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02 Apr 2007 01:30:54 AM |
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Re: Christians are blasphemous |
Andrew W said on Mar 3, 3:46 pm: They believe in a
god who will be perfectly satisfied with only some
of his children being saved.
Not all people are God's children.
"Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye
would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from
God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. Why do
ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot
hear my word. Ye are of your father the devil, and
the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a
murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the
truth, because there is no truth in him. When he
speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a
liar, and the father of it. And because I tell you
the truth, ye believe me not. Which of you convinceth
me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not
believe me? He that is of God heareth God's words: ye
therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God"
(John 8:42-47).
"He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; the
field is the world; the good seed are the children of
the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the
wicked one; the enemy that sowed them is the devil;
the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers
are the angels. As therefore the tares are gathered
and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of
this world. The Son of man shall send forth his
angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all
things that offend, and them which do iniquity; and
shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall
be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the
righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of
their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear"
(Matthew 13:37-43).
Andrew said: They say its because we have free will
People commit all of their sins by their own free
will. "Let no man say when he is tempted, I am
tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil,
neither tempteth he any man: but every man is
tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and
enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth
forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth
forth death" (James 1:13-15).
But people don't choose to believe in Jesus; He and
the Father choose who will believe in Him.
"Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you"
(John 15:16).
"No man can come unto me, except it were given unto
him of my Father" (John 6:65).
"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that
not of yourselves: it is the gift of God"
(Ephesians 2:8).
"As many as were ordained to eternal life believed"
(Acts 13:48).
"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual
blessings in heavenly places in Christ: according as
he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the
world, that we should be holy and without blame
before him in love: having predestinated us unto the
adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself,
according to the good pleasure of his will, to the
praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath
made us accepted in the beloved. In whom we have
redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of
sins, according to the riches of his grace"
(Ephesians 1:3-7).
"So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him
that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy"
(Romans 9:16).
"As many as received him, to them gave he power to
become the sons of God, even to them that believe on
his name: which were born, not of blood, nor of the
will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of
God" (John 1:12-13).
Andrew said: Jesus said that we must search
everywhere for the truth.
"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and
the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me"
(John 14:6).
Andrew said: How naive and foolish is the man who
thinks he can get all the answers to life from one
convenient book.
"All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is
profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction,
for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God
may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good
works" (2 Timothy 3:16-17).
"Preach the word; be instant in season, out of
season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all
longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come
when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after
their own lusts shall they heap to themselves
teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn
away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned
unto fables" (2 Timothy 4:2-4).
"The Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter
times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed
to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils"
(1 Timothy 4:1).
"If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples
indeed" (John 8:31).
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(A subsequent poster)
Barry OGrady said on Mar 6, 7:53 pm:
the Lortd yuor god does nothing to earn our love.
"God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while
we were yet sinners, Christ died for us"
(Romans 5:8).
"Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he
loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for
our sins" (1 John 4:10).
"The Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for
me" (Galatians 2:20).
"Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the
first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the
kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and
washed us from our sins in his own blood"
(Revelation 1:5).
"The church of God, which he hath purchased with his
own blood" (Acts 20:28).
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| User: "Andrew W" |
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| Title: Re: Christians are blasphemous |
03 Apr 2007 03:43:49 PM |
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"Read The Bible" <bibleverse2@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Andrew W said on Mar 3, 3:46 pm: They believe in a
god who will be perfectly satisfied with only some
of his children being saved.
Not all people are God's children.
That would only be the case if he disowned some of them.
But what kind of parent disowns some of his children just because they're
not perfect?
That is not unconditional love.
Andrew said: They say its because we have free will
People commit all of their sins by their own free
will. "Let no man say when he is tempted, I am
tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil,
Yes he can. The devil tempted God over Job - and succeeded!
neither tempteth he any man: but every man is
tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and
enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth
forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth
forth death" (James 1:13-15).
This is what happens when you create foolish and horribly flawed beings.
Why would a perfect Creator create such dodgy children?
If we were made in his image then its obvious that he is flawed too.
But people don't choose to believe in Jesus;
Most of us can't find him to begin with.
Not our fault since many of us spend much of our lives searching for him
like I did.
He and
the Father choose who will believe in Him.
Don't you realise how utterly ridiculous that sounds?
Where exactly does free will come into it?
"Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you"
(John 15:16).
Fat lot of good if he's invisible.
An invisible father is no father at all.
"No man can come unto me, except it were given unto
him of my Father" (John 6:65).
Nonsensical.
"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that
not of yourselves: it is the gift of God"
(Ephesians 2:8).
