Tribute Thread For the Recently Raptured Faith

I'm sure you would. You've been poisoned by right-wing politics to the extent that you would defy God. After all, the "platform" that you're so vehemently opposed to was instituted by Jesus and enforced byGod Himself.

And yet he did. What part of AND do you not understand?The only relevance of the "right" to the land is to underline the fact that God's law supersedes Roman law.

My beliefs don't change the meaning of the English language. The Bible says what it says.And Shakespeare said, "Methinks you and Faith protest too much." Deep down, I suspect that you can see the truth.

I don't claim "truth" of any message. I happen to agree with Jesus' message about helping each other - because it works. It makes the world a better place. Where did I say it should be accepted? I do wonder why people would claim to accept Jesus when they reject His message. And I have suggested no such thing. The instruction is to believers and no central governing authority has been mentioned. Get your head out of the right-wing propaganda. No it isn't. Nobody has suggested you should be forced to do anything. At best that's a strawman; at worst, it's an outright lie. It's what the Bible says. You have no clue, do you?

Of course there was no explicit lie. The "lie" would appear to be more along the lines of a broken promise. They had agreed to give everything and they had reneged on that agreement. Broken promise, breach of contract, lie....

That's ironic coming from somebody who thinks a talking snake is "reportage".

Sure I can. If you get a bill in the mail, does it matter what colour the envelope is? What matters is that you pay the bill. Nope, still false, no matter how many times you repeat it. The message was already here. That particular messenger was just a reminder. (We are currently in a postal strike in Canada. If my bills don't come, I'm still responsible for paying them. I might have to use a different messenger, such as the Internet, but the amount owing is the same.) Putting the messenger ahead of the message is not accepting the message. I don't think I've ever said you were. I have said that being "selective" is often an excuse for being stingy.Giving a dollar to a panhandler is more than just a down payment on a sandwich or a beer. It's treating him like a human being. They seem to like that. Then vote wisely. Never trust a politician who promises to cut taxes. The library is a ten-minute walk from my house. I have a dozen or so "library friends" that I know only at the library. The library encourages it to be a gathering place. (Imagine kids gathering to play computer games. It isn't as quiet as it used to be but we have to move with the times - resources aren't what they used to be.)Edited by ringo, : Spellin.

I did. There was a picture of somebody believing that talking snakes are factual. You're being dishonest. If you saw a newspaper article about a talking snake you wouldn't believe it for a second.

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Acts 5:3 But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

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That's what I'm telling you. You're the one who said it was simple factual reporting.

To me, it seems pretty clear from a plain reading of the text that God killed them.

I'm fine with that. It's what the text says. If the text doesn't support your theology, you should change your theology, not mangle the text. But it's completely compatible with the Old Testament and Jesus affirmed the Old Testament. If the text doesn't support your theology, you should change your theology, not mangle the text.

Surely you can figure that out for yourself. Long John Silver was made up but that doesn't give the reader leeway to believe that he escaped by flying saucer. The Bible is the only source of your belief. If it wasn't for the Bible, you would never have heard of Jesus. You wouldn't know where the "communion" in your head was coming from. So throwing out the Bible leaves your belief on pretty shakey ground.

That's irrelevant. The only evidence you have of what the Word ever was is what is written down. Also irrelevant. The only evidence you have that He ever existed is what's written down. They were told the story from the book. Unless you have better examples than that, your belief doesn't hold any water. That's the problem. Your belief is made up despite what the book says. That's the problem. Imagine what would happen if you just made up phone numbers, not limiting yourself to what the phone book actually says. It's funny how you have to go through contortions to avoid the "warped" theology that's actually in the Bible. I don't think that's obvious at all.

Anybody with any sense.