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BayStar is betting that SCO will be able to collect license fees from Linux users. "We think this licensing initiative is going to work," says Lawrence Goldfarb, managing partner. "We spent a lot of time calling around to potential licensees, and we believe SCO is going to sign enough companies to make this an interesting growth story."

Big money on the wrong side, backing a bunch of whackers making exhorbitant claims and trying to "kill" innocents... what fits that?

• The Silent Scream?
  
• Total Recall?
  
• Confessions of a Simple Surgeon? (if you get a chance to see this one, do)
  
• Blue Thunder? (how do you park a legal system across the train tracks?)
  
• Your Suggestion Here

Either way, D'ohl and his crew of vultures stand about as much real legal chance of succeeding as an insect in IBM's headlights. If any of the studios are challenged, they'll either push SCO's brains through their collective rear or say "we're waiting on the outcome of the IBM case" and sit. It's a lose, lose, lose situation.

Except for Microsoft.

How many people will foolishly turn back to Microsoft simply because there's corporate headcases loose in Linux land? "I'm not playing with that bunch, there's a kid with wild, staring eyes who keeps kicking the others and demanding their milk money."

Want to make sense of what's happening? Simply follow the money. Who stands to profit the most? "For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil." Sounds trite but it's absolutely true. Money is a game counter that lets the power-hungry keep score, and power hungry people aren't in the game for your benefit.

The local Maplin already do a Bluetooth dongle with a 100m range, add a pringles cans etc and you could probably get a respectable range.

I don't think spammers are going to go for this in a big way, the cost per message is too high, as well as shops I can see loonies with a message wandering up and down the city streets sending "Repent" and "Romans 10:9" bluejacks

Either way God has a lot of responsibility to not act like a spoiled 2 year old.

And I sure am glad God is God, and not Q from Star Trek. Otherwise we would all be held responsible for the actions of other members of our species in that wierd sort of medevil courtroom.

But yes. You hit on one of the circular logic problems of Christianity. How can the freedom of choice not collide with an all knowing God? He gives us choice, but knows what we will choose.

Consider relativity; The ship going near the speed of light views the rest of the universe with a different time frame than an observer on a planet views the space ship's time. To the stationary observer, time is slower on the space ship. To the space ship, time is faster on the stationary planet. The point of view of the observer changes the observation.

I feel that the same can be applied to the views of free will vs. predestination. From our point of view, we can say "screw you God, I'm going to do my own thing" but from God's point of view, He saw it comming.

A friend of mine explained it that God allows freedom of choice and then works with it to His ends. God can redeem any situation so that something good comes of it. If someone observes it and learns from it, the people involved learn from it, etc. We can't possibly know how a situation, no matter how bad, can have any good in it, but it does according to Paul.

This is small comfort to people in the middle of horrible situations or troubles. Just see what some people deal with in different parts of the world just for being Christian, and for no other reason.

I am glad I live here and not many other places.

jason

(If your life depended on stomping my toes really hard, I might say thanks but go fuck yourself, and be perfectly well supported by the law.)

What if, driving to a nightclub, you came across me lying injured on the road, and my life depended on you ferrying me to a hospital (an imposition, you'd agree)? You reckon you'd be within your lawful rights to say, "no, thanks", and drive on to your original destination, do you?

...it's intentionally offensive.
You repeatedly swore and gave offense in your posts. But when I simply told you the truth - about how you would complain if you were being aborted this instant - you complained about "intentional offense" and the rules of argument. Subject yourself to your own rules before selectively applying them to others.

Some impositions are acceptable (morally, and legally too), and some aren't. Agreed?
Yes. But you do not seem capable of the Golden rule - you are not willing to accept the same treatment (abortion) you advocate for others (babies).

Without much cause, you have accused me of selfishness and lying.
To put it bluntly:
You are selfish - you admitted that a few posts ago: ("I feel pretty comfortable with my level of selfishness".)
You lie - worst of all - to yourself.

My intention is not to simply offend you (though that is inevitable, given how wrong your position is). It is to try to get you to listen to your conscience. Please PLEASE listen - there is no shame in admitting wrong and correcting oneself - we all go wrong sometimes. But eternal shame and danger await those who do not obey the small still voice of their conscience. Fear Him who casts into hell after death.

Well, assuming they're not hipocrites, and don't use cordless phones,baby monitors or cell phones, we have to consider the idea that maybe they're right. Imagine if all those mysterious ethereal waves DO give us cancer? Then again, they could just be backwater holdovers from the middle ages, not wanting to imbrace new scary ideas (like electricty, or flight ;-P) A Dark Age monk named Savanarola tried to stop the Rennaissance in Italy. Maybe this is about the same?

If I go around claiming that Santa exists and that I impregnated alien hotties from Venus, I'd probably also get laughed at and I'd certainly have some trouble finding anyone to have a serious discussion with me. I'm sorry is this sounds a bit harsh, consider it honest feedback and my own personal opinion, etc.

If you're interested in a discussion, how about we talk about why The Bible depicts God as a cowardly Saddam-type figure who kills kids:

Kids executed by God over a minor offense

Kids being slaughtered for the behaviour of their non-democratically elected leader

Let us also not forget that God is anti-democratic, encourages murder for 'moral' reasons, considers women inferior, etc, etc according to The Bible. Please excuse me while I find a less violent way of thinking about the universe, life and everything.

Yes, you may brand this as "shouting" or "being attacked". It's a classical "I'm always the victim so I won't waste my time defending my true claims" type fallacy. Don't bother, because it's totally obvious.

If I go around claiming that Santa exists and that I impregnated alien hotties from Venus, I'd probably also get laughed at and I'd certainly have some trouble finding anyone to have a serious discussion with me. I'm sorry is this sounds a bit harsh, consider it honest feedback and my own personal opinion, etc.