What kind of parent gives gifts to some of his children and not others?
No wonder his children are killing each other.
Andrew said: Jesus said that we must search
everywhere for the truth.
"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and
the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me"
(John 14:6).
But we have to search for Jesus.
Same process dummy.
But then we also have to try to decipher exactly what concepts he was
talking about 2000 years ago.
What kind of Father filters his children through a tea strainer and then
threatens to kill the ones that don't quite measure up?
Andrew said: How naive and foolish is the man who
thinks he can get all the answers to life from one
convenient book.
"All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is
profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction,
for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God
may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good
works" (2 Timothy 3:16-17).
Who do you believe said the above?
Do you believe that every single word in the Bible is the true Creator's
directly dictated words?
I bet you do.
"Preach the word; be instant in season, out of
season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all
longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come
when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after
their own lusts shall they heap to themselves
teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn
away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned
unto fables" (2 Timothy 4:2-4).
This has happened, and you have swallowed it hook line and sinker.
"The Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter
times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed
to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils"
(1 Timothy 4:1).
Yep. Hang your head in shame.
"If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples
indeed" (John 8:31).
We no longer have anything that resembles his word.
Because the scriptures we merely inspired and not dictated there is in fact
no such thing as "his word" because its all been filtered through the
fallible human mind.
I notice that nearly all of your replies are copy and pastes of Bible
verses.
This makes you a Bible fanatic, verging on Bible idol worship.
When are you going to use your God given brain and think up your own
responses?
God gave you a brain and you refuse to use it. That is an insult to him
because you're refusing to use a valuable gift that he went to the trouble
of giving you.
If anyone deserves punishment its you.
--
Andrew W.
Jesus said that we must search everywhere for the truth, that we must leave
no stone unturned.
How naive and foolish is the man who thinks he can get all the answers to
life from one convenient book. ~me
What we are told God and Jesus said, they did not say.
http://www.divinelove.org/volume1/Mission.htm
TABLE OF CONTENTS. Must read!
http://www.divinelove.org/revnt/Rev-TOC-title.htm
The true Creator wants us to be happy and abundant.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Science_of_Getting_Rich
Audio version. http://website.lineone.net/~cornerstone/richaudio.htm
Think you know what ego is? Think again. The Bible is full of it!
http://www.acim.org/
Religion Exposed!
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~ajwerner
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| User: "Read The Bible" |
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| Title: Re: Christians are blasphemous |
03 Apr 2007 11:47:42 PM |
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Andrew W said on Apr 3, 1:43 pm [Re: Not all people
are God's children]: That would only be the case if
he disowned some of them.
Or some were never His to begin with. "Ye are of your
father the devil" (John 8:44). "The children of the
wicked one; the enemy that sowed them is the devil"
(Matthew 13:38-39).
Andrew said: what kind of parent disowns some of
his children just because they're not perfect? That
is not unconditional love.
"God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we
were yet sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8).
"Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he
loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for
our sins" (1 John 4:10).
Andrew said [Re: God cannot be tempted with evil]:
The devil tempted God over Job - and succeeded!
God committed no sin against Job.
Andrew said [Re: Every man is tempted, when he is
drawn away of his own lust]: Why would a perfect
Creator create such dodgy children?
"God hath made man upright; but they have sought out
many inventions" (Ecclesiastes 7:29).
Andrew said [Re: Jesus and the Father choose who
will believe in Him]: Where exactly does free will
come into it?
"While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice,
harden not your hearts" (Hebrews 3:15). "For if we
sin wilfully after that we have received the
knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more
sacrifice for sins" (Hebrews 10:26). "Some shall
depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing
spirits, and doctrines of devils" (1 Timothy 4:1).
Andrew said: An invisible father is no father at
all.
"O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou
knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou
understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my
path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all
my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but,
lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether. Thou hast
beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon
me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is
high, I cannot attain unto it.
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Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall
I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven,
thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold,
thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning,
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; even
there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand
shall hold me. If I say, Surely the darkness shall
cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night
shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are
both alike to thee. For thou hast possessed my reins;
thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.
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I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and
wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that
my soul knoweth right well. My substance was not hid
from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously
wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes
did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in
thy book all my members were written, which in
continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was
none of them.
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How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God!
how great is the sum of them! If I should count them,
they are more in number than the sand: when I awake,
I am still with thee" (Psalms 139:1-18).
Andrew said: his children are killing each other.
"Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of
your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the
beginning" (John 8:44). "No murderer hath eternal
life abiding in him" (1 John 3:15). "Whosoever shall
smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other
also" (Matthew 5:39).
