One of mine wants to be a rock star (heavy metal rock star)
I'll get him the Black Label Society albumn "Mafia" for Christmas :) (I picked that song just for you, dear )
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Exactly how many different views of Jesus are there on the Board and doesn't that kind of tell Believers the obvious problem...
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Exactly how many different views of Jesus are there on the Board and doesn't that kind of tell Believers the obvious problem...
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I don't handle compliments very well
You can blame jesus or accept this Monty Python sketch, specifically, 43 seconds in.
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MOM SACRIFICES SON!
by clarity inlet the crazyness begin ... omg woman killed her son.
people killing animals.
why ...the rapture is coming!.
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From the article, that is pure speculation at this point. But a horrible story either way. I was in maine when the story broke, so sad.
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... then you better be sure that every word in that bible is inspired and infallible.
Despite our differences in opinion, you are my favorite types of Christian. And one of my favorite people on this forum :)
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Copies would have continuity with the non-extant autographs.
Speculation since the copies from the same time frame don't have continuity from region to region.
They did not just fall out of thin air.
Correct, they were consciously changed to support specific brands of christianity at the time, of which there were dozens.
We must also trust the sovereign providence of God to superintend the inspiration, transmission, canonicity of Scripture.
Who is "we"? And so far he seems to suck. Whoever this "we" is that you mention must be suckers to trust someone so monumentally bad at something he is supposed to be good at.
possible: are you also agnostic about the existence of God?
Define what you mean by agnostic, since there seem to be so many different ideas on it.
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I know how much you love your kids.
Thanks! They are the number one priority in my life and I make sure I spend every possible moment I can with them. Just a few weeks ago I took them to the the Wells FArgo golf championship in Charlotte, they were awed by the pro golfers. Despite the the fact that the JW's will protest, I have setup college funds for them, am making sure they know a life besides the JWs.
No matter what they decides to do with their life, I want them to know I will love and support them. One of them wants to be a pro golfer (but he's 8, so i figure that will change about 20 times) and the other wants to be a vulcanologist (a geologist specializing in volcanoes). I am all for it.
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The Greek MSS evidence is 99% pure with no significant doctrine or practice affected by the minor variants.
Pure as compared to what? You have no autographs to compare to.
This is theologically, contextually, grammatically impossible.
Yes, I know, but tons of the older texts that we have differ on theological points (which, even immediately AFTER Jesus, there were dozens of dizens of variants of Christianity). How do you know which is correct on each particular point with respect to the autographs?
KJV, ESV, NASB, NIV (2011), etc. are trustworthy (www.biblegateway.com for comparison) with essential agreement.
Any first year student in textual criticism can tell you that agreement has nothing to do with correctness. How do you know which is correct with respect to the autographs?
When it comes to any given verse, the art and science of textual criticism helps us get to the bottom of things.
Very true, but without the autographs, you still don't know. And on every major point, there are different schools of thought on major theological issues.
It is a JW/Mormon lie to cast doubt on excellent English versions that contradict their errors.
Huh? Pretty much every ancient manuscript contains changes that support whatever their flavor of Christianity was. Of course, the problem that there were hundreds of years between the oldest manuscript we have and the autographs, which themselves were decades AFTER Jesus lived and were the results of interviews and oral history.
To say anything is pure or original is pure speculation at best.
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I feel like a giant idiot...
by MrFreeze inhere the end of the world is tomorrow and i went and forgot and only bought cheap beer for tonight.
sometimes, i think i'm the biggest idiot in the world..
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I booked a tee time for sunday with a buddy, he mentioned the rapture was saturday and I said "yeah, the rapture. for people that love jesus and lead good lives."
His response ... "so where we drinking after golf on sunday?"
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I was responding to that particular incident... and making a conclusion based on it and something else.
Beware too few data points before making a conclusion :)
In turn, once they had the Spirit, why would they need the scriptures for anything other than to help others to see too?
Jesus frequently turned to the scriptures. Even if they didn't need them personally, apparently they needed them to teach others, so in essence, they DID need them for at least that.
But you're right. It doesn't say that he didn't need scriptures at all... or that he did need them.
Oh dear, it's not about being right with you :)
My point about what is "correct" is basically that people do all of the things you suggest and come to wildly different conclusions.
I think my personal philosophy can be summed up as "Don't be a jerk. Be a great dad. Get shit done. Listen. See both sides of the issue. Enjoy the ride." I think Jesus could get on board with that.
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Word=Scripture=Bible
Which version? The ones that say jesus said he was god or the ones that didn't? the ones that said jesus became angry when the leper asked to be healed or the ones that didn't? Or the countless other different versions?