Keep in mind that the whole cosmos has been made imperfect — wounded — by sin. It is the principle of sin, rebellion against God and His truth which has brought about birth defects and other destructive natural occurrences. Leaving aside that for a moment, recent discoveries about the genetic code of each human being are a fulfillment of scripture. Your genetic code is the handwriting of God, written before you or the world existed. Our genetic blueprint is proof of the existence of the Living God and His infinite intelligence, purpose and design. Sadly, many will ignore the deeper spiritual truth which underlies the advance of this scientific knowledge.
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the human genome is chock full of obvious screwups. retroviruses, millions of years worth of broken and nonfunctional retroviruses, repeated garbage, random broken old junk... not just stuff that we don't know what it does, but stuff that we DO know DOESN'T do anything, stuff we know would do BAD things if it weren't obviously busted by random mutation... and that's what you want to claim as your deity's handwriting?
God must really love repetition then, with all those long and short interspersed elements cluttering shit up.
Also, stars explode because someone masturbated? I thought God only threatened kittens for that 'offense'.
http://mumingroup.blogspot.com/2011/01/discovery-of-holy-al-quran-verses-in.html
The discovery of the holy Al-Quran verses in Human DNA
If it is good, it is God's perfect design, if it is bad it is because of sin.
Heads God wins, tails you loose.
Swede, so you'd suffer.
Yet inedia is out there.
So, God created this entire universe perfect but ruined it when he set down the tree of knowledge right in the middle of the Garden of Eden and told Adam & Eve to not eat the fruit, knowing full well they would?
He could have at least put the tree of knowledge on the other side of the planet, or in some really inaccessible part of the planet, like on an island out in the middle of the Pacific. Or what about on another planet? That way the universe could have remained perfect.
If your god created everything, he also created sin, which means he's a complete bastard.
And you wonder why people are leaving Christianity.
This guy is the Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia and he is certifiably bat-shit crazy.
If he wins election, I start voting for the dissolution of the Union.
@OP: In the immortal words of Prokhor Zakharov, genes are NOT blueprints. Microbiology/genetics/whatnot fail. Also, using scientific truths, by their very nature ever changing, ever replaced by new discoveries, to prove religious dogma, constant and unchanging is... Risky. I'd call it the second most risky thing a believer can do, right after trying to name themselves new, better messiah.
[Oops, typo.]
Birth defects are the result of rebellion against God? Just how do shrimps, rats, sharks, spiders or any other creature rebel against God?
Trying to tell people who suffer from horrible genetic diseases that God chose to make them suffer while other people, some of them bad people, like serial killers, don't have to is not a good way to bolster your case.
"Keep in mind that the whole cosmos has been made imperfect-wounded-by sin".
ANother saying comes to mind:
So how did a perfect gawd create something that could turn into sin? Not so perfect now is he/she? And even your babble proclaims that gawd created sin. (Isaiah 45:7)
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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