Posted on 05/09/2015 7:44:31 AM PDT by RnMomof7
Indeed that is true. That is why I said it was speculation, and not to be worried about. Now, I ask you. Are there any other people in the world, who build religions on speculation?
There's nothing to quibble about. Your definition was wrong.
I did address your comment regarding the OT on genocide, slavery, etc.
YOU: And if you insist on literal fundamentalism, isnt there all of the Old Testament genocide, slavery, rape and torture to reinstate?
>>ME: Wow...I have no reply to this statement that has no support in the New Testament. <<
There is nothing in the NT to suggest any of this would/should be reinstated. In fact, you're the first person I've encountered who has suggested this.
Not sure what your background is but it has a different understanding of the NT than mine for sure.
Don't your jaws hurt?
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Scripture is not silent on the definition of sin (transgression of Torah) and since an infant cannot transgress a law they’ve not received, I believe that they’ve nothing to worry about.
I think we kicked this around here about a dozen years ago or so.
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Moo!
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Had they already bloomed for that season?
Me?
Plagiarist Boy??
Which ones?
Sorry; but the Book says she doesn't even know I exist.
Ecclesiastes 9:1-6
1 But all this I laid to heart, examining it all, how the righteous and the wise and their deeds are in the hand of God. Whether it is love or hate, man does not know; both are before him.
2 It is the same for all, since the same event happens
to the righteous and the wicked,
to the good and the evil,
to the clean and the unclean,
to him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice.
As the good one is, so is the sinner, and
he who swears is as he who shuns an oath.
3 This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that the same event happens to all. Also, the hearts of the children of man are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead. 4 But he who is joined with all the living has hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
5 For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten. 6 Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished, and forever they have no more share in all that is done under the sun.
Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal.
I'll 'disrespect' Rome's lady all day long; and she'll do NOTHING about it.
GOD is not gonna zap me for it and your veiled threats to me about it are not having any effect.
Do not infer that a poster has posted a lie, that implies motive and if a form of making it personal.
Now now...
You'll upset our FR Mormons and they won't donate any more!
You SURELY cannot be thinking of a JUPITER Talisman...
Could you??
"And in some very real and quite mysterious sense, this particular Table of Jupiter was the most appropriate talisman for Joseph Smith to possess."
http://mormoncurtain.com/topic_josephsmith_seerstones_section1.html
Here ya go...
Get a grain of salt ready...
http://www.millennialstar.org/lds-church-releases-video-about-temple-clothing-and-garments-including-photos/
Indeed!
http://www.tldm.org/News19/PowerOfTheRosary.htm
Yeah; he counts how many bananas you've picked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMigXnXMhQ4
I am reminded of a 2012 post written by an Antiochian Orthodox priest during that Chik-Fil-A affair.
Using the Bible Against Christians: Sola Scriptura Atheism
It has some advice to "sola scriptura atheists" about how not to use the Bible, and this advice, among other things, is based on the idea that the Bible is properly read within an authoritative "interpretive community."
What is "sola scriptura atheism," though? It's found in one set of responses to the idea of "the biblical definition of the family unit":
Perhaps you saw it, too: We were treated to a trotting-out of biblical polygamists, rapists, provisions of levitical law that require a widow to marry her husbands brother, et cetera, ad nauseam. A-ha! Theres biblical for you! Look at all those sorry miscreants in the Bible, presenting an image of marriage and family life that would make the chicken-and-pickle-chomping Christian suburbanite shudder! Ha! We got em! And while were at it, lets also mention that God hates shrimp, that God starts wars, and so on. The idea, of course, is to delegitimize the Bible or at least to claim that people who follow the biblical model of this or that are ignoring vast portions of Scripture to suit their own purposes.What struck me about all this is that these atheists and various other assorted anti-Christians were reading the Bible essentially as sola scriptura fundamentalists. In essence, they presume to claim that their own reading of the Bible is the only possible one, that their reading is also quite obvious (perspicuity), and that the Bible is the sole basis for Christian doctrine, life and legitimacy. If the Bible can be made unpalatable even to Christians, then it just shows that the whole Christian enterprise is bunk.
And, true to form, I saw plenty of sola scriptura Protestants arguing with these atheist fundamentalists on exactly the same grounds. The exchanges just got shriller and shriller, with each side claiming that the other must be stupid, evil or uneducated, which is what brought about their fallacious reading of the Bible.
As his view is not necessarily my view, no one should assume that I am his mouthpiece and reply accordingly. For example, I would've used different wording for his characterization of "sola scriptura." But I noticed some things of interest and relevance here. (I don't follow that site and didn't find his piece until this year. Although I don't remember the precise search terms, I actually found this piece after doing a search occasioned by a FR thread.)
Any beginning bible student KNOWs that she 'gave' nothing to the ANGEL that TOLD her what was going to happen to her.
GMTA...
...somewhere down in the recesses...
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