Two Books

Originally posted by FabianFnas
I just followed you, my friend, I quoted your words: "are we therefore to assume that the first half of the book is fiction and the second half is real, i think not!" Again: "the second half is real, i think not!" Don't blame *me* for quoting *you*...

You are easily provocable...

Its my Irish temperament! Never the less, i have just recently learned that the Scots were fighting on the behalf of some ancient King of Sweden, and while i do not glorify nor condone war, it is happy that in the past we have shared some affinity with the Swedes! I would dearly like to visit the country and test my 'no nonsense approach to life theory'.

Originally posted by FabianFnas
You can worship the two of us, we are not competitors.

where do I send my checks?😵

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
Its my Irish temperament!

I think you have to deal with your temper, my Irish friend.

Originally posted by FabianFnas
I think you have to deal with your temper, my Irish friend.

where is my claymore in order that I may lance you through the gentiles with it for such a slight of character!

(please no accusations of spelling, it was intentional)

Originally posted by PinkFloyd
what is this g-d stuff.....do you have an aversion to vowels?

It's an issue of respect. See http://www.jewfaq.org/name.htm

Do you have a substantive question, too?

Originally posted by Wulebgr
It's an issue of respect. See http://www.jewfaq.org/name.htm

Do you have a substantive question, too?

You answered my substantive question--and you did it respectfully, for a change. I'm glad all Jews aren't condescending, uppity bullies...

Originally posted by PinkFloyd
You answered my substantive question--and you did it respectfully, for a change. I'm glad all Jews aren't condescending, uppity bullies...

Lol. Yes, I thought the question was probably substantive, even though it was a bit off point.

I'm not Jewish, but sometimes write the name of the Creator as g-d out of respect for those that are. Mahao is another name, as is Allah. They all name the same mythical being.

"for a change"--that's funny!

Originally posted by 667joe
Just because the bible says it, why is it true?

Study the prophies in the Bible. History proves the Bible's truths.

Originally posted by galveston75
History proves ...

It is a rare sentence beginning with those two words that fails to lie or perpetrate ignorance.

Originally posted by galveston75
Study the prophies in the Bible. History proves the Bible's truths.

Truths? Give me a break! I am confident to say beyond a doubt, there are no such things as virgin birth (at least not without the use of sperm) or resurrection (once there is brain death.)

Originally posted by galveston75
Study the prophies in the Bible. History proves the Bible's truths.

There are a lot of prophecies that didn't turn out to be true.
We have nothing to learn about those so called prophecies.
History teaches us that you can never trust any future-tellers.

Originally posted by 667joe
Truths? Give me a break! I am confident to say beyond a doubt, there are no such things as virgin birth (at least not without the use of sperm) or resurrection (once there is brain death.)

Hence the word miracle.

Good gracious, one can be a skeptic, or even an atheist, and still note the consistency in a belief system that presumes violations of the natural order from time to time as evidence of divine intervention. Faith is just that: belief in something outside the scope of human observation.

For the simple minded: if there was a virgin birth or a resurrection, God was involved in the event.


(None of this screed should be taken as endorsing the clear perversity of the statement beginning "history proves..." )

Originally posted by FabianFnas
History teaches ...

This assertion is no better than the one it seeks to refute.

Originally posted by Wulebgr
This assertion is no better than the one it seeks to refute.

I wrote: "History teaches us that you can never trust any future-tellers."
Tell me one future-teller that you can trust? Do you belive in voodoo? (Its all right, we're in Spiritual Forum now.)

Originally posted by FabianFnas
I wrote: "History teaches us that you can never trust any future-tellers."
Tell me one future-teller that you can trust? Do you belive in voodoo? (Its all right, we're in Spiritual Forum now.)

I wrote concerning "history proves":

Originally posted by Wulebgr
It is a rare sentence beginning with those two words that fails to lie or perpetrate ignorance.

"History teaches ..." is no different.

The lessons of history are never so secure, and it demeans history to pretend that they are.