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RE: "God's" Way Of Saying
September 19, 2014 at 1:32 pm
(September 19, 2014 at 1:17 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: (September 19, 2014 at 12:48 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: Hence it would appear nobody in your religion knows what is correct.
I know I know, the Bible. (Except) don't forget that inerrancy and literalism are "not something any Christian claims (correctly)" either.
To the uneducated perhaps
A.k.a. Jesus' primary audience.
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RE: "God's" Way Of Saying
September 19, 2014 at 1:42 pm
(September 19, 2014 at 1:32 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: (September 19, 2014 at 1:17 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: To the uneducated perhaps
A.k.a. Jesus' primary audience.
Aka the 500 witnesses pulled out of the collective imaginations of the Bible writers.
Luke: You don't believe in the Force, do you?
Han Solo: Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, and I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen *anything* to make me believe that there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything. 'Cause no mystical energy field controls *my* destiny. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense.
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RE: "God's" Way Of Saying
September 19, 2014 at 1:56 pm
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(September 19, 2014 at 1:17 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: (September 19, 2014 at 12:48 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: Hence it would appear nobody in your religion knows what is correct.
I know I know, the Bible. (Except) don't forget that inerrancy and literalism are "not something any Christian claims (correctly)" either.
To the uneducated perhaps
Please educate us.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: "God's" Way Of Saying
September 19, 2014 at 4:45 pm
Looking forward to it. Meanwhile, here's a Quite Interesting and totally irrelevant fact : advances in paint technology now mean that the old saw about painting the Forth Bridge being a never ending chore no longer makes sense.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: "God's" Way Of Saying
September 19, 2014 at 5:10 pm
Figures. I need some of that stuff on my railings here!
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RE: "God's" Way Of Saying
September 19, 2014 at 5:12 pm
That a euphemism?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'