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To: Eagle Eye; P-Marlowe; wagglebee; blue-duncan

The bible clearly says that Abraham ate with the Lord, conversed, and bargained with Him. It’s an EVENT fully recorded.

Are you saying the story is a lie?

Or are you saying you do not have the courage to “RIGHTLY DIVIDE the Word of Truth?”

You will deal with this, or we will all know that you are blowing smoke.


471 posted on 04/09/2010 6:08:57 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who support our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: xzins
The bible clearly says that Abraham ate with the Lord, conversed, and bargained with Him. It’s an EVENT fully recorded.

It is truly shameful that you do not realize that God Almighty was referred to as Lord over and over and over in the Old Testament. OMG, children understand that!

Honest question: What do you know about figures of speech? How many in the Bible can you identify? Do you know when you are reading them? Anthropomorphism? Metaphor? Hypocatastasis? Asyndeton? Polysyndeton?

If one doesn't understand when one is reading a figure of speech, and they don't all appear in the English, then one won't know when one is reading something that is not literal but figurative in order to emphasize something.

For instance, do the clouds literally cry? Does the ground literally drink water? Do trees literally clap? Does God, who is spirit, have literal hands? Is the word literally seeds?

Do each of my questions require an individual answer? No, they are illustrative.

475 posted on 04/09/2010 6:30:43 AM PDT by Eagle Eye
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