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WHY DOES GOD APPEAR SO MEAN?
TruthInConviction ^ | Dec 31 | J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Posted on 12/31/2009 4:16:58 PM PST by freedomyes

“Grant, I wonder if you are a football fan? Just because, if so, I hope you're demanding to the team ownership that the whole team should be put to death immediately. After all, a literal reading of the Bible does tell us that anyone who works on Sunday should be killed, right? And you've apparently linked belief in Christ with blindly following everything in the Bible.”

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: bible; god; grantswank; grantswankjr; justice; penalties
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To: Dr. North

As we judge others, so we shall be judged.


241 posted on 01/01/2010 12:04:48 PM PST by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: Cvengr

It is cruel to condemn a baby for sins she never committed, to project ancient wrongs onto her state of innocence.


242 posted on 01/01/2010 12:04:59 PM PST by Dr. North
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To: Dr. North
Actually, if God and the uniform code of conduct are one, God invariably acts in accordance with the uniform code of conduct.

I hadn't gotten to that part yet due to my asparagus.
243 posted on 01/01/2010 12:18:52 PM PST by aruanan
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To: UriÂ’el-2012

Thanks for posting.

The pagan history now makes a little more sense.


244 posted on 01/01/2010 12:20:45 PM PST by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: UriÂ’el-2012
PAttack the messenger. Never the message."

You really didn't have to admit it, but it is a good step. We all knew what you were doing. Eleven more steps......

245 posted on 01/01/2010 12:26:58 PM PST by Natural Law
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To: Cvengr
Thanks for posting.

The pagan history now makes a little more sense.

I spent many years accepting the spin.

Later I sought to understand why.

It has borne some fruit.

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
246 posted on 01/01/2010 12:29:16 PM PST by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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To: Natural Law

It’s rather like ‘debating’ Gollum.


247 posted on 01/01/2010 12:29:58 PM PST by Dr. North
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To: UriÂ’el-2012
"The Pagan feast of easter"

If nothing else, this one line establishes your standing as a fringe kook if not an outright heretic.

248 posted on 01/01/2010 12:52:10 PM PST by Natural Law
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To: UriÂ’el-2012
I made no claim that the Constantine was ever a "pope"

St. Constantine the Great was never Pontiff of the Catholic Church.

Constantine refused to be baptized until he was on his death bed.

He became a Christian circa AD 313.

The question you should be asking yourself is why the roman "church" took the title Pontiff and proudly proclaims that it's head is the Master Bridge builder to Satan ?

The Catholic Church does no such thing. Of all the ridiculous fever-dreams!

Passover and all the other of YHvH's Holy commanded Feast Days were rejected and replaced with Pagan feast days; the feast days of the Evil One.

Not in the Catholic Church.

Do you really expect the readers to believe the Evil One celebrates the Birth of Jesus Christ? Are we supposed to believe Satan celebrates Christ's death and Resurrection?

The sentence "This is the Decree from the Pontiff of the Roman church to all the world." which appears in your post does NOT appear anywhere in the original. It is YOUR statement, carefully intermixed into quotations from the originals.

The reality is that you are NOT quoting any "decree from the Pontiff of the Roman church to all the world."

249 posted on 01/01/2010 1:25:01 PM PST by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
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To: UriÂ’el-2012
Attack the messenger.

That is what you are doing to Dr. North.

250 posted on 01/01/2010 1:29:35 PM PST by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
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To: Natural Law
If nothing else, this one line establishes your standing as a fringe kook if not an outright heretic.

Heretic of what, exactly?

He has already stated he is not a Christian.

251 posted on 01/01/2010 1:31:19 PM PST by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
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To: UriÂ’el-2012
...Paul Haskell the editor of these documents...

Hmmm. Let's go to the tape!

Paul Halsall
halsall@murray.fordham.edu
WebSite: http://www.bway.net/~halsall
The document does not contain the string "Haskell."
252 posted on 01/01/2010 1:39:09 PM PST by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
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To: Cvengr
The pagan history now makes a little more sense.

So you're able to over look the fact that his posts on the topic are a load of manufactured, fantastical twaddle?

253 posted on 01/01/2010 1:44:14 PM PST by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
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To: Dr. North
It is wrong for anyone to fail to do all that they can to protect innocent life.

I believe it is our duty to protect life because life is God-given. However, I wouldn't agree that God choosing to allow an abortion to occur is being cruel. I can't say where babies souls reside before conception, but an aborted baby went from whatever that state was, to perhaps a brief blink of consciousness, and directly into a heavenly state (because although they certainly would sin had they lived long enough to make choices, they hadn't yet had the intention).

Where is the cruelty in allowing an innocent to mostly by-pass this idiot world we live in?

254 posted on 01/01/2010 1:48:07 PM PST by Dianna
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To: UriÂ’el-2012
I do find pontifex as bridge in Latin.

Your anemic research skills are laid bare.

In Latin, bridge is pont (or ponticulus for "little bridge").

Pontifex is "bridge-maker."

255 posted on 01/01/2010 1:52:33 PM PST by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
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To: Dr. North
The death of an innocent child does not provide any benefit to anyone, thus it is not equivalent to an immunization per your analogy, but rather is a pointless wrong which should be stopped.

I'm sorry, but that simply is not true. I've lost a child. Because of it, I am more faithful, more grateful and more compassionate. Would I rather be like I was but with a 17 year old son today? Absolutely! I'd trade in a second. But that's not reality. In my son's death, I learned a great deal about myself, about others and about God. Much more often than wishing my son were here in this crappy world with me, I wish I was there with him.

256 posted on 01/01/2010 1:53:09 PM PST by Dianna
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To: Petronski

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontifex_Maximus


257 posted on 01/01/2010 1:55:06 PM PST by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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To: UriÂ’el-2012

Thank you for supplementing my argument.

To wit:

“The Pontifex Maximus (which literally means “Greatest Bridge-maker”)”

Although you claimed “pontifex” means bridge, it does in fact mean “bridgemaker.”


258 posted on 01/01/2010 1:57:08 PM PST by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
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To: Dianna
It's not all about you.

An innocent child losing their life is a cost to them which outweighs the things you wrote of.

259 posted on 01/01/2010 1:59:50 PM PST by Dr. North
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To: Dr. North

It appears those who think it is cruel, confuse immorality with sin. Immorality might be sinful, but sin simply means missing the mark, not performing as God had planned or intended for the Creation.

It is true that sin is exceedingly sinful, and one of the primary reasons not to act independently of what He has provided is to avoid these types of consequences.

For those who don’t think the consequences are necessary, this present age is one additional testing of that same hypothesis advanced by the Adversary that he would make himself like the most high and could run the universe just fine without God. The issues of judging good and evil have not yet been completed, although the fallen angels have been judged.


260 posted on 01/01/2010 1:59:53 PM PST by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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