As a Christian, I can honestly say that it is nothing but pure gibberish. It is filled with unsupported assumptions and pronouncements but nothing else.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

SVr5 is better.

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between edit and peek.The one at the lower left is for general replies not for responses to a given post.

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And this time it worked. Praise Be To GOD!

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but so far, none of us have been able to get a glimmer of what it is.Can we try this. Let's try starting with basics.In twenty-five words or less, state what the First Principle is.

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No apology is neccessary but clarity would help.Once again, to try to get some discussion started, can you in 25 words or less explain what you think the First Principle is? Unless you can explain that one thing in a manner that any of us can understand, everything else is meaningless.

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Thank you for your reply but I don't have any more idea of what you're trying to say now than I had before.Let's try again. In twenty-five words or less, "What is the First Principle"?

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Most of the Books we now consider to be Apocryphal were considered as Scriptural at the time Jesus lived and for hundreds of years afterwards. In fact, there were hundreds of books that were considered as divinely inspired and that was part of the problem.Remember, at the time we are speaking about, reproducing written documents was an arduous task. Everything was copied by hand, checked, and rechecked. A mistake on one page might mean throwing the whole thing out and starting over. In addition, materials, particularly paper or paper substitutes were a very scarce commodity and scribes, nearly as scarce.The result was a near triage system of resource allocation. Much material was simply dropped from scripture not because it lacked merit, but that the resources available demanded something had to go.If we look at the final product, the Bible, we find that many, many of the books we now consider apocryphal were in fact quoted in what we today see as the New Testament. I, II and II Enoch, the Gospel of Thomas, the Acts of John and Acts of Peter, the Book of Jubilees and the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, Life of Adam and Eve (parts one and two) are all referenced in the NT.We need to remember that more than just Inspiration determined the content of the Bible, there was also the practical demands of time and resources.

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please download it and link to one of your sites. Bandwidth, you know, is not like Stupidity. It does have limits. But back towards the subject:I would go a step further. The Bible is not an anthology, but rather an anthology of anthologies. It is not just a collection of tales, but rather a collection of collections. In addition, it often does not show either the Author or Origin and the stories are not always laid out as seperate chapters but instead often incorporated into other chapters without designation, attribution or even segmentation.

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Actually, almost all of the translations except the newer highly redacted versions that have tried to revise what is said to get around some of the impossibilities use the term firmament. It's only the newer ones like the NIV that change the wording to try to work around the obvious problems.

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Please:

What is the First Principle???

You've been asked time and time again for this one piece of information.Frankly, I don't think you have a clue what you are saying or trying to say but are simply blathering, spewing out an endless stream of nonsense.So once again:

In 25 words or less;

"What is the First Principle???"

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I'm sorry, but as a Christian, I can honestly say that it is nothing but pure gibberish. It is filled with unsupported assumptions and pronouncements but nothing else.

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