LFG, Born-Again Christian - Page 11

Cervanto · 09-29-2008, 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Diaphanous

1. a mythological figure to suit the needs of the church.

2. Even the dead sea scrolls (gospel texts expelled from the bible) which document Jesus' life as a normal rabbi and not the son of god were written at roughly 200AD.

1. So "the church of Jesus Christ" predates the alleged existence of Jesus?

2. [From Wikipedia] Before the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the oldest Hebrew manuscripts of the Bible were Masoretic texts dating to 9th century. The biblical manuscripts found among the Dead Sea Scrolls push that date back to the 2nd century BC. Before this discovery, the earliest extant manuscripts of the Old Testament were in Greek in manuscripts such as Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus. Although a few of the biblical manuscripts found at Qumran differ significantly from the Masoretic text, most do not. The scrolls thus provide new variants and the ability to be more confident of those readings where the Dead Sea manuscripts agree with the Masoretic Text or with the early Greek manuscripts.Books

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Psalms39Deuteronomy331 Enoch25 (apocrypha)Genesis24Isaiah22Jubilees21 (apocrypha)Exodus18Leviticus17Numbers11Minor Prophets10 (Micah, Hosea, et al)Daniel8Jeremiah6Ezekiel6Job61 & 2 Samuel4

I only see two books put in the category of apocryphal texts here. Jubliees was considered apocryphal (much like Esther was argued) because it is a historical text and not spiritual. The books of Enoch were mystical in nature are were celebrated by gnostics and still part of the Coptic church's cannon.

Morara · 09-29-2008, 10:52 AM

Well, if Wikipedia says it, it must be true!

Stormfists · 09-29-2008, 11:45 AM

LFG -> Pussy

Calbiyum · 09-29-2008, 11:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Kyrsten

holy shit, lol
A letter to my friends - Page 2 - JesusOwns.com

I had to lol at that name. LFJC

Diaphanous · 09-29-2008, 12:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Cervanto

[From Wikipedia] Before the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the oldest Hebrew manuscripts of the Bible were Masoretic texts dating to 9th century. The biblical manuscripts found among the Dead Sea Scrolls push that date back to the 2nd century BC.

Blarg, all this time I've thought it was AD. Thankyou very much

Alesis · 09-29-2008, 12:50 PM

LFG:

So you where gonna eat a bullet, and then decided to buy a bible, ordered one off the netz, and when it arrived and you started reading it, baby Jebus slapped you in the forehead with a white light, after which, you had a complete conversation with God, which took place only in your own mind, and decided to repent and become a bible thumper.....

Got it.

I'mjust curious, which faith did he tell you was the right one?
Can we get a ruling from the horses mouth, cause people have been dieing over it for centuries, and I want to make sure I pick the losing side, cause for reals, just like Warhammer, I like to play the underdog.

Did the white light strike leave a bruise on your head? At about say, cabinet level, or staircase level?

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I would like to congratulate you on what appears to be another in a long life of fantastic life choices, what with the meth, the heroin and the lawyerin......You where pretty down in the bottoms there weren't ya? What was left? Pedophilia? Necrophilia?

I just have to say, fo shizzle, that you sir, have provided the funniest, craziest, grandest weird shit I have ever, and I mean EVER, read on an MMO forum since EQ1 went live.

I hope your imaginary friend works out for you. I keep imaginary friends too, but I usually only think about them in the morning when I just wake up, and for some reason they are usually 18 and Asian, in pigtails, and wearing catholic school girl uniforms.

/shrug, whatever works for you though Eric, but I bet as people of your obvious junkie nature usually find out, you cant beat the Go Fast.

I give you 6 months top before you sitting in a closet with a bible, a sheet of tin foil, a lighter, and your faith, peaking thru the keyhole and waiting for the "devil" to burst into your room and try to steal your Eternal "Soul".

Or is that what your doin right now? Hmmmmmm.....

Dants · 09-29-2008, 01:10 PM

With all the religions out there, how do you know you're believing in the correct one?

How do you know everyone else is wrong and you're right?

Morara · 09-29-2008, 01:14 PM

Holy shit! So deep, guys!

kythik · 09-29-2008, 01:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Diaphanous

Sorry for the delay in responding.

The answer is: no. Infact the more informed you are, the more likely you are to be liberal minded.

And for the people who've (mistakenly) claimed that religion is the root of all human evil I'd like to point out that people can be just as fucking evil whatever their religious stance in life is. The problem is humans, not religion.

Ok so all "conservatives" are not as informed as "liberals"? If that is the case then I guess ignorance is bliss...

Laalon · 09-29-2008, 01:38 PM

One question... Why do ppl care so much about what others do? Especially when, in this circumstance, effects you all in NO way...

Just to clarify, I'm not into religion, nor do I even believe the whole story the bible tells. Just trying to figure out why ppl are bashing someone for something like this.