RE: Is Accepting Christian Evidence Special Pleading?
September 13, 2017 at 12:07 am
(This post was last modified: September 13, 2017 at 12:39 am by Huggy Bear.)
(September 12, 2017 at 11:43 pm)Crossless2.0 Wrote:(September 12, 2017 at 11:01 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: That "interpretation" is the traditional position found in the Talmud...
From a Jewish website
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/eve...nd-aggadah
The Bible states that 'Cain was of (descended from) the wicked one', and furthermore Cain is not included in the Genealogy of Adam.
Ok, interesting.
Unimportant nitpicking: There's no reason to place the word interpretation in quotation marks, since that's exactly what the Talmud is and does. And it's not the traditional position; it's a tradition, according to your own quote.
Funny that you should place so much stock in the conclusions of a body of Rabbinic writings that clearly rejects the Christian interpretation of and beliefs about Messiah.
Was it not Jews that laid the foundation for what we know today as Christianity? The fact that the Jewish religious establishment would reject the Messiah was always in the cards.
The stone that the builders rejected has now become the cornerstone. - Psalm 118:22
(September 13, 2017 at 12:06 am)Astreja Wrote:(September 12, 2017 at 11:52 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: For what purpose?
Power and influence over others.
Quote:Let me get this straight, somehow we have a guy who pastors a church and worked a full time job because he refused to take an offering for 17 years of his ministering career, and being a single father on top of that (first wife died in her late teens - early 20's), but somehow found the time to practice magic on top of it all.
Hows that for critical thought...
Let's see -- I work a full-time job, do upgrades to a 100-year-old house, take clarinet lessons, play woodwinds in multiple bands (2 rehearsals and 2 gigs from last Saturday to this coming Thursday alone), and still manage to travel, do photography, go to the symphony and ballet, read regularly, do a bit of gourmet cooking, go for an occasional hike, and get out to the local observatory and Astronomical Society meetings. (Oh, and I'm looking for someone to tutor me in stage magic, which I've loved since I was a little kid.) Consider your counter-argument pounded to a bloody pulp.
I beg to differ seeing how your original point is completely speculative, so were making hypothetical arguments.
As for power and influence, did you not read the quote where he was trying to take an offering because he needed 6 dollars to pay a bill?
In the audio clip I posted, at around 5:46 Branham states that "this is another dimension"
Carl Sagan on what encountering a being from a different dimension might be like.
So basically if a being that exists in another dimension were to visibly appear, you would only see it partially, and it would most likely appear as gibberish as Sagan demonstrates with the apple.
