The fundanmentalists have put themselves in a very incomfortable
position by reading the Bible like one would read a novel.
Thus their missionary zeal to invade other cultures on a pretence that
they have a biblical mandate from Jesus to evangelize the wolrd.
But the same God by design had already divided the world into two
blocs, the Islamic blocs and the orthodoxy catholic one....
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Ike - 27 Oct 2004 15:06 GMT
> The fundanmentalists have put themselves in a very incomfortable
> position by reading the Bible like one would read a novel.
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Never mind, I'll continue it for you, since you won't get to the point.
There is no God and no design. If I knew what the f.ck you wanted people to
do, I might have further comment.

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Raptor514 - 27 Oct 2004 15:15 GMT
> The fundanmentalists have put themselves in a very incomfortable
> position by reading the Bible like one would read a novel.
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Oh, please don't keep us in suspense.
pan - 27 Oct 2004 17:02 GMT
>The fundanmentalists have put themselves in a very incomfortable
>position by reading the Bible like one would read a novel.
>Thus their missionary zeal to invade other cultures on a pretence that
>they have a biblical mandate from Jesus to evangelize the wolrd.
>But the same God by design had already divided the world into two
>blocs,
So 'God' likes creating divisiveness. (?)
>the Islamic blocs and the orthodoxy catholic one....
If god (or the gods) wanted its message to mankind to be understood
clearly, then why wouldn't god(s) just send a clearer message?
Why would such a god (or gods) allow 'false' religions to exist, which
then leads good people to live a 'lie'?
pan
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I Report, You Decide - 27 Oct 2004 18:21 GMT
Why do allow the kids in Africa to die of thirst and starvation?

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>>The fundanmentalists have put themselves in a very incomfortable
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Not-easily-duped - 28 Oct 2004 18:01 GMT
> >The fundanmentalists have put themselves in a very incomfortable
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> So 'God' likes creating divisiveness. (?)
Not in a sense you understand this word.
God likes to see anyone happy in his own cultural heritage.
What I am saying is that the world was already evangelized along
with cultural lines, Laws of the Land and costumes; therefore, I don't think
God would condone mission as the fundanmentalists understand it.
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JCarew - 27 Oct 2004 18:06 GMT
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>The fundanmentalists have put themselves in a very incomfortable
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King Henry the VIII and the reading of Protestant Bibles
The unsupervised publishing of the Bible in early days
of the English Reformation became quite a problem
according to King Henry VIII(1491-1547). The extent
to which the problem had spread may best be judged
from the pathetic lament he gave in his last speech
to Parliament: "I am extremely sorry to find how much
the Word of God is abused; with how little reverence
it is mentioned; how people squabble about the sense;
how it is turned into wretched rhymes, sung and jangled
in every alehouse and tavern; all this in a false
construction and counter-meaning to the inspired
writers. I am sorry to perceive the readers of the
Bible discover so little of its practice; for I am
sure charity was never in a more languishing condition,
virtue never at a lower ebb, nor God Himself less
honored or worse served in Christendom" There is no
ambiguity about these words, and when we remember
that the same sentiments are expressed in the writings
and speechs of many of the Reformers themselves, who
complain of Popery, and remember too, how Henry VIII
was constrained to seize and burn Tyndal's and
Coverdal's and other versions of the Bible, and to
forbid the reading of any version at all to large
classes of his subjects.
Source: "Where we got the Bible" 1911 edition, page 136-37
King Henry the VIII lived 1491-1547
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> JMJ
And your point is???????????????
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I Report, You Decide - 27 Oct 2004 18:20 GMT
Could you please expound?

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> The fundanmentalists have put themselves in a very incomfortable
> position by reading the Bible like one would read a novel.
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> TO BE CONTINUED