Excuse me for going off topic but the irony is too much to bear.
I see 4 bald headed men with one that is half bald. So what? Russell is supposed to have said in the book The Finished Mystery:
"A study of the foregoing leads to the conclusion that the various churches must have been founded by bald-headed men, and the smoke being unable to find its way out through their scalps naturally had to come out of their mouths!"
Please don't ask for an explanation. Here it is.
whenever there is a discussion about the "godness" of god and whether he can be described as both "good" and "all powerful" given that he could avoid untold suffering and death for millions of people in earthquakes, floods, tidal waves and other disasters we are often given the same answer:.
"you don't know why he lets it happen but he has a plan".. bleh.
often they throw in some snippets that suggest the people may actually deserve it for not praying to the right god or not praying hard enough.. of course it's easy to dismiss the death of all those faceless unknown people.. so, i present to you a new thought experiment for the righteous to grapple with.. i dare you to use the same arguments to explain the deaths of the people in the recent church shooting.. were they not praying hard enough?
Here's some more comedy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QIdiEV1P2bc
flipping thru the pages of the april 15 wt study edition, i bumped into something that strikes me as odd.
not that the wt never publishes odd things, but usually such comes in the form of misapplied scripture or hidden second meanings.
i've never paid attention before but to me this is the first time i see a whole paragraph with no bible verses to read.. in the article tiled "always trust in jehovah!
Nero's burning of Christians and their being accused of being "haters of mankind" is a matter of historical record. It is questioned though that they may be exaggerations.
Also the English to Spanish translation from "...accused of hating mankind..." to "...se les acusa de odiar a la gente..." is accurate although it would have been better to replace "gente" (people) with "humanidad" (humanity).
last night a young man in a bar struck up a conversation with me.
our town is having our pride parade soon and he brought it up, the bible and how it's against the bible.
me being me, i said that i couldn't care less that it was against the bible and that it was a horrible guide for morality anyway.
With reference to the OP's title, "Christians not knowing the Bible" I should bring up that not all Christians are alike. You have liberal Christians, moderate Christians and conservative Christians.
It is conservative Christians that tend to be more knowledgeable about the Bible while liberals are not. I'm sure that the person who was at the bar with Viviane was a liberal.
yep.
i said it.. christians don't know the bible.. you know how i'm going to prove it?
i'll use the same amount of credible evidence they use for the existence of god.. here it is.. [start of evidence].
the kids were on vacation so i had the privilege of feeding the grandson's zoo.. my instruction.. grandpa.. cage one ,two and three...baby tarantulas.
they must be fed three times a week.. five fruit flies in cage two and three and 10 fruit flies in cage three.
(me) son i can't see.
i thought at one time or maybe they still do believe that the dinosaurs were vegetarians?
Creationists definitely believe that the dinosaurs were vegetarian even to the point where Tyrannosaurus Rex supposedly had sharp teeth to enable it to eat palm trees. When this vegetarianism ended is up to the creationist. It was either after Adam and Eve sinned bringing evil into all of creation or after the flood - assuming they survived the flood.
Also, their official stand on the creative days was that they were exactly 7,000 years long. Now they're simply wishy washy on the details.
we pulled into a hotel parking lot saturday around 6pm on the return leg of a wonderful family vacation to new england - an then fate stepped in---a man in a suit got out of a car with the rest of a picture perfect family.
i immediately noticed all the name tags--- and my blood pressure spiked 50pts- damn!!
i was booked in a 4 story hotel full of jws-- the only time they took off the name tags was in the swimming pool- they were so proud of themselves.. at 6:30 am the hot water went cold in the wife's shower- what do you expect on the 4th floor when a herd of jws is trying to get ready at the same time?
Keep up the good work. I wish I were with you.
