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Another point: Finding out that worldly facts mentioned in the Bible are historically accurate should not be interpreted as support for the...
I find it hard to believe that anywhere in the Western world can be worse than Buffalo, NY. That said, and having never been to Houston, I...
Max...I'm dissapointed. I understand the desire and propensity to assume that was seems obvious to us today, re: the morality of slavery was...
Not only that, but it wasn't compiled until over 300 years after the fact, and done at a very political gathering for which we have plenty of...
So then you believe that saying that the Bible says that the sun revolves around the earth means that this was also God's take on galactic...
A) You keep coming back to interpretation, which is not a point that can be applied only when it suits you. Either we interpret it as written, or...
I personally believe that an Osama capture/death is an eventual certainty, if only because it might be how he feels he can best serve his cause....
Whoever said that God was actually in favor of slavery? I said the Bible was.
Ephesians 6;5-8 Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your...
A) I hpe this is a joke. Servants meant slaves at the time, and if there was any confusion about that they clarified it by including the ' under...
Uh, to honor your master was not to be respectful as of another human being. Telling them to obey as to God is not just good manners. These were...
1) How is it implicitly dealt with? You are assuming that slavery would have ben recognized at the time as contrary to loving your fellow man,...
Uh, none of this, with the possible exception of the assassination attempt is a threat to the US. As the N-I-E R-E-P-O-R-T stated, Saddam...
Meant to say that this is the King James Bible I quoted, not some radical new interpretation.
What!?!? Hang on, I'll get the Bible out...the part where it tells runaway slaves that they are stealing, and should go back to their masters, and...
Although history is my field, I've never understood the need for religous groups to prove that Biblical events are possible according to the usual...
Max, I like what you're trying to say here, but the Bible is also pretty clear on slavery, astronomy and pre-marital sex too, but we haven't let...
...or women the vote...or desegregation/civil rights...etc. etc.
