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To: wideawake

Registering my disgust with the “God” of the Tanakh for answering the prayer of his prophet to slaughter 40 children who were making fun of his bald head is the same as me renouncing my Lord and Saviour who warned against harming children?

If anything, I could turn this around on you and say you are blaspheming the Holy Name of Christ by associating Him with that Beast.


48 posted on 07/30/2007 2:00:14 PM PDT by John Philoponus
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To: John Philoponus
Do you like the English poet William Blake? His vision of Christianity was very close to your own (Jesus was sent to liberate mankind from the Old Testament demiurge...).
49 posted on 07/30/2007 2:06:17 PM PDT by Borges
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To: John Philoponus
Registering my disgust with the “God” of the Tanakh for answering the prayer of his prophet to slaughter 40 children who were making fun of his bald head is the same as me renouncing my Lord and Saviour who warned against harming children?

Do thousands of innocent children not die every day of natural causes?

Whose responsibility is that?

You don't quibble over the deaths of untold millions of innocents over the millenia, but you are concerned over 40 who were guilty of sacrilege?

Bizarre perspective - but not unexpected in someone who claims the ability to judge God.

If anything, I could turn this around on you and say you are blaspheming the Holy Name of Christ by associating Him with that Beast.

The same Christ who affirmed that the Scriptures of his Jewish people testified of Him?

That would be an equally bizarre strategy.

54 posted on 07/30/2007 2:52:39 PM PDT by wideawake
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