Daniel J. Boorstin once said, “An image is not simply a trademark, a
design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously
crafted personality profile of an individual, institution,
corporation, product or service.”
Deu 27:15 ‘Cursed is the man who makes a carved or moulded image, an
abomination to [Yahweh] יהוה, the work of the hands of the craftsman,
and sets it up in secret.’ And all the people shall answer and say,
‘Amĕn!’
An interesting turn of phrase in scriptures, “The work of the hands of
the CRAFTsman, and sets it up in SECRET.”
Welcome to the image of Babylon. Where once we thought a light was
thought to be shining on the hill, an empire of darkness emerges that
wars against the command of the King of Israel, Yehoshua Ben YAHWEH,
son of the most High and Almighty Creator of Heaven and Earth, Elohim
of Earth.
Rev 18:3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her
fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication
with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the
abundance of her delicacies.
And still, the demons of the pits are about to be unleashed upon the
world. Hatred, enmity and strife will reign as they are given to the
whims of their hearts and babes and handmaidens will prophecy. Yahweh
keeps for himself a tiny remnant scattered amongst the gentiles but
then in order to show his power on earth, that’s just the way he
demonstrates it, thru the David and Goliath stories, where the meek
overcome.
Isa 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and
create evil: I YHWH do all these things.
That deck is completely stacked by Yahweh, creator of all things good
and EVIL. That’s right, Satan and all the demons, created beings
controlled by the Almighty to test the spirit of men. You and I are
being tested and some of those demons are powerful and not to be toyed
with. Life is a test and that’s the great revelation to share with
you, whether you will be faithful with what you have been given, just
like the parables of Yehoshua but in that knowledge, that the outcome
is assured, is HOPE.
The challenges in life that greet you are not a battle of good versus
evil and we do not wrestle with “spirits in high places”. Those
spirits are under authority, granted by Yahweh and the authority
granted to them is limited as illustrated in the book of Job and
Jubilees. All we must do is recognize when spiritual influence occurs
and ask our Abba Yahweh to send them away and learn to obey him so
that worse doesn’t come.
Deu 4:20 “But [YAHWEH] יהוה has taken you and brought you out of the
iron furnace, out of Mitsrayim, to be His people, an inheritance, as
it is today.
You are being molded as a potter forms clay, this is the ultimate
purpose of testing you, proving you, showing you right rulings to fear
and serve YAHWEH alone and none else. Everything has its purpose from
demons to false apostles to make you into something better than we are
today. Still, many strive against our Abba in vanity
Isa 29:15 Woe to those who seek deep to hide their counsel far from
[YAHWEH] יהוה, and their works are in the dark; they say, “Who sees
us?” and, “Who knows us?” 16 How perverse of you! Should the potter be
reckoned as the clay? Should what is made say of its Maker, “He did
not make me”? And what is formed say of Him who formed it, “He did not
understand”?
YAHWEH is the Almighty because he created it ALL, good and evil and
those who think he doesn’t understand are ignorant of this great
truth, that there is no battle between good and evil. Simply put,
evil was created so that we could learn from it what not to do and the
results of our disobedience. All you have to do is open your eyes to
the world around you and anybody can see the results of the evil men
have created by not obeying the scriptures. “You do not murder” and
yet, we justify wars by the same scriptures and the heathen reckons
them evil. Scriptures are not evil, the men who misinterpret them are
and YHWH is sovereign over all things.
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Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause
unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause
monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to
societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth
century.
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Were you going to comment and decided not too?
> On Apr 14, 4:10 am, walksalone <spamstop...@nerdshack.com> wrote:
>> guardian Snow
>> <snowpheo...@eck.net.au>news:829f0745-9db9-4340-a809-874e7f
> b66...@i28g2000prd.googlegroups.co
>> m
>
> Were you going to comment and decided not too?
Neither, but that does not concern you. What does concern the
audience is your posturing & speaking of things you are glaringly
ignorant of.
To wit: the title of this thread you introduced & crossposted in
order to impress yourself.
There is no battle between good & evil, just people like you
pretending there is.
Good: an artificial concept used to describe things we want to do,
or have done to us. In nature, which we are part of, there is no
collective concious concept of good.
In the religious sense, what you want others to do.
Evil: Another artificial concept used to describe things we don't
want, or don't want done to ourselves.
In the religious sense, what you want others to do.
Collectively, used to mold peoples mental patterns in an effort to
control them. Both politicians & high & low priests use the terms
interchangably.
The concepts are useful when used as something other than boogey men.
Good, that which befefits a society, or gene pool, preferrably
without harming others.
Bad, that which harms a society or gene pool by causeing harm to
others, or a gene pool.
Now, you can play with those observations, you can play with the
dictionary & claim they are wrong. Or you can show them to be wrong
& you to be right. Care to play?
Hint, I will cram your attempts to divert & sidetrack by employing
scripture as an authority right back down your throat.
After all, what makes yolu think that if the Hebrew Bible & Greek
testments have historical errors, & they do, they don't have
mythological claims for the truth wrong as well.
No, that is not a threat, I don't bother with them. It is a fact.
Your only choice, should you elect to play BMOC, is to address the
concepts & falsify them.
walksalone who knows full well that nature has no good or evil, just
consequences. Some of which are not a pretty sight.
Now feel free to continue to pretend you have something worth saying,
or knowledge you have yet to demonstrate.
The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of
the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.
-Ogden Nash, author (1902-1971)
> Now feel free to continue to pretend you have something worth saying,
> or knowledge you have yet to demonstrate.
Talking to yourself? Not a good sign.
> On Apr 18, 2:22 pm, walksalone <spamstop...@nerdshack.com> wrote:
>
>> Talk about the unintended irony of the average bleeder. But be
>> that as it may, it is simply more handwaving by a person who
>> knows he cannot answer anything much beyond, what time of day it
>> might be if and only if, he is looking at Big Benin London.
>
> Your ignorance screams and rants grow as you blather on in endless
> post that seriously nobody cares about. You make nonsense claims
> that say, I can't answer things but you've asked nothing and
> wasted your time again.
& still, you avoid the obvious, that you shot off your mouth & fail
to be able to back it up. How typical of blowhardus xianiaus like
you. Again, so the audience can see why you are pulling your famous,
it's not me but you that is wrong act. BTW, if no one is interested,
does that mean you can speak for anyone but yourself, or are you no
one?
Unanswered & unmarked text removal reinserted. As it will continue
to be every time snow shows up on ARCB or any other news group I am
subscribed to.
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First followup by walkslaone, which has led to no less than 5
responses, none of which have addressed his claim that good & evil
are enties & real, which of course, he knows they aren't. He does
not even recognise the trope he used.
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walksalone who accepts that all snow can do is try & pull a snow job.
Can some nice person tell him why it isn't working. Not that he will
believe you, but you can say you tried.
"Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said
he, "That when they speak truth they are not believed."
To clear our debt, we first must forgive another dept without
expecting return. What I find troubling over all is that nobody wants
to actually talk about the doctrine of Christ. All the vast majority
of people want to do is argue over pettiness and attack each other.
As to forgiveness, It goes deeper and nobody really seems to really
practice it... A tragic situation is going all around where people
claim to be Christians and never follow his teachings. The other
mistake I see are people remaking the Messiah into an image that
suites the need of the person posting the message. They refashion and
create a new god that isn't in the scriptures.
Mat 10:37 “He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of
Me, and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.
38 “And he who does not take up his stake and follow after Me is not
worthy of Me.
People are pretending to be Christian and not following him.
“Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.”
Henry Ford
Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a
soul. Everything has a purpose, even this, and it's up to you to find
it.
Luk 6:21 “Blessed are you who hunger now, because you shall be
satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, because you shall laugh. 22
“Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall cut you
off, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as wicked, for the
sake of the Son of Aḏam. 23 “Rejoice in that day and leap for joy,
for look, your reward is great in the heaven, for that is how their
fathers treated the prophets.
You are blessed by being attacked because you have received a chance
to repay large debts. By forgiving those that attack you and placing
your faith in Elohim, you realize that you have no need to defend
yourself.
Isa 54:17 “No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every
tongue which rises against you in judgment you shall prove wrong. This
is the inheritance of the servants of [Yahweh] יהוה, and their
righteousness from Me,” declares [Yahweh] יהוה.
A lot of people paint a dark. bleak picture of the future using the
bible. I don't agree with a lot of people’s interpretation of the
future but... It seems to me that people in general are painting that
bleak image and being self-fulfilling.
I often wonder why so many people must attack other people’s
intelligence and opinions. Is it true that our self-esteem is so low
that we can't help but log onto the Internet just to find somebody
that we don't agree with and attack them? Why is it so hard to
respectfully disagree with each other?
You have our own concept of what I am speaking about and many have
failed to understand. Our thoughts were scattered and your mode is
attack and so you set out to do battle with somebody that has no
desire to resist you.
Clearly others have no desire for my beliefs and so they thought this
was a fight and they came with guns blazing to empty fields and didn't
see the sign that said “the war is over” for me. I have Victory and
my peace and you are entitled to try and make it yours by means of
your aggression and your war making.
Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination
of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.
Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see
nothing in war but destruction and annihilation. War... is harmful,
not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.
Mat 5:39 but I say to you, do not resist the wicked. But whoever slaps
you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also.
Where would you like me to go? Do you believe that anybody that
disagrees with you is setting themselves up for your attack? You must
realize the aggressors here will attack you for a belief.
Knowing my victory isn't unloving when you’re invited to join. You
may choose to pretend you’re a victim while you go around attacking.
The truth is you’re a result of your own aggression. The highest form
of ignorance is when you reject something, when you don't know
anything about that belief.
Why would you attack people, do you even know? People speak as if they
the casualty. They can still pretend to be a victim being trampled
on, the hanged man spending time accusing people that aren't involved.
So ultimately we hate the fact that you know you’re committing sin and
in rebellion condemn all those who try and help. You condemn them
because you feel they condemned you but the fact is, I am not your
judge and I have no desire to judge you. You alone have judged
yourself and created your own negative apathy.
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
Your own self loathing becomes quickly apparent as you blame all those
trying to teach the truth. These people have painted a self fulfilled
dark future and not ours and that is what they resent.
Why do you expect to receive love when you wrongly accuse others? The
truth is we don't want it, even when it's offered and we demonstrate
that by accusing innocent people and pretending righteousness. I don’t
call you a fool but it's foolish to reject something you don't or
can’t understand. A person who won't read has no advantage over one
who can't read.
“Adversity is the first path to truth.”
Lord Byron
So then you are attacking and won't admit you’re a hypocrite and hide
behind words like "blasphemy" and yet, I avoid liable and we still
want to challenge because, it represents all that we fear.
So cry foul, whine and moan about it you think I don't care about
people. I tell you the truth and you choose your own fate. Don't
think I'm going to follow you into the pits of your own dark soul
friend; I'm not obligated or instructed by my scriptures to be so
foolish.
1Pe 2:11 Beloved ones, I appeal to you as sojourners and pilgrims, to
abstain from fleshly lusts which battle against the life, 12 having
your behaviour among the gentiles good so that when they speak against
you as evil-doers, let them, by observing your good works, esteem
Elohim in a day of visitation.
So if I tell you how to save your life, how does that not demonstrate
love? It is smarter to quote the truth. We ask question when we want
to challenge another person’s belief and seek a response. Being
worried about a lie shows only a lack of faith in the truth.
Joh 8:31 So [Yehoshua] יהושע said to those Yehuḏim who believed Him,
“If you stay in My Word, you are truly My taught ones, 32 and you
shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
It is for the reason to be free that we teach only the way of the
peaceful warrior, to stay in the word of truth. There is no way to
prosperity, prosperity is the way.
Mat 28:18 And יהושע came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority
has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 “Therefore, go and
make taught ones of all the nations, immersing them in the Name of the
Father and of the Son and of the Set- apart Spirit, 20 teaching them
to guard all that I have commanded you. And see, I am with you always,
until the end of the age.” Amĕn.
The fact that we are willing to say, ''I do not understand, and it is
fine,'' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit. Tell the
truth and people will see what a lie is and the light will shine for
all to see.
Mat 4:16 the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, and upon
those who sat in the land and shadow of death, light arose to them.”1
Footnote: 1Isa. 9:1-2. 17 From that time [Yehoshua] יהושע began to
proclaim and to say, “Repent, for the reign of the heavens has drawn
near.”
The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination. The ones
who are hardest to love are usually the ones who need it the most. A
warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's
about absolute vulnerability.
Shalom,
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'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not
forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the
heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the
eye.
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Here we go again.
From: guardian Snow <snowp...@eck.net.au>
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walksalone who at one time thought, cut and paste was for lazy
people. But people like snow have convinced me, this is not always
the case.
People of small caliber like to sit on high horses.
-Magdalena Samozwaniec, writer (1894-1972)
You poor ranting little man with no life. I pity you.
> On Apr 20, 5:12 am, walksalone <spamstop...@nerdshack.com> wrote:
>> guardian Snow
>> <snowpheo...@eck.net.au>news:fc2a2f9f-d68e-4e08-8992-ce18a0
> f12...@z16g2000prd.googlegroups.co
>> m
>>
>> Here we go again.
>
> You poor ranting little man with no life. I pity you.
>
Of course you do, you always pretend to pity those that know more
than you do, & those that point out that not only do you have no
life, but are willing to get attention anyway you can. In the
states, they call someone like that an attention whore.
Now being you had a choice, absent yourself from groups I subscribe
to, or or back up your big mouth, one more time. It's all you get.
The audience, OTOH, may get more on occasion. You get your nose
rubbed in the dunny floor.
walkslaone who does not find surprise art snow's continued evasion &
attempt to divert attention away from that fact. Hot air has no real
presence in the outback, you can't tell snow's from jw's.
Evil is like a shadow - it has no real substance of its own, it is
simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by
trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other
form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow
to disappear, you must shine light on it.
-Shakti Gawain, teacher and author (b. 1948)
> >> Here we go again.
>
> > You poor ranting little man with no life. I pity you.
>
> Of course you do, you always pretend to pity those that know more
> than you do
And you call me, a stranger you don't know arrogant, Silly man.
Isa 45:23 “I have sworn by Myself, a word has gone out of My mouth in
righteousness, and shall not return, so that to Me every knee shall
bow, every tongue swear.
Isa 45:24 “One shall say, ‘Only in יהוה do I have righteousness and
strength’ – he comes to Him. And all those displeased with Him shall
be put to shame.
Isa 45:25 “In יהוה all the seed of Yisra’ĕl shall be declared right
and boast. ”
Have a good day and keep posting.. I like it, so why would I want you
to stop?
> On Apr 20, 2:38 pm, walksalone <spamstop...@nerdshack.com> wrote:
>
>> >> Here we go again.
>>
>> > You poor ranting little man with no life. I pity you.
>>
>> Of course you do, you always pretend to pity those that know more
>> than you do
>
> And you call me, a stranger you don't know arrogant, Silly man.
Ah, but I know people that act as you do, & they always try & paint
themselves as a person of higher ethics than they are. Your running
& conduct here in this newsgroup have established what you are, &
it's not the snow you want everyone to think you are.
But it appears you have never met thoser like me, or ran away from
them if you did.
So, how about some answers child, lest you weary your devotees to
leaving you.
walksalone who is here for the duration.
The history of our race, and each individual's experience,
are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not
hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.
—mark Twain
> > And you call me, a stranger you don't know arrogant, Silly man.
>
> Ah, but I know people that act as you do, & they always try & paint
> themselves as a person of higher ethics than they are. Your running
> & conduct here in this newsgroup have established what you are, &
> it's not the snow you want everyone to think you are.
> But it appears you have never met thoser like me, or ran away from
> them if you did.
1Pe 2:19 For this is favour, if because of conscience toward Elohim
anyone bears up under grief, suffering unrighteously.
1Pe 2:20 For what credit is there in enduring a beating when you sin?
But if you suffer for doing good and you endure, this finds favour
with Elohim.
1Pe 2:21 For to this you were called, because Messiah also suffered
for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps,1
Footnote: 11 Cor. 11:1, 1 John 2:6.
1Pe 2:22 “who committed no sin,1 nor was deceit found in His mouth,”2
Footnotes: 1John 8:55, John 15:10, 2 Cor. 5:21, John 3:5. 2Isa.53:9.
1Pe 2:23 who, being reviled, did not revile in return; suffering, did
not threaten, but committed Himself to Him who judges righteously;
1Pe 2:24 who Himself bore our sins in His body on the timber, so that
we, having died to sins, might live unto righteousness1 – by whose
stripes you were healed. Footnote: 1Rom. 6:2, 1 Peter 4:1-2.
Thank you for again giving me the opportunity to demonstrate the love
of Yehoshua for all mankind. He loves you too walksalone. Take care
and be blessed. Look forward to many more opportunities to witness to
you.
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> On Apr 20, 7:14 pm, walksalone <spamstop...@nerdshack.com> wrote:
>
>> > And you call me, a stranger you don't know arrogant, Silly
>> > man.
>>
>> Ah, but I know people that act as you do, & they always try &
>> paint themselves as a person of higher ethics than they are.
>> Your running & conduct here in this newsgroup have established
>> what you are, & it's not the snow you want everyone to think you
>> are. But it appears you have never met thoser like me, or ran
>> away from them if you did.
Still avoiding the issues you raised with phoney attemts to be pious
& quote mine theunauthorised Greek Testamenst? Even you should
realse the futility in that.
One more time as the sun said.
How many times will you avoid backing up your big mouth, as many
times as it takes for you to realise that there is a way out for
you. & it is not trying to explain your claim.
walksalone who recalls making mistakes like snow has. But he
learnewd to admit when he had said things he could not support with
evidence. A lesson xians at large have yet to learn.
Luke 19:27 But those mine enemies, which would not that I should
reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.
> How many times will you avoid backing up your big mouth, as many
> times as it takes for you to realise that there is a way out for
> you. & it is not trying to explain your claim.
Dearly beloved and to those who are dead,
We are gathered here today to mourn the loss
of Walksalone, Thommadura and Fred.
They preached evolution at all cost
and now they meet the Eternal, lost.
Against the Savior they did rebel
Without the Light, they lived in Hell,
They argued until their souls condemned
And came to meet a tragic end.
We gather today to mourn poor Fred,
Who still resides with the living dead.
We grieve the parting of WalksAlone,
Who resents the truth that he was shown
Thommadura’s passing was so sad,
When his salvation was easily had
They never knew love, without repentance
From God above they serve there sentence
Judgment was swift, of that I’m sure,
Now Satan’s grasp they will endure.
I mourn for men, forever lost
The price for them, a grievous cost
I thought it fitting to share this word,
Too bad for them, faith was absurd.
An early obituary, saying “Hell is hot”,
For this reason the Good News was brought,
to those who are dead, …before they rot.
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them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
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> On Apr 20, 10:54 pm, walksalone <spamstop...@nerdshack.com> wrote:
>
>> How many times will you avoid backing up your big mouth, as many
>> times as it takes for you to realise that there is a way out for
>> you. & it is not trying to explain your claim.
>
> Dearly beloved and to those who are dead,
I join you today to verify that, yes, snow is still incapable of
responding to a situation he has created for himself. But in keeping
with his protected eulogy, the following is offered for your
consideration. And of course that will be followed with the message
that snow has yet to respond to. After all, I wouldn't want it said
the youngling didn't have a chance to correct his mistakes.
And now, for the eulogy. One I can take no credit for, and do not
mind pointing out the author, who made several valid points in a
rather a civil manner.
Eulogy
by Bill Barnes
God died today in the heart of another man.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust,
And in this soil a seed is planted.
God died today in the mind of another woman.
The black dirt, the moist earth,
From this new garden, wisdom grows.
I was always taught that God died that I might live.
I never realized how true this was.
His death nourishes the seeds of wisdom, happiness, and freedom.
This is a eulogy, a benediction.
I am saddened by my loss,
But know a better life is ahead of me.
Love and hate marked this relationship.
I loved this mythical invisible father.
I hated the crotchety old judge.
Like the battered child,
Who still loves their parents,
I am glad he's gone, but I still miss him.
The new garden I have has wonderful plants,
But I must pull weeds of doubt and guilt,
It's my responsibility now.
As a child must grow and leave the safety of home,
I have grown and left the eternal security of heaven.
I have outgrown my god, and laid him to rest
And now, for snows star performance of the century.
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After all, what makes you think that if the Hebrew Bible & Greek
testments have historical errors, & they do, they don't have
mythological claims for the truth wrong as well.
No, that is not a threat, I don't bother with them. It is a fact.
Your only choice, should you elect to play BMOC, is to address the
concepts & falsify them.
walksalone, who accepts the responsibility of continuing to point
this out in order to to remove any doubt from those that are seeking
information about various mythologies, snow is not the teacher he
pretends to be. He's not even really glib, but he's happy with his
efforts, because he makes no effort to improve or correct them.
All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with
different holidays.
-Cathy Ladman, comedian, writer, actress (1955- )
True authority is never taken and never can be. The faith that stands
on authority is not faith and this is why we willingly worship the one
true authority in all the world, YAHWEH. Mohandas Gandhi once said,
“Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It
comes without seeking and is retained without effort.” But he said
this while trying to wrestle authority away from the British
Monarch.
Yehoshua long ago told his disciples in Mat 10:16 “See, I send you out
as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as *serpents and
innocent as doves. The word serpent might actually surprise some of
you in its definition:
G3789
ὄφις
ophis
Probably from G3700 (through the idea of sharpness of vision); a
snake, figuratively (as a type of sly cunning) an artful malicious
person, especially Satan: - serpent.
Yehoshua himself tells you be wise as Satan but innocent of
transgression of the Torah. This means I do not lie but then I don’t
need to include the entire spectrum of my feelings to my enemies.
I have found over the course of public speaking that many people hate
me for speaking of the many deceptions within the modern main stream
church, I seem to attracted enemies like flies to a bright light on a
hill. Detractors of the scriptures of YAHWEH like to try and trap you
in endless debates by asking you questions they have no desire to have
answered.
Mat 7:6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye
your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and
turn again and rend you.
If you do bother to answer these people, they will only throw several
other issues back in your face and you end up in endless arguments and
endless strife.
As we believer know, Yehoshua always gave the best advice in dealing
with life’s issues and in Luk 6:27 “But I say to you who are hearing:
Love your enemies, do good to those hating you. 28 “Bless those
cursing you, and pray for those insulting you. 29 “And to him who hits
you on the one cheek, offer the other also. And from him who takes
away your outer garment, do not withhold the inner garment either.
In pondering this issue one must ask, do you we just allow our enemies
to pulverize us? The answer is clearly not so, we must ask better
questions like, “How do I overcome my enemy without resisting him?” I
certainly don’t agree with him… but then, the answer is Yes, you do
agree with what you find agreeable.
My latest thread stalker is another unbeliever who didn’t like my post
about, “The battle of Good and Evil”. His ultimatum to me was to spam
every thread I started cross posting to alt.religion.christian.baptist
until I stopped posting to groups he monitored. In his spam, he said
I was, “an attention whore”. I quickly agreed with him and thanked
him for all the attention he has lavished on me since after all, he
believe this to be the reason I cross posted, which to a degree, I
can’t deny.
