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Why God mocks the faithful?
#11
RE: Why God mocks the faithful?
"Sixth Dynasty (2345 - 2181 BC) tomb artwork in Egypt is thought to be the oldest documentary evidence of circumcision, the most ancient depiction being a bas-relief from the necropolis at  (ca. 2400 B.C) with the inscription reading "Hold him and do not allow him to faint".

The Egyptian Book of the Dead, for example, tells of the sun god Ra performing a , whose blood created two minor guardian deities."

But Jews of course got it from Abraham ho got the command from Yahweh-El

Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep my covenant,you and your descendants after you for the generations to come. 10 This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every male among you shall be circumcised. 11 You are to undergo circumcision, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and you. 12 For the generations to come every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised, including those born in your household or bought with money from a foreigner—those who are not your offspring. 13 Whether born in your household or bought with your money, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh is to be an everlasting covenant. 14 Any uncircumcised male, who has not been circumcised in the flesh, will be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.”
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and on the side note, Abraham had slaves (bought with money), and the command applied to slaves bought in the future, i.e. slavery was a good, God-approved thing (as long as Jews were slave-owners, and not vice versa).
I liked the parts where these old yahoodies tolchock each other and then drink their Hebrew vino, and getting onto the bed with their wives' handmaidens.
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#12
RE: Why God mocks the faithful?
(July 28, 2018 at 10:17 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(July 28, 2018 at 9:55 pm)Graufreud Wrote: Well, there are numerous relics of saints. Why can't we have fossilized foreskin of Jesus? 

and sorry chimp, Jesus is more special than you will ever be.

Several reasons why we don't have the fossilized foreskin of Jesus:

1. Soft tissues rarely fossilize, except under very special circumstances.

2. Desert environs don't promote fossilization very well.

3.  2000 years isn't enough time for anything to be fossilized.

4. Jesus' foreskin is about as likely to be discovered as (for example) King Arthur's nose or Gilgamesh's pinky finger.

And - for the record - chimp is far more special and valuable than Jesus.

Boru

What small minds you have.   Do you truly think the god will allow his own foreskin to molder in the sands of Judea?   No, like Hercules of old, the holy foreskin has its place in heaven!

Quote:In the late 17th century the Vatican librarian Leo Allatius wrote an unpublished[16] treatise entitled De Praeputio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Diatriba (A Discussion of the Foreskin of Our Lord Jesus Christ), claiming that the Holy Prepuce ascended, like Jesus himself, and was transformed into the rings of Saturn.

As an aside, what else could a theologian think of when looking through an telescope than parts of the virile organ?
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#13
RE: Why God mocks the faithful?
He was probably stroking his organ while he was looking through the telescope.
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#14
RE: Why God mocks the faithful?
(July 29, 2018 at 11:11 am)Minimalist Wrote: He was probably stroking his organ while he was looking through the telescope.
Where was the altar boy?
I liked the parts where these old yahoodies tolchock each other and then drink their Hebrew vino, and getting onto the bed with their wives' handmaidens.
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#15
RE: Why God mocks the faithful?
Quote:What small minds you have.   Do you truly think the god will allow his own foreskin to molder in the sands of Judea?   No, like Hercules of old, the holy foreskin has its place in heaven!

There is no doubt whatsoever in my mind that the foreskin of Jesus and that of Hercules met with precisely that same fate.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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#16
RE: Why God mocks the faithful?
(July 28, 2018 at 10:31 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: On his travels throughout Europe and the Holy Land, Mark Twain observed that, if all the pieces of the 'True Cross' he encountered were genuine, Jesus was crucified on a cross about ninety feet high.

Holy relics deserved to be viewed with more than a modicum of skepticism.

Boru

Or He was crucified twice on 45' crosses . . .
 The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it. 




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#17
RE: Why God mocks the faithful?
Heck, God was playing favorites with Cain and Abel:

Genesis 4 (KJV)
4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering:
5 But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
 The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it. 




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#18
RE: Why God mocks the faithful?
Churches have lightening rods. You don't really have to go any deeper than that.
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