@ Chronno S. Trigger (#3) and Hephaestus (#4): Everyone knows that this planet exploded into YELLOW JELLY, not silly green crystals, and she’s gonna be far too ugly for any of us to want anything to do with when she gets here.

@ Bible Thumpers and Evolutionists: Old Testament and New Testament prove the evolution of humans, Earth itself, faith, and religion. How so? Bible scholars teach that humans didn’t eat meat, but now we can/do/need to unless we get our nutritional requirements from sources we didn’t have before Adam and Eve committed the first sin. Christians eat pork. Christian men have sex with their wives when she is in her menstrual cycle. The Apostle Paul wrote that all things were lawful, though not expedient, so as long as it doesn’t hinder your brother’s walk with God, you can do it, understanding that it may still hinder your own walk, and therefore not necessarily a good idea.

@ John Doe (#8) and Dark Helemt (#20):
Come on, we all know it was just a Death Star!

Maybe it was a giant mirror? Maybe it was a hoax? If you’ve never watched the Big Bang Theory, you might not get the visual I have, but I remember an episode when Leonard, Raj, and Howard taught Sheldon how to pull a prank and the crap that Kripke and Sheldon did to each other was just hilarious.

Jesus Christ, Himself, explained to His apostles that he spoke in parables, which can be interpreted as figuratively.

Do we, as humans, remember plain, vanilla facts as easily as something that is cleverly worded? To literals translate as easily as figuratives?

That being said, it is completely ignorant to assume that in all this vast universe, whether God created it or not, we alone were created in His image to serve Him. Its certainly plausible that more than one ‘world’ was created.

What about, “…and there were giants in those days…” and any evidence of them? Some interpret this to be really big people who got flooded out. Some interpret this as proof that the dinosaurs, or at least fossils of the dinosaurs, were recorded in that time. What if this was really a reference to extra terrestrials on Earth at the time? What if it was the Titans?

That particular passage about flesh and spirit was Jesus’ way of showing that he HAS flesh and is not a ghost, as His disciples feared. He did not say that spirits have no genitalia or gender; only that they do not have flesh and bones as humans do.

The Bible does insinuate that we who will enter into heaven will have no gender, but I don’t recall any portion which says that outright. What I do recall is that we are referred to as the Bride of Christ and He is the Bridegroom. I guess that could be literally interpreted to say that not only is Christ, and therefore His Father male, but that He is bisexual and we are all his ‘bitches.’

As for creation or evolution, does it really matter? Really? We’re here already. Or are we not?

My big concern is with the end. There’s some scary stuff coming, according to John in the Book of Revelation. Part of the reason I left the church was because of the doctrine of the Rapture. Baptists will teach that because John was called up in chapter 4 that we will all be caught up in the sky. But if you cross reference as I did in my study bible, the references will refer to those whom are already dead being called up, and at no point does the bible say that it will happen BEFORE the Time of Tribulation.

Timelines in the bible are all very contradictory. We are certain that Man’s history predates the biblical calendar and we also know that when information is passed via litany and further translated to all tongues, that units of measurement (including time) can get goofed up.

As for a possible figurative interpretation, Jesus Christ could have been an alien from a race that planted us here and He was telling our ancestors that He and His Father will return for us when Earth dies, and he’ll take all our remains from Earth so that when later races settle here, that there won’t be any trace of us left.

I don’t mean to say that I believe that. My last paragraph was a work of complete fiction. I’m just pointing out that there are so many ways to interpret the same facts, and the fact is that the bible does contain words that can be interpreted any number of ways to make my next point.

It is never pointless to re-examine old data and observations of such, because as we learn new facts about our existence, we can see how those previous observations COULD have been slightly colored by opinions and limited data at the time.

Oh, and how can a flat world flood, anyway?