Can anybody who post messages honestly say that they want the messages
they post to go not noticed?
(RNKJV) Ecc 1:2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of
vanities; all is vanity.
Admitting that it’s true, “I want attention”, isn’t a sin. Yehoshua
said in John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall
make you free.
The definition of insanity given by great thinkers like Benjamin
Franklin says, “Insanity is repeating the same behavior, expecting a
new result.” Which is to say, “If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.” With that in mind psychology
teaches us that when dealing with an adversary, if one tactic doesn’t
work, try another. If basic psychology doesn’t work, try reverse
psychology. Instead of telling the person to take a hike, tell them
how grateful you are for the attention.
My enemy wanted me to come to him and engage him in debate but he
lacks any authority, I do not follow him. He did not ask me to teach
him and so I have nothing to give him but I did take every opportunity
to quote scriptures to him because it provokes him as the word
provokes all who hate our Messiah.
Luk 21:17 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake.
Shalom,
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He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered,
though overcome; for he is still an enemy.
Thomas Hobbes
> I have no authority over you dear reader. I have no followers and
And yet, you pretend to not only have authority by being an authority
on your mythology, but you expect people to join your myopic point of
view. In other words, you seek authority and you want followers.
This is based on your posting history and your willingness to
multiple cross posting to groups that do not actively engage you in
conversation.
> I want none, I have only brothers that teach me and everybody is
But you do want to, and brothers, why just brothers. Where are the
sisters. All that's correct, under the founder of xianity, women are
to shut up on matters of theology. Or so it is claimed in a forgery
attributed to Saul.
> my teacher. My friends teach me one thing and my enemies teach me
You have friends, the word is plural. No doubt in real life,
hopefully you do have what you call friends. Even if they are no
more to social acquaintances. However, your enemies are self-
proclaimed and only enemies in your own mind.
> other lessons. Authority can only be granted by the person
> submitting to a perceived or real higher authority. Thomas Hobbes
Authority, over others, can be one of two varieties. There is the
enforced authority, which often is harsh. Military discipline comes
to mind, prisoners doing hard time comes to mind. Kindly do not try
to tell them they do not have authority over them. In one case, it
was voluntary, and the other it is not.
> once said, “He that is taken and put into prison or chains is
> not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.”
& they always will opposed to you as long as you attempt to opress
them. But that's too obvious, and people like you assume
automatically that they are quite correct, and everybody else should
line up automatically.
Now once again, you're going to be exposed with a coward you are, the
ethical and intellectual coward.
After all, what makes yolu think that if the Hebrew Bible & Greek
testments have historical errors, & they do, they don't have
mythological claims for the truth wrong as well.
No, that is not a threat, I don't bother with them. It is a fact.
Your only choice, should you elect to play BMOC, is to address the
concepts & falsify them.
walksalone, who does realize that snow has put himself in a no-win
situation, and does not mind rubbing his nose in that fact.
For what is Truth? In matters of religion, it is simply the
opinion that has survived. In matters of science, it is the
ultimate sensation.
—oscar Wilde
The only authority in the world is Yahweh. Cross posting only means
that I am seeking more attention and I have to thank you for keeping
my post at the top of the heap. Without your thankless contribution,
most likely my post would have sunk past the first page and gone into
history all but forgotten.
Can you see how you have come to serve me? Why I would be grateful
that even somebody with perverse ideas continues to enjoy making my
threads and my topics remain on the first page of Google?
You can't pay for advertising as good as your giving me and you do it
for free.. I love you man!
Keep up the good work. You continue to be an excellent example of how
to deal with faithless adversaries such as yourself.
Shalom,
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Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Andre Gide
Continuing to do his best to avoid answering any questions. They did
not make him look better than he is, left the following evasion
behind it
> On Apr 21, 11:29 pm, walksalone <spamstop...@nerdshack.com>
> wrote:
>> guardian Snow
>> <snowpheo...@eck.net.au>news:95066304-a1df-47b9-8cc0-d0ca20
> eca...@b7g2000pre.googlegroups.com
>>
>> > I have no authority over you dear reader. I have no followers
>> > and
>>
>> And yet, you pretend to not only have authority by being an
>> authority on your mythology, but you expect people to join your
>> myopic point of view. In other words, you seek authority and
>> you want followers.
>
>> This is based on your posting history and your willingness to
>> multiple cross posting to groups that do not actively engage you
>> in conversation.
> > means that I am seeking more attention and I have to thank you
for
> keeping my post at the top of the heap. Without your thankless
The thing about taking your trash to the side of the road and placing
it there for pickup by the sanitation workers. Is that you let
everybody know it's trash. That leaves trash pickers like you free
to play it as long as they clean up behind themselves. No, you are
receiving attention you do not want, unfavorable attention. Of
course for an attention whore, and those with a nartistic
personality, any attention will do. Even when it exposes them as a
poser and phony.
> contribution, most likely my post would have sunk past the first
> page and gone into history all but forgotten.
It has been forgotten by the majority of posters. After all, they
are not responding to you. Of course, maybe they realize, just as I
do, in an attempt to hold intelligent conversation with you is
referred to as a fairy circus. An unreal expectation if one wants to
see it.
Now let's continue back to where you attempt to pretend to have
knowledge, knowledge you cannot provide evidence full. Hot air does
not count as evidence.
If this looks familiar, it's because it is. You keep running away
from it.
walksalone, who is mildly amused at what you know, play it like a
small child hiding behind its hands pretending the world does not
know it is there and has made a mess on the floor. As with small
child, the question remains. Who's going to clean the carpet.
Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old
clothes
and things they don't want. It isn't charity to give away things you
want
to get rid of and it isn't a sacrifice to do things you don't mind
doing.
-Myrtle Reed, author (1874-1911)
> Continuing to do his best to avoid answering any questions.
I have enjoyed for several days allowing you to make a fool of
yourself. It's time to let you know why me and a bunch of other people
are laughing at you.
You haven't asked any questions other than, "Care to play?" of which
my answer was clearly NO.
Kindly take a moment to examine your own spam and find me a question
besides that. Clearly you are unarmed in a battle of whits where you
stand no chance. I will again point out that all you can do is
demonstrate to the world that you have mental issues.
Pro 3:30 Do not strive with a man without cause, If he has done you no
evil.
Pro 3:31 Do not envy a cruel man, And choose none of his ways;
Pro 3:32 For the perverse one is an abomination to יהוה, And His
secret counsel is with the straight.
Pro 3:33 The curse of יהוה is on the house of the wrong, But He
blesses the home of the righteous.
Pro 3:34 He certainly scoffs the scoffers, But gives favour to the
humble.
Pro 3:35 The wise do inherit esteem, But fools are bearing away shame!
I won't bother to respost the same spam as you do... Just know it was
actually somebody else that pointed it out to me.
She said, "Are you still talking to yourself"? The good thing is,
you'll continue to make sure my threads stay at the top of the heap.
It might be a good time to actually ask questions.
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If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always
gotten.
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Deu 32:21 “They made Me jealous by what is not Ěl, They provoked Me
with their worthless matters. But I make them jealous by those who are
no people, I provoke them with a foolish nation.
> On Apr 22, 1:22Ā am, walksalone <spamstop...@nerdshack.com> wrote:
>
>> Continuing to do his best to avoid answering any questions.
>
> I have enjoyed for several days allowing you to make a fool of
Really? Fancy that, you mean to say I am imitating you? I doubt any
but you can say that with a straight face.
> yourself. It's time to let you know why me and a bunch of other
> people are laughing at you.
Let me guess, all three of ypou.
> You haven't asked any questions other than, "Care to play?" of
> which my answer was clearly NO.
BTW, it reads if you care to play BMOC, which is what you are trying
right now. The topic can be discussed without your usual airs.
I see you can't read & interpolation anything that does not stroke
your ego.
> Kindly take a moment to examine your own spam and find me a
Usenet is not e-mail, nor is a response to the same groups you
spammed considered spam b y most if not all articulate posters. Now
I reaise you have a how dare I point out your lack of ethics &, well,
general knowledge.
> question besides that. Clearly you are unarmed in a battle of
> whits where you stand no chance. I will again point out that all
Depends. If a half wit engaged you, you would be unarmed as long as
it pertains to your mythology, your pet gods, & yes it is gods, as
well as general klnowledge about usenet. Your English isn't all
that good either, but it does not take much effort to cipher the
ramblings of bleaters.
> you can do is demonstrate to the world that you have mental
Nice try Herr Doktor, but if I have issues, that makes you stark
raving bonkers.
> issues.
Generally speaking, I take issue with blowhards that don't know what
they are talking about, like the below. IOW,people like you & a
former full time poser. Whjich is why you will continue to run like
a scalded dog rather than defend your claims. & no, your consent is
not required for you were given two choices.
walksalone who doubts snow really knows that this is not about him as
a xian, it's about him as a liar & blowhard.
All religions have based morality on obedience, that is
to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always
been more pernicious than any political organization.
For the latter makes use of violence, the former—of the
corruption of the will.
—alexander Herzen
> > you can do is demonstrate to the world that you have mental
> > issues.
>
> Generally speaking, I take issue with blowhards that don't know what
> they are talking about, like the below. IOW,people like you & a
> former full time poser. Whjich is why you will continue to run like
> a scalded dog rather than defend your claims. & no, your consent is
> not required for you were given two choices.
Still, no questions. You can rant and call me names like a child
unable to debate all you want but that's hardly a constructive
dialog. Try asking a question if you want to engage a debate. Making
non-sense claims and expecting people to stoop to your level of
immaturity isn't a game I play.
> On Apr 23, 12:42 am, walksalone <spamstop...@nerdshack.com> wrote:
>
>> > you can do is demonstrate to the world that you have mental
>> > issues.
>>
>> Generally speaking, I take issue with blowhards that don't know
>> what they are talking about, like the below. IOW,people like you
>> & a former full time poser. Whjich is why you will continue to
>> run like a scalded dog rather than defend your claims. & no,
>> your consent is not required for you were given two choices.
>
> Still, no questions. You can rant and call me names like a child
Somewhat remeniscent of the following is our child the little
snowflake.
A Man and a Lion were discussing the relative strength of men
and lions in general. The Man contended that he and his fellows
were stronger than lions by reason of their greater intelligence.
"Come now with me," he cried, "and I will soon prove that I am
right." So he took him into the public gardens and showed him a
statue of Hercules overcoming the Lion and tearing his mouth in
two.
"That is all very well," said the Lion, "but proves nothing,
for it was a man who made the statue."
We can easily represent things as we wish them to be.
But in the meantime, people are starting to notice that you are long
on words, & short on ability to support them.
IOW:
Run little rabbit, but don't forget to claim victory as you outrace
the speed of dark.
walksalone who has finally found a use for cut & paste.
The best minds will tell you that when a man has begotten
a child he is morally bound to tenderly care for it,
protect it from hurt, shield it from disease, clothe it,
feed it, bear with its waywardness, lay no hand upon it
save in kindness and for its own good, and never in any
case inflict upon it a wanton cruelty. God's treatment of
his earthly children, every day and every night, is the
exact opposite of all that, yet those best minds warmly
justify these crimes, condone them, excuse them, and
indignantly refuse to regard them as crimes at all, when
he commits them.
Mark Twain
Walksalone plays no games and has a great deal of history and archeology to
support his views. The vast majority of all scholars agree with him and find
your do-it-yourself approach amusing at best.
There is consensus for the most part among them about what the bible is and
there is nothing devine about it.
And when I say scholar I'm not talking about somebody from a school put
together to teach a particular view of the bible based on what an individual
thinks.
"There are many people who claim to be biblical scholars. I refer to
scholars who have the necessary training in languages, biblical archeology,
and literary and historical skills to work on the problem, and who meet
discuss and debate their ideas and research with other scholars through
scholarly journals, conferences, etc."
Richard Elliott Friedman "Who wrote the bible."
>
> Walksalone plays no games
He also doesn't ask questions but demands answers is if can't speak
the English language. Your endorsement (atheist #1) hardly endears a
response.
> and has a great deal of history and archeology to
> support his views.
His knowledge of the copy and paste buttons on his keyboard doesn’t
impress me.
> The vast majority of all scholars agree with him and find
> your do-it-yourself approach amusing at best.
Wow, the “scholars agree” argument. Are you selling propaganda now?
Hitler use to love that argument.
> There is consensus for the most part among them about what the bible is and
> there is nothing devine about it.
Scriptures are a collection of books written over a period of
thousands of years. We aren’t talking books and your childish friend
hasn’t asked me any questions for discussion, I think you missed that
point also. I’m kind of disappointed with you Mike, I know you’re
smarter than just wasting your breath endorsing a lunatic’s pointless
tirade.
Making dozens of statements and asking, “Care to play?” isn’t a
debate or discussion, it’s a rant.
> And when I say scholar I'm not talking about somebody from a school put
> together to teach a particular view of the bible based on what an individual
> thinks.
So already you admit that you limit your source of scholarly
research. This is the dullest “battle” I’ve ever encountered. A
retard spamming the same post is about as exciting as swatting flies.
I think he’ll need a lot more atheists to come help him out… Where's
Thommadora and Fred when you need them?
Pro 14:32 The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the
righteous hath hope in his death.
Pro 14:33 Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding:
but that which is in the midst of fools is made known.
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> guardian Snow wrote:
>> On Apr 23, 12:42 am, walksalone <spamstop...@nerdshack.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>> you can do is demonstrate to the world that you have mental
>>>> issues.
>>>
>>> Generally speaking, I take issue with blowhards that don't know
>>> what they are talking about, like the below. IOW,people like you
>>> & a former full time poser. Whjich is why you will continue to
>>> run like a scalded dog rather than defend your claims. & no,
>>> your consent is not required for you were given two choices.
>>
>> Still, no questions. You can rant and call me names like a child
>> unable to debate all you want but that's hardly a constructive
>> dialog. Try asking a question if you want to engage a debate.
>> Making non-sense claims and expecting people to stoop to your
>> level of immaturity isn't a game I play.
>
> Walksalone plays no games and has a great deal of history and
> archeology to support his views. The vast majority of all scholars
Well, I did not stop at the first piece of information that I agreed
with, or disagreed with. I will never know it all, but mythology has
taught me much & abated my ignorance in several fields.
One thnin g I did learn, no one website has all the info, & those
without references are genearally worthless.
> agree with him and find your do-it-yourself approach amusing at
> best. There is consensus for the most part among them about what
> the bible is and there is nothing devine about it.
>
> And when I say scholar I'm not talking about somebody from a
> school put together to teach a particular view of the bible based
> on what an individual thinks.
But that is what a scholar is to people like snow. He would run from
those that do not pat him on the head, say good boy Ubu, & give him a
doggie biscuit.
At least that is the approach he indicates he prefers.
> "There are many people who claim to be biblical scholars. I refer
> to scholars who have the necessary training in languages, biblical
> archeology, and literary and historical skills to work on the
> problem, and who meet discuss and debate their ideas and research
> with other scholars through scholarly journals, conferences, etc."
> Richard Elliott Friedman "Who wrote the bible."
Well yes, but for those that like snow, won't/can't/don't understand
all those concepts & big words, could you give them a thumbnail
version?
walksalone who leaves the games to the blowhards, after all, their
strawmen strain their ability tio defeat.
Fear prophets... and those prepared to die for the truth,
for as a rule they make many others die with them, often
before them, at times instead of them.
蓉mberto Eco
> On Apr 23, 3:28 am, "Mike Painter" <mddotpain...@sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Walksalone plays no games
>
> He also doesn't ask questions but demands answers is if can't
Just because you can't understand the obvious does not mean everyone
else is so limited. BTW, I also give answers as you have removed
from several of your photo session responses.
> speak the English language. Your endorsement (atheist #1) hardly
> endears a response.
As ios if can't? I am beginning to suspect that English is neither
your milk tongue, nor is language. BTW, idle curiosity, are you home
schooled. That would explain so much.
>> and has a great deal of history and archeology to
>> support his views.
>
> His knowledge of the copy and paste buttons on his keyboard
> doesn’t impress me.
Nothing that fai9ls to stroke your ego impresses you. But cut &
paste is all you get until you learn to defend your assertions. &
it's more than you deserve. Pity so little is all it takes you to
make a bleeding fool of yourself.
>> The vast majority of all scholars agree with him and find
>> your do-it-yourself approach amusing at best.
>
> Wow, the “scholars agree” argument. Are you selling propaganda
> now? Hitler use to love that argument.
Typical, you act as if you have something to say, & then blow it. A
better question, which scholars say this & what is their standing in
academic circles. But wait, you don't accept academic credentials
for you can't earn them.
>> There is consensus for the most part among them about what the
>> bible is a
> nd
>> there is nothing devine about it.
>
> Scriptures are a collection of books written over a period of
> thousands of years. We aren’t talking books and your childish
The word bible is used as a collection of books. Nothing holy there.
Let's see, there are several bibles that I am aware of, the Avesta,
the Rig Veda, the Q'uran[sp], the chemists bible, the shooters bible.
The word bible is sacred only to you & those that don't know what it
really means, Side note, there is no New Testament for yahweh cut
that off in Duet., 4:2 IIRC. & no, there is no exemption for xians,
or Islam.
Scriptures OTOH, simply mean written word[s], which can be a
collection of anything from Grimm's fairy tales to the Paul Bunyun
saga.
> friend hasn’t asked me any questions for discussion, I think you
> missed that point also. I’m kind of disappointed with you Mike,
You were asked, you just can't realise it, or admit it. Actually, I
was way to polite & that probably has you still confused. Hint, you
are still running as far as the audience is concerned. But then, you
have to, the fact is you can't back your mouth with evidence.
> I know you’re smarter than just wasting your breath endorsing a
> lunatic’s pointless tirade.
You do it all the time when you pretend you have something to say as
you paly droll troll across usenet. But then, he does not engage you
in discussion at you with regularity, so don't worry. other than
you, no one will accuse him of acting like you.
snip wasted space.
Now back to watching you tap dance across the stage as you continue
to lose credability with serious readers.
Your rants are getting more boring. Are you ever going to ask more
then a rhetorical question?
"Now back to watching you tap dance across the stage as you continue
to lose credability with serious readers. "
Pride is not something I worry about.
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direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble
their way through life, never deciding to master anything in
particular.
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Of course not, he presents valid evidence and you provide your own opinion
based on limited knowledge.
>
>> The vast majority of all scholars agree with him and find
>> your do-it-yourself approach amusing at best.
>
> Wow, the "scholars agree" argument. Are you selling propaganda now?
> Hitler use to love that argument.
>
ALL of science as well as msot other disiplines are done by people reaching
agreement.
Granted your method of making things up as you go along is easier, but it
does not make it right.
Would you go to a self taught doctor?
>> There is consensus for the most part among them about what the bible
>> is and there is nothing devine about it.
>
> Scriptures are a collection of books written over a period of
> thousands of years. We aren't talking books and your childish friend
> hasn't asked me any questions for discussion, I think you missed that
> point also. I'm kind of disappointed with you Mike, I know you're
> smarter than just wasting your breath endorsing a lunatic's pointless
> tirade.
"Scriptures are a collection of books" and "We aren't talking books" forces
me to ask what you are talking about.
I have never endorsed your point of view and consider you the most likely
candadate in any thread you appear in.
>
> Making dozens of statements and asking, "Care to play?" isn't a
> debate or discussion, it's a rant.
No, it's a question and you don't answer it.
>
>> And when I say scholar I'm not talking about somebody from a school
>> put together to teach a particular view of the bible based on what
>> an individual thinks.
>
> So already you admit that you limit your source of scholarly
> research. This is the dullest "battle" I've ever encountered. A
> retard spamming the same post is about as exciting as swatting flies.
Exactly the opposite and if you reread what you snipped you will see that's
what I claimed.
Unless you consider what all the major grad schools of divinity in the world
to be limiting.
>
> I think he'll need a lot more atheists to come help him out. Where's
> Thommadora and Fred when you need them?
>
> Pro 14:32 The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the
> righteous hath hope in his death.
> Pro 14:33 Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding:
> but that which is in the midst of fools is made known.
And naturally only you are the righteous based on what you believe.
> "Scriptures are a collection of books" and "We aren't talking books" forces
> me to ask what you are talking about.
> I have never endorsed your point of view and consider you the most likely
> candadate in any thread you appear in.
I'd have to change my beliefs if you did Mike:)) Being that you both
hold similar religious beliefs, your naturally biased against the
scriptures of my Elohim.
> > Making dozens of statements and asking, "Care to play?" isn't a
> > debate or discussion, it's a rant.
>
> No, it's a question and you don't answer it.
To the singular question, the answer has been No from the beginning.
> > Pro 14:32 The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the
> > righteous hath hope in his death.
> > Pro 14:33 Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding:
> > but that which is in the midst of fools is made known.
>
> And naturally only you are the righteous based on what you believe.
And naturally, you are the only one whose beliefs are correct.
Hypocrites, aren't we all.
Mike, I happen to appreciate you. Your friend hates my scriptures but
I see you as at least a reasonable voice of your religion (Humanism).
So... let's see you actually ask a question in the conversation rather
then just try and condescend me. Here's the test... I'll respost my
original thoughts on good and evil and let's see if you can't actually
start a dialog based on your opinion of it.
The adversary surrounds Jerusalem, outnumbered a thousand strong for
every man woman and child; the gentiles are a lawless brood. The
wicked have grown strong in their blasphemy and the people are
scattered and wearied as the rising image of the beast rises as a
standard within the world. Deception runs deep and the armies of goy
do not understand the wickedness of their pagan ways they learned from
their Father’s.
Daniel J. Boorstin once said, “An image is not simply a trademark, a
design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously
crafted personality profile of an individual, institution,
corporation, product or service.”
Deu 27:15 ‘Cursed is the man who makes a carved or moulded image, an
abomination to [Yahweh] יהוה, the work of the hands of the craftsman,
and sets it up in secret.’ And all the people shall answer and say,
‘Amĕn!’
An interesting turn of phrase in scriptures, “The work of the hands of
the CRAFTsman, and sets it up in SECRET.”
Welcome to the image of Babylon. Where once we thought a light was
thought to be shining on the hill, an empire of darkness emerges that
wars against the command of the King of Israel, Yehoshua Ben YAHWEH,
son of the most High and Almighty Creator of Heaven and Earth, Elohim
of Earth.
Rev 18:3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her
fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication
with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the
abundance of her delicacies.
And still, the demons of the pits are about to be unleashed upon the
world. Hatred, enmity and strife will reign as they are given to the
whims of their hearts and babes and handmaidens will prophecy. Yahweh
keeps for himself a tiny remnant scattered amongst the gentiles but
then in order to show his power on earth, that’s just the way he
demonstrates it, thru the David and Goliath stories, where the meek
overcome.
Isa 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and
create evil: I YHWH do all these things.
That deck is completely stacked by Yahweh, creator of all things good
and EVIL. That’s right, Satan and all the demons, created beings
controlled by the Almighty to test the spirit of men. You and I are
being tested and some of those demons are powerful and not to be toyed
with. Life is a test and that’s the great revelation to share with
you, whether you will be faithful with what you have been given, just
like the parables of Yehoshua but in that knowledge, that the outcome
is assured, is HOPE.
