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Why is Tyre Still Here When God Said it Would Sink Under the Waves?

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Why is Tyre Still Here When God Said it Would Sink Under the Waves?
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RE: Why is Tyre Still Here When God Said it Would Sink Under the Waves?
September 26, 2013 at 12:23 pm
Unique...if stupid. That actually sums up Drippy pretty well.
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RE: Why is Tyre Still Here When God Said it Would Sink Under the Waves?
September 26, 2013 at 12:25 pm
I've been finding a lot of "prophecies" that failed and countless inconsistencies. it's a wonder how do many are fooled. They fail to see the truth... our maybe they just don't want to
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RE: Why is Tyre Still Here When God Said it Would Sink Under the Waves?
September 26, 2013 at 12:31 pm
Yes. The latter.


I attribute it to a personality flaw which makes reality frightening to them.
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RE: Why is Tyre Still Here When God Said it Would Sink Under the Waves?
September 26, 2013 at 12:32 pm
(September 26, 2013 at 12:25 pm)searching4truth Wrote: I've been finding a lot of "prophecies" that failed and countless inconsistencies. it's a wonder how do many are fooled. They fail to see the truth... our maybe they just don't want to

I think it's the latter, for the most part. They've been brought up to believe their book is true and the god described in it is real; so when the book says something was supposed to happen that quite clearly didn't, it can't be the book in error therefore it must be something that hasn't happened yet.
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: Why is Tyre Still Here When God Said it Would Sink Under the Waves?
September 26, 2013 at 12:34 pm
Don't forget GC's wonderful argument that when God said he'd totally destroy the city of Tyre never to be rebuilt or found again, he was talking about the old city of Tyre, not the new one which was rebuilt on top of the old city. And we'll just ignore that part about being covered by the sea.
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RE: Why is Tyre Still Here When God Said it Would Sink Under the Waves?
September 26, 2013 at 12:37 pm
I used to be on the other side of the fence and sure sometimes it still gets to me that the fairy tales are just that... but that's the way things are. At some point a man's gotta grow up and make peace with reality
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September 26, 2013 at 12:48 pm (This post was last modified: September 26, 2013 at 12:50 pm by Minimalist.)
Tell G-C and the rest of the dorks.
Quote:I think it's the latter, for the most part. They've been brought up to believe their book is true and the god described in it is real; so when the book says something was supposed to happen that quite clearly didn't, it can't be the book in error therefore it must be something that hasn't happened yet.


I saw a great analogy one time for that particular mindset. It went something like: "Xtians will go to Tokyo with a map of London and then insist that their map is right but city is laid out wrong."
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RE: Why is Tyre Still Here When God Said it Would Sink Under the Waves?
September 26, 2013 at 1:08 pm
Hmmm - I wonder who said that...
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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: Why is Tyre Still Here When God Said it Would Sink Under the Waves?
September 26, 2013 at 1:21 pm
(September 26, 2013 at 12:34 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: Don't forget GC's wonderful argument that when God said he'd totally destroy the city of Tyre never to be rebuilt or found again, he was talking about the old city of Tyre, not the new one which was rebuilt on top of the old city. And we'll just ignore that part about being covered by the sea.

Jesus. Tongue The question that immediately popped into my mind is what, exactly, does GC thing the word rebuild even means.

If they can't twist the words in the bible to suit their purposes, they'll just twist anything else, it seems. Anything to avoid getting on speaking terms with reality...
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RE: Why is Tyre Still Here When God Said it Would Sink Under the Waves?
September 26, 2013 at 2:39 pm
I should probably submit that to fstdt.com.
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