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02-20-2017, 10:25 PM
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OK, that's funny.
Who's Larry?
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02-20-2017, 10:33 PM
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The Cable Guy. Git'r done!
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02-20-2017, 10:35 PM
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The Cable Guy. Git'r done!
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Double funny.
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02-21-2017, 09:37 AM
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No, you do not have to embrace anyone else's perception of God. You just have to restrain yourself from damning anyone who disagrees with your version of God, to Hell.
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I'm only the messenger. I don't damn anyone; I only pass on Jesus' gospel message -- a message that is a two edge, depending on how it is received.
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02-21-2017, 09:39 AM
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I was thinking "boxcar Versus the World"
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That would be no match; for not even the gates of hell can withstand the onslaught of God's church!
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02-21-2017, 11:02 AM
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When the bible says god is light...is that literal...? How about that god is love...? Is that a metaphor?
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02-21-2017, 11:16 AM
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When the bible says god is light...is that literal...? How about that god is love...? Is that a metaphor?
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Yes, to 1 and no to 2. However, we should refrain from ascribing human emotions to God. His love is not like human love, nor is his hate like human hate. Nor is his anger like human anger, etc.
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02-21-2017, 11:29 AM
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Yes, to 1 and no to 2. However, we should refrain from ascribing human emotions to God. His love is not like human love, nor is his hate like human hate. Nor is his anger like human anger, etc.
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Radar love.
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02-21-2017, 11:30 AM
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Yes, to 1 and no to 2. However, we should refrain from ascribing human emotions to God. His love is not like human love, nor is his hate like human hate. Nor is his anger like human anger, etc.
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Here are interesting websites I ran across....I was wondering what your thoughts were on it, especially on the links between the British Crown, the Vatican, Freemasonry, and the Jesuits....
https://archive.org/stream/MichaelTs...ge/n0/mode/1up
https://archive.org/stream/MichaelTs...ge/n0/mode/1up
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02-21-2017, 11:31 AM
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Radar love.
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No...God doesn't love like you either.
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02-21-2017, 11:34 AM
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As far as the resurrection, it's the best attested historical fact of antiquity ever recorded!
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I'll call you and raise you 4.
Josephus, the NT Apocrypha, Tertullian, Justin Martyr, Tacitus
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- Josephus. Previously debunked as you acknowledged.
- NT Apocrypha. Give me a break. Are you seriously trying to sell the idea that NT Apocrypha is not Christian propaganda?
- Tertullian. Born 155 C.E. could not possibly have attested to the mythical event. Plus, of course, he was on the Christian payroll, undoubtedly indoctrinated and not impartial.
- Justin Martyr Born 100 C.E. is in the same boat as Tertullian.
- That leaves Tacitus. Setting the mythicist question aside for the moment and addressing your assertion that the resurrection is “the best attested historical fact of antiquity ever recorded” I must ask where, in all his writings, does Tacitus so much as mention the resurrection?
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02-21-2017, 11:36 AM
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No...God doesn't love like you either.
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Syntax, Boxcar, syntax.
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02-21-2017, 11:57 AM
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02-21-2017, 12:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Actor
- Josephus. Previously debunked as you acknowledged.
- NT Apocrypha. Give me a break. Are you seriously trying to sell the idea that NT Apocrypha is not Christian propaganda?
- Tertullian. Born 155 C.E. could not possibly have attested to the mythical event. Plus, of course, he was on the Christian payroll, undoubtedly indoctrinated and not impartial.
- Justin Martyr Born 100 C.E. is in the same boat as Tertullian.
- That leaves Tacitus. Setting the mythicist question aside for the moment and addressing your assertion that the resurrection is “the best attested historical fact of antiquity ever recorded” I must ask where, in all his writings, does Tacitus so much as mention the resurrection?
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Sir, you asked for one extra-biblical source. You didn't qualify your challenge with "extra-biblical, atheistic-sources, or "extra-biblical secular" sources. Nor did you qualify with any date parameters.
But you're right about Tacitus. My bad. I misread something. However, as you know Tacitus did mention Jesus, his death, etc.
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02-21-2017, 12:32 PM
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Syntax, Boxcar, syntax.
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And what would you know about syntax?
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