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  What's Real About the Rapture?

  by garyneal in

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  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-r-coats/whats-real-about-the-rapt_b_716688.html.

  this is an interesting article posted by the christian left from thw huffington post.

  i know jehovah's witnesses do not teach the rapture (except maybe for the 144,000) so all of them expect to live through the tribulation (whatever that was to them).

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  Were the Biblical writers writing history?

  by srd in

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  and how would you know or not know.

  read and respond http://contradictionsinthebible.com/how-do-we-know-that-the-biblical-writers-were-not-writing-history/.

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  To circumcise or not to circumcise?

  by srd in

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  here's a good one for you, looking at gen 17 and paul's subversive interpretive practices.

  http://contradictionsinthebible.com/is-the-covenant-of-circumcision-an-eternal-covenant-or-not/.

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  Conversation with a Seminary Student in Starbucks today

  by Terry in

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  this is a distilled (and from memory) reconstruction of a chat this morning.... my 81 year old ex-baptist minister friend dub and i went to starbucks for coffee and conversation.

  dub likes to start conversations with strangers.. today a seminary student caught his eye.

  they talked for about half an hour before dub dropped me into it.

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  NOAH’S BIBLICAL FLOOD ACTUALLY HAPPENED, SAYS FAMED ARCHEOLOGIST WHO FOUND THE TITANIC

  by ÁrbolesdeArabia in

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  http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/12/11/noahs-biblical-flood-actually-happened-says-famed-archeologist-who-found-the-titanic/ .

  "the story of noah's ark and its associated flood continues to be retold to children and studied by theologians, alike.

  while some dismiss it as a mere fable, others believe wholeheartedly that the event literally unfolded, with a massive down-pouring of water ravaging the earth at god's command.

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  Jacob wrestled with God?

  by MrFreeze in

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  one story in the bible that always left me puzzled was the story of jacob wrestling with the man/angel/god.

  whoever it was that was wrestling with him was said not to have been able to overpower jacob so he disjointed his hip.

  at the end of the account it said jacob named the place peniel because "there i saw god face to face and and yet my life was spared.".

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  What Are Words That You Or Others Have A Hard Time Pronouncing?

  by minimus in

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  it drives me crazy when people say "altimers disease".. or jewlery.. .

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  How to fight biblical ignorance??

  by srd in

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  the bible this; the bible that; 'tis the word of the almighty.

  we all be following its every word... blah, blah, blah.

  many biblical scholars lament the fact that the bible is the most misunderstood, abused, and appropriated text by numerous different religious communities, each one claiming to provide its right interpretation, while ironically supporting their own belief system.

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  Why study the Bible?

  by jam in

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  from my local paper in the religious section.. christians are taught to trust god in all things.

  trust.

  is, at best, difficult and at wost, impossible without knowing.

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  Does the Bible contradict itself?

  by exwhyzee in

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  our old jw friend who is about to shun us says,there's nothing in the bible that contradicts itself?.

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  can anyone think of certain scriptures that could prove otherwise?.

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