   >> the earth, and the ark moved about on the surface of the   
   >> waters. And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the   
   >> earth, and all the high hills under the whole heaven were   
   >> covered.   
   >>   
   >> "And all flesh died that moved on the earth: birds and   
   >> cattle and beasts and every creeping thing that creeps on   
   >> the earth, and every man. All in whose nostrils was the   
   >> breath of the spirit of life, all that was on the dry land,   
   >> died.   
   >>   
   >> "So He destroyed all living things which were on the   
   >> face of the ground: both man and cattle, creeping thing   
   >> and bird of the air. They were destroyed from the earth.   
   >>   
   >> "Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark   
   >> remained alive. And the waters prevailed on the earth   
   >> one hundred and fifty days."    ~ From Genesis 7   
   >>   
   >> However God promised us that He would not destroy   
   >> the World again by water. Next time it will be by Fire.   
   >>   
   >> "But the day of the Lord will come as a thief; in the   
   >>  which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise,   
   >>  and the elements shall be dissolved with fervent heat,   
   >>  and the earth and the works that are therein shall be   
   >>  burned up."   
   >>                              ~ 2 Peter 3:10   
   >>   
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