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   "whether they like to be called Atheists or Christians or whatever   
   religion one   
   wants to be   
   identified by,  the way to find direct testimony to all of life's   
   questions can   
    be found   
   in just one place, in Holy Scripture... that which is handed down   
   through the p   
   rophets of   
   God and apostles, and through them alone, to us.  Jer. 36:"   
      
   But you by your very example show this is not the case.  You alone do   
   not stand alone in the source and use and understanding of scripture.   
   You have inserted yourself into a traditionof these things   
    that includes a certain radio preacher you mention, the founders of the   
   protestant movement, the followers of the line of calvin, and one   
   presumes your local pastor, among others.  Many if not most of what you   
   have recieved in that tradition came long after scripture starting 1500   
   years after the fact. .   
      
   snip   
      
   "if the Atheist / Evolutionist wants to discover how the universe and   
   man   
   came to be, all he has to do is approach the throne of the King with   
   reverence and he will find that the Living God spoke and thus the   
   universe   
   came into being.   
      
   He made man from the dust of the ground out of elements found right here   
   on   
   earth and gave man of His Life.  no need to suppose we came from monkeys   
   because an Atheist says so."   
      
   Amen.  And how can we see exactly this in the full revelation of God?   
   In the creation He left us a record of His great work in how these   
   things were done.  That record is one of evolution,ie. change over time   
   in the species of living things that preceeds what we directly   
   experience today.   
      
   May God bless you.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)