Posted on 07/29/2006 7:36:51 PM PDT by Iam1ru1-2
You could always post your jawbone spam...?
It worked so well for King Saul that we have an entire market for it now!
Ah, I think your tagline says it all. You're one of those Polyanna types that think mankind is going to usher in peace into the world and then the Messiah will come....no such thing as The Tribulation, The Mellenium, Judgement, Hell, Satan. It's all in the mind, RIGHT?
War, in the Middle East? Never saw that coming...
I rest my case!!
How about those who believe this is all an accident of entropy? Stupreme faith in absurdity? Or just once again the nature of the way we were created with FREE WILL to choose, even wrongly.
What is the value of the gift from a slave, compared to a gift given freely by the FREE?
islime IS SLAVERY! Free the slaves! They have no free will! They cannot give freely to GOD!
Who said anything about doom and gloom. Try reading Ezekiel 38. God will supernaturally intervene on behalf of "The Apple of His Eye" Israel, and destroy the muslim/arab coalition along with Russia. And from the looks of things, this may lead to the fullfilment of that prophecy.
A construction worker in Ireland came across the ancient 20-page book dated to the years 800-1000 A.D. while driving his backhoe's shovel into the mud last week.
Does this sound like an archaeologist on a relic finding dig? You may have read it, but nothing seems to have been absorbed. It's one thing to eat something, it's another thing to absorb it.
I read the article.
The fact that somebody backhoes out something from underground does not impress me. Happens all the time. I dig things up myself all the time.
If you want to make something mystical about the page to which this find was opened, be my guest. It had to be open to some page, or closed. No big deal either way--unless you have some evidence that the article does not mention.
What are you on?
You must be one of those who believe in evolution because it seems everything to you is by accident, not by providence.
Which would be business as usual at any point since this thing was written.
If you -- and, possibly, the Messiah -- will excuse me, I have a lot of "trees" to plant.
UPDATE... Psalm found is not King James 83 rather 84.
And you are one of those cheerleaders for Satan's team who holds God's grace in contempt, and anticipates no long-run victory over the world, the flesh, and the devil this side of the eschaton. Whose "gospel" consists of nothing but spiritual masturbation, and speculative mind-games, since it has no application to real-world issues today.
Tell you what -- you can ahead and amuse yourself by playing iwth yourself in the corner, exciting yourself with ever-more extravagant fantasies. I have a God to serve, and a world to serve Him in, instructions on what He wants, and the confidence that those who serve Him can enjoy His blessings in this life as well as the next.
Maybe, if you want to be REALLY spiritual, you can live on a pillar in the desert!
The Tribulation is historical fact, the prophetic seal on the authenticity of our Lord's ministry. The millenium is the present reign of the saints. The Last Day will bring about the resurrection of the dead, and the life everlasting, Amen. Meanwhile, let the dead bury the dead. The living have work to do.
But historical fact is so BORING when compared to apocalyptic speculation. And if God Himself has ordained the failure of His Gospel and His people within history, then I have a perfect excuse for personal mediocrity. The kind of mediocrity which almost universally characterizes CHristian endeavor today.
You're update is about to be ignored.
You must have been living in a cave. Israel didn't even exist for over 1500 years until June of 1948, so it wasn't "business as usual since this thing was written, which shows to go ya that you don't know much about Israel's history.
When a people missed the coming of their Messiah, it's not too hard to reply with such a statement. It's probably his way of suggesting that the Messiah will never come.
I do archaeology for a living. I stick to facts and good, well researched theory.
If I go off on a tangent (hypothesis or speculation) in one of my reports, it has some good basis to it, and you can be sure it is identified as such.
And your comment about "belief" is unfounded. Scientists stick to facts and theory, things about which we can have some confidence.
Religion is more likely to be associated with belief or faith.
The strangest thing aboutthe new psalm was the last line of it which roughly trandlates into "Bush's fault".
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