Posted on 02/20/2006 5:33:50 AM PST by ToryHeartland
Yup; that's what I said.
Pi is three, or four, or whatever.
Like a moth to the flame...
In science, we call it handwaving Evolution.
haha...or fly to the dog crap???
An 'Elsie' marathon placemarker...
Who cares? "My buddies" don't determine the law, The social expectations of our culture, or the rules of etiquette. I didn't accuse you of being a liar, you accused me. Apropos to which, let me remind you that you still haven't actually answered the question at the root of your accusation. Why do you think I would bother to try to do homework to justify a statement about your opinions which you won't confirm is wrong?
Do, you or do you not disown the giving of the law to the judges in genesis? Do you or do you not think Roe v. Wade should be overturned on the basis of biblically justified christian beliefs?
Just step back and think about what a very odd myth it is.
That is not what I was doing. I was assuming that the writer of that verse was not stupid and I was also using the measurements of the time to show that the verse is reconcilable.
If I could not justify it using a cubit a hand or a span or other biblical measurement criteria, then I suppose I would have had to admit a likely error, as the outside dimension would clearly be about 31 cubits. But the usable space, the space inside the bowl, would be roughly 30 cubits according to your own calculations, wouldn't it?
BTW, have you found that source yet?
The phrase is 'a line of thirty cubits did encompass it round about.' 'Encompass' suggests an outside diameter. There is no mention of hands at all. You're reaching.
BTW, have you found that source yet?
Kansas City Times, Jan 5, 1982.
We may be created in the image of the Divine, but it appears that there were at least 10 homids before us, with various degrees of simularity.
All this could change if one found a chimp fossil inside the belly of a T-Rex. Intelligent design is not so much false, but unfalsifiable, for the Divine could have created the fossils in the ground to mislead. That leads to the theological question, does the Divine lie, and if so, why?
Evolution is the most elegant way by which I can image that the Divine could have created a body to hold a soul.
I have given you ample opportunity to disavow my characterization of your expressed attitudes. You have not contradicted anything I have said in the passsages you are objecting to. Your convictions about the punishments inflicted on the jews more that justifies my suggestion that you must be a lot of fun at S&M parties, and that's the highest flight of fancy I've endulged in. My characterizations of your expressed opinions are accurate, as testified to by the fact that they stand repeatedly uncorrected by you.
I didn't see statues of God at the various Protestant churches I was forced to attend, from time to time, by my Grandparents and aunts. I saw plenty of statues of jesus.
Christian churches do not have any statues for the reason you stated, Catholic churches have many.
Really?
Look what I found!:
And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths. (1 Kings 7:26 KJV)
So, if it was a "hand breadth thick" (like the bible says) how many cubits would the inside circumference be?
Huh?
If you don't think catholics are christians, I'm filing you in the dingbat bin, and ignoring you. Protestant churches behaved just as disgustingly toward jews and catholics did, if not worse, while offering up the exact same excuses as the Catholics. Martin Luther was a famously vile jewhater. I don't really care why reform churches have statues of Jesus. God said "no other God's before me, for I am a jealous God", yet I see only Jesus statues in God's church.
I have no grief with this. I have been saying for some time that until christians are willing to officially bend the unforgiving doctrine of salvation exclusively through Jesus, and find a way to formally and permanently acknowledge and ameliorate the persistent anti-jewish propagandizing of the Gospels and acknowledge the full citizenship of orthodox jews, as orthodox jews, in the kingdom of heaven, that christianity is doomed to endlessly repeat the cycle of evil murderous repression that's been it's habit for 1400 years, and this present 50-100 year lapse will be seen for the temporary glitch that it is.
If not, when history moves on to the next cycle, all the anti-jewish poison will still be there, and christians will go right back to righteously torturing and murdering jews, just like they used to. 1400 hundred years of this ugly behavior ain't an accident, it's a policy, and the NT is that policy.
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