If you're interested in a discussion, how about we talk about why The Bible depicts God as a cowardly Saddam-type figure who kills kids:

Kids executed by God over a minor offense

Kids being slaughtered for the behaviour of their non-democratically elected leader

Let us also not forget that God is anti-democratic, encourages murder for 'moral' reasons, considers women inferior, etc, etc according to The Bible. Please excuse me while I find a less violent way of thinking about the universe, life and everything.

Yes, you may brand this as "shouting" or "being attacked". It's a classical "I'm always the victim so I won't waste my time defending my true claims" type fallacy. Don't bother, because it's totally obvious.

Actually, many Christians have contributed to science throughout the ages. And in the spirit of modern science, I will back up my statement with references so you can have the opportunity to check them out.

Christian Influences in the Sciences
Keppler
Review of "The Galileo Connection"
Scientific Facts and Christian Faith: Are they compatible?

I especially liked the last article. The quotes provided at the end truly sum up my feelings on science and faith.

I heard Breathed speak at FSU, not long after Bloom County was retired, as I recall, and he told a funny story that I think will be appreciated here.

Seems Breathed had licensed the rights to the Bloom County characters for, among other products, a screen saver (mentioned here).

Now, if you remember, Breathed makes the average slashdotter seem like a Bill Gates fanboy. He did some pretty funny stuff about Bill. What did Bill think about his appearances in Bloom County? Was he even aware of them?

Breathed said that he believed that he knew the answer to that for, just weeks after the screensaver hit the shelves, it was mysteriously pulled from those shelves by every major retailer. Breathed could not find out why this had happened. His theory, however, was that someone had approached all the major vendors and politely asked them, "Which would you rather sell, the Bloom County screensaver? Or Windows 95? Take your pick."

If Breathed's theory is true, I think that would speak volumes about Bill's personality. It would indicate to me that he is, emotionally, a very, very small man, despite all his wealth and power.

In contrast, many of you will recall that Jane Goodall wrote a forward for one of Garry Larson's books. That was her gracious, well-tempered reaction to Larson's well-known 'that tramp Jane Goodall' cartoon. I know little about Goodall, but I mark her down as someone I admire, at least for that.

This message has been provided as a public service to remind you: take your work seriously, yourself, never.

Revelation 16:16
. . . Then they gathered the kings together to the place that in Hebrew is called Har Mageddon. . .

Revelation 8:8-11 written circa 90 c.e. [my comments in brackets]
The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood, [Perhaps a massive red iron oxide asteroid.] a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.

The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water-- the name of the star is Wormwood. [note: in Ukranian, "Chernobyl" = "wormwood"] A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter. [Perhaps radioactive contamination from a re-entering Russian satelite bearing nuclear materials salvaged from Chernobyl's remaining facilities.]

Revelation 16:16
. . . Then they gathered the kings together to the place that in Hebrew is called Har Mageddon. . .

Revelation 8:8-11 written circa 90 c.e. [my comments in brackets]
The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood, [Perhaps a massive red iron oxide asteroid.] a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.

The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water-- the name of the star is Wormwood. [note: in Ukranian, "Chernobyl" = "wormwood"] A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter. [Perhaps radioactive contamination from a re-entering Russian satelite bearing nuclear materials salvaged from Chernobyl's remaining facilities.]

Revelation 16:16
. . . Then they gathered the kings together to the place that in Hebrew is called Har Mageddon. . .

Revelation 8:8-11 written circa 90 c.e. [my comments in brackets]
The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood, [Perhaps a massive red iron oxide asteroid.] a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.

The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water-- the name of the star is Wormwood. [note: in Ukranian, "Chernobyl" = "wormwood"] A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter. [Perhaps radioactive contamination from a re-entering Russian satelite bearing nuclear materials salvaged from Chernobyl's remaining facilities.]

Not everything in the bible can be accepted as God's words.

See vs. 18-21

No offense intended.

Mormons [...] are christians, which means the Ten Commandments apply.

Yeah? Go read Exodus 20:8-11 and tell me why none of them obey it. Dollars to doughnuts some odd corner of BoM or PoGP claims to supercede it.

Ok, I don't mean to offend anyone here, but I think that some of us may have our reasons to be against gay marriage. That's just one example... no offense intended.

(see verse 22)

FEAR, UNCERTAINTY, DOUBT ( hypnosis/trance/conditioning )

the meaning assumed into 'FUD' is different ( more boring, less harm-motivation ) from the meaning we assume into the actual terms
...and that sort of trouble happens whenever the essence of a term is thrown away for a label that assumes its own meaning, like the term originally meaning "Sons Of God", in Genesis, got replaced, by ?Jews or ?Christians, with Angels, because the new term, without the original meaning, was nicer ( I'm not what anyone could call Christian, BTW )

Here's a search that shows the change-in-meaning in the term, from the original books to the newer books in the bible, and don't expect any Christian to accept the original meaning, mind... Gospel.com search, Amplified Bible ( translation more than 'interpretation' ), 'sons of god'
Interesting how totally different the original meaning seems to've been compared with the later meaning...

Check out the Illuminati books by Robert Anton Wilson, for a perfect example of Mass Media's Mass NonThink-Pushing of "terrorism" ...
Amazon.com search for Robert Anton Wilson He used the word FNORD instead of Terrorism, but its function was to activate Fear Uncertainty Doubt and induce a hypnotic-reaction of non-awareness among persons in/among The Masses...

Actually, when one considers how murderously obliterative such conditioning is, in deforming our survival / community-condition, it seems more evil than anything else ( either evil, if deliberate, or wