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To: mad_as_he$$
Attracting believers is not what these types are about. They want to stand on the hill and look down on everyone with scorn.

Agreed. Basement-dwelling attention-seeker posts deliberately provocative headline and attacks all comers who don't buy what he/she is selling.

141 posted on 03/06/2017 11:30:31 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("We will be one people, under one God, saluting one American flag." --Donald Trump)
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To: Albion Wilde

There’s quite enough proud hypocrisy to go around for everybody.

But the Shroud, as any evidence proffered of God’s special work, needs to be judged at that level. At any other level we get impasses.

(The manner of creation is another such potential impasse. It was science that raised the question about whether the bible proffered a correct account of creation, and it should have been science that solved it, not necessarily on the order of our modern YECs, but on the order of the theory of relativity [and scriptural hints about the divine capacity to telescope time].)

The bible tells us to look at other things too. They should conform to biblical philosophy, but in a holistic sense. Bible prooftexting can be profoundly misleading and take us into errors such as the fallacy of the excluded middle. I had a wrangle with a dear pastor a few months ago about just such an issue. Oh the passage we are looking at says A and C, therefore the bible does not say B! Really? Check over here in the bible, where you do see B....


146 posted on 03/06/2017 1:15:50 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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