Andrew said: we have to search for Jesus.
"Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into
heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)
Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to
bring up Christ again from the dead.) But what saith
it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in
thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we
preach; That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the
Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God
hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved"
(Romans 10:6-9).
Andrew said: What kind of Father filters his
children through a tea strainer and then threatens
to kill the ones that don't quite measure up?
"The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom;
and the knowledge of the holy is understanding"
(Proverbs 9:10). "Fear him, which after he hath
killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto
you, Fear him" (Luke 12:5). "Serve God acceptably
with reverence and godly fear: for our God is a
consuming fire" (Hebrews 12:28-29).
"Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the
gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to
destruction, and many there be which go in thereat;
because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way,
which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find
it" (Matthew 7:13-14). "Not every one that saith unto
me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of
heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which
is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord,
Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy
name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many
wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I
never knew you: depart from me, ye that work
iniquity" (Matthew 7:21-23). "But I keep under my
body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any
means, when I have preached to others, I myself
should be a castaway" (1 Corinthians 9:27).
"They profess that they know God; but in works they
deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto
every good work reprobate" (Titus 1:16). "His lord
answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful
servant" (Matthew 25:26); "Cast ye the unprofitable
servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping
and gnashing of teeth" (Matthew 25:30).
"Pass the time of your sojourning here in fear"
(1 Peter 1:17). "Work out your own salvation with
fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in
you both to will and to do of his good pleasure"
(Philippians 2:12-13). "By mercy and truth iniquity
is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart
from evil" (Proverbs 16:6).
Andrew said: there is in fact no such thing as "his
word" because its all been filtered through the
fallible human mind.
"No prophecy of the scripture is of any private
interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time
by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they
were moved by the Holy Ghost" (2 Peter 1:20-21).
"Thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye
received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye
received it not as the word of men, but as it is in
truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh
also in you that believe" (1 Thessalonians 2:13).
"Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of
incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and
abideth for ever. For all flesh is as grass, and all
the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass
withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: but
the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is
the word which by the gospel is preached unto you"
(1 Peter 1:23-25).
"Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity
of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the
engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. But
be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only,
deceiving your own selves" (James 1:21-22).
Andrew said: God gave you a brain
"The mind of Christ" (1 Corinthians 2:16). "We have
received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit
which is of God; that we might know the things that
are freely given to us of God. Which things also we
speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth,
but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing
spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man
receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for
they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know
them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he
that is spiritual judgeth all things"
(1 Corinthians 2:12-15). "Casting down imaginations,
and every high thing that exalteth itself against the
knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every
thought to the obedience of Christ"
(2 Corinthians 10:5). "He became the author of
eternal salvation unto all them that obey him"
(Hebrews 5:9).
"If ye love me, keep my commandments" (John 14:15).
"For this is the love of God, that we keep his
commandments: and his commandments are not grievous"
(1 John 5:3). "He that hath my commandments, and
keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that
loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will
love him, and will manifest myself to him"
(John 14:21).
"Why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things
which I say?" (Luke 6:46). "He that loveth me not
keepeth not my sayings" (John 14:24). "If ye continue
in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed"
(John 8:31).
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| User: "Andrew W" |
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04 Apr 2007 05:27:26 PM |
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"Read The Bible" <bibleverse2@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1175662062.940071.233740@d57g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
Andrew W said on Apr 3, 1:43 pm [Re: Not all people
are God's children]: That would only be the case if
he disowned some of them.
Or some were never His to begin with. "Ye are of your
father the devil" (John 8:44). "The children of the
wicked one; the enemy that sowed them is the devil"
(Matthew 13:38-39).
What you're basically saying then is that some humans were created by the
devil, because children can only belong to whomever created them in the
first place, unless the true parent disowned them.
Is that what you're saying? Who else created humans?
You haven't thought any of this through have you?
You just read and believe.
A mass produced book for the common rabble says its "God's word" and you
believe it.
Andrew said: what kind of parent disowns some of
his children just because they're not perfect? That
is not unconditional love.
"God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we
were yet sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8).
"Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he
loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for
our sins" (1 John 4:10).
Response unacceptable.
Answer the question yourself, otherwise you show that you have no real
understanding or thinking capacity.
Andrew said [Re: God cannot be tempted with evil]:
The devil tempted God over Job - and succeeded!
God committed no sin against Job.
No you're right. It was an atrocity.
Standard operating procedure for your false middle eastern text based god.
--
Andrew W.
Jesus said that we must search everywhere for the truth, that we must leave
no stone unturned.
