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[formrusmcsgt]

Hey Sarge! Semper Fi brother. I figured many would get a kick out of the nic but I hate it.
LOL
Posted by bong-refuge at 4:46 AM : Jun 4, 2009

Semper Fi, dog.

You get banned AGAIN?

[formrusmcsgt]

Posted by bong-refuge at 4:31 AM : Jun 4, 2009

Hey Stu....new nic I see.

[formrusmcsgt]

The sole bridge to reconciliation is a Palestinian state.
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Precisely why Israel wants the status quo ad infinitim.

[skyk-2009]

Some how, if man is to survive, we must learn to live without religious hatred and bigotry. It's quite simple really as our founding fathers so clearly stated in our Constitution. "There shall be NO religious test". If we apply that to our lives and our relationships with our fellow man, we will find the conflicts throughout the world will fade into history. More people have died because of Religion than any other think in history...isn't it time it stopped? Isn't it time we all agreed to allow others the right to believe or NOT believe as they see fit? We have made a lot of People, people who can only con others to hate and fear, very wealthy because of religion and they will NOT give up that wealth or the tools that produce that wealth easily but WE can do it.

[nextgenman09]

Lelaakh breekha, Rowdy.
Posted by slownewsday_05 at 11:52 PM : Jun 3, 2009
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Neither you nor Rowdy have any intelligent understanding of New Testament History nor the evolution of any of the books that became canonical text thereof. First, the earliest copies of the Gospel of John are found written in Greek and consensus dates them to the early 2nd Century. So you're "Aramaic" translation is a load of Garden fertilizer frankly.

[truthislife1]

Just read Isaiah 53. Thank you.

[jmikey54]

All religious books are written by man and inspired by faith. We believe what we are taught to believe. What we are taught and our experiences in life define what our faith will be. We are all right when it comes to faith, because it is what we believe. That is why we have faith in our religion whatever it may be. That is why so many will die for there faith or in defending there faith. Religion of others must be accepted for there to be peace on Earth. We must accept that all religions are right and good for those who follow this or that religion. Faith comes in many shades and colors we must learn to respect that.

[troutfishyman]

Richard Carrier notes:

Contrary to common belief, there was never a one-time, truly universal decision as to which books should be included in the Bible. It took over a century of the proliferation of numerous writings before anyone even bothered to start picking and choosing, and then it was largely a cumulative, individual and happenstance event, guided by chance and prejudice more than objective and scholarly research, until priests and academics began pronouncing what was authoritative and holy, and even they were not unanimous. Every church had its favored books, and since there was nothing like a clearly-defined orthodoxy until the 4th century, there were in fact many simultaneous literary traditions. The illusion that it was otherwise is created by the fact that the church that came out on top simply preserved texts in its favor and destroyed or let vanish opposing documents. Hence what we call "orthodoxy" is simply "the church that won.

[troutfishyman]

Thomas Paine said this:

But by what authority do you call the Bible the Word of God? For this is the first point to be settled. It is not your calling it so that makes it so, any more than the Mahometans calling the Koran the Word of God makes the Koran to be so. The Popish Councils of Nice [Nicaea] and Laodicea, about 350 years after the time the person called Jesus Christ is said to have lived, voted the books that now compose what is called the New Testament to be the Word of God. This was done by yeas and nays, as we now vote a law. The Pharisees of the second temple, after the Jews returned from captivity in Babylon, did the same by the books that now compose the Old Testament, and this is all the authority there is, which to me is no authority at all. I am as capable of judging for myself as they were, and I think more so, because, as they made a living by their religion, they had a self-interest in the vote they gave.

[troutfishyman]

I just did. The New Testament was written between 55 and 70 AD...the Old Testament was written before that...and the Council of Nicea wasn't until 325 AD...

You lack of logic is quite patent, Sir.

Even the NEW TESTAMENT makes your Council of Nicea blithering into NONSENSE!
Posted by IThoughtItWasFunny



Would that not make the New Testament writers like Luke be over 100 years old when they wrote? Average life expectancy was only about 40 years at that time.

Any answers on this?