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[quote=""Jaybees""]I've heard that said about Nazis.[/quote] In 1995 (back in the ancient usenet days) I was chatting with a bunch of geeks on alt.security about something or other. I said something. Another person said something and it led to an argument. I threw out the "n...

[quote=""Sheshbazzar""] ... Christianity is an unredeemable evil Yes. And nothing you will write here, and nothing that you will ever do, will ever change that, period.[/QUOTE] Sheshbazzar you are being dishonest. Tulip said: " I suspect that the consensus view on this board...

[quote=""Perspicuo""]About.com: Buddha: The Refiner of Hinduism The Buddha's relation with Hinduism is so close that it's easy to confuse Buddhism with Hinduism. The two religions have close connections, and yet they are distinct. This was because of Buddha's reform movements and...

Now I'm asking you to deal with that content, not for seeking by what means you can invent to avoid having to do so. No you can't shift the burden of proof onto me thank you. I stated that I doubted very much that Paul believed in strict predestination. I don't have to write a college paper for you...

[quote=""jonJ""]Your exegesis and my exegesis ... are all different ... and until God or a sufficiently convincing representative tells us what the hell all this stuff is actually supposed to mean, your reading is simply a matter of your opinion.[/quote] So I should just keep qui...

[quote=""Barbarian""] Well I'm not sure what part of the story of Jephthah (in Judges 10-12) makes God a "complete dick." The part where God appears to accept the deal (presumably knowing it's Jephtah's daughter - what's her name again? - who's going to the block in the...

To Sheshbazzar I have to say that you can’t just count up all instances of a word, put them in big bold letters, and then assume that it demonstrates your argument. There needs to be some exegesis involved. Also it would be nice if you sourced your references. The noun proorisas occurs only in the...

[quote=""jonJ""]Decisions are not the kinds of things that can be proved....[/quote] Tell that to Robert Tulip. I am not in disagreement. My wife had a brief flirtation with Christianity in her teens. I asked her why she dropped it, and she said: "Well, it didn't work. It wa...

The story of Noah is a good example of how the assumption of literalism is flawed. I'm right there with you. The Bible contains material intended as historical record, but this agenda is mixed in with other purposes including secret encoding and the promulgation of the beliefs of the monotheist Yah...

[quote=""Sheshbazzar""] I'm not going to touch that stuff about predestination. Well it is in the Bible, and was a teaching of Paul accepted and endorsed by early Christianity. We either deal honestly with that fact or we don't. Of course nowadays there are a great many aspects o...