The challenges in life that greet you are not a battle of good versus
evil and we do not wrestle with “spirits in high places”. Those
spirits are under authority, granted by Yahweh and the authority
granted to them is limited as illustrated in the book of Job and
Jubilees. All we must do is recognize when spiritual influence occurs
and ask our Abba Yahweh to send them away and learn to obey him so
that worse doesn’t come.
Deu 4:20 “But [YAHWEH] יהוה has taken you and brought you out of the
iron furnace, out of Mitsrayim, to be His people, an inheritance, as
it is today.
You are being molded as a potter forms clay, this is the ultimate
purpose of testing you, proving you, showing you right rulings to fear
and serve YAHWEH alone and none else. Everything has its purpose from
demons to false apostles to make you into something better than we are
today. Still, many strive against our Abba in vanity
Isa 29:15 Woe to those who seek deep to hide their counsel far from
[YAHWEH] יהוה, and their works are in the dark; they say, “Who sees
us?” and, “Who knows us?” 16 How perverse of you! Should the potter be
reckoned as the clay? Should what is made say of its Maker, “He did
not make me”? And what is formed say of Him who formed it, “He did not
understand”?
YAHWEH is the Almighty because he created it ALL, good and evil and
those who think he doesn’t understand are ignorant of this great
truth, that there is no battle between good and evil. Simply put,
evil was created so that we could learn from it what not to do and the
results of our disobedience. All you have to do is open your eyes to
the world around you and anybody can see the results of the evil men
have created by not obeying the scriptures. “You do not murder” and
yet, we justify wars by the same scriptures and the heathen reckons
them evil. Scriptures are not evil, the men who misinterpret them are
and YHWH is sovereign over all things.
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monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to
societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth
century.
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> On Apr 23, 5:02 am, walksalone <spamstop...@nerdshack.com> wrote:
>
> Your rants are getting more boring. Are you ever going to ask more
> then a rhetorical question?
You haven't been asked one, yet. i doubt you would recognise one.
BTW, I note you still engage in the dishonest routine of removing
most pf a posat so it aPPears you are actually responding, instead of
poseing.
> "Now back to watching you tap dance across the stage as you
> continue to lose credability with serious readers. "
>
> Pride is not something I worry about.
That's obvious. But when you hav nothing to be proud about, why
would you. Or do think being a rabbit is something to be proud
about.
Now here is where you can shine, but won't.
walksalone who can discuss th above, pro & con. No one expects snow
flake to do that, for it's not in his nature to do anything but
assume what snows him must snow all others that read his droopy words
of half wittisims,
I learn that ten percent of all the world's species are parasitic
insects.
It is hard to believe. What if you were an inventor, and you made ten
percent of your inventions in such a way that they could only work by
harnessing, disfiguring or totally destroying the other ninety
percent?
-Annie Dillard, author (b. 1945)
> That's obvious. But when you hav nothing to be proud about, why
> would you. Or do think being a rabbit is something to be proud
> about.
If your so clever then why are you spending your life talking to
rabbits and people you consider foolish? I know why I'm posting...
remember, I'm the attention whore and your my "John".
Jer 10:14 Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is
confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and
there is no breath in them.
Jer 10:15 They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of
their visitation they shall perish.
Jer 10:16 The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former
of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: YHWH of hosts
is his name.
Jer 10:17 Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the
fortress.
Jer 10:18 For thus saith YHWH, Behold, I will sling out the
inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that
they may find it so.
Jer 10:19 Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said,
Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.
> On Apr 23, 8:06 am, "Mike Painter" <mddotpain...@sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
>
>> "Scriptures are a collection of books" and "We aren't talking
>> books" forc
> es
>> me to ask what you are talking about.
>> I have never endorsed your point of view and consider you the
>> most likely candadate in any thread you appear in.
>
> I'd have to change my beliefs if you did Mike:)) Being that you
> both hold similar religious beliefs, your naturally biased against
> the scriptures of my Elohim.
Erm, no. But then, you have no scriptures of the elohim, aka divine
council. Now why you dont lnow that is obvious. You beliefve what
others have told you, without question. & disregard the fact that
words ending in -im in Hebrew ae plural. or else you like to pretend
it is th Royal we, from a time Judea had no idea of that concept.
BTW, for those that can research things, elohim is also used to refer
to the gods of Egypt
>> > Making dozens of statements and asking, "Care to play?" isn't
>> > a debate or discussion, it's a rant.
>>
>> No, it's a question and you don't answer it.
>
> To the singular question, the answer has been No from the
> beginning.
IOW, you can't defend your claims. Well, no shock the4re. Th
ignorant rarely can,
>> > Pro 14:32 The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the
>> > righteous hath hope in his death.
>> > Pro 14:33 Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath
>> > understanding: but that which is in the midst of fools is made
>> > known.
>>
>> And naturally only you are the righteous based on what you
>> believe.
>
> And naturally, you are the only one whose beliefs are correct.
> Hypocrites, aren't we all.
Unlike you, I've never seen him pretend that is the case. In all
your droll trolls, that is exactly how you act.
> Mike, I happen to appreciate you. Your friend hates my scriptures
> but I see you as at least a reasonable voice of your religion
Erm, no. Neiher you nor the Hebrew Bible, or the Greek Testaments
are worth the energy it takes to hate, That can be safely left to
you.
> (Humanism). So... let's see you actually ask a question in the
> conversation rather then just try and condescend me. Here's the
> test... I'll respost my original thoughts on good and evil and
> let's see if you can't actually start a dialog based on your
> opinion of it.
Why bother, if you see no chance of ego strokinhg for you, you will
attempt t divert th audiences attention aeway from your failure.
BTW, here it is.
snip appeal to unfounded authority.
walkslaone who wonders how long the I'm being reasonable & a nice guy
act will lasts no avoiding the fact that good & evil are not entities
but mental constructs.
"Now, it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear
a Christian, presumably giving the
meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics; and we
should take all means to
prevent such an embarrassing situation, in which people show up vast
ignorance in a Christian and
laugh
it to scorn." -- Augustine, The Literal Meaning of Genesis
> > (Humanism). So... let's see you actually ask a question in the
> > conversation rather then just try and condescend me. Here's the
> > test... I'll respost my original thoughts on good and evil and
> > let's see if you can't actually start a dialog based on your
> > opinion of it.
>
> Why bother, if you see no chance of ego strokinhg for you, you will
> attempt t divert th audiences attention aeway from your failure.
Wow, what a cool trick. You even speak for Mike Painter. Do you
speak for all your kind? Question: If I know that your going to
continue to post in my threads until I "play" with you, why would I
ever bother since I enjoy it?
Thanks for keeping my post at the top of the threads, keep up the good
work.
2Pe 2:18 For speaking arrogant nonsense, they entice – through the
lusts of the flesh, through indecencies – the ones who have indeed
escaped from those living in delusion,
2Pe 2:19 promising them freedom, though themselves being slaves of
corruption – for one is a slave to whatever overcomes him.
2Pe 2:20 For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world
through the knowledge of the Master and Saviour יהושע Messiah, they
are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for
them than the first.
2Pe 2:21 For it would have been better for them not to have known the
way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the set-apart
command1 delivered unto them. Footnote: 1The singular “command” often
means “commands” – see 1 Tim. 6:14, Dt. 17:20, Ps. 19:8.
2Pe 2:22 For them the proverb has proved true, “A dog returns to his
own vomit,” and, “A washed sow returns to her rolling in the mud.”
> YAHWEH is the Almighty because he created it ALL, good and evil and
> those who think he doesn't understand are ignorant of this great
> truth, that there is no battle between good and evil. Simply put,
> evil was created so that we could learn from it what not to do and the
> results of our disobedience. All you have to do is open your eyes to
> the world around you and anybody can see the results of the evil men
> have created by not obeying the scriptures. "You do not murder" and
> yet, we justify wars by the same scriptures and the heathen reckons
> them evil. Scriptures are not evil, the men who misinterpret them are
> and YHWH is sovereign over all things.
>
Good and evil have always been relative terms and you are no different from
any of the others who claim absolute knowledge and do so while ignoring what
you don't like.
You probably believe jails are a good idea and that killing a raped woman
because she did not cry out is bad.
Yet your scriptures have no jails. For most offenses you were killed and in
the case of women you were killed even if you were the victim.
If it was not death, then you either paid the person back or became a slave.
Barbaric laws for a barbaric time and few people think they are "good"
today.
You only suggest following the ones you like and ignore the rest.
Typical of all christianity. Until christians found out you could not do
business with money without interest, it was condemned.
If you followed the laws you say are good you would go to jail.
See, we do have something in common then, neither do I.
> You seem to have nothing moe than a belief in a book of stories.
Fairly negative since you don't even know my belief.
> <snip.>
> > Mike, I happen to appreciate you. Your friend hates my scriptures but
> > I see you as at least a reasonable voice of your religion (Humanism).
> > So... let's see you actually ask a question in the conversation rather
> > then just try and condescend me. Here's the test... I'll respost my
> > original thoughts on good and evil and let's see if you can't actually
> > start a dialog based on your opinion of it.
>
> <snip>
>
> > YAHWEH is the Almighty because he created it ALL, good and evil and
> > those who think he doesn't understand are ignorant of this great
> > truth, that there is no battle between good and evil. Simply put,
> > evil was created so that we could learn from it what not to do and the
> > results of our disobedience. All you have to do is open your eyes to
> > the world around you and anybody can see the results of the evil men
> > have created by not obeying the scriptures. "You do not murder" and
> > yet, we justify wars by the same scriptures and the heathen reckons
> > them evil. Scriptures are not evil, the men who misinterpret them are
> > and YHWH is sovereign over all things.
>
> Good and evil have always been relative terms and you are no different from
> any of the others who claim absolute knowledge and do so while ignoring what
> you don't like.
I haven't ignored anything and thats possibly your misconception Mike
based on your limited knowledge of what I speak of. I do happen to
agree with you in that Good and evil are relative or in other words
based on the perceptions of individuals.
> You probably believe jails are a good idea and that killing a raped woman
> because she did not cry out is bad.
Jails are a good idea for removing people that are dangerous to
society but haven't earned death and yes, they are scriptural.
Gen 42:17 And he put them all together in prison for three days.
Your second notion is really very silly and is probably based in
faulty translation of scriptures that I don't subscribe to.. I'm a
Hebrew Puritan, I don't subscribe the KJV.
(snip)
Well, I can see why you defend your friend... another rant. I guess
your ideas of having a dialoge include ranting and raving on a topic,
claiming that you understand something and never asking any questions
or seeking out another persons point of view before you lay out
accusations.
You show yourself to be no different then anybody else, just another
person ignorantly ranting.
1Ki 22:27 and say, ‘Thus said the sovereign, “Put this one in prison,
and feed him with bread of affliction and water of affliction until I
come in peace.” ’ ”
Many more examples are written of.. that was just two. I'm very
disappointed with you Mike, I thought you would do better then this.
Oh well, take care...
1Pe 3:19 in which also He went and proclaimed unto the spirits in
prison,
Bless his name
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> On Apr 23, 8:44 am, walksalone <spamstop...@nerdshack.com> wrote:
>
>> That's obvious. But when you hav nothing to be proud about, why
>> would you. Or do think being a rabbit is something to be proud
>> about.
> If your so clever then why are you spending your life talking to
I see that once again, you have a problem with reality. I have never
implied or pretended to be clever
> rabbits and people you consider foolish? I know why I'm
And again, I don't talk to you, because, I can't. We don't speak the
same language. We do not have the same misconceptions about your
mythology. But by using your post as a vehicle, I can show those who
are unaware of people like you, or you are wrong as well as,
ethically bankrupt. As far as backing your word/claims goes.
> posting... remember, I'm the attention whore and your my "John".
I can't argue to get you being an attention whore, the number of
posts that you have to post to in order to receive an ego strokes in
the case that this is probably extremely true in your case. But as
to being your John, no. I have higher standards, and I don't do one
night stands. Not to mention, who would want to pay for the
attention of someone like you. Now onto the subject if you keep
doing your level best to pretend it does not exist, your failure to
support a claim made by yourself in front of gosh and everybody.
walksalone, who does not mind exposing those that would try to
convince others that a lie is the truth, even if they do believe the
lie themselves. After all, is it not written that all a lie has to
do to become the truth is fail to be exposed. And if it is not
written, it certainly should be.
Somehow, the following quote seems so appropriate in the case of
snow.
> On Apr 23, 8:53 am, walksalone <spamstop...@nerdshack.com> wrote:
>
>> > (Humanism). So... let's see you actually ask a question in the
>> > conversation rather then just try and condescend me. Here's
>> > the test... I'll respost my original thoughts on good and
>> > evil and let's see if you can't actually start a dialog based
>> > on your opinion of it.
>>
>> Why bother, if you see no chance of ego strokinhg for you, you
>> will attempt t divert th audiences attention aeway from your
>> failure.
>
> Wow, what a cool trick. You even speak for Mike Painter. Do you
Once again, your inability to comprehend the English language is used
in various parts of the world fails you. No not directly addressed
to Mr. painter, the question was for him in there and the answer as
to why he should bother at all, was contained therein.
> speak for all your kind? Question: If I know that your going to
I do not need to speak for anyone else, they are quite capable of
doing so on their own and know more about how I feel about something
that I do. Unlike you, I have no need for power of any variety over
anyone else. Unlike you, I do not assume I and the final authority
on any subject, to include the mythology you are so abjectly ignorant
in. And even though you do not understand this, you, by posting your
nonsense, and continuous evasion of backing up your word, permit the
world to see you as you really are. As a little boy said when he
accidentally saw his grandmother in the bathroom without all her
artificial support, it's not a pretty sight. Of course, you think
ER, cutting a striking figure as you do your Peacock strut across the
stage of the Usenet. Maybe you would if you remembered to put on the
Peacock costume instead of the Pea hen costume, the one that has been
through several malls. But no feathers replaced. Still, he slows
your ego, and that's the important part for you. Easily verified by
those who have watched you examine your claims, as well as your
reactions towards those that do not agree with you and those that do.
> continue to post in my threads until I "play" with you, why would
> I ever bother since I enjoy it?
I suspect the audience, as well as myself, will take that as a
euphemism for playing with yourself. Gosh certainly knows, I
wouldn't anybody like you close enough to play with me.
> Thanks for keeping my post at the top of the threads, keep up the
> good work.
You forgetting, by keeping your post, supposedly at the top of the
threads, I'm keeping your ignorance exposed to the world. This does
not bother me, because even fools need a King of fools. Or so some
say.
At any rate, I spent enough time exposing your duplicity and
hypocrisy, the hypocrisy of pretending others act like you do and
fail to support their word. But just so you don't forget what these
are all about, here it is again.
walksalone who has no doubt continuing this series of conversations
with snowflake will verify beyond reasonable doubt, that snow has
taken too much of his own namesake, or else, missing the opportunity
due to financial reasons, did it the old-fashioned way. He got
religion.
> On Apr 23, 2:25 pm, "Mike Painter" <mddotpain...@sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
>> guardian Snow wrote:
>> > On Apr 23, 8:06 am, "Mike Painter" <mddotpain...@sbcglobal.net>
>> > wrote:
Piggybacking, apologies Mike.
And once again, still manages to divert attention from his inability
to support his own claims as he pretends that the other person, in
this case, Mike, hasn't a clue. Those wanting to know how this was
done refer to the message ID from guardian Snow above.
A business for snow, I told you, what ever I encountered you in a
newsgroup that I monitor, you'd be seeing this response. In response
of you really have no answer to, even though he pretend that you can
hand waved it away with impunity. Yet you never realize, the very
people you are trying to impress. You are failing to impress
because, they realize, you are all talk and no substance when it
comes to knowing about your mythology. How do they know this, you
cannot support your claims.
Claims such as this one.
walksalone, who would be amused at the continued avoidance of
discussion by snow. If it wasn't so typical of the xians that are
blowhards and of little faith. A less knowledge about your
mythology, it would be funny. As it is, it's simply pathetic. But
it's a Catch-22 for decent xians, how do you know, his nose in his
mess without being accused of being less than a good xian. I
realize, that all mythologies contain contradictions, but perchance
none so many as the revealed gods of the deserts. Those of
Canaanite, and southern Arabic origin.
Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his
abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the
largest. Our Judgment’s of others prevent us from seeing the good that
lies beyond appearances. Love is the ability and willingness to allow
those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without
any insistence that they satisfy you.
“Let it go.” It's not important and when you have nothing to defend,
the accuser has nothing to attack. The way of the peaceful warrior is
to defend and survive, not to attack. Ignore the insulting tongue;
duck the provoking blow, run from the assault of the strong. Are
these the actions of a coward? The wild boar runs from the tiger.
Knowing that each are well armed naturally with deadly strength and
may kill the other, by running he saves his own life, and that of the
tiger. This is not cowardice, it is the love of life. He who attacks
must vanquish. He who defends must merely survive.
Mat 10:16 “See, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves.
Therefore be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.
The "Peaceful Warrior" is prepared to promote the truth of YAHWEH
Elohim.
1Pe 3:15 But set apart YAHWEH Elohim in your hearts, and always be
ready to give an answer to everyone asking you a reason concerning the
expectation that is in you, with meekness and fear, 16 having a good
conscience, so that when they speak against you as doers of evil,
those who falsely accuse your good behaviour in Messiah, shall be
ashamed.
I first look inside and judge what we find inside and then defend the
truth so that others know from where we speak to esteem our Father in
heaven.
1Pe 4:11 If anyone speaks, let it be as the Words of Elohim. If anyone
serves, let it be as with the strength which Elohim provides, so that
Elohim might be praised in it all through YEHOSHUA Messiah, to whom
belong the esteem and the rule forever and ever. Amĕn.
A warrior does not give up what he loves; he finds the love in what he
does. Because we know the truth we do not worry about false
allegations and so when attacked:
Mat 5:38 “You heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth
for a tooth,’ 39 but I say to you, do not resist the wicked. But
whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also. 40
“And he who wishes to sue you and take away your inner garment, let
him have your outer garment as well.
Because we know they speak in ignorance we:
Mat 5:44 “But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those cursing
you, do good to those hating you, and pray for those insulting you and
persecuting you,
When you master these teachings, you begin to know the way of the
peaceful warrior who is:
Luk 6:36 “Therefore be compassionate, as your Father also is
compassionate. 37 “And do not judge, and you shall not be judged at
all. Condemn not, and you shall not be condemned at all. Forgive, and
you shall be forgiven. 38 “Give, and it shall be given to you. A good
measure, pressed down and shaken together and running over shall be
put into your lap. For with the same measure with which you measure,
it shall be measured back to you.”
Trespass or sin is our debt to be repaid.
Mar 11:26 “But if you do not forgive, neither shall your Father in the
heavens forgive your trespasses.”
To clear our debt, we first must forgive another dept without
expecting return. What I find troubling over all is that nobody wants
to actually talk about the doctrine of Christ. All the vast majority
of people want to do is argue over pettiness and attack each other.
As to forgiveness, It goes deeper and nobody really seems to really
practice it... A tragic situation is going all around where people
claim to be Christians and never follow his teachings. The other
mistake I see are people remaking the Messiah into an image that
suites the need of the person posting the message. They refashion and
create a new god that isn't in the scriptures.
Mat 10:37 “He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of
Me, and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.
38 “And he who does not take up his stake and follow after Me is not
worthy of Me.
People are pretending to be Christian and not following him.
“Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.”
Henry Ford
Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a
soul. Everything has a purpose, even this, and it's up to you to find
it.
Luk 6:21 “Blessed are you who hunger now, because you shall be
satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, because you shall laugh. 22
“Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall cut you
off, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as wicked, for the
sake of the Son of Aḏam. 23 “Rejoice in that day and leap for joy,
for look, your reward is great in the heaven, for that is how their
fathers treated the prophets.
You are blessed by being attacked because you have received a chance
to repay large debts. By forgiving those that attack you and placing
your faith in Elohim, you realize that you have no need to defend
yourself.
Isa 54:17 “No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every
tongue which rises against you in judgment you shall prove wrong. This
is the inheritance of the servants of [Yahweh] יהוה, and their
righteousness from Me,” declares [Yahweh] יהוה.
A lot of people paint a dark. bleak picture of the future using the
bible. I don't agree with a lot of people’s interpretation of the
future but... It seems to me that people in general are painting that
bleak image and being self-fulfilling.
I often wonder why so many people must attack other people’s
intelligence and opinions. Is it true that our self-esteem is so low
that we can't help but log onto the Internet just to find somebody
that we don't agree with and attack them? Why is it so hard to
respectfully disagree with each other?
You have our own concept of what I am speaking about and many have
failed to understand. Our thoughts were scattered and your mode is
attack and so you set out to do battle with somebody that has no
desire to resist you.
Clearly others have no desire for my beliefs and so they thought this
was a fight and they came with guns blazing to empty fields and didn't
see the sign that said “the war is over” for me. I have Victory and
my peace and you are entitled to try and make it yours by means of
your aggression and your war making.
Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination
of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.
Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see
nothing in war but destruction and annihilation. War... is harmful,
not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.
Mat 5:39 but I say to you, do not resist the wicked. But whoever slaps
you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also.
Where would you like me to go? Do you believe that anybody that
disagrees with you is setting themselves up for your attack? You must
realize the aggressors here will attack you for a belief.
Knowing my victory isn't unloving when you’re invited to join. You
may choose to pretend you’re a victim while you go around attacking.
The truth is you’re a result of your own aggression. The highest form
of ignorance is when you reject something, when you don't know
anything about that belief.
Why would you attack people, do you even know? People speak as if they
the casualty. They can still pretend to be a victim being trampled
on, the hanged man spending time accusing people that aren't involved.
So ultimately we hate the fact that you know you’re committing sin and
in rebellion condemn all those who try and help. You condemn them
because you feel they condemned you but the fact is, I am not your
judge and I have no desire to judge you. You alone have judged
yourself and created your own negative apathy.
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
Your own self loathing becomes quickly apparent as you blame all those
trying to teach the truth. These people have painted a self fulfilled
dark future and not ours and that is what they resent.
Why do you expect to receive love when you wrongly accuse others? The
truth is we don't want it, even when it's offered and we demonstrate
that by accusing innocent people and pretending righteousness. I don’t
call you a fool but it's foolish to reject something you don't or
can’t understand. A person who won't read has no advantage over one
who can't read.
“Adversity is the first path to truth.”
Lord Byron
So then you are attacking and won't admit you’re a hypocrite and hide
behind words like "blasphemy" and yet, I avoid liable and we still
want to challenge because, it represents all that we fear.
So cry foul, whine and moan about it you think I don't care about
people. I tell you the truth and you choose your own fate. Don't
think I'm going to follow you into the pits of your own dark soul
friend; I'm not obligated or instructed by my scriptures to be so
foolish.
1Pe 2:11 Beloved ones, I appeal to you as sojourners and pilgrims, to
abstain from fleshly lusts which battle against the life, 12 having
your behaviour among the gentiles good so that when they speak against
you as evil-doers, let them, by observing your good works, esteem
Elohim in a day of visitation.
