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To: boatbums

“You know, if I had been given a choice between the Roman Catholic or Greek Orthodox churches to belong to, I would have chosen the Greek Orthodox. Now, however, seeing what is thought about holy scriptures, I am not so inclined.”

Well, there is certainly no requirement that you become Orthodox, bb.

“He used men inspired by him and they wrote down what he gave them even when it could not have made any sense to them.”

That’s a very Islamic understanding of the origins of scripture, bb.


3,118 posted on 11/24/2010 11:58:34 AM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated)
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To: Kolokotronis; boatbums

BB-“He used men inspired by him and they wrote down what he gave them even when it could not have made any sense to them.”

Kolo-That’s a very Islamic understanding of the origins of scripture, bb.

I was thinking the same thing.

Why would anyone believe God inspired mindless men to write things that made no sense to them,bb?


3,122 posted on 11/24/2010 12:43:34 PM PST by stfassisi ((The greatest gift God gives us is that of overcoming self"-St Francis Assisi)))
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To: Kolokotronis
me:“He used men inspired by him and they wrote down what he gave them even when it could not have made any sense to them.”

You: That’s a very Islamic understanding of the origins of scripture, bb.

Okay, how so?

3,126 posted on 11/24/2010 3:14:13 PM PST by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to him.)
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