Posted on 10/26/2002 1:59:09 PM PDT by polemikos
Oh Pipe down. The conclsions drawn by the so-called experts are merely conjecture. We can see how accurate experts are when they profile snipers. Your glee is premature, and for your soul's sake, a passing fancy.
Do you ever get the feeling that the elect are dwindling? The urge to say so to your fellow Bible "scholars" ands finally to say to one you trust most: Sometimes it seems like it is just thee and me and I am not always sure about thee?
And the reaction of Catholic Freepers to the Ossuary is exactly identical to how liberals would respond to the aforementioned videotape. They would brush it off and hurl insults, but under NO circumstances, would they ever wise up to the reality of what THEY worship really truly is.
This whole thing has been rather enlightening on several different levels.
LOL.. I don't think we'll be seeing that on the shelf of your local Catholic Bookstore for sometime. :)
Are dinosaurs unScriptural and therefore non-existent? Render for us in Aramaic: The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. Nothing terribly complicated there. Nothing terribly complicated about your refusal to answer two simple questions either.
Your big problem is that the members of the oldest and largest and original Christian Church are not lapping at your feet and rendering to you the status of expert at quite the level you claim for yourself.
I feared you were heading toward sola Dead Scrolla.
What invalidates as evidence the magical mystery box or boxtop as the case may be of the desert sands is the absolute lack of even a contemporary chain of evidence and the fact that people will feel a bit more respectful when the inscrutable secret and unknowable Muslim buyer and seller(s) are a bit more forthcoming as to how they obtained it and the present owner is willing to allow scholarly examination by those not captive "scholars".
If you can't respond to someone like you imagine me to be, don't respond lest we think you can.
Some scholars believe that there are references to dinosuars in the book of Job. There are also scholars that believe the first chapter of Genesis points to an earth older than 6000 years.
What's your point?
I still believe peer review is warrranted, but BAR is not a catholic-bashing outfit. Nor is it a johnny-come-lately rag looking to make a splash.
Oh? I don't think you speak for Bible loving Christians or conservatives. Neither are as sanctimonious and as biggoted as you come across as. What would you gain if your malice toward the RCC were somehow justified?
I'm not an expert. I'm just a common man with the brain that God gave me and the ability to read the Bible, which God wrote for people like me to read as a check & balance against religious org's who try to LIE in order to obtain power. (Like the RCC)
The Roman Catholic Church, on the other hand DID purport itself to be not only EXPERT on the Bible, but INFALLIBLE as well!
Now their line of hogwash has been utterly destroyed and debunked by a little stone box.
What you guys are unable to respond to is that what is written on the box MERELY CONFIRMS & CORROBORATES what the Bible already plainly says! Joseph and Mary had FOUR OTHER SONS besides Jesus. One of them was James.
Now we've found James' burial box, which merely confirms what we already (from the Bible) knew. His father was Joseph and his brother was Jesus. Why is that non-understandable "rocket science" to you guys?
We believe the Roman Catholic Church is the "Whore of Babylon" spoken of in Revelation. God commands His people to "come OUT OF" this organization or else they will share in the horrifying punishments God will mete out to the Whore.
It's not "optional" to God. Once people have identified the Whore "His people" must "Come out of her" (clearly implying that some of His people are currently IN her). This is mega-serious stuff, the theological equivalent of nuclear war.
It's as life-and-death as it gets.
I'll say it again. This is as life-and-death as it gets.
Who's we? There are more like you?
God commands His people to "come OUT OF" this organization or else they will share in the horrifying punishments God will mete out to the Whore.
Ok. So you came out of the whore. Are you also commanded to abuse and harrass her?
The number of elect and their names were written before the foundation of the earth and when the last one comes it is time for the final judgement..
Why do you think we expose ourselves to endure your personal insults against us, some of which have been so vitriolic that Catholic Freepers have been banned because of them?
We do it because the issues are life-and-death. And because you guys don't study your Bibles and don't appear to take God's Word seriously. But you claw at our faces like drowning men who fight those trying to help them.
Ok. So you came out of the whore. Are you also commanded to abuse and harrass her?
YES!!! From Revelation 18:
4Then I heard another voice calling from heaven, "Come away from her, my people. Do not take part in her sins, or you will be punished with her.5For her sins are piled as high as heaven, and God is ready to judge her for her evil deeds.6Do to her as she has done to your people. Give her a double penalty for all her evil deeds. She brewed a cup of terror for others, so give her twice as much as she gave out.
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