How naive and foolish is the man who thinks he can get all the answers to
life from one convenient book. ~me
What we are told God and Jesus said, they did not say.
http://www.divinelove.org/volume1/Mission.htm
TABLE OF CONTENTS. Must read!
http://www.divinelove.org/revnt/Rev-TOC-title.htm
The true Creator wants us to be happy and abundant.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Science_of_Getting_Rich
Audio version. http://website.lineone.net/~cornerstone/richaudio.htm
Think you know what ego is? Think again. The Bible is full of it!
http://www.acim.org/
Religion Exposed!
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~ajwerner
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| Title: Re: Christians are blasphemous |
05 Apr 2007 12:01:09 AM |
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Andrew W said on Apr 4, 3:27 pm:
[Re: God committed no sin against Job]:
No you're right. It was an atrocity.
"Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head,
and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, and
said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked
shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD
hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD. In
all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly"
(Job 1:20-22).
"Said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine
integrity? curse God, and die. But he said unto her,
Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh.
What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and
shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job
sin with his lips" (Job 2:9-10).
"Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in
the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering
affliction, and of patience. Behold, we count them
happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of
Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord
is very pitiful, and of tender mercy"
(James 5:10-11).
"So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than
his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep,
and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen,
and a thousand she asses. He had also seven sons and
three daughters. And he called the name of the first,
Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the
name of the third, Kerenhappuch. And in all the land
were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job;
and their father gave them inheritance among their
brethren. After this lived Job an hundred and forty
years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even
four generations" (Job 42:12-16).
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| User: "Mark T moi@hometh14376987647674376769083726" |
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05 Apr 2007 12:37:30 AM |
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"Read The Bible" <bibleverse2@yahoo.com> wrote:
"Job arose, and rent his mantle
Why did Job rent out the mantle above his fireplace? How much was he
charging?
Who would want to live there?
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Jesus said in Matthew 5:42, "Give to him that asketh thee, and from
him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away." May I have your house
and car and may I borrow your most prized possession?
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My Blog - - my thoughts on Christianity/ song covers & pics & links
http://www.blognow.com.au/strooth/
My Soundclick Page - download my original songs in mp3 format
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| User: "KlugeHans" |
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| Title: Re: Job rent his mantle |
06 Apr 2007 03:32:01 AM |
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IIn article <lefb13d2hrl3ho0om11c44d0gmpus5ksag@4ax.com>, john w
<johnw<no>@yahoo.com> wrote:
Any other "gospel" is the gospel of demons.
THAT is what you preach, Steve, the gospel of demons!
Just one schizophrenic outburst after another
This BIG TIME psychosis
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| User: "KlugeHans" |
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06 Apr 2007 03:16:10 AM |
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In article <46148b1e@dnews.tpgi.com.au>, "Mark T"
<moi@hometh14376987647674376769083726> wrote:
"Read The Bible" <bibleverse2@yahoo.com> wrote:
"Job arose, and rent his mantle
Why did Job rent out the mantle above his fireplace? How much was he
charging?
Who would want to live there?
Ask Weatherly
He knows all about Jobs having just failed to get another one
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| User: "KlugeHans" |
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06 Apr 2007 03:43:30 AM |
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In article <603913douk0lslk5hih5d88v66gr433hjh@4ax.com>, john w
<johnw<no>@yahoo.com> wrote:
From YOU, demoniac, that hurts!
More schizophrenic outbursts
Call the doctor John
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| User: "Andrew W" |
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05 Apr 2007 07:30:44 AM |
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I see you couldn't answer my question.
I was right about you.
--
Andrew W.
Jesus said that we must search everywhere for the truth, that we must leave
no stone unturned.
How naive and foolish is the man who thinks he can get all the answers to
life from one convenient book. ~me
What we are told God and Jesus said, they did not say.
http://www.divinelove.org/volume1/Mission.htm
TABLE OF CONTENTS. Must read!
http://www.divinelove.org/revnt/Rev-TOC-title.htm
The true Creator wants us to be happy and abundant.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Science_of_Getting_Rich
Audio version. http://website.lineone.net/~cornerstone/richaudio.htm
Think you know what ego is? Think again. The Bible is full of it!
http://www.acim.org/
Religion Exposed!
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~ajwerner
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| Title: Re: Christians are blasphemous |
02 Apr 2007 02:38:46 AM |
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In article <1175495454.162478.168320@e65g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>, "Read
The Bible" <bibleverse2@yahoo.com> wrote:
Not all people are God's children.
