FireNBandits
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The OBAMANATION of DESOLATION
by FireNBandits ini voted for barack.
i put away my cynical jaded pessimism one last time and voted.
i should have stayed home.. .
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Are You A Pharisee? No? Are You SURE? :-)
by FireNBandits inare you a pharisee?
have you ever wondered what the modern equivalent of a pharisee wearing a phylactery is?
(for those who dont know, a phylactery was a little box that ancient jews would secure to their forehead with a strap, and inside the box was the shema or other important scriptures.
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Creationism hiding in plain sight
by FireNBandits ina friend pointed out to me that "theistic evolution" is, in essence, no different than intelligent design.
both postulate a creator that is behind creation.
both use the words "creation" and "creator.
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The NWT of John 1:1; Some Questions For Leolaia and Narkissos
by FireNBandits into get right to the point, acts 12:22 and 28:6 both contain an anarthrous occurence of "theos" or a derivative, depending on one's textual base.
in both instances these verses are rightfully rendered "a god" and not "god.
" why, then, the mainstream christian problem with the same anarthrous construction in john 1:1 being translated in the nwt as "the word was a god"?
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"But he wasn't a REAL Christian!"
by FireNBandits injimmy swaggert (a "swaggert" is a swaggering braggart btw), jim and tammy fakker, or any well-known christian that "blows it" big-time in a public way is sure to elicit that response from the fundagelicals around you.
"but he wasn't a real christian!
" what a convenient psychological device to keep ones fantasy image of ones religion intact!
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JUST BE GLAD YOU HAVE YOUR LIVES BACK
by FireNBandits insome of you are quite old with most of your life behind you.
make the best use of what's left.
forget the years that were stolen from you and wasted by the tower.
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The Scientific Reasonableness Of Noah's Ark Demonstrated
by FireNBandits infinally, someone in holland (where floods weigh heavily on the collective subconscious) has built a 1/5 scale model of noah's ark.
this proves that noah built the original ark.
if noah hadn't built the original ark, how could someone build a 1/5 scale model of it?
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HOW TO UNDERSTAND THE TRINITY and the DUAL NATURES OF CHRIST :-)
by FireNBandits ini'm not a trinitarian, but i understand the doctrine...oh...as well as such a mysterious doctrine can be understood.
same with chalcedonian orthodoxy, the dual natures of christ.
so, i will herein give you my way of explaining the trinity, etc.. .
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The Hebrew Text Of The OT -OR- The Septuagint; Which Does GOD Prefer?
by FireNBandits inthe nt writers, when they quote the ot, mainly do so from the lxx, the septuagint.
a majority of the ot quotations in the nt are in fact from the septuagint, only a minority from hebrew.
when the nt writers do use a hebrew text it generally isnt the masoretic text, but another form of the hebrew text.
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More On Pharisees
by FireNBandits in"pharisee" is one of those nt words that english translators of the bible, beginning with wycliffe, decided to transliterate rather than translate, just as they did "baptism" and "apostle" and other words.
given the meaning of pharisee i can only conclude that the reasoning behind this decision was to hide the meaning of the word.
to avoid stepping on the toes of the pharisees of their own time.