So if I tell you how to save your life, how does that not demonstrate
love? It is smarter to quote the truth. We ask question when we want
to challenge another person’s belief and seek a response. Being
worried about a lie shows only a lack of faith in the truth.
Joh 8:31 So [Yehoshua] יהושע said to those Yehuḏim who believed Him,
“If you stay in My Word, you are truly My taught ones, 32 and you
shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
It is for the reason to be free that we teach only the way of the
peaceful warrior, to stay in the word of truth. There is no way to
prosperity, prosperity is the way.
Mat 28:18 And יהושע came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority
has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 “Therefore, go and
make taught ones of all the nations, immersing them in the Name of the
Father and of the Son and of the Set- apart Spirit, 20 teaching them
to guard all that I have commanded you. And see, I am with you always,
until the end of the age.” Amĕn.
The fact that we are willing to say, ''I do not understand, and it is
fine,'' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit. Tell the
truth and people will see what a lie is and the light will shine for
all to see.
Mat 4:16 the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, and upon
those who sat in the land and shadow of death, light arose to them.”1
Footnote: 1Isa. 9:1-2. 17 From that time [Yehoshua] יהושע began to
proclaim and to say, “Repent, for the reign of the heavens has drawn
near.”
The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination. The ones
who are hardest to love are usually the ones who need it the most. A
warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's
about absolute vulnerability.
Mat 5:44 “But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those cursing
you, do good to those hating you, and pray for those insulting you and
persecuting you, 45 so that you become sons of your Father in the
heavens. Because He makes His sun rise on the wicked and on the good,
and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.1 Footnote:
1Lk. 6:35, Acts 14:16-17.
There's no greater purpose than service to others. Everyone wants to
tell you what to do and what's good for you. They don't want you to
find your own answers; they want you to believe theirs. Let me guess,
and you want me to believe yours. No, I want you to stop gathering
information from the outside and start gathering it from the inside.
People are not their thoughts, they think they are, and it brings them
all kinds of sadness.
I took for granted what I could do. I was sloppy with my life; I'm
scared but I got rid of all the old stuff and it was the right thing
to do. The death of my old life isn't sad. The sad thing is: most
people don't live at all.
The Peaceful Warrior is about a journey inside and not that of
external revelations. Everything I just spoke about speaks to our
life and the spiritual journey of critical self analysis. One of the
primary messages of the Peaceful Warrior is that, "there are no
ordinary moments" and "there is never, 'nothing going on'".
It speaks to the appreciation of service and everyday task and opening
up your eyes to life around you by focusing on the here and now,
inside you. The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not
exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in
the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do. Stop
acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your
last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed. If you
do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Shalom,
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'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not
forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the
heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the
eye.
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Good. Stop preaching your bible crap and provide evidnece for any of your
belief system.
I doubt you even know what it is you claim you don't believe and I'll bet
that this will be verified as I read on.
>
>> You seem to have nothing moe than a belief in a book of stories.
>
> Fairly negative since you don't even know my belief.
>
<snip>
>> Good and evil have always been relative terms and you are no
>> different from any of the others who claim absolute knowledge and do
>> so while ignoring what you don't like.
>
> I haven't ignored anything and thats possibly your misconception Mike
> based on your limited knowledge of what I speak of. I do happen to
> agree with you in that Good and evil are relative or in other words
> based on the perceptions of individuals.
>
>> You probably believe jails are a good idea and that killing a raped
>> woman because she did not cry out is bad.
>
> Jails are a good idea for removing people that are dangerous to
> society but haven't earned death and yes, they are scriptural.
>
> Gen 42:17 And he put them all together in prison for three days.
>
> Your second notion is really very silly and is probably based in
> faulty translation of scriptures that I don't subscribe to.. I'm a
> Hebrew Puritan, I don't subscribe the KJV.
Do you fluently read the Hebrew in the dialect and with the understanding
that is known about the history and culture of the time?
What is the proper translation of Gen 1:1? Is creation from nothing a part
of it?
>
> (snip)
> Well, I can see why you defend your friend... another rant. I guess
> your ideas of having a dialoge include ranting and raving on a topic,
> claiming that you understand something and never asking any questions
> or seeking out another persons point of view before you lay out
> accusations.
>
> You show yourself to be no different then anybody else, just another
> person ignorantly ranting.
>
> 1Ki 22:27 and say, 'Thus said the sovereign, "Put this one in prison,
> and feed him with bread of affliction and water of affliction until I
> come in peace." ' "
>
> Many more examples are written of.. that was just two. I'm very
> disappointed with you Mike, I thought you would do better then this.
> Oh well, take care...
>
> 1Pe 3:19 in which also He went and proclaimed unto the spirits in
> prison,
>
My prediction was valid.
You claim one thing and preach something else.
> > See, we do have something in common then, neither do I.
>
> Good. Stop preaching your bible crap and provide evidnece for any of your
> belief system.
> I doubt you even know what it is you claim you don't believe and I'll bet
> that this will be verified as I read on.
Be careful what you ask for, you'll get it. Time will provide you
with your answers.
> Do you fluently read the Hebrew in the dialect and with the understanding
> that is known about the history and culture of the time?
> What is the proper translation of Gen 1:1? Is creation from nothing a part
> of it?
I would not say fluent but I'm getting much better everyday. I was not
alive and do not even begin to say I know the people of that time, I
only know the literature.
Gen 1:1 beginning Elohim creates (ayth (denotes ownership)) heavens,
land
Genesis 1:1 only states a beginning.
>
> I call myself a Peaceful Warrior... because the battles we fight
> are on the inside.
For the audience, for this snow can not accept about himself.
You are not a warrior, & warriors are not peaceful when they have
work to do. You pretend you have work to do, & wase the time &
should they read your grandiose pretensions to knowledge you
obviously lack, effort of people that have lives to live & things to
do.
But then, attention whores don't care about others.
> Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of
> his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is
Then you must, by your own posturing, lead a wasted life.
> the largest. Our Judgment’s of others prevent us from seeing the
> good that lies beyond appearances. Love is the ability and
> willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they
> choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy
> you.
Snip a rather large amount of mental masturbation & self ego
stroking.
Now to the only part of this that is important to snow, even though
he pretends it's not. After all, he knows that his word has no
value. He doesn't realise it does not have to remain that way.
walksalone who has no doubt that this message will remain basically
unchanged for the duration, just like that yellow stripe down snows
back.
But that's allright, baby jesus™ wuvs him. What others think is less
favorable.
Top Ten Signs You're a Fundamentalist Christian
10 - You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed
by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the
existence of yours.
9 - You feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists say that
people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with
the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt.
8 - You laugh at polytheists, but you have no problem believing in a
Triune God.
7 - Your face turns purple when you hear of the "atrocities"
attributed to Allah, but you don't even flinch when hearing about how
God/Jehovah slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in "Exodus" and
ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in "Joshua" including
women, children, and trees!
6 - You laugh at Hindu beliefs that deify humans, and Greek claims
about gods sleeping with women, but you have no problem believing
that the Holy Spirit impregnated Mary, who then gave birth to a man-
god who got killed, came back to life and then ascended into the sky.
5 - You are willing to spend your life looking for little loopholes
in the scientifically established age of Earth (few billion years),
but you find nothing wrong with believing dates recorded by Bronze
Age tribesmen sitting in their tents and guessing that Earth is a few
generations old.
4 - You believe that the entire population of this planet with the
exception of those who share your beliefs -- though excluding those
in all rival sects - will spend Eternity in an infinite Hell of
Suffering. And yet consider your religion the most "tolerant" and
"loving."
3 - While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have
failed to convince you otherwise, some idiot rolling around on the
floor speaking in "tongues" may be all the evidence you need to
"prove" Christianity.
2 - You define 0.01% as a "high success rate" when it comes to
answered prayers. You consider that to be evidence that prayer works.
And you think that the remaining 99.99% FAILURE was simply the will
of God.
1 - You actually know a lot less than many atheists and agnostics do
about the Bible, Christianity, and church history - but still call
yourself a Christian.
> On Apr 24, 9:29 am, "Mike Painter" <mddotpain...@sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
>
>> > See, we do have something in common then, neither do I.
>>
>> Good. Stop preaching your bible crap and provide evidnece for any
>> of your belief system.
>> I doubt you even know what it is you claim you don't believe and
>> I'll bet that this will be verified as I read on.
>
> Be careful what you ask for, you'll get it. Time will provide you
> with your answers.
So will death, in the meantime your pet gods are exactly the same as
non-existent gods. The only concept they have commonality with.
snip more of snows I know more than you act. An act he has yet to
convince many of.
But here is something you have in common with other bleaters, the
inability to back up your pretend knowledge about concepts that are
to complicated for you.
walkslaone who needs a break from setting up computers. But couldn't
it be something intersting & mentaly stimulating rather than the same
old mind numbing pabuulum for bleaters for a change. From snow, that
is asking to much. One does not ask an ass to become a Kentuky Derby
winner, unless one is like snow. Easily self deceived.
"The easy confidence with which I know another
man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect
that my own is also" - Mark Twain
As usual you refuse to answer a simple question.
Does Gen 1:1 include CREATION FROM NOTHING?
The text is pretty clear that all creation proceeded from god.
TCross
It's business. FSM's and all.
> >>>> What is the proper translation of Gen 1:1? Is creation from nothing
> >>>> a part of it?
>
> >>> I would not say fluent but I'm getting much better everyday. I was
> >>> not alive and do not even begin to say I know the people of that
> >>> time, I only know the literature.
>
> >> Which is why real scholars take years to lean enough to try and
> >> understand the meanings as they applied then.
>
> >>> Gen 1:1 beginning Elohim creates (ayth (denotes ownership)) heavens,
> >>> land
>
> >>> Genesis 1:1 only states a beginning.
>
> >> As usual you refuse to answer a simple question.
>
> >> Does Gen 1:1 include CREATION FROM NOTHING?
>
> > The text is pretty clear that all creation proceeded from god.
>
< Not according to those that can read it in something other than
English.
> A god or gods found a formless earth and created from that. Most creation
> stories have this same format.
Your question was, " What is the proper translation of Gen 1:1?"
Genesis clearly reads that Elohim created land. It later says this
land was "formless" which would make sense that he created it and then
formed it.
> On Apr 25, 2:04�pm, "Mike Painter" <mddotpain...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
snip
Through but not to snow. Wouldn't want to break thjat vacuum seal, now
would I. No telling what nasty's would crawl out like Pandora's box.
>> > The text is pretty clear that all creation proceeded from god.
>>
> < Not according to those that can read it in something other than
> English.
>> A god or gods found a formless earth and created from that. Most
>> creation stories have this same format.
>
> Your question was, " What is the proper translation of Gen 1:1?"
> Genesis clearly reads that Elohim created land. It later says this
> land was "formless" which would make sense that he created it and then
> formed it.
No, it does not. The land was encapsulated in water, which does not exist
at 0deg. Kelvin, AKA Absolute zero.
From the JPS 1912 translation.
1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
1:2 Now the earth was unformed and void, and darkness was upon the face of
the earth.
Taken in context, a god, singular & not plural as you, & the elites that
wrote the myth for their benefit, like to pretend, created the heavens &
the earth, ex nilho.
Followed by the raw material was already in place.
This means, that like the god in question, the earth & its waters are &
were eternal. A thing known not to be so.
& yes, most middle eastrern myths use that trope. From anu & tiamat until
the creation of the Jewish myth with stops in between, creation of the
earth from a watery source, be it the sea of nun or the primordial waters,
is very common.
But now, on to another subject, one snow can avoid supporting as usual.
But he did make the claim.
walkslaone whoi has no doubt snow can not & will not tery & answer in order
to support his claims. After all, he's another one of those iusenmet xians
that expects compliance & not having anyone point out that his claims are
exactly the same as the Emporors New Clothes. Self deception & vanity go
hand in hand.
Not according to those who can read the Hebrew. Even someone just learning
to read the language finds this to be true. The concept of creation from
nothing came much later.
"The correct translation by Hebrew scholars of the JPS, from the traditional
Hebrew text, which makes much more sense, is:
"When God [ELOHIM] began to create heaven and earth -- the earth being
unformed and void, with darkness over the surface of the deep and a wind
from God [ELOHIM] sweeping over the water -- God [ELOHIM] said, 'Let there
be light'; and there was light."
The story tells us that the ELOHIM found an "unformed and void",
water-covered earth, out of which was formed the whole universe, referred to
as "heaven and earth". How could this be? Only by assuming, as the story
does, that the Sun, Moon and all the stars are tiny lights affixed to the
solid sky dome which is also holding back the "waters above".
The story reflects the primitive cosmography known and held by the ancient
authors."
So you read Hebrew and hate Christians? What a surprise. Those two
go together kind of like peanut butter n' jelly.
TCross
Hi walksalone, You illustrate that you are in fact nothing but a
control freak with no control and no self control and ultimately this
is the fact that bothers you. You have no understanding of scriptures
but then, I don't really faulty you considering that your attempting
to say that the mistranslated Jewish Publication Society scriptures
are correct when in fact, they read no different then the KJV.
> This means, that like the god in question, the earth & its waters are &
> were eternal. A thing known not to be so.
Your reading comprehension is as bad is your lack of faith. What part
of CREATED didn't you understand?
> & yes, most middle eastrern myths use that trope. From anu & tiamat until
We are not talking about your understanding of pagan religions, which
from your posting on alt.atheism is very extensive but clearly doesn't
extend to Hebrew scriptures.
> But now, on to another subject, one snow can avoid supporting as usual.
> But he did make the claim.
You forget, it's my right not to answer you and I exercise that
right. According to scriptures there are only two Questions people of
faith are required to answer.
So.. you clearly have shown everybody that you have mental issues
after stalking a half dozen threads for however long because you
didn't like my post. Your failure to recognize the fact that people
have the right not to allow your ignorance to intimidate them is
totally missed by you.
We should probably take this to alt.atheism because you are going to
need a lot more ignorant atheist such as yourself if you want to
contend with me boy.
So, while you go around and attempt to decry my Abba, I can tell you
that he is going to demonstrate his power in your life and you are not
going to like the results. I do not wish evil to befall you but the
fact remains that it is my Father's will that matters.
Psa 9:13 Show favour to me, O יהוה! See my affliction by those who
hate me, You who lift me up from the gates of death,
Psa 9:14 So that I declare all Your praise In the gates of the
daughter of Tsiyon. I rejoice in Your deliverance.
Psa 9:15 The gentiles have sunk down in the pit which they made; In
the net which they hid, their own foot is caught.
Psa 9:16 יהוה has made Himself known, He has done right-ruling; The
wrong is snared in the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.
Psa 9:17 The wrong return to the grave, All the gentiles that forget
Elohim.
Don't forget.. I still haven't answered you and I'm still looking
forward to dragging you around to flout your insanity before
everybody. It seems that Andrew Chung isn't the only person with
control issues and it's good to that you share a lot in common with
him.
You make your atheist a proud bunch by showing what you lack and by
answering up for other people because they apparently can't answer for
themselves in your book.
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> > Your question was, " What is the proper translation of Gen 1:1?"
> > Genesis clearly reads that Elohim created land. It later says this
> > land was "formless" which would make sense that he created it and then
> > formed it.
>
> Not according to those who can read the Hebrew. Even someone just learning
> to read the language finds this to be true. The concept of creation from
> nothing came much later.
>
> "The correct translation by Hebrew scholars of the JPS, from the traditional
> Hebrew text, which makes much more sense, is:
> "When God [ELOHIM] began to create heaven and earth -- the earth being
> unformed and void, with darkness over the surface of the deep and a wind
> from God [ELOHIM] sweeping over the water -- God [ELOHIM] said, 'Let there
> be light'; and there was light."
First off, it's easy to demonstrate that you are completely wrong
along side the JPS that you used. Notice that you even had to correct
the mistranslations in this version?
So... what you say, "makes more sense" looses all merit. None the
less, what part of create earth don't you understand? It seems you
suffer from the same mental issues as your friend and also lack of
basic reading comprehension even in English.
What's interesting is that I have to ask why you even bothered to ask
a question when you already were going to give an answer that you had
prepared.
The only thing you demonstrate to me is that it is worthless to
discuss issues with the ilks of you and your mentally challenged
friend who speaks in the third person about himself...
Your argument holds no merit and is easily dismissed because I do read
Hebrew even if only on a very basic level since I am still learning.
You and your friend illustrate issues over control and your lack of
it. Here I am posting on religious sites, a religious message and
because you don't like that message, you feign an argument asking
questions you have no desire for... You have again proved me correct
Mike Painter, keep it up. Ultimately you have no control and YHWH
will prove himself, I don't need to ...
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> On Apr 30, 8:07 pm, walksalone <spamstop...@nerdshack.com> wrote:
>> guardian Snow <snowpheo...@eck.net.au> wrote
>> innews:d703173b-f133-4b3c-ad
> d2-013c...@t36g2000prt.googlegroups.com:
>>
>> > On Apr 25, 2:04 pm, "Mike Painter" <mddotpain...@sbcglobal.net> wr
> ote:
snip
Through but not to snow. The conversation is likely to get too
complicated for him to follow.
Here we get to watch Snow continued to evade, supporting his claims by
invoking pretensions of something, I'm not really sure what. Well I am,
but I have a tendency to be polite when I can. Let's see what he has
managed to avoid it this time.
> control freak with no control and no self control and ultimately this
Here we get to watch them project, upon others his own shortcomings.
Nobody is forcing him to respond, no one is requiring his presence. But
like a case the clap, here he is.
As to self control, it's not I who spams multiple groups with my nonsense
that I cannot support. But of course, that does not count in his little
world.
> is the fact that bothers you. You have no understanding of scriptures
Very few things bother me. But among the group are people like you,
people who are willing to make assertions in and run away from supporting
those assertions in public. And the privacy of your home, or another
suitable location, it does not matter what you blather. But when you
make a public invite everybody to comment on it by having made public,
then you are on your own. At that time he had become as bothersome as a
solitary dog pecker gnat in the middle of August. Or possibly December
depending on where you're located at.
> but then, I don't really faulty you considering that your attempting
It doesn't matter who you fault for anything, and I'm going to assume
fault with what you meant to write. In a common title, combined with
this poor editorial skills will get you nine out 10 times. As it does
me. The thing of it is, I can support my observations using multiple
sources, historical, social, even the Scripture that you think you know.
You have failed to do this with anything except quote mining, which puts
you in two dilemmas, logically speaking. The first being a circular
argumentation, which does not permit you to claim something is valid
based on claims made about water is your trying to pretend his ballot.
In this case, the Hebrew Bible and Greek Testament.
But even worse, a more tragic for others, as you insist in begging the
question is your simple minded responses & quote mining. An example,
your current attempt tend to know more than you can demonstrate according
to the Hebrew Bible as if it actually meant anything to anybody. But
those that follow that path.
> to say that the mistranslated Jewish Publication Society scriptures
> are correct when in fact, they read no different then the KJV.
I don't believe I said that, and this is no more your problems. Your
inability to read in context. I never said any particular Bible
translation is correct, for none of them are. Among the minor problem to
have, no originals. There were no originals until after the return from
the Babylonian vacation, roughly -545 Gregorian. And yet you going to
pretend you know, based on writings, relatively recent writings,
historically speaking, which translation is accurate enough. You never
will. For without the having grown up in the original language, you will
miss so much in the way of idioms, slang, euphemisms, polite insults and
other nifty things inherent in every language. In other words, you are
too pig ignorant to realize your own limitations. But that's
understandable, in one of the worst varieties of xians. If you're
posting history is to be believed. A self educated clown that knows more
the scholars. You don't. You have demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt
that you don't.
>> This means, that like the god in question, the earth & its waters are
>> & were eternal. A thing known not to be so.
>
> Your reading comprehension is as bad is your lack of faith. What part
> of CREATED didn't you understand?
Your usage of it as factual instead of an idiom would be a good starting
point. But of course, you know nothing about how the Bible is
constructed or the language usage. During that era, retort and hyperbole
were as common in the Middle East as they are today. But of course, you
do not realize that and you cannot expect it is true, because it does not
fit in your limited understanding of your mythology.
The word created, is quite inappropriate, if one is trying to tell the
truth, but quite appropriate, if one is trying to write a national epic,
such as the Hebrew Bible.
>> & yes, most middle eastrern myths use that trope. From anu & tiamat
> until
> We are not talking about your understanding of pagan religions, which
You are talking to yourself, I'm talking to the audience. It's called
providing supporting evidence, which means, it helps us to understand
what happened and why things happened as they did or are recorded in the
various national epics.
> from your posting on alt.atheism is very extensive but clearly doesn't
> extend to Hebrew scriptures.
But it does child, when read in context, one begins to realize they are
reading a national epic and not an actual account of the creation come to
creation is really, of the Judaic mythology.
Starting with the creation of the universe, which is a very common theme,
to the creation of the relationship between a god in his chosen people.
A people he was given according to the Hebrew Bible. But that requires
reading in context and I'm not sure you will ever be able to comprehend
that particular passage.
By the way, you are the one pretending to be able to deal in Hebrew, not
me. I realize that there is no more actual knowledge of Biblical Hebrew.
In a sense of the word as used during first century and before Judea.
There are many reasons for this, but I doubt if you could comprehend
them. You might try following Moses of Crete's example. But wait, he
too was a failed messiah.
>> But now, on to another subject, one snow can avoid supporting as
>> usual.
>
>> But he did make the claim.
>
> You forget, it's my right not to answer you and I exercise that
> right. According to scriptures there are only two Questions people of
> faith are required to answer.
I haven't forgotten, and I recognize the All-Star behind your back if you
fade into the sunset. However, I also have rights. And among them, to
post what I please or at least when I please as long as I'm not off topic
or, spamming.
I realize that huge so I will attempt to explain it in words of one
syllable. Darn, I don't know any words like that, that could help you.
So you are on your own archiving to understand what is about to be
written.
You have made a brag, one that has you understood the mythology of all he
would have realized was a falsehood to start with. When called on it,
most mature individuals will stand up and say I cannot answer that. Or,
they will attempt to support their position. You did neither, you've
elected to run and pretend to invoke writers privileges. But this is
Usenet, where you are expected to support your claims. I realize you're
not used to working with people that have that requirement in their life,
but these are not your people. Here, you are expected to act as an adult
once you make statements that they require support, such as your claims
for a physical reality known as an individual, referred to as either good
or evil. It's not my fault you don't know what you're talking about.
> So.. you clearly have shown everybody that you have mental issues
> after stalking a half dozen threads for however long because you
The only mental issues I have, is a nasty tendency to require a liars to
pony up the evidence. Once they make grandiose claims, they need
grandiose evidence or be known as a liar. I do not even have to without
that they are a liar, the continued evasion will do that for me. After
stalking, if you're not here, I can't possibly respond to you. The
option you are given the option a far wiser individual, say an individual
with the IQ of a mentally retarded housefly, would have researched my
posting history and taken me up on. You are attempting to shuffle off
your shortcomings in inabilities on others, and it does not work.
