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To: Almagest
<< Jonah finally spoke the warning that GOD wanted, and was PISSED about it! >>


Again, you twist scripture. It looks habitual. Hmmmm.


 
I think not:
 
Jonah 3
 
 1.  Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time:
 2.  "Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you."
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Jonah 4
 
 1.  But Jonah was greatly displeased and became angry.
 2.  He prayed to the LORD, "O LORD, is this not what I said when I was still at home? That is why I was so quick to flee to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity.
 3.  Now, O LORD, take away my life, for it is better for me to die than to live."
 4.  But the LORD replied, "Have you any right to be angry?"
 
Now; just WHAT have I TWISTED?

1,191 posted on 05/17/2006 2:37:22 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: Elsie

<< Now; just WHAT have I TWISTED? >>


The meaning of the scripture -- just as this latest attempt did. You originally claimed that Jonah warned of God's wrath and was PISSED about it. The book of Jonah does not indicate that.

Your citation in this latest attempt just proves my assertion that you are twisting the scripture. You quoted the beginning of ch. 4, where it tells us that Jonah got angry -- but your citation ALSO tells us WHY Jonah got angry.

He was not angry because he was preaching hell-fire. He was angry that his preaching WORKED! The people repented -- and God relented. In that very passage you quote -- you prove my contention completely!

If you care more about winning points in a debate than you do about treating the Bible with basic respect, there's nothing I can do to help you. But if you really do love the Bible as God's word -- then you will repent of this mistreatment of that word. If it really is God's word -- you are not only disrespecting the Word of God -- you are disrespecting the God of that word.

And I noticed that you completely passed over the fact that not a single one of your other scripture citations had anything to do with the topic of Hell. I do not believe in the divine inspiration of the Bible, but I am treating it with more respect than you are. I find that ironic.

But don't worry -- my beatings will soon commence! LOL!







1,196 posted on 05/17/2006 4:15:22 PM PDT by Almagest (Ptolemy was a creationist. This does prove creationism -- right?)
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