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doctrbill

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Message 28 of 85 (185002)
02-13-2005 10:30 PM

Reply to: Message 27 by Thor
02-13-2005 9:49 PM

Thor writes:

Were only people who understood ancient Hebrew to understand the true meaning?

Yep.

Sounds a little like racism to me, or at best, snobbery.

Definitely.

Either way, it doesn’t sound like what a just, loving God is supposed to be about.

I agree. But ... Remember what Jesus said to the Samarian (non Jewish) woman? John 4:22 RSV

quote:
"You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews."

There you have it from the horse's mouth!

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Message 32 of 85 (185264)
02-14-2005 6:06 PM

Reply to: Message 31 by purpledawn
02-14-2005 7:39 AM

Re: Limited Rule

purpledawn writes:

Notice we don't have rule over the sea, but we supposedly do over all the earth ...

This reminds us that the author of Genesis imagined Earth and Sea as separate realities;

To him, the Sea was not a part of Earth.

According to him, Earth is in the Sea and surrounded by it.

Neither the author of Genesis nor any other biblical writer imagined Earth to be a planet.

I know it is difficult to imagine this but the text could not be clearer on the subject. If we can imagine this Bronze Age 'science,' then maybe we can figure out the rest of the story.

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Message 36 of 85 (186340)
02-17-2005 6:11 PM

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02-17-2005 1:34 PM

Re: Limited Rule

400 to 600 BC, according to these sources:

In the sixth century before our era, Pythagoras, and after him Philolaus, had suggested the movement of the earth and planets about a central fire; http://abob.libs.uga.edu/bobk/whitec02.html

... a heliocentric theory was suggested at least as early as the 4th century BC- In chapter 13 of book two of his On the Heavens (http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/...eavens/heavens2.html), Aristotle wrote that "At the centre, they [the Pythagoreans] say, is fire, and the earth is one of the stars, creating night and day by its circular motion about the centre." Heliocentrism - Wikipedia

I like to think the truth was suspected by some even before the Pythagoreans published.

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Message 46 of 85 (186416)
02-17-2005 9:43 PM

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02-17-2005 6:43 PM

Re: Limited Rule

purpledawn writes:

Thanks for talking with me.

Always a pleasure. Thank you.

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