> didn't like my post. Your failure to recognize the fact that people
> have the right not to allow your ignorance to intimidate them is
> totally missed by you.
Oh my, again you are trying to reject your shortcomings on me. No thank
you. I have enough faults of my own that I don't need yours as well.
Among them, figures are many subject. However, unlike you, I am working
on removing as much of that ignorance as I can. I never will get to be
the no law you think you are, but I do not have to be a dirt on common
subjects like you are. A choice I make to improve myself, a choice you
apparently are not willing to accept.
> We should probably take this to alt.atheism because you are going to
> need a lot more ignorant atheist such as yourself if you want to
> contend with me boy.
You can try, the last time you enter you had your ass pounded hard and
handed back to. You left in short order. Even the air, you could not
engage me in intelligent conversation you had a chance. So you can save
your little boy comments, after 65 winters want people like you attempt
to call me doesn't really matter. I and those that know me know the
truth. And rest assured, should you take it to alt.atheism, your
audience will remain aware of your presence, because should you exclude
them from the headers, I will include them. They really need to know
what their hero snow job is up to, not that it would matter because I
suspect they already know.
> So, while you go around and attempt to decry my Abba, I can tell you
I'm not going to decry your abba, I don't know your father. However,
when you trot your dog and pony show out for public review, you may rest
assured that many will point out like the Emperor, it's naked.
> that he is going to demonstrate his power in your life and you are not
Threats don't work. Nor does trying to intimidate me with powers you
can't demonstrate. Either for yourself or through your god. Money
talks, bull shit walks, get prepared for a lot of walking. As long as
you're in any newsgroup that I monitor or participate in.
> going to like the results. I do not wish evil to befall you but the
> fact remains that it is my Father's will that matters.
Like the results, but still like. Ignorant people abound & are not
limited to clicks as in real life. Your hollow threat is noted it had
accepted as the best that you can do. Of course, you are the one who
decries your gods by you pretentious claims to knowledge about their
words, and what they mean.
Snip attempted Bible quote, that means something to slow snow, but nobody
else. Because no one is exactly sure what he was trying to prove with
it.
> Don't forget.. I still haven't answered you and I'm still looking
And don't forget, I keep my word.
> forward to dragging you around to flout your insanity before
You're not dragging anyone around child, you lack the ability. But you
are continuing to verify beyond reasonable doubt to the people you're
trying to influence that you are not a stable source of information. Let
alone a reliable one.
> everybody. It seems that Andrew Chung isn't the only person with
> control issues and it's good to that you share a lot in common with
> him.
Ah yes, the typical retreat of the person who really has nothing to
offer. They cannot defend themselves. Attempt to demonize others. It
doesn't work. Unlike you, I'm a known quality in the newsgroups that you
are attempting to intrude upon. Unlike you, they know that once I have
said something, it's coming to pass. Unlike you, they can count on that
fact that once my word has been given, they will be factual until the day
I die. Where is your case, no one knows much about you except, you
cannot and will not defend your claims.
> You make your atheist a proud bunch by showing what you lack and by
I don't have any atheist. I know some atheists, here on Usenet and in
real life. Unlike you hear capable of holding conversations without
accounting to denigrate others. But that's really the only thing you
have, you lack the ability to engage in until it in conversation and you
lack the knowledge to discuss your mythology with anybody that knows how
to open the books. And that's quite alright, it's your life, I just
prefer not to share it in any manner. It's my right to rub your nose in
your mess.
> answering up for other people because they apparently can't answer for
> themselves in your book.
I answer for one person, myself. It's commonly understood on Usenet, the
person does not make claims they do not expect you to check up on if you
don't believe them. Or even in some cases, if you do believe you. I
much prefer that people check out what I say, for that's really the only
way we are going to learn anything. In your world, that's very
unsettling. That would mean people like you make claims that others do
not believe they will call you on it. Such as now. Still, it's your
choice, you can stay or you can go. That I have no control over, nor do
I want it. I want people like you to continue to parade their ignorance.
So that others, can learn the dangers of fanatical belief as well as, the
lack of compassion within the xian community. I want people to realize,
like drugs, they can say no, see a professional. If they can find one.
Or become informed and educated on the topic. Ignorance is a breeding
ground for people like you, it gives you a false sense of importance and
security, and something real life does not do for you the same way.
Now something that you can relate to, and something that is yours to
keep, hold, love, cherish, and even change its diapers.
walksalone, who would not mind not having to do this, but a man's word is
all he really has. And I will do what I have said I would. This will
continue until such time as snow grows at backbone in either admits he
cannot defend that position, along with reasons for that statement, or
attempt to defend it and have his defense destroyed. Either way, the
call is strictly his.
And yes, I do believe Augustine is appropriate for this particular
conversation.
Take it up with the scholars who wrote it or find somebody who can read.
You could also research it yourself.
>
> What's interesting is that I have to ask why you even bothered to ask
> a question when you already were going to give an answer that you had
> prepared.
It's a good litmus test and I ask it when people claim they can read or are
learning to read Hewbrew.
You failed.
You don't even know enough to realize just how big a controversy there is
and has been over the subject.
> >
> Your argument holds no merit and is easily dismissed because I do read
> Hebrew even if only on a very basic level since I am still learning.
>
Not with enough comprehension to see it talks of an existing earth that gods
used.
> You and your friend illustrate issues over control
Did you just learn those words. Seems that anybody who does not agree with
you of late is a "control" freak.
> Did you just learn those words. Seems that anybody who does not agree with
> you of late is a "control" freak.
Joel Osteen said and he is right, “Faith activates God - Fear
activates the Enemy.”
Anybody that insists that I must conform to their belief system, like
you, is a control freak. I don't care what you believe Mike. I’m not
the one arguing atheism in a religious forum.
I'm also not like your control freak friend spamming rants that insist
anybody that doesn't answer is "evading" me because I don't care if
people answer me. In fact on many occasions I prefer just to put my
message out into the universe and be left alone.
I put my messages out and if people want to read them and respond to
them that is their right to do so as free speech permits but it is
also any persons right to remain silent and even people arrested are
(or should be) entitled this right without being harassed. When
people do respond, I will generally defend my position, as I am doing
this moment but it is done so because it is my desire, not because any
other person insist.
Buddha once said, “When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when
one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings;
when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of
fear.” Walksalone is delusional at best but to insist that someone
must answer him illustrates a need to control other people. What he
fails to grasp is that he has no control and in fact he is powerless,
ineffective and fearful and I even taunt him to show him that very
point.
The difference between you and me Mike, is I don't care if you believe
and it's not my job to make you believe... it's my job according to
the mandate given by my master Yehoshua to preach all that he
commanded.
Mat 28:19 “Therefore, go and make taught ones of all the nations,
immersing them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Set-
apart Spirit,
Mat 28:20 teaching them to guard all that I have commanded you. And
see, I am with you always, until the end of the age.” Amĕn.
It is your right to ignore me as you have and it doesn't bother me the
slightest that your not a believer and in fact, I DON'T CARE what you
believe as an atheist. You and your completely delusional friend on
the other hand insist that I must be wrong. I take my beliefs on
faith and I confess this. You take your beliefs by faith and live in
denial.
The fact is that I'm not here for you. I'm not posting in alt.atheism
or any thread that isn't under the banner of a religion. You are the
intruder here in a religious forum and insisting that your point of
view is the only one acceptable to rational man and yet, you act
completely irrational.
Spare me the line about you being invited ... I did not invite you.
Now I don't see you posting in the anti-Santa clause, anti-Easter
bunny forums and that’s because you know it would be stupid because
only children would believe in such things. The very fact that you
are here to argue against my belief only adds validity to the words
that I speak of, so who is acting irrational?
If my belief is a "myth" as your friend keeps spamming, why do you
spend your day trying to dispel it?
The answer is simple in that my belief is credible and you’re afraid
I'm right and with every post you and your friend make, you only
continue to illustrate your fear that I am right.
So, who's the insane person, one who believes a myth or one who
(thinks he) knows it is a myth and is still afraid?
Mat 5:44 “But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those cursing
you, do good to those hating you, and pray for those insulting you and
persecuting you,
Mat 5:45 so that you become sons of your Father in the heavens.
Because He makes His sun rise on the wicked and on the good, and sends
rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.
We both know that my religion forbids harming another man and in fact
encourages us to even love our enemy, so you don't have to worry about
violence on the part of my religion... so, go on and tell the world,
what do you think you are really afraid of?
Shalom,
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People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was
invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered
engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to
fear.
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(Mat 28:1)(Mar 16:2) (Mar 16:9) (Luk 18:12) (Luk 24:1)
(Joh 20:1) (Joh 20:19) (Act 20:7) (1Co 16:2) (Heb 4:9)
Each of these verses that have the word Sabbath removed.
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Come post a message please, I'd love to hear from you. While this is
a moderated forum, the only moderation will be to remove spam.
This is posted from a baptist religious forum. I was invited and you are not
a baptist.
> The difference between you and me Mike, is I don't care if you believe
> and it's not my job to make you believe... it's my job according to
> the mandate given by my master Yehoshua to preach all that he
> commanded.
>
But you don't. Like all the others you make arbitrary decision as to what
should and should not be preached.
If I don't care I don't respond. You do respond, lately with evasive reasons
whay a simple request can't be done.
Not true.
Mat 28:20 teaching them to guard all that I have commanded you.
I teach according to the instructions of my Messiah. Paul is not the
Messiah or did you not know this?
> If I don't care I don't respond. You do respond, lately with evasive reasons
> why a simple request can't be done.
But the fact still stands that you do in fact have exactly what you
truly asked for.
> On May 1, 3:31 am, "Mike Painter" <mddotpain...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Through but not to snow. This is going to get over his head.
snip
>> "The correct translation by Hebrew scholars of the JPS, from the
>> traditio
> nal
>> Hebrew text, which makes much more sense, is:
>> "When God [ELOHIM] began to create heaven and earth -- the earth
>>being
>> unformed and void, with darkness over the surface of the deep and a
>> wind from God [ELOHIM] sweeping over the water -- God [ELOHIM] said,
>> 'Let there
>> be light'; and there was light."
>
> First off, it's easy to demonstrate that you are completely wrong
> along side the JPS that you used. Notice that you even had to correct
> the mistranslations in this version?
First of all, for something that is supposed to be easy to demonstrate,
such demonstration is yet to be delivered. And the mistranslations of
the JPS, no more so than any other. After all, even they do not have the
original Biblical Hebrew texts to work with. And even if they did, they
too would have a problem with idioms, assumptions, slang, and various
other idiosyncrasies every language picks up. I suppose, but do not
believe that this death of the Hebrew biblical language could be blamed
on their bad call between 65 and 70 Gregorian. If I recall correctly,
only the priesthood, supposedly could continue to read and write Biblical
Hebrew. That has not been verified.
> So... what you say, "makes more sense" looses all merit. None the
It only loses merit in your eyes. You're making several assumptions that
are not necessarily applicable. Along with the following.
> less, what part of create earth don't you understand? It seems you
Apparently, he understands even more than you think he does. Create,
change, to make anew, to use pre-existing material to make something
else, such as plastic from oil. You're just arrogant enough to assume
that your version of creation is the only possible version, but it is
not. Nor is your special version, the only one possible. We know from
various translations, but the common accepted routine is. There's a big
chunk a water out there and in outer space, is left to the reader's
imagination how water can remain fluid at absolute zero, which would've
had to have been the temperature would know energy sources such as light.
Within this blob of water, there was all of the earth, as well as,
apparently, the universe. That works for you, but not for the majority
of thinking people. It's only after this preexistence of material, but
your god shows up. Are you sure that you have studied your mythology?
It certainly does not appear like it.
> suffer from the same mental issues as your friend and also lack of
> basic reading comprehension even in English.
I don't go exactly who you are talking about with mental issues or basic
reading comprehension, but Mr. Painter seems to be a very stable person
mentally, and his ability to read and comprehend English far surpasses
anything you have provided to date. Is this another one of your special
protection cases where you pretend others have your limitations? Or is
it genuine confusion on your part due to your ignorance and your
arrogance? Neither situation would be a surprise.
> What's interesting is that I have to ask why you even bothered to ask
> a question when you already were going to give an answer that you had
> prepared.
No, you didn't have to ask. If you had known your mythology, you
would've understood there would be no other possible answer. Of course,
you cannot accept this because supposedly come up with in your own mind
and limited understanding of your mythology, you know more than anyone
else. At least anyone who does not follow your brand of insanity.
> The only thing you demonstrate to me is that it is worthless to
> discuss issues with the ilks of you and your mentally challenged
> friend who speaks in the third person about himself...
If he is worthless, why are you trying to override his messages and leave
the impression that you are the one with the correct version. You find
him a challenge, so you're too a challenge like I present. A nagging
truth that won't go away no matter how many times you wave your hands and
tell it to shoo. No, Mr. painter will not be going away, nor will I.,
but that is beyond your comprehension is not our problem but yours. And
you will continue to present your foolish clown act by pretending to
respond to or dismissed. What has been wrote by either one of us.
You're limited knowledge, along with your understanding, that is vast
knowledge, is fatal in cases where you attempt to discuss your mythology
with those that actually can read and understand what they have read.
> Your argument holds no merit and is easily dismissed because I do read
> Hebrew even if only on a very basic level since I am still learning.
No, you do not read Hebrew. You read Masoretic Hebrew, if that. There's
a difference between recognizing the letters & understanding the
language. Of course, there's a difference between understanding the
mythology and pretending to, like you have and do.
> You and your friend illustrate issues over control and your lack of
Learned a new buzzword, have you? Too bad you don't understand it
either. You see, neither one of us want you to change, improve your
understanding of the mythology, or anything else that you really don't
want to do without benefit to yourself. Of course, just because you
can't present your hot air to either one of us and and have it blithely
accepted with an air of ignorance equal to or exceeding yours can present
control problems for you. You know will longer control conversations,
and you can know longer hide ignorance. But then, you think you can.
And for you, that's good enough.
> it. Here I am posting on religious sites, a religious message and
No, you're not posting. Your posturing, cannot be referred to with a
straight face as providing information relating to your mythology that is
current and correct. By the way, if you are not seeking accolades you'd
only be posting in one site, similar to what I do when given a choice.
And even then, I only post from one newsgroup and do not add to the
headers. It's called courtesy, a concept questions like you are totally
and blithely ignorant of. Or if they are aware of it, assume it does not
apply to them because, they are doing the work of god�, exactly which one
of their millions of major and minor gods & goddesses. I'm not sure.
> because you don't like that message, you feign an argument asking
You have no message. You have hot air, handwaving, & misinformation that
makes you in your own eyes look good. You cannot even understand Genesis
1, or the reason that people in the know realize Adam and Eve is a make-
believe story on several levels. Of course, given your lack of reading
skills, this is understandable.
> questions you have no desire for... You have again proved me correct
Questions, you assume that you have the only answer for, are not
questions. They are called assertions. There is a difference.
Questions that have answers can be answered in a manner satisfactory to
all because the evidence is there. A concept you have much difficulty
with because your mythology has no supportive evidence of its own. It
like the other revealed gods in the desert require a supportive document,
which leads you into the logical error of a circular argumentation. Your
claim that because it's in the Bible it is so, insinuated and implied by
your frequent quote mining, is no less than saying. The theory of
evolution must be so, because Darwin wrote The Origin of Species. No,
evolution is not correct, because Darwin wrote the book. That led to the
science, & that is correct because the evidence supports it. This cannot
be said for the Hebrew Bible, let alone the Greek testaments, and its
claims for various gods.
> Mike Painter, keep it up. Ultimately you have no control and YHWH
> will prove himself, I don't need to ...
Others idle threat that is rather routine, god is going to get you for
that. Hear It all the time here in the Southeast US, and it's just as
toothless when they say as when you say it. Threats are for the
cowardly, especially those that cannot back up what they claim with
evidence.
Now, back to some on-topic claims made by you that you fail to support.
walksalone, who intends to have a good day, it means I have to clear out
the slop trough before I get started. Want to bet, you know who is going
to take it as an attention fix? I'm not taking a bet against that.
> On Apr 30, 8:07 pm, walksalone <spamstop...@nerdshack.com> wrote:
>> guardian Snow <snowpheo...@eck.net.au> wrote
>> innews:d703173b-f133-4b3c-ad
> d2-013c...@t36g2000prt.googlegroups.com:
>>
>> > On Apr 25, 2:04 pm, "Mike Painter" <mddotpain...@sbcglobal.net> wr
> ote:
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>> Through but not to snow. Wouldn't want to break that vacuum seal, n
> ow
>> would I. No telling what nasty's would crawl out like Pandora's box
> .
Apologies to the audience, apparently still feels that babbling is the
same as answering. Again, this is through but not to snow. After all,
when does not expect intelligent responses from those incapable of
providing them.
Snip portion that snow can not respond to. Come to that, one could
safely skip the entire message, and no one would notice.
>> Taken in context, a god, singular & not plural as you, & the elites
>> that wrote the myth for their benefit, like to pretend, created the
>> heav
> ens &
>> the earth, ex nilho.
>> Followed by the raw material was already in place.
>
> Hi walksalone, You illustrate that you are in fact nothing but a
I illustrate nothing. I do illuminate your ignorance. But that can be
accepted as a public service.
> control freak with no control and no self control and ultimately this
I take it you are looking in a mirror and shaking your finger yourself
when you write things like this? If not, you should be.
> is the fact that bothers you. You have no understanding of scriptures
I have much more understanding of Scripture than you ever will, is not
really that hard. When taken as holy texts makes no sense at all. When
taken as a national epic, a special that pic is supported by archaeology,
anthropology, sociological studies and historical trends, it begins to
make sense. All societies in the ancient near East had national epics,
in the case, Judea, it became a phobic pastime. And you are the results.
> but then, I don't really faulty you considering that your attempting
> to say that the mistranslated Jewish Publication Society scriptures
The Jewish Preservation Society publications are no less imperfect than
any other translation of a dead language that has no original
manuscripts. And yes, it's Jewish Preservation Society and not Jewish
publication Society. Of course, no one expects you to understand that.
Let alone why the difference in names.
> are correct when in fact, they read no different then the KJV.
I never said they read no different than the KJV. That is your
pretension, but of course, reading in context for the English language is
involved seems to be a major hurdle for you.
I realize this concept is very scary for you, but the reason the JPS was
quoted, is doing, what is right. Quoting your sources. This does not
need to apply to you, because you don't understand the concept to start
with. Nor would you if you did.
>> This means, that like the god in question, the earth & its waters are
>> & were eternal. A thing known not to be so.
> Your reading comprehension is as bad is your lack of faith. What part
> of CREATED didn't you understand?
I understand the word created very well. There is no reason that the
universe could not be eternal, cyclic, parallel, or even exists only in
the imagination of some other entity. In other words, possibly words you
can understand, there are multiple possibilities for the existence of the
universe.
What misinterpretation of the word created are you trying to imply is the
only correct one? The word created does not require a deity concept. Of
course, the concept in itself may well elude you. The odds favor that
based on your posting history.
>> & yes, most middle eastrern myths use that trope. From anu & tiamat
> until
> We are not talking about your understanding of pagan religions, which
We are not talking about anything, I'm pointing out your absurdities.
And to include any pagan religions, which is yours are based on, is to
include the parallels the history provides to indicate your particular
mythology did not form any vacuum and had a basis, a basis for
respectability, based on other mythologies. Of course, no one expects
you to understand that.
> from your posting on alt.atheism is very extensive but clearly doesn't
> extend to Hebrew scriptures.
Unlike you, I don't pretend that the Hebrew scripture is the end all of
everything. I accept them for what they are, a national epic that the
Jews based at their mythologies on and the world has suffered ever since.
>> But now, on to another subject, one snow can avoid supporting as
>> usual.
>
>> But he did make the claim.
>
> You forget, it's my right not to answer you and I exercise that
You have the right to run like a scalded dog. You have the right to be
laughed at as the simple fact is held for observation to all, you cannot
and will not answer the obvious. In other words, you're pretending to
have a position that does not exist among ethical people. You are no
less nor any more responsible for supporting your claims that anyone
else. Surprise, that includes me.
> right. According to scriptures there are only two Questions people of
> faith are required to answer.
In other words, you have no morals or backbone of your own. How very
unsurprising. If you intend to convince anybody if you know what you
talking about, and you keep falling back to that position, you will
always fail.
But as a side note, I don't find that in scriptures that were not
artificial in nature. Such as the Greek Testament series started by
Saul.
> So.. you clearly have shown everybody that you have mental issues
If you call wanting to know the truth and holding people to the same
standards I hold to, and yes, I have issues. If on the other hand, you
call people not automatically believing you because you're a blathering
idiot. According to your posting history, then again, I have issues.
But other than your special definitions, I'm not known to have any.
Given the nature of my past, I do what I can to ensure I never become a
danger to society and therefore, frequently having contact with people
that know how to spot the warning signs of a combat veteran, slipping
back into a combat mode.
> after stalking a half dozen threads for however long because you
There's a difference between stalking, and a man keeping his word. And
I'm keeping my word. A concept you do not understand but that doesn't
matter to me.
> didn't like my post. Your failure to recognize the fact that people
I don't mind your post, anybody is free to post anything on Usenet. I do
mind, your inability and unwillingness to support your claims. This is
what liars do, but then, you are a xian according to you. Frequently,
those two words are synonymous. In your case, they can be said to be
identical.
> have the right not to allow your ignorance to intimidate them is
> totally missed by you.
People have the right to point out my ignorance, as long as they can
support their finger-pointing. Now, if you want to point out my
ignorance on your mythology, then you have to point out where I am wrong.
Or something you glaringly and obviously cannot do. But then, you're a
xian, according to you.
> We should probably take this to alt.atheism because you are going to
The last time you are on the atheist newsgroup, you got your ass handed
to you with regularity. People saw right through you. This is not
uncommon, that particular newsgroup is saturated with the brain-dead
called xians. Sometimes we even get those from the other brands of the
revealed out to the desert, but nowhere near as frequently. So if you
want to ask handed to you again, feel free. After all, if you control
five newsgroups, what's one more? Only some of those, are less than
civil with people like you.
> need a lot more ignorant atheist such as yourself if you want to
> contend with me boy.
Nice attempt at a putdown. Too bad that mentally, you appear to be less
than a boy. Still, he do the best you can, and you just know everybody
is silently cheering for you. Apparently not. Not one, not one has
attempted to show me where I am wrong and doing what I'm doing.
Apparently, they approve of it.
> So, while you go around and attempt to decry my Abba, I can tell you
I don't know your father, so there's no way I can decry him. But I'm
well aware of your interpolation in the Hebrew Bible's claims for a god.
I'm well aware of the history of that god and when he went from being an
out and out bastard and all-around nice guy. I'm well aware that he's
quite probably the third in line of those gods. I'm quite aware that he
had a shack up, the same shack up to start out with the original god of
the Judean Highlands.
So yes, I do understand scripture better than you, and I know that you
follow false gods. But that's alright, people like you have to believe
in something superior to them. It's even better, when what ever is
superior to you doesn't exist.