Well don't worry your pretty little head about that sonny
There's no doubt that you are one of them
And very little risk you will ever grow up
So here is another fairy tale cut and pasted
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The Little Match Girl Hans Christian Andersen
Most terribly cold it was; it snowed, and was nearly quite dark, and
evening-- the last evening of the year. In this cold and darkness there
went along the street a poor little girl, bareheaded, and with naked feet.
When she left home she had slippers on, it is true; but what was the good
of that? They were very large slippers, which her mother had hitherto
worn; so large were they; and the poor little thing lost them as she
scuffled away across the street, because of two carriages that rolled by
dreadfully fast.
One slipper was nowhere to be found; the other had been laid hold of by an
urchin, and off he ran with it; he thought it would do capitally for a
cradle when he some day or other should have children himself. So the
little maiden walked on with her tiny naked feet, that were quite red and
blue from cold. She carried a quantity of matches in an old apron, and she
held a bundle of them in her hand. Nobody had bought anything of her the
whole livelong day; no one had given her a single farthing.
She crept along trembling with cold and hunger--a very picture of sorrow,
the poor little thing!
The flakes of snow covered her long fair hair, which fell in beautiful
curls around her neck; but of that, of course, she never once now thought.
From all the windows the candles were gleaming, and it smelt so
deliciously of roast goose, for you know it was New Year's Eve; yes, of
that she thought.
In a corner formed by two houses, of which one advanced more than the
other, she seated herself down and cowered together. Her little feet she
had drawn close up to her, but she grew colder and colder, and to go home
she did not venture, for she had not sold any matches and could not bring
a farthing of money: from her father she would certainly get blows, and at
home it was cold too, for above her she had only the roof, through which
the wind whistled, even though the largest cracks were stopped up with
straw and rags.
Her little hands were almost numbed with cold. Oh! a match might afford
her a world of comfort, if she only dared take a single one out of the
bundle, draw it against the wall, and warm her fingers by it. She drew one
out. "Rischt!" how it blazed, how it burnt! It was a warm, bright flame,
like a candle, as she held her hands over it: it was a wonderful light. It
seemed really to the little maiden as though she were sitting before a
large iron stove, with burnished brass feet and a brass ornament at top.
The fire burned with such blessed influence; it warmed so delightfully.
The little girl had already stretched out her feet to warm them too;
but--the small flame went out, the stove vanished: she had only the
remains of the burnt-out match in her hand.
She rubbed another against the wall: it burned brightly, and where the
light fell on the wall, there the wall became transparent like a veil, so
that she could see into the room. On the table was spread a snow-white
tablecloth; upon it was a splendid porcelain service, and the roast goose
was steaming famously with its stuffing of apple and dried plums. And what
was still more capital to behold was, the goose hopped down from the dish,
reeled about on the floor with knife and fork in its breast, till it came
up to the poor little girl; when--the match went out and nothing but the
thick, cold, damp wall was left behind. She lighted another match. Now
there she was sitting under the most magnificent Christmas tree: it was
still larger, and more decorated than the one which she had seen through
the glass door in the rich merchant's house.
Thousands of lights were burning on the green branches, and gaily-colored
pictures, such as she had seen in the shop-windows, looked down upon her.
The little maiden stretched out her hands towards them when--the match
went out. The lights of the Christmas tree rose higher and higher, she saw
them now as stars in heaven; one fell down and formed a long trail of
fire.
"Someone is just dead!" said the little girl; for her old grandmother, the
only person who had loved her, and who was now no more, had told her, that
when a star falls, a soul ascends to God.
She drew another match against the wall: it was again light, and in the
lustre there stood the old grandmother, so bright and radiant, so mild,
and with such an expression of love.
"Grandmother!" cried the little one. "Oh, take me with you! You go away
when the match burns out; you vanish like the warm stove, like the
delicious roast goose, and like the magnificent Christmas tree!" And she
rubbed the whole bundle of matches quickly against the wall, for she
wanted to be quite sure of keeping her grandmother near her. And the
matches gave such a brilliant light that it was brighter than at noon-day:
never formerly had the grandmother been so beautiful and so tall. She took
the little maiden, on her arm, and both flew in brightness and in joy so
high, so very high, and then above was neither cold, nor hunger, nor
anxiety--they were with God.
But in the corner, at the cold hour of dawn, sat the poor girl, with rosy
cheeks and with a smiling mouth, leaning against the wall--frozen to death
on the last evening of the old year. Stiff and stark sat the child there
with her matches, of which one bundle had been burnt. "She wanted to warm
herself," people said. No one had the slightest suspicion of what
beautiful things she had seen; no one even dreamed of the splendor in
which, with her grandmother she had entered on the joys of a new year.
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