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Space Impact 'Saved Christianity'
BBC
| 06/25/03
Posted on 06/25/2003 8:26:22 PM PDT by Davea
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posted on
06/25/2003 8:26:23 PM PDT
by
Davea
To: Davea
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posted on
06/25/2003 8:27:52 PM PDT
by
Davea
To: Davea
But what would have happened if this chance event - perhaps as rare as once every few thousand years - had not occurred in Italy at that time?Maxentius might have won the battle.
That may be the most glaring non sequitir I have ever read.
To: Quix
Ping!
To: Davea
SPOTREP
To: blam; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Lancey Howard; Grampa Dave
Ping
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posted on
06/25/2003 8:48:13 PM PDT
by
PeaceBeWithYou
(De Oppresso Liber!)
To: Davea
If Christianity is what I hold it to be, it did not need "saving", for Christianity bears the Gospel
of salvation. The Christianity I know is inherently triumphant.
If, on the other hand, it "needed" saving, then it was better left to die.
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posted on
06/25/2003 8:51:29 PM PDT
by
Migraine
(my grain is pretty straight today)
To: Davea
A meteor that wrote "In hoc signo vinces" in fiery letters across the sky?
Very clever meteor indeed.
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posted on
06/25/2003 8:52:38 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Davea
Just God showing off again.
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posted on
06/25/2003 8:54:40 PM PDT
by
gitmo
(Why can't they be like we were, perfect in every way? What's the matter with kids today?)
To: Thane_Banquo
Care to explain?
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posted on
06/25/2003 8:56:21 PM PDT
by
plusone
To: Cicero
A meteor that wrote "In hoc signo vinces" in fiery letters across the sky?
Very clever meteor indeed. ROFLMAO!
Good One!
I Love It!
J
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posted on
06/25/2003 8:59:51 PM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
(~~~ http://www.ourgangnet.net ~~~~~)
To: plusone
It does not follow that because a meteor came crashing to the ground in site of Constantine, he won the battle.
To: Davea
Certainly God uses any and everything--at least any and every sort of thing to His ends.
Did he actively, overtly send such a meteor for such a reason. Who am I to know! He knows.
I suspect that's good enough for Him.
He could have achieved the same ends probably 100's of ways. At least dozens.
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posted on
06/25/2003 9:12:04 PM PDT
by
Quix
(FAIR MINDED & INTERESTED--please watch UFO special Tues eve & share opinions)
To: Thane_Banquo
Christianity is no accident. In the beginning was the Word. He will have His Bride and the devil is already defeated! His Word is true and will come to pass. Fulfilled prophesy is a large reason most believers believe. If a king was needed to fulfill His plan, then He provided the king. The battle belongs to the Lord.
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posted on
06/25/2003 9:12:25 PM PDT
by
chuckles
To: blam; Carry_Okie
ping
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posted on
06/25/2003 9:12:51 PM PDT
by
farmfriend
( Isaiah 55:10,11)
To: Thane_Banquo
It does not follow that because a meteor came crashing to the ground in site of Constantine, he won the battle. Unless it fell on his rivals. Or perhaps it shone in the sky over Constantine and his rivals percieved it as a sign that the "Gods" had chosen Constantine.
To: Thane_Banquo
Yes, but I think that was the point of the article. The sighting of the meteor gave Constantine and his troops the vigor to fight harder.
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posted on
06/25/2003 9:18:44 PM PDT
by
plusone
To: farmfriend
God is after all, a very clever engineer.
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posted on
06/25/2003 9:58:47 PM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(The environment is too complex and too important to be managed by politics.)
To: Thane_Banquo
Yes, if the meteor had landed on the other side's army . . . .then maybe . . .otherwise . . .
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posted on
06/25/2003 10:00:41 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(Socialism is slavery.)
To: farmfriend
Thanks. Catastrophism bump.
Now if we can just find the 540AD impact crater that started the Dark Ages.
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posted on
06/26/2003 8:05:08 AM PDT
by
blam
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