> that he is going to demonstrate his power in your life and you are not
No, no he is not. He comes to being an absentee father, your gods are
the all-time winner and abuser of their children. And that of course is
assuming they exist for the sake of discussion.
> going to like the results. I do not wish evil to befall you but the
Thing about being dead, is you're dead. No one knows we are going to go,
if anywhere, or what will happen afterwards. Many people claim to know,
but like you, they cannot provide evidence that indicates they know what
they're talking about. Up to let alone past a reasonable doubt. In
other words, you're sadly making another idle threat, implied but threat
for all that.
> fact remains that it is my Father's will that matters.
In other words, you may as well not exist. But then, maybe you don't in
the eyes of your gods.
Snip attempt to quote my in order to impress believers.
> Psa 9:16 יהוה has made Himself known, He has done right-ruling;
> The wrong is snared in the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.
> Psa 9:17 The wrong return to the grave, All the gentiles that forget
> Elohim.
How very odd that you would use a passage which shows that the Hebrew
Bible is not one continuous writing by various authors. If you knew the
history, you would realize that at the time of the Psalms, written by
leased four different authors [IIRC], everybody returned to the grave.
From the King on down, once you died, he had a one-way ticket to Sheol.
That was your only option.
It was not until exposure to the Babylonian mythology, Farsi, really,
that dualism became part and parcel of Hebrew theology. It was the only
way they could explain how come that their god. Let them be so
mistreated, in spite of them being good little dogs and worthy of a dog
biscuit. With a duality, there had to be a bad guy. Your hero Satan
became, no longer in office, but an individual deity. One your gods
elect not to control its fire them being the creating force. Or so the
rumor goes.
> Don't forget.. I still haven't answered you and I'm still looking
I am sure the audience is well aware of your continued evasion. I'm also
certain that you will attempt to make it look otherwise.
> forward to dragging you around to flout your insanity before
You were saying you're flouting is your unwillingness to support your
claims power, to wit that good and evil are individual entities. Of
course you cannot support these claims with anything but hot air, and you
know it. No ducky, all you are doing is they're in your little play pool
with 2 inches of water and your little rubber ducky saying is too, is to
is too is too etc. ad nauseum. And the audience is beginning to realize
that by now, quite possibly some of those that you had managed to impress
in the past.
> everybody. It seems that Andrew Chung isn't the only person with
> control issues and it's good to that you share a lot in common with
> him.
The only thing I have in common with you or Mr. Chung, is that my parents
were human by legal definition. I know mine were, and I must assume
yours were. Of course, that assumption could be an error, but I have
doubts about that. As to the control issues, nobody is forcing you to do
anything that you should not be. No one is trying to get you to believe
anything you don't want to believe. No one is trying to get you to live
in a manner that you don't want to live in. In other words, your claim
for people having control issues is simply an attempt on your part to
divert attention away from your inadequacies. Not exactly a new thing
where you are concerned.
> You make your atheist a proud bunch by showing what you lack and by
Would you care to try to put that in English? You make your atheist, how
do you make an atheist? They can read the Hebrew Bible in context and
become an atheist. As far as that particular god is concerned. Or are
you trying to imply that they are xians that don't believe in other gods.
Such is your version.
A proud bunch, in so far as I know, atheist or pretty much individuals
who like any other group of individuals, may run single trace or join an
organization of like-minded individuals. Can't say, none answer to me.
And that is something that makes me perfectly happy. None answer to me.
And what do I lack, that you can demonstrate I lack? A inability to take
the word of a blowhard without that blowhard providing evidence that it's
worth taking? I believe you keep that inability.
> answering up for other people because they apparently can't answer for
Unlike you, I don't pretend to speak for everyone else. No, where will
you find me implying that others should think or do as I do. Of course,
given your limited ability to read English in context, you may pretend
otherwise. And your own mind, you may well be justified even though you
are not. I'm not exactly an unknown quantity, and the majority will tell
you point blank, I do not tell anyone what to think or believe. I will
hold up the absurdities such as you make public, but I'll never tell you
what to believe or think. So unlike you, I don't speak up for anybody
else but myself.
> themselves in your book.
Atheists as a group, have a much more knowledge about many more subjects
than I do. In a way, that's my fault. But I'm not going to get into
quantum mechanics & physics at this stage of my life, nor a host of other
subjects that do not pique my curiosity. Why should I? I've already had
a full life, children that I still like as well as love in spite of the
fact they are in their early 50s, and grandchildren. So no, allowed not
to speak for me without consent, nor will I speak for anybody else.
Unlike you, I have no compelling urge to do so.
And now, for something you can continue to avoid opportunity while
pretending not to. It works for you, but no one else.
walksalone who has to smile when snow pretends that he simply not
answering in spite of the obvious to most if not all, he can't.
A Man and a Lion were discussing the relative strength of men
and lions in general. The Man contended that he and his fellows
were stronger than lions by reason of their greater intelligence.
"Come now with me," he cried, "and I will soon prove that I am
right." So he took him into the public gardens and showed him a
statue of Hercules overcoming the Lion and tearing his mouth in
two.
"That is all very well," said the Lion, "but proves nothing,
for it was a man who made the statue."
We can easily represent things as we wish them to be.
> On May 2, 3:27 am, "Mike Painter" <mddotpain...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Through but not to Snow. It might give him a headache.
>> Did you just learn those words. Seems that anybody who does not agree
>> wit
> h
>> you of late is a "control" freak.
>
> Joel Osteen said and he is right, “Faith activates God - Fear
> activates the Enemy.”
>
> Anybody that insists that I must conform to their belief system, like
Mike has never insisted that you conform to his belief system. He has
never informed you exactly what his belief system is in all things. Like
many, I suspect he realizes you cannot conform to a belief system that
requires evidence.
> you, is a control freak. I don't care what you believe Mike. I’m
> not the one arguing atheism in a religious forum.
He has not argued for atheism, nor against it. He has argued and present
the evidence for his case, that you don't know what your talking about.
But of course, that's well known by those that are not easily duped to
start with.
> I'm also not like your control freak friend spamming rants that insist
You are a control freak, or at least a control freak in waiting. You
want others to believe as you do, and yet cannot provide any reasonable
evidence of thought as to why they should. In fact, you frequently
present the house without realizing it. It has to do with your inability
to understand that no passage from either the Hebrew Bible or the Greek
Testament stands on its own. They always have a historical reference and
audience they were addressed to. Without that knowledge, you are simply
playacting.
> anybody that doesn't answer is "evading" me because I don't care if
You're evading, but not me. You are invading newsgroups to spread your
version of reality -101, without their consent, or request. You're
evading, giving them probable cause to take you seriously. And of
course, like most people of that caliber, you're attempting to make it
appear that you are the innocent party. Fact, you shot off your mouth,
and got called on. Of course, which are limited ability to comprehend
English language when it is in written format, is not an excuse. That is
the medium these particular groups use and it is up to you to come up to
speed, not them to come down to your level.
> people answer me. In fact on many occasions I prefer just to put my
> message out into the universe and be left alone.
Indeed, you don't like answers that point out the absurdity of your
positions. This groups are not for pontification, they are for
discussion. If you cannot discuss your concepts, don't try to peddle
them. If you can't, have at it. In the meantime, your avoidance of
answering questions that do not put you in a flattering light are
indicating a person who does not know and knows they don't know.
> I put my messages out and if people want to read them and respond to
You spam, as you have used the word, or troll as others use the word.
> them that is their right to do so as free speech permits but it is
It's not a question of free speech, it's a question of appropriateness
for the audience. You claim to be messianic, yet you troll groups that
are not. It's not appropriate for those particular groups and is
considered if nothing else, discourteous, if not insulting to the members
of those groups. Of course, had you bothered to read up on me courtesies
found within Usenet, and the purposes of Usenet, he would have known
these things. This is not to say you would not have disregarded them,
you would have known them.
> also any persons right to remain silent and even people arrested are
People of conscience, very rarely remain silent when they encounter out
and out bullshit. But that would require you to have a conscience, which
has a xian is about a given you do not. It has to do with the teachings
of the Greek Testament's and the reality thereof.
> (or should be) entitled this right without being harassed. When
> people do respond, I will generally defend my position, as I am doing
You're not defending your position, you're dancing all around it.
> this moment but it is done so because it is my desire, not because any
> other person insist.
No one has insisted that you answer all questions, not even I. but I
can't use your continued evasiveness to show the weakness of your
position, as well as your lack of knowledge. You see, if you could have
supported the concept you proposed, that good and evil are actual
physical beings of some variety. Supernatural or natural, then you would
have had something to say worth noticing and paying attention to the
period. You haven't, and you have demonstrated that your words are
simply hot-air.
> Buddha once said, “When one has the feeling of dislike for evil,
> when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good
> teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is
> free of fear.” Walksalone is delusional at best but to insist that
I leave the delusional act to you. You see, I know that differs between
insisting that you answer, which I do not, and a presentation of a chance
to answer, which you avoid. And this will continue until such time as
you elect to do one of two things which are strictly voluntary and
optional on your part.
> someone must answer him illustrates a need to control other people.
If I demand answers, I'll wait until an adult is on the other end. I
realize, children quite frequently make statements. They cannot support.
You have provided evidence for this observation being based on reality.
> What he fails to grasp is that he has no control and in fact he is
What you fail to grasp is, I know I have no need to control, and I cannot
control others who are not in my immediate vicinity, or under my
protection. And even if they are in my immediate vicinity or under my
protection, I still would never have absolute control. Of course, that's
too obvious for you.
> powerless, ineffective and fearful and I even taunt him to show him
> that very point.
Taunt, you don't even know how to taunt. You are so unoriginal that were
somebody to say:
your mother is a hamster and your father reeks of elderberries
would be beyond your comprehension.
You only imagine, you know how to taunt, or much of anything else when it
comes to discussing your mythology.
> The difference between you and me Mike, is I don't care if you believe
But you do, or if you would not post the drivel you do.
> and it's not my job to make you believe... it's my job according to
> the mandate given by my master Yehoshua to preach all that he
Two problems with that, first of all your master, which only slaves have,
is missing from history. Second of all, it's passed off as being a
saying of your master, and there is no way of knowing where he came from.
What is known, is originally he stated he was there for the lost sheep of
Israel, which is not the whole world. During the first century it was
not uncommon for some people to believe that Israel had been a united
monarchy and that the tribes of Israel would be allowed to come home. Of
course, during that era, they believed in many things that we now know
are wrong.
> commanded.
So, might makes right with your gods. How very typical and spineless.
Snip Bible quote taken out of context.
> It is your right to ignore me as you have and it doesn't bother me the
But it is not your right to continue to attempt to convince others that
you are correct in spite of the fact you cannot provide the evidence to
support your claims. At this stage of the game, no one expects you to
you. You are simply another bullshit artist & the Usenet abounds in
those.
> slightest that your not a believer and in fact, I DON'T CARE what you
But you do care, or else you would not be posting your drivel across
Usenet. You take it to the appropriate newsgroup. There's only one in
the headers that is appropriate for your trash.
> believe as an atheist. You and your completely delusional friend on
Strange, you should say that, the deluded calling others' delusional
because they do not share your delusion. Also typical.
> the other hand insist that I must be wrong. I take my beliefs on
No one is insisting you must be wrong, but we [those that are involved
with rubbing your nose in your mess] are pointing out that given the
errors that you make, and your inability to support your claims, gives a
use is the real credence with people that want to know instead of be
snowed.
> faith and I confess this. You take your beliefs by faith and live in
> denial.
What's to deny, without evidence. Nothing. And evidence is not provided
by claiming it is so or referring to a series of books mode to contain
historical as well as theological errors. As an example, the Greek
testaments are in direct violation of a command of the senior god, and
this is verified by reading the Hebrew Bible. Nowhere in it, is there an
exception made for anyone or any idea.
> The fact is that I'm not here for you. I'm not posting in alt.atheism
No, you're posting to xian groups, who do not share your version of
reality. That makes you the troll. Of course, you cannot accept that
sad statement of a truth about yourself, for you see yourself as a good
guy with a white hat and riding a white horse. Everyone else pretty much
seized you as another Don Quixote. Especially if they understand the
xian mythology.
> or any thread that isn't under the banner of a religion. You are the
It doesn't matter, you are off-topic for this group. This group
description indicates the Baptist Church is the subject matter. That was
meant to be discussed when it was formed.
> intruder here in a religious forum and insisting that your point of
You are the intruder, in every group except your own. And you don't even
have the courtesy to properly identify your garbage.
> view is the only one acceptable to rational man and yet, you act
> completely irrational.
He has unlike you, never pretended that his point of view, is the only
possible, or even the only rational.
> Spare me the line about you being invited ... I did not invite you.
But he was invited, and you did invite him. Granted, you know so little
about Usenet that you don't realize how you did it, but you did it.
> Now I don't see you posting in the anti-Santa clause, anti-Easter
It might have a lot to do with him not being subscribed to those groups,
or an interest in them. Of course, it could be a matter of courtesy as
well. They don't crosspost into this particular group from those groups
with regularity. They have more courtesy than you do.
> bunny forums and that’s because you know it would be stupid because
> only children would believe in such things. The very fact that you
Children believe in many things, usually things they are taught by their
parents. But frequently, what they believe in is wrong, but that does
not stop them from believing.
> are here to argue against my belief only adds validity to the words
> that I speak of, so who is acting irrational?
No one argues against your beliefs, or your right to hold that belief.
It's your presentations and claims that had come into dispute, when
combined with your failure to provide the evidence, you verify there's no
reason to take you seriously.
> If my belief is a "myth" as your friend keeps spamming, why do you
> spend your day trying to dispel it?
No one does, but don't let that stop you from being confused.
> The answer is simple in that my belief is credible and you’re afraid
That's the simpleminded answer for simpleminded people. It does not
allow for the fact that what you present as fact cannot be supported by
the text itself, it is certainly nothing like first century xianity. But
then, that died out with the first organized church.
> I'm right and with every post you and your friend make, you only
> continue to illustrate your fear that I am right.
Only in your mind, and that's the only place it has to be right. The
reality of it is, those are undecided about whether or not you are worth
listening to are going to end up developing the idea that, you are a
waste of time based on your inability to support your claims. He did not
even have the decency to mark your subject as off topic when you start a
thread. Your arrogance combined with your ignorance ensures the audience
of many hours of amusement at your expense.
> So, who's the insane person, one who believes a myth or one who
Who brought insanity into it, other than you. A common technique used by
those with nothing to support them except their belief. If you get the
people to think and somebody else is insane. One way or the other, you
will have derailed any thinking processes. And you don't even realize
you do it.
> (thinks he) knows it is a myth and is still afraid?
There's a difference during thinking you know something and excepting the
fact there is no supporting evidence. In the case of your mythology,
there is no real life supporting evidence. As a matter of fact, this is
a good thing because it's based on faith and faith cannot stand reality.
If reality supported the mythology, there'd be no need for faith, and it
would die out as a myth.
Snip continuing attempt to quote mine are context to provide support for
a claim or point. That is based on wishful thinking.
> We both know that my religion forbids harming another man and in fact
Actually, it does not. It permits you to kill others that do not hold to
your myopic mythology. It's known as sacred war and is common in all of
the mythologies from the revealed gods of the desert.
> encourages us to even love our enemy, so you don't have to worry about
That is a very bizarre form of love. You love them so much, you are
quite willing to kill them in holy war. And today, the weapons are so
massive in destruction capacity, xians may get their wish to bring about
the final Apocalypse of the world. Never mind the world has withstood
previous apocalypses, the weapons of mass destruction were not readily
available. As a side note, just how many historical apocalypses are
there? When was the first one, and how do we know. Who were the Sea
people, and how do we know? What Apocalypse happened during the
timeframe of the so-called exodus? And how do we know. You don't even
understand the basics and you're going to pretend to know things about
things that nobody can even comprehend because they make no sense.
Applying unnecessary answers for questions that really don't need
answered to start with, is indicating a desire to have somebody else take
responsibility for your life.
> violence on the part of my religion... so, go on and tell the world,
The only reason people today do not fear violence from xians, it's
illegal and that power has been taken away from the churches. You're no
longer allowed to hang or crush witches in the United States. It's only
in the Middle East, where religious violence is open and part of daily
life. And even there, they are doing nothing that has not been done in
the name of god before.
Not to mention, a lot of people shoot back now. Where I grew up gun
control was being able to hit your target the first time, and kill it.
> what do you think you are really afraid of?
Nothing you have to offer, and in real life, an actual phobia, none. An
aversion, several things, but fear itself, there's nothing to be afraid
of. There are things to be careful around, things to avoid if you can,
but senseless and mindless fear, nothing. Which sort of removes the
excuse for believing in your mythology.
Now for something you can comprehend, and continued to avoid because, you
lack the spine to take a stand & support your claims. One way or the
other. But the audience already realizes this.
walksalone, who leaves the ending of this series, strictly in the hands
of the local snow job artist. Had it been me, they would have been over
with by the second posting, but snow is not me and for this I am
grateful.
Through but not to snow, maybe he does deserve a headache, and he tries
to reduce he probably will get one. But it's beyond his ability to
coherently respond to.
> On May 3, 2:00�am, "Mike Painter" <mddotpain...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> guardian Snow wrote:
>> > On May 2, 3:27 am, "Mike Painter" <mddotpain...@sbcglobal.net>
>> > wrote:
Snip.
>> > Anybody that insists that I must conform to their belief system,
>> > like you, is a control freak. �I don't care what you believe Mike.
>> > I'm not the one arguing atheism in a religious forum.
>>
>> This is posted from a baptist religious forum. I was invited and you
>> are
> not
>> a baptist.
Snip prior garbage.
> < But you don't. Like all the others you make arbitrary decision as to
> what
>> should and should not be preached.
>
> Not true.
Absolutely true. You expect everybody to accept your interpolation in
spite of the errors contained in those interpolations.
> Mat 28:20 teaching them to guard all that I have commanded you.
>
> I teach according to the instructions of my Messiah. Paul is not the
> Messiah or did you not know this?
No you don't, you must I'll never arrived according to history, nor did
fulfill the requirements of Messiah according to get people that are
supposed to provide a Messiah. Not the first one, especially not the
most critical one, the messianic era as described in Isaiah and claimed
by xians to be an end times prophecy. If you do not even know the book,
how can you speak intelligently on it. You can't, but you can't speaking
emotionally.
>> If I don't care I don't respond. You do respond, lately with evasive
>> reas
> ons
>> why a simple request can't be done.
>
> But the fact still stands that you do in fact have exactly what you
> truly asked for.
No, your version of reality is not of necessity, or even required, to be
reality according to the world we live in. I do not know exactly what
Mr. Painter has asked for nor do I care. I would hope that's between him
and his family and those he calls friend or loves. That information, you
are not privy to. Just as you did not know what I hope for, and
inversely, I do not know what you hope for. I can tell some of the
things you hope for, respectability, standing within the xian community,
they referred to as a person in the know, and various other personal
conceits. In this case, it's a forlorn hope, because, you cannot support
your claims and show why anybody should take you seriously. It's really
that simple, even though you pretend otherwise.
It's so simple, but the audiences came to expect. The inclusion of the
following posting made by you that you cannot support and pretend you
don't have to, because, well, just because. You don't have to, but it's
not just because, in this case, it's because you can't and you know it.
But that's alright, little children know many things that are not true,
and most of them grow out of that to a degree.From: guardian Snow
walksalone, who has came to the conclusion that Snow really does not care
what the audience thinks about him or whether he should be taken serious.
All that really matters is he was able to get his name on Usenet and
pretend to be a xian. Of course, I could be wrong, but his posting
history like that of another individual who formerly posted here with
regularity. Run in parallel. The only exception, the other person
tended to brag upon themselves beyond believability. But that is what
Snow is doing here, he's pretending to be someone who knows what he's
talking about when, it's obvious he does not and he is simply replacing
his scripture with his personal interpretation.
Matthew 10:5-6
These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the
way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: But
go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Matthew 15:24
I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Acts 16:6
Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and
were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia.
http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/contra/samaritans.html points out that
thre are also passages, one in Matthew that say exactly the opposite.
You can't do both, so you make an arbitrary decision.
>
>> If I don't care I don't respond. You do respond, lately with evasive
>> reasons why a simple request can't be done.
>
> But the fact still stands that you do in fact have exactly what you
> truly asked for.
I made a simple request and you refused.
I guess in that sense I do have what I was asking for.
Another Christian fundy afraid to actually try what his bible says is true.
Not nearly as exciting as drinking poison, and I'm sure you have a reason
why Mark 16:15 *is* true but 16:17-19 is not.
> I made a simple request and you refused.
I am not the one to make such request to and that was my point. The
scriptures don't read ask Snow and you will receive.
> I guess in that sense I do have what I was asking for.
You also forget that it was more then one instruction... after asking
you have to seek and knock. You can't take a single instruction out
of context and say, I asked and nothing happened so it must be a lie.
You have to put that knowledge into action by seeking it.
> Another Christian fundy afraid to actually try what his bible says is true.
I have no fear, I just don't waste my time testing YHWH when I already
know the truth. Your the one who is asking the wrong source and
failing to take any action.
> Not nearly as exciting as drinking poison, and I'm sure you have a reason
> why Mark 16:15 *is* true but 16:17-19 is not.
Not at all... It's all true in my book.
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The scriptures say *you* will get what you ask for.
The scriptures, in some places say you are to preach to me. I would assume
that is to convert me.
All you have to do to convert me is make one simple unselfish request of
your god.
Present information to me in a manner that will convince me of it's
existence.
Do this in a manner that does not impede my freewill.
Rather than do this simple unselfish act you continue to make excuses.
Are all these people who ask for simple unselfish things all the time wrong?
When the kids gathered around a local hospital and asked god to save their
friend was this wrong?
If you asked that a loved one be saved from some illness is this wrong?
>
>> I guess in that sense I do have what I was asking for.
>
> You also forget that it was more then one instruction... after asking
> you have to seek and knock. You can't take a single instruction out
> of context and say, I asked and nothing happened so it must be a lie.
> You have to put that knowledge into action by seeking it.
You keep stretching the idea, anything to get out of actually doing it.
Did they leave "7:8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh
findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened." out of your book?
>
>> Another Christian fundy afraid to actually try what his bible says
>> is true.
>
> I have no fear, I just don't waste my time testing YHWH when I already
> know the truth. Your the one who is asking the wrong source and
> failing to take any action.
Why would asking a god to do something for you be a test?
As for asking the wrong you are right. Even if you did do it there would be
no results.
tens of millions of people have died asking their god to save them or a
loved one to no avail
>
>
>> Not nearly as exciting as drinking poison, and I'm sure you have a
>> reason why Mark 16:15 *is* true but 16:17-19 is not.
>
> Not at all... It's all true in my book.
Except for the parts you don't like.
It also says seek and you will find. Words must be put into action.
Context friend....
> The scriptures, in some places say you are to preach to me. I would assume
> that is to convert me.
No... Not at all.
Mat 10:14 “And whoever does not receive you nor hear your words, when
you leave that house or city, shake off the dust from your feet.
I am required to warn you of your impending destiny and that your
unbelief has caused you to live a cursed life. You are receiving what
you are asking for by your actions and belief which speak louder then
the words you post. Saying to me, "convert me" when only the spirit
has that power is a pointless exercise when you know that you have
been granted free will purposely.
Ask better questions and you will get better answers. Take care Mike.
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doing wonders!
Psa 72:19 And blessed be His esteemed Name forever! And let all the
earth Be filled with His esteem. Amĕn and Amĕn.
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> On May 4, 4:12�am, "Mike Painter" <mddotpain...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> I made a simple request and you refused.
>
> I am not the one to make such request to and that was my point. The
> scriptures don't read ask Snow and you will receive.
But you are, as every question, who make comments that are a bit on the
incredulous side and people want to know, what ever are they talking
about. In this case, you willing to make a claim, which will not willing
to stand up and defend that claim. Or even attempt to explain it come to
that. So, all you are doing is a tempting to avoid a responsibility
inherent in being a human making claims, not to mention a xian and
therefore one of those supposedly more about the truth than anyone else.
>> I guess in that sense I do have what I was asking for.
Mike, was there ever any doubt? After all, xians are long on claims &
short with the evidence. Of course, I suspect that instinctively they
realized there is no evidence and therefore they avoid trying to provide
any.
> You also forget that it was more then one instruction... after asking
Actually, no it was not. Two separate instructions. There is no
conjunction in the instructions. Two separate sets of instructions in
order to convince the believers and nonbelievers that your myth is true.
> you have to seek and knock. You can't take a single instruction out
You do it all the time, like just now. I'll been looking over the god
squads of humanity are close to 50 plus years. The conclusion is they
cannot all be true, but they can all be false. Yours is neither the
oldest nor the newest of the holy books, and you don't even begin to
understand that and the implication thereof.
> of context and say, I asked and nothing happened so it must be a lie.
I asked believers, and nothing happens. They cannot explain, they cannot
justify, they cannot even use logic to support their claims. So yes, I'm
going to continue to ask people like you to support their claims.
Knowing full well in advance they cannot. You must use logical fallacies
to even make it sound good to yourself.
> You have to put that knowledge into action by seeking it.
And when the knowledge is not there? And you have actually sought the
knowledge with the predictable failure because it's not their. Not
everyone is capable of believing something before evidence has been
provided. Portrait for the human race, those numbers seem to be
increasing throughout the world.
>> Another Christian fundy afraid to actually try what his bible says is
>> true.
Well of course Mike, he wouldn't be a salad bar xian if he actually did
what the first century xians expected and did. Like those that claimed
to be xians prior to Constantine and would not fight in the legions.
Along comes Constantine, and all of a sudden, it's all right to kill.
Very flexible mythology there.
> I have no fear, I just don't waste my time testing YHWH when I already
> know the truth. Your the one who is asking the wrong source and
> failing to take any action.
Well, yes, it's a given that asking you for evidence or even supporting
documentation. Extraneous to your mythology is a waste of time, and
definitely the wrong source. But supposedly, you can defend your
mythology, using the Greek Testament as well as the Hebrew Bible. You
get to do so and continue to run away from anything that will expose in
your ignorance to yourself as well as others.
>> Not nearly as exciting as drinking poison, and I'm sure you have a
>> reason why Mark 16:15 *is* true but 16:17-19 is not.
> Not at all... It's all true in my book.
Except, of course, a parts that do not apply to you according to your own
interpolation. Even though both parts applied everybody else. Subtle
hint, nowhere in the Hebrew Bible or Greek Testament, will you find the
phrase, except for. Of course, that does mean that you won't pretend it
is there.
And here's something to continue your evasion with, I'm sure by now, the
audience can almost count how fast you will avoid standing up in
supporting your claims as well as your mythology.
walksalone, who find it pathetic that xians of this caliber are willing
to make claims they cannot support and are perfectly willing to avoid
doing so in public. All the while pretending that they really don't have
to, because, well I guess supposedly because they are xians. But then,
liars never support their word with facts, and rarely with documents that
are unfavorable to their claims.
''Clearly the Christians have used ... myths ... in fabricating the story
of Jesus' birth' It is clear to me that the writings of the Christians
are a lie and that your fables are not well-enough constructed to conceal
this monstrous fiction.'
Celsus (On The True Doctrine, c 178 AD)
> On May 5, 3:15 am, "Mike Painter" <mddotpain...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> guardian Snow wrote:
>> > On May 4, 4:12 am, "Mike Painter" <mddotpain...@sbcglobal.net>
>> > wrote:
As usual, this is through but not to Snow. The concepts are too
complicated for him based on his posting history.
>> >> I made a simple request and you refused.
>>
>> > I am not the one to make such request to and that was my point. T
> he
>> > scriptures don't read ask Snow and you will receive.
>>
>> The scriptures say *you* will get what you ask for.
>
> It also says seek and you will find. Words must be put into action.
> Context friend....
>
>> The scriptures, in some places say you are to preach to me. I would
>> assum
> e
>> that is to convert me.
>
> No... Not Thor all.
Then what is to some that is to, convince everybody that your mythology
has nothing to do with reality?
> Mat 10:14 “And whoever does not receive you nor hear your words,
> when you leave that house or city, shake off the dust from your feet.
That's an instruction, not an invitation to take your leisure in
departing. Of course, reading and context is not your forte.
> I am required to warn you of your impending destiny and that your
No, you are not. There is no onus on you in particular, that is a mantle
you applied to yourself for your own glorification. Nothing new there.
Just because you do not understand the mythology does not mean others
don't.
> unbelief has caused you to live a cursed life. You are receiving what
I'm certain that Thor will be happy to listen to your babbling while you
try to explain to him. Why he should not simply cost you to know frost
giants at Ragnock. Or maybe you would like to explain it to Osiris, or
possibly Horus. After all, he is one of the original role models for
your particular mythology. Some say the original. And to build a pretty
good case. Even if they are xians themselves. At any rate, he's got
approximately 12,000 potential irritated gods waiting on you to die, and
these are major gods. Not talking about that conglomeration based on the
Hebrew Bible.
> you are asking for by your actions and belief which speak louder then
> the words you post. Saying to me, "convert me" when only the spirit
Supposedly, you have the power to convince a person to accept the spirit.
The key word, supposedly. Of course, like the spirit, you are powerless
to convince anybody who is not inclined to believe you to start with.
People it require evidence for major changes in the way they look at
life. Have a good laugh at people like you. You can make the claims, &
shame the name but you cannot provide the evidence. But neither can a
Hindu.
> has that power is a pointless exercise when you know that you have
> been granted free will purposely.
If the real gods of the desert, in fact exist. There is no free will as
the Hebrew Bible verifies time and again. That is a canard used by
xianity to defend their version of a mythology that makes no sense. It
makes no sense from the point of view of the founding traditions, it
makes no sense to the point of view of history. History can excuse and
accuse xianity, but it can't make it make sense.
> Ask better questions and you will get better answers. Take care Mike.
Perhaps you are used to answering questions of the caliber of, what time
of day is it. Mike on the other hand, & occasionally myself, are used to
answering questions. More than a tad complicated than that. Yes, you
cannot answer question to back a mythology because you don't know. & you
will not study the history and formulation of that mythology, because,
you instinctively realize you would be mad at yourself for being
suckered. But it's quite all right, after all, you are the victim of
child abuse most likely.
Snip Hebrew Bible verses taken out of context in an attempt to make it
look like snow is able to say something worthy of note.
But here's something you can comment on snow, the supposedly, you know
all about it. It is even on-topic, which is frequent, not the case when
or where you are involved.
walksalone who realizes that snow will never be man enough to defend his
claims, I suspect he's almost smart enough to realize he can't without
making more of a fool of himself than he already has. Of course, only
snow can prove that observation wrong.
And you are unwilling to seek and find out if your request worked.
But your comment shows how little you know of teh language or it's usage.
You also continue to ignore teh next verses which does show that asking,
seeking, etc are separate acts
" Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a
stone? "
>
>> The scriptures, in some places say you are to preach to me. I would
>> assume that is to convert me.
>
> No... Not at all.
>
> Mat 10:14 "And whoever does not receive you nor hear your words, when
> you leave that house or city, shake off the dust from your feet.
>
> I am required to warn you of your impending destiny and that your
> unbelief has caused you to live a cursed life. You are receiving what
> you are asking for by your actions and belief which speak louder then
> the words you post. Saying to me, "convert me" when only the spirit
> has that power is a pointless exercise when you know that you have
> been granted free will purposely.
It is pointless becasue it is all crap and your continuing to make excuses
points this out.
By your argument asking that someone be healed is a pointless exercise.
On that we agree.
Not in my mind. This passage and the one in Luke which is almost the same is
teh subject of countless sermons, especially during period of crisis (Mark
Twain's War Prayer sums it up)
A while back a group of teens put it into practice, formed a line outside a
hosspital and asked that their friend be saved. I guess none of them were
True Christians as the kid died.
What snowgoose did was exactly the same as everybody else has done when
asked. They make excuses and tell me why it can't be done.
They also never answer the question about asking for others.
A woman in Paradise California defined prayer as a long distance telephone
call. with no body at the other end.
Virginia Franklin was the one that had a kid sneak a cassette tape into her
class in a hollowed out book to try and catch her making commie statements.
"An 11-page story in Life magazine April 26, 1963, reads "Hell Breaks Loose
in Paradise," a story of teacher Virginia Franklin and a troubled school
district."
Very few languages contain a word that exclusively means "create from
nothing." Genesis would be one of the few contexts in which the word
is used.
Genesis 1 (Young's Literal Translation)
1 In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth --
2 the earth hath existed waste and void, and darkness [is] on the
face of the deep, and the Spirit of God fluttering on the face of the
waters,
3 and God saith, `Let light be;' and light is.
Even Young's excruciatingly literal translation does not say that God
"encounters" a formless earth. It says that during the creation
process, earth was formless.
And it does not matter what other creation myths state -- your
statement is unscientific and undisciplined thinking. If you pretend
to study this creation myth, at least take it on its merits.
One of its great demerits is the idea that Humanity could sin before
knowing the difference between Good and Evil, i.e., that Good is good
and Evil is evil. Or is that riddle to high level for an Atheist to
consider?
If you were able to think into that realm, you might understand that
mens rea can include only those concepts of which the person is aware,
particularly when the act itself is not intrinsically harmful.
TCross
> It is pointless becasue it is all crap and your continuing to make excuses
> points this out.
>
> By your argument asking that someone be healed is a pointless exercise.
> On that we agree.
Agreed. Again, read the context of the statement.
Mat 7:7 “Ask and it shall be given to you, seek and you shall find,
knock and it shall be opened to you.
Mat 7:8 “For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and
to him who knocks it shall be opened.
Mat 7:9 “Or is there a man among you who, if his son asks for bread,
shall give him a stone?
Mat 7:10 “Or if he asks for a fish, shall he give him a snake?
Mat 7:11 “If you then, being wicked, know how to give good gifts to
your children, how much more shall your Father who is in the heavens
give what is good to those who ask Him!
Asking must be followed by taking action. I can ask all day long but
if I take no action, what can I expect to receive? The simple act of
asking is pointless...
Jas 2:14 My brothers, what use is it for anyone to say he has belief
but does not have works? This belief is unable to save him.
The context clearly says that belief must be followed up by works. I
can believe all things and this will do nothing without taking action,
it dies on the vine. You want to be converted, take action and put
your own words to the pavement. The same goes for healing a man... I
can pray for a miracle but what good is that if I stand and pray and
then watch the man bleed to death? I must take action.
Now, don't take me wrong, I do believe in miracles that are solely by
the hand of Yahweh and in fact, I've seen this in action with my own
eyes but... I do not tempted the will of Yahweh by failing to put my
own actions and words into work.
You will receive and of that I have no doubt but given the sovereign
nature of Elohim and all men for that matter, he wants to see action,
not beggars looking for handouts. No Father wants his children to be
lazy and useless, standing around waiting for him to solve all their
problems... Like any good parent, he allows his children to go to the
school of hard knocks.
Deu 4:29 “But from there you shall seek [Yahweh] יהוה your Elohim, and
shall find, when you search for Him with all your heart1 and with all
your being. Footnote: 1Jer. 29:13.
Deu 4:30 “In your distress, when all these words shall come upon you
in the latter days, then you shall return to [Yahweh] יהוה your Elohim
and shall obey His voice.
Deu 4:31 “For [Yahweh] יהוה your Elohim is a compassionate Ěl, He does
not forsake you, nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your
fathers which He swore to them.
Again we see the principle of seek and you shall find! You are not
seeking and you will not find, it's that simple... context. You are
not truly asking because it's something you want, your asking,
thinking I'm so vane I should prove what I already know.
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> On May 6, 5:03 am, "Mike Painter" <mddotpain...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Of course, this is through & not to snow. Wouldn't want him to think &
get a headache, would we?
>> It is pointless becasue it is all crap and your continuing to make
>> excuse
> s
>> points this out.
>>
>> By your argument asking that someone be healed is a pointless
>> exercise. On that we agree.
>
> Agreed. Again, read the context of the statement.
The context, in the English language, is very blunt & yet you don't
accept that. It says you get what yopu ask for. A promise supposedly
made by the claimed missing messiah of xianity.
That does not fir your view of what should be, & so, like so many others,
you squeal out of context & fail to shhow how. Hint, circular
argumentation does not work on many, if any, that are not gullibale.
> Mat 7:7 “Ask and it shall be given to you, seek and you shall find,
> knock and it shall be opened to you.
Ask & its yours. Seek & you shall find, unless the godon duty doesn's
feel like. Then we get to hear, all prayers are answered, sometimes n o,
sometimes not yet, & statistacly av erage, yes. IOW, its the same as
praying to a rock. With one important differance. You can detect the
rock.
Prayer, it works like nothing. Exactly nothing.
> Mat 7:8 “For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and
> to him who knocks it shall be opened.
IOW, stay on your kness & its yours. Nothing more is needed. BTW, is
language your first language. It certainly appears English isn't.
snip text from the Greek Testamenst that does not support snows claims.
But then, none of them do.
> Mat 7:11 “If you then, being wicked, know how to give good gifts to
> your children, how much more shall your Father who is in the heavens
> give what is good to those who ask Him!
IOW, big daddy will provide. Taken to its logical conclusion, like most
Engish speakers do, anything you want is yours just for the asking. A
part of xianity that appeals to the greed in most people, & they don't
even know it.
> Asking must be followed by taking action. I can ask all day long but
> if I take no action, what can I expect to receive? The simple act of
> asking is pointless...
Asking is all that is required, or the myth is a lie. Hint, its n ot the
truth based on a rather large list of reasons. Like all ,mythologies
that became organized, it cuts its own throat if you read the texts in
context. But alas, you have never learned how to do that, & likely never
will.
> Jas 2:14 My brothers, what use is it for anyone to say he has belief
> but does not have works? This belief is unable to save him.
>
> The context clearly says that belief must be followed up by works. I
Again, its taklen from a Geek Testament, of unkown authorship &Y unkown
hiastorical accuracy. IOW, like the rest of the gospel series, epigraphic
& therefore n ot trustwothy by itself.
Hint, you start with small steps, say establishing a need for a god, then
graduate to where your god is necessary, then all other gods are false,
&, weel you don't get it. But thinking people do.
> can believe all things and this will do nothing without taking action,
IOW, chase your tail to get the brass ring.
> it dies on the vine. You want to be converted, take action and put
No, but I woluld like to see some reason to consider it. As yet, all I
see, in this case, iks a blowhard arguing in order to make himself more
than he is in his own eyes. IOW, a typical usenet xian droll, which is
not a good thing I should not need to tell you.
> your own words to the pavement. The same goes for healing a man... I
> can pray for a miracle but what good is that if I stand and pray and
> then watch the man bleed to death? I must take action.
>
> Now, don't take me wrong, I do believe in miracles that are solely by
> the hand of Yahweh and in fact, I've seen this in action with my own
> eyes but... I do not tempted the will of Yahweh by failing to put my
> own actions and words into work.
>
> You will receive and of that I have no doubt but given the sovereign
> nature of Elohim and all men for that matter, he wants to see action,
> not beggars looking for handouts. No Father wants his children to be
> lazy and useless, standing around waiting for him to solve all their
> problems... Like any good parent, he allows his children to go to the
> school of hard knocks.
Hence so many dysfunctional members of society of the xian persuasion.
My children were never denied the chance to screw up & pay the price, but
they knew if they diid, it wouold be their choice for their mothers & I
made sure they were well awsare of teh real world & some of the nonsense
in it. Nonsense like yours.
Snip more attempts to make the Hebrew Bible a source of authority, when
it in fact isn't to those that know better.
> Deu 4:30 “In your distress, when all these words shall come upon you
> in the latter days, then you shall return to [Yahweh] יהוה your
> Elohim and shall obey His voice.
> Deu 4:31 “For [Yahweh] יהוה your Elohim is a compassionate Ěl,
> He does not forsake you, nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of
> your fathers which He swore to them.
Which covenant would that be.[1] After all, there are more than one. As
to compassion, durst thou say Exodus never happened as described.
BTW, when was Duet:, as we know it know, put in writing?
> Again we see the principle of seek and you shall find! You are not
You do, but you see things no one else does. I don't, I see a portioon
of a national epic in which thje claimed hairy chested god of the day is
beiong transformed from a brutal tyrant to a nice guy, if you let him &
obey him that is. Context explains content, a rule you have not
underwstood since you self appointed snow job beagn.
> seeking and you will not find, it's that simple... context. You are
> not truly asking because it's something you want, your asking,
> thinking I'm so vane I should prove what I already know.
No, you were asked, not because you are vain, but because it is something
xians try & explain away.
Just as you have & contiue to do in thne following, minus the phoney
explanation.
[1] Abraham, Moses, & Joshua sprang to mind. & then there are the other
ones.
walksalone who doubts snow realises how much of a liar he has made of
himsef to people that might haver taken him seriously, but alas, he has
no answer. Either when he made the claim, or on his death bed.
> walksalone wrote:
> >
>>>> I guess in that sense I do have what I was asking for.
>>
>> Mike, was there ever any doubt? After all, xians are long on claims
>> & short with the evidence. Of course, I suspect that instinctively
>> they realized there is no evidence and therefore they avoid trying to
>> provide any.
>
> Not in my mind. This passage and the one in Luke which is almost the
> same is teh subject of countless sermons, especially during period of
> crisis (Mark Twain's War Prayer sums it up)
An excellent read. One of the few that I have kept, even though it was
published after his death. As far as I know, it would have been suicide
economically for him to have published it prior to his death.
> A while back a group of teens put it into practice, formed a line
> outside a hosspital and asked that their friend be saved. I guess none
> of them were True Christians as the kid died.
It would appear that way, but remember, the standard excuse. All prayers
are answered. They may be yes. It may be no. What may be FOADMF. Then
again, prayer is nothing but a means of interrupting the so-called
controller of the universe with petty requests, also known as begging.
Even less affected than the old song, please Mr. Custer, I Don't Want to
Go.
> What snowgoose did was exactly the same as everybody else has done
> when asked. They make excuses and tell me why it can't be done.
> They also never answer the question about asking for others.
Of course not. But I suspect the routine is buried in antiquity. If I
recall correctly, the early church fathers were famous for such tactics.
They all never directly addressed the question, but diverted the
attention to something almost like the question. Of course back then, as
now, rhetoric was highly valued around the Mediterranean basin. It
didn't matter what he said so much as the way you said it. That was
impressive. Where that is concerned, times have not improved, even
though they have changed. Bullshit is still bullshit no matter what it is
called by somebody else. Even ours when we are in the bullshit mode.
The difference, we don't really expect anybody to base their life on what
we say. When we are in the bullshit mode.
> A woman in Paradise California defined prayer as a long distance
> telephone
> call. with no body at the other end.
A relatively accurate description.
> Virginia Franklin was the one that had a kid sneak a cassette tape
> into her class in a hollowed out book to try and catch her making
> commie statements.
These are desperate times for the xian community, they have enemies
everywhere. Granted, the enemies are only in their own mind, but they
are enemies nonetheless.
> "An 11-page story in Life magazine April 26, 1963, reads "Hell Breaks
> Loose
> in Paradise," a story of teacher Virginia Franklin and a troubled
> school district."
I hope you're not surprised by that. Desperate people take desperate
means to support themselves. Whether it is their belief or their life,
they are above the law of decency where anyone else is concerned.
I met a very old man one time, when I had my business. He showed up
looking for work, and the work I do he was not qualified to do or
physically able to do. But I was cooking up a pot of beans at that time,
and I had some freshly sliced onion and we shared it. The following
morning, I walked out the back porch, a concrete slab, and there he was
cleaning it up. When I raised an eyebrow, he said, he said, this I can
do.
Now, I don't know if he was xian or not, that never comes up in a
conversation with me. Unless of course, they bring it up. Real life is
not Usenet life. But I know he was a man, and I would have given him
some money except I know he would have refused it.
So, not everybody prays for relief, some get off their asses and go and
try to get relief. Not everybody rides the welfare book, some have too
much dignity. I only wish there had been something I could have done to
employ that old man. Even if all I could do was provide him with food
for a while.
walksalone, who has long understood, xianity is a roll your own
mythology. It has no choice, there's no way to resolve the conflict
using ethics or logic with anything resembling regularity.
Signs of True Christians
Mk.16:17-18 "And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name
shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall
take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt
them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover."
Lk.10:19 "Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and
scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any
means hurt you."
As for context.
Comma's in common use imply an OR statement.
A, B, C implies A OR B OR C and usually in English this is an exclusive OR.
Would you like an apple, a banna, a cherry? You get one.
Even a non exclusive OR allows taking only one.
Had the people who have translated many different versions of this believe
as you claim to then they would have written A AND B and C.
They didn't. I suspect you didn;t either until I asked you to do one simple
unselfish act for somebody else.
And you realized it would not work.
> Even Young's excruciatingly literal translation does not say that God
> "encounters" a formless earth. It says that during the creation
> process, earth was formless.
Wrong, as usual. A literal translation would be"At/in head in beginning"
The meaning of the word is not precisely known but since everybody else
started with a similar myth of an existing world it is safe to believe they
did the same
There are a few fundamentalist people with poor credentials, if any,
claiming one thing.
They claim a literal bible and have been doing so since about 1878.
There is the combined work of mainstream Christianity and Judaism on the
other hand claiming that the two Genesis creation stories are from
different sources and different times.
They are stories and all but a vanishing number of people believe otherwise.
You and yours worship a book and don't have the faith that the rest of
Christianity has.
Yes, you are. I always find it interesting that the atheist want to
tell me what my scriptures say and find it ironic.
> A literal translation would be"At/in head in beginning"
> The meaning of the word is not precisely known but since everybody else
> started with a similar myth of an existing world it is safe to believe they
> did the same
It's not a myth and it clearly reads created land. Can't live with
the facts?
Mike also has trouble dealing with the words written in a Usenet
message. Mike sees the world through tinted glasses -- with his
fantasies painted on the inside of the lenses.
TCross
I agree with you very much Terry. I find it interesting that the
context of "Ask and receive" is made to make it appear as if Yahweh is
a genie granting wishes for his followers by him. When considering
the surrounding text, it's clear that what we receive may not be what
we asked for... yet, we still do receive.
> On May 7, 12:23�pm, "Mike Painter" <mddotpain...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> Terry Cross wrote:
As usual, through but not to snow. After all, why confuse him with facts,
he does a fine job with wishes.
>> > Genesis 1 (Young's Literal Translation)
>> > "hath existed" past tense.
>> > Even Young's excruciatingly literal translation does not say that
>> > God "encounters" a formless earth. �It says that during the
>> > creation process, earth was formless.
>>
> < Wrong, as usual.
>
> Yes, you are. I always find it interesting that the atheist want to
> tell me what my scriptures say and find it ironic.
Well of course you are wrong. This is not the exception to the rule, but
the normative. What you find interesting is that your misconception of
what your Hebrew Bible [whichever version you are trying to use and declare
to be the only 1] should even have anything like you declare, is totally
unknown to anyone but yourself. Perfectly normal for somebody that likes
to delude themselves.
>>�A literal translation would be"At/in head in beginning"
>> The meaning of the word is not precisely known but since everybody
>> else started with a similar myth of an existing world it is safe to
>> believe th
> ey
>> did the same
>
> It's not a myth and it clearly reads created land. Can't live with
> the facts?
It's certainly not fact. To anyone except snow that is. Even xians have
learned to read the Bible literally. When they want somebody else to do
something in particular, and all times. When there is a conflict, a
parable, an allegory, a metaphor, a teaching, a saying. Anything but the
obvious truth. In this does not even delve into the problems created by
forgeries. Oh, I beg your pardon. They are referred to as epigraphical
works. In other words, works with authors are not known but were written
for a specific purpose. In the case of the Gospels, specific audiences in
order to pimp as fact that which strictly was fiction. In the case of the
Hebrew Bible, works designed as a national epic. Something or other common
in that region. And, as in so far as I know, every political power had
one. The precursor of the Hebrew Bible, mythology is well known, the epic
of Gilgamesh. It want to find all the major themes in the original, if I
may abuse ordered in such a manner, version of the work known as the
Genesis. But I don't recall seeing the conflict that Genesis created with
the original author's version of the creation of humanity, and then build
number two, version 1.9. When they were created separately, and the woman
from the man. Yet that too is in keeping with what one can expect from a
mythology is gleaned from various sources.
But here's something snow can understand, or at least pretend he does.
Walksalone who realizes snow cannot answer the above, even though he made
the claim. He will continue to pretend that he has no need of supporting
his verbosity and erroneous claims with evidence. But then he's typical of
Usenet xian, all mouth and no fact.
You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief
is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep-seated
need to believe.
�Carl Sagan
> On May 7, 3:53�pm, Terry Cross <tcros...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> On May 6, 10:10 pm, guardian Snow <snowpheo...@eck.net.au> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> > On May 7, 12:23 pm, "Mike Painter" <mddotpain...@sbcglobal.net>
>> > wrote:>
> Terry Cross wrote:
snip
>> > > started with a similar myth of an existing world it is safe to
>> > > believ
> e they
>> > > did the same
>>
>> > It's not a myth and it clearly reads created land. �Can't live with
>> > the facts?
>>
> < Mike also has trouble dealing with the words written in a Usenet
>> message. �Mike sees the world through tinted glasses -- with his
>> fantasies painted on the inside of the lenses.
How typical, you cannot present, just as snow cannot, evidence to support
your mouth. Of course, in your case, this is common and has been so
since he first extruded yourself into Usenet and make yourself an
unwelcome guest, possibly in several places. Words are written in Usenet
messages leave no room for ambiguity. Unfortunately, written text is
extremely literal. Or rather unfortunately for you. You can't see the
person doing the writing, you can't listen to them. Or you can do is
read. Which may explain why xians are so poor at getting the message
across. Some are extremely literate, but the message is based on
fantasy, and it shows. And now Mr. Cross, I bid thee farewell, for I
would not even see you on my screen. In this message, if it was not for
another role, one quite possibly even more ignorant than you.
[I've always found it rather odd that those who claim not to be xian to
be than xian acting man those that claim to be xian.]
>> TCross
>
> I agree with you very much Terry. I find it interesting that the
> context of "Ask and receive" is made to make it appear as if Yahweh is
Of course, you agree, you have to agree. He finally found somebody who's
possibly even in lower Usenet standing than yourself, but the agree with
you. Don't wear your arm out patting yourself on the back.
> a genie granting wishes for his followers by him. When considering
That's exactly how he has been presented, and it's not even a qualified.
Claim. You do it, you get it. Or so the rumor goes. Of course, real
life does not work like that and it does not take long for that
particular glaring piece of braggadocio to become obvious. This is what
passages you have to defend, even though you shouldn't have to. But
that's alright, it gives you something to do and something for people to
laugh at you over.
> the surrounding text, it's clear that what we receive may not be what
> we asked for... yet, we still do receive.
Nothing could be further from the truth, not even the message you keep
avoiding that follows. Just because you cannot accept the obvious does
not mean others cannot. Just because you cannot read in context, in the
context places as the words of a demigod, just because you must create
your own context, does not mean the rest of the world is so bound. The
next thing I know, you're going to claim the Johanne, was always there.
And yet, it's conspicuously missing from the original addition of the
first printed Bible. You do know which one that is right? I'll give you
a hint, it's a lot further back than what ever version you are using. Of
course, they didn't have comic books and trading cards back then.
Now, something he supposedly know about, so you don't have to strain your
brain and where your arm out.
walksalone, who knows full well that Snow will continue to run, of course
he will try to defend otherwise. But that's alright because the astute
reader will notice, that this is a continuing event with snow. Make a
claim and let alone without providing evidence when one really surely if
one wants to be taken seriously. Maybe, he's trying to appeal to the
troll community where evidence is a four letter word. I don't know. But
he's not appealing to the audience that can think for themselves, and
that I do now.
Plato was discoursing on his theory of ideas and,
pointing to the cups on the table before him, said while there
are many cups in the world, there is only one `idea' of a cup,
and this cupness precedes the existence of all particular cups.
"I can see the cup on the table," interupted
Diogenes, "but I can't see the `cupness'".
"That's because you have the eyes to see the cup,"
said Plato, "but", tapping his head with his forefinger, "you
don't have the intellect with which to comprehend `cupness'."
Diogenes walked up to the table, examined a cup
and, looking inside, asked, "Is it empty?"
Plato nodded.
"Where is the `emptiness' which procedes this
empty cup?" asked Diogenes.
Plato allowed himself a few moments to collect his
thoughts, but Diogenes reached over and, tapping Plato's head
with his finger, said "I think you will find here is the
emptiness'."
> Now, you can play with those observations, you can play with the
> dictionary & claim they are wrong. Or you can show them to be wrong
> & you to be right. Care to play?
No. I've answered you a dozen times now. Are you that slow?
The adversary surrounds Jerusalem, outnumbered a thousand strong for
every man woman and child; the gentiles are a lawless brood. The
wicked have grown strong in their blasphemy and the people are
scattered and wearied as the image of the beast rises as a standard
within the world. Deception runs deep and the armies of goy do not
understand the wickedness of their pagan ways they learned from their
Father’s.
Daniel J. Boorstin once said, “An image is not simply a trademark, a
design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously
crafted personality profile of an individual, institution,
corporation, product or service.”
Deu 27:15 ‘Cursed is the man who makes a carved or moulded image, an
abomination to [Yahweh] יהוה, the work of the hands of the craftsman,
and sets it up in secret.’ And all the people shall answer and say,
‘Amĕn!’
An interesting turn of phrase in scriptures, “The work of the hands of
the CRAFTsman, and sets it up in SECRET.”
Welcome to the image of Babylon. Where once we thought a light was
thought to be shining on the hill, an empire of darkness emerges that
war against the command of the King of Israel, Yehoshua Ben YAHWEH,
son of the most High and Almighty Creator of Heaven and Earth, Elohim
of Earth.
Rev 18:3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her
fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication
with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the
abundance of her delicacies.
And still, the demons of the pits are about to be unleashed upon the
world. Hatred, enmity and strife will reign as they are given to the
whims of their hearts and babes and handmaidens will prophecy. Yahweh
keeps for himself a tiny remnant scattered amongst the gentiles but
then in order to show his power on earth, that’s just the way he
demonstrates it, thru the David and Goliath stories, where the meek
overcome.
Isa 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and
create evil: I YHWH do all these things.
That deck is completely stacked by Yahweh, creator of all things good
and EVIL. That’s right, Satan and all the demons, created beings
controlled by the Almighty to test the spirit of men. You and I are
being tested and some of those demons are powerful and not to be toyed
with. Life is a test and that’s the great revelation to share with
you, whether you will be faithful with what you have been given, just
like the parables of Yehoshua but in that knowledge, that the outcome
is assured, is HOPE.
The challenges in life that greet you are not a battle of good versus
evil and we do not wrestle with “spirits in high places”. Those
spirits are under authority, granted by Yahweh and the authority
granted to them is limited as illustrated in the book of Job and
Jubilees. All we must do is recognize when spiritual influence occurs
and ask our Abba Yahweh to send them away and learn to obey him so
that worse doesn’t come.
Deu 4:20 “But [YAHWEH] יהוה has taken you and brought you out of the
iron furnace, out of Mitsrayim, to be His people, an inheritance, as
it is today.
You are being molded as a potter forms clay, this is the ultimate
purpose of testing you, proving you, showing you right rulings to fear
and serve YAHWEH alone and none else. Everything has its purpose from
demons to false apostles to make you into something better than we are
today. Still, many strive against our Abba in vanity
Isa 29:15 Woe to those who seek deep to hide their counsel far from
[YAHWEH] יהוה, and their works are in the dark; they say, “Who sees
us?” and, “Who knows us?” 16 How perverse of you! Should the potter be
reckoned as the clay? Should what is made say of its Maker, “He did
not make me”? And what is formed say of Him who formed it, “He did not
understand”?
YAHWEH is the Almighty because he created it ALL, good and evil and
those who think he doesn’t understand are ignorant of this great
truth, that there is no battle between good and evil. Simply put,
evil was created so that we could learn from it what not to do and the
results of our disobedience. All you have to do is open your eyes to
the world around you and anybody can see the results of the evil men
have created by not obeying the scriptures. “You do not murder” and
yet, we justify wars by the same scriptures and the heathen reckons
them evil. Scriptures are not evil, the men who misinterpret them are
and YHWH is sovereign over all things.
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> On May 7, 7:21 pm, walksalone <spamstop...@nerdshack.com> wrote:
>
>> Now, you can play with those observations, you can play with the
>> dictionary & claim they are wrong. Or you can show them to be wrong
>> & you to be right. Care to play?
snip pretend answers that are neither germane nor even close to the
subject.
Through & not to snow. There is a part just for snow.
No, you have not answered them, had you done so, this would not be on
screens as we look.
What you do not realise is your limited understanding of English, US
style, has failed you again.
That is not the only reference to an answer being needed, & qualifies how
the answer should be phrased.
Note, should you elect to play indicatess that a particular form of
evasion is anticipated. A form you have verified as your best effort.
&, your only choice, indicative of a lack of options, such as pretending
to have answered. Or being exempt from supporting your lie.
You are trying to play BMOC, without the skill to support you in that
role.
Now, back to another subject you lack the skill to support. By now, yu
can recite it in your sleep.
Now, you can play with those observations, you can play with the
dictionary & claim they are wrong. Or you can show them to be wrong
& you to be right. Care to play?
Hint, I will cram your attempts to divert & sidetrack by employing
scripture as an authority right back down your throat.
After all, what makes yolu think that if the Hebrew Bible & Greek
testments have historical errors, & they do, they don't have
mythological claims for the truth wrong as well.
No, that is not a threat, I don't bother with them. It is a fact.
Your only choice, should you elect to play BMOC, is to address the
concepts & falsify them.
walksalone who will accept nothing less than an honest actual answer from
snow. If such is possible that is.
The fact is that teh exact translation is not known, Young's is not literal
and you make up what you want to believe.
First off, thanks for continued interest in my religion but you don't
know that I do really on the literal translation, right down to the
original ancient Hebrew characters. I'd bother to expand on the topic
but it would take to long and be too boring.
Maybe you would like to join our research team? Then you could really
teach us something. It's always good to know atheist are concerned
with the truth in scriptures. How do you feel about this passage?
Isa 45:7 forming light and creating darkness, making peace and
creating evil. I, [Yahweh] יהוה, do all these.’
Isa 45:8 “Rain down, O heavens, from above, and let clouds pour down
righteousness. Let the earth open, let them bring forth deliverance,
and let righteousness spring up together. I, [Yahweh] יהוה, have
created it.
Isa 45:9 “Woe to him who strives with his Maker! (a potsherd with the
potsherds of the earth). Does clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are
you making?’ Or your handiwork say, ‘He has no hands’?
Needless to say one of the resources I use is the Ancient Hebrew
Lexicon. Since you have such an interest maybe you would be interested
in having a read yourself:
Ancient Hebrew Research Center
http://www.ancient-hebrew.org
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But you never cite any sources, so all your vaunted authority is
worthless.
TCross
But we do. It's in the street to you how we know, but we know.
> original ancient Hebrew characters. I'd bother to expand on the topic
> but it would take to long and be too boring.
You will never encountered the original ancient Hebrew characters in the
Hebrew Bible format. There are no manuscripts nor has there been for
several centuries, approximately 20 centuries. Written Hebrew has not
existed since the fall of Jerusalem in 70 Gregorian, or at least not to
the knowledge of reputable scholars.
Of course, just because you don't recognize them as being reputable
scholars does not remove them from being so.
> Maybe you would like to join our research team? Then you could really
No thanks, with your presentations, I'd never have time for study. I'd
be too busy laughing.
> teach us something. It's always good to know atheist are concerned
> with the truth in scriptures. How do you feel about this passage?
Atheists are not concerned with your version of the truth in Scripture.
Our primary concern, if any, would be your misrepresentation of your
mythology as being a good thing that everybody should adhere to and heed.
> Isa 45:7 forming light and creating darkness, making peace and
> creating evil. I, [Yahweh] יהוה, do all these.’
A rather pretentious claim by a rather minor god in a rather minor region
of the world. Until after the Greeks that is.
> Isa 45:8 “Rain down, O heavens, from above, and let clouds pour down
> righteousness. Let the earth open, let them bring forth deliverance,
> and let righteousness spring up together. I, [Yahweh] יהוה, have
> created it.
This appears to be a direct attempt to subsume of the powers of Ba'al,
the reigning god at the time of the Isaiah. You wonder how such a
conclusion can be drawn, people don't rant and rave against things that
do not exist in their own mines and misconceptions. No other god
received so much anger, and vilification as he did. And yet, he was
simply the weather god, and his daughters were nice people as well.
> Isa 45:9 “Woe to him who strives with his Maker! (a potsherd with
> the potsherds of the earth). Does clay say to him who forms it,
> ‘What are you making?’ Or your handiwork say, ‘He has no
> hands’?
Which goes to show you the intelligence level of the people that were
trying to craft the myth. Clay he does not speak. Those that can
imagine clay speaking have a lot left to be desired in the way of mental
skills. And your excuse is?
> Needless to say one of the resources I use is the Ancient Hebrew
> Lexicon. Since you have such an interest maybe you would be interested
> in having a read yourself:
Strange, scholars around the world would give their eye teeth to have an
ancient Hebrew lexicon that was accurate. And yet, none quote such a
thing. How could such a thing be? Well, claims are cheap.
> Ancient Hebrew Research Center
> http://www.ancient-hebrew.org
No thanks, you see, when I see a name like the above, all sorts of alarms
go off. Most of them are sites that have something to sell, for various
products to points of view. The fact is, the earliest Hebrew writings we
have are from the sixth century when the rabbis decided to write it down
again. We do not know their source material, but we can be a relatively
certain that it was not first century. How can we be so certain,
political, social, historical conditions were not favorable to that
particular language. Rome to literally removed it from the face of the
earth. So anything that came after that event, known as the tragedy of
Jerusalem, is suspect. It would require an impeccable credentials that
would satisfy an honest to gosh, scholar. Apologetics and impostors need
not apply.
By the way, just so you know, the earliest known printed Bible did not
support the Johanne comma. People other than yourself and much know what
information comes from, are free to ask. You wouldn't understand it, it
would be too complicated. But the train of evidence for the original
printing indicates, no such passage existed except, by the demands of
various questions. I rather imagine that would include the churches. It
seems as forgeries go, it's relatively late.
Now, back to something, you know even less about if your effort to
support your contentions is any indication.
walksalone, who has given snow two ways of avoiding seeing his name
shamed like this, but does not expect snow to understand how easy it is
to avoid and therefore, avoid it.
> But you never cite any sources, so all your vaunted authority is
> worthless.
>
> TCross
I'm pretty sure we know his sources:))
Zec 3:1 And he showed me Yehoshua the high priest standing before the
messenger of [Yahweh] יהוה, and Satan standing at his right hand to be
an adversary to him.
The faculty of the major graduate institutions in the U.S. for study of the
Bible: UCSD, Berkeley, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Chicago,
Emory, Vanderbilt.
Contact any of them or read what they have written,
Start with Friedman and "Who Wrote The Bible"
Get back to me when you have finished and I'll find some more books for you
to read.
I've posted it often enough.
The faculty of the major graduate institutions in the U.S. for study of the
Bible:: UCSD, Berkeley, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Chicago,
Emory, Vanderbilt.
But don't limit yourself to just the USA. "The Bible Unearthed" is a good
read.
The Jesus Puzzle is not a good read but continues the work of others.
You made a claim that Young's was literal. It is not.
Rather than admit error you change the subject.
The exact meaning is not known and probably never will be.
You *CAN'T* safely use literal translations of any language and this is
especially true of material written when people had entirely different ways
of thinking about things.
You can't even explain many English sentences without knowing when they were
written and the context.
It is unlikely that you work on this material on a full time basis with the
necessary training and education needed to contribute.
Genesis 28:12 And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and
the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and
descending on it.
Care to comment?
Sounds good Mike. Thanks for sharing what you think. It must amaze
you that since we do take our belief on faith that you could put a
billion sources up and I personally would ignore them for the
scriptures every time...
Science is something that we see and observe with our own senses and
I've seen all the things I need to for myself to believe what I know
is true.
Unfortunately you haven't recognized things or just haven't had my
experiences to share my belief and I respect that. I'm not here to
show proof your wrong Mike because I don't care what you believe and I
don't honestly know except that you think I'm wrong... I can live with
that and it's no skin off my backside. The only thing I'm required to
do is give you the reason for my belief and I tell you without a
nickle of doubt, I know the truth of Yahweh my Elohim and his Son
Yehoshua and for that I'm grateful and it gives me great peace that I
have the assurance of Abba.
Take care Mike and thanks for sharing with me.
Shalom,
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(¸.•´ (¸.• (Snow(.¸.•*´¨)
The best way to deal with that is to live in a fully conscious,
compassionate, loving way. Don't wait until you're on your deathbed to
recognize that this is the only way to live.
Morrie Schwartz
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http://www.isr-messianic.org/ <- download the scriptures free
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download of the Restored Names King James Version
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If you actually took it on faitrh thr would be no need for you to try and
prove you are right.
If there was any valifity in your faith those beliefs would tend to
converge, not diverge.
>
>
> Unfortunately you haven't recognized things or just haven't had my
> experiences to share my belief and I respect that. I'm not here to
> show proof your wrong Mike because I don't care what you believe and I
> don't honestly know except that you think I'm wrong... I can live with
> that and it's no skin off my backside. The only thing I'm required to
> do is give you the reason for my belief and I tell you without a
> nickle of doubt, I know the truth of Yahweh my Elohim and his Son
> Yehoshua and for that I'm grateful and it gives me great peace that I
> have the assurance of Abba.
>
You are here to show proof that you and you alone are right. You have shown
no evidence that you have the faith that all major religions have.
For at least 1500 years true religious faith is *not* provable and you keep
quoting the bible to show that what you believe is true.
Only one of you can be right and all can be wrong.
There are differing opinions, and none of them are scientific truths.
No doubt you would like all persons to be corralled into a single
opinion, but the movement for Atheistic tyranny was a dismal
failure.
It is time you recognize that your movement failed.
TCross
WRT the Document Hypothesis, among scholars it is essentially a single
opinion.
The idea that even an idiot like you would not want a single opinion on
religion is amusing as the vast majority of fundy twits claim ther *is* only
one correct view and that they hold it.
>
> It is time you recognize that your movement failed.
Failed?
"Yes, I keep hearing that, too: people claiming that the hypothesis has been
disproven, refuted, that nobody believes it anymore. What can I say? It is
taught at the great majority of universities and seminaries, it figures in
nearly all the standard textbooks. The faculty of the major graduate
institutions in the U.S. for study of the Bible are persuaded by the
evidence for it: UCSD, Berkeley, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania,
Chicago, Emory, Vanderbilt.
More to the point: the strongest arguments for the hypothesis are (1) the
convergence of several different lines of evidence; (2) the linguistic
evidence (that the stages of the biblical Hebrew of the sources enables us
to identify when the sources were written); and (3) the narrative flow of
the text (we can separate whole stories that each flow without a break, like
the two flood stories, when read independently). And these three arguments
are never addressed by those who question the hypothesis.
In the pursuit of the truth, you're supposed to address the other guys'
arguments and evidence. When people don't even mention that evidence and
those arguments, and then just claim that the hypothesis has been disproven,
that tells you something about the weakness of their position.
Much of this is discussed in the appendices of my book, The Hidden Book in
the Bible."
- Richard Elliott Friedman
"There are many people who claim to be biblical scholars. I refer to
scholars who have the necessary training in languages, biblical archeology,
and literary and historical skills to work on the problem, and who meet
discuss and debate their ideas and research with other scholars through
scholarly journals, conferences, etc."
Richard Elliott Friedman "Who wrote the bible."
Your contempt and hatred has obviously curdled your intellect beyond
the capacity to write a literate sentence.
> > It is time you recognize that your movement failed.
>
> Failed?
> "Yes, I keep hearing that, too: people claiming that the hypothesis has been
> disproven, refuted, that nobody believes it anymore. What can I say? It is
> taught at the great majority of universities and seminaries, it figures in
> nearly all the standard textbooks. The faculty of the major graduate
> institutions in the U.S. for study of the Bible are persuaded by the
> evidence for it: UCSD, Berkeley, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania,
> Chicago, Emory, Vanderbilt.
>
> More to the point: the strongest arguments for the hypothesis are (1) the
> convergence of several different lines of evidence; (2) the linguistic
> evidence (that the stages of the biblical Hebrew of the sources enables us
> to identify when the sources were written); and (3) the narrative flow of
> the text (we can separate whole stories that each flow without a break, like
> the two flood stories, when read independently). And these three arguments
> are never addressed by those who question the hypothesis.
I have no idea why you are attacking the Hebrew Bible with the
presumption you are attacking me. I think the Hebrew scriptures are a
terrible burden to civilization. On this point alone, you show
repeatedly that you have a damaged intellect.
TCross
Pretty much for the same reason I and others have given every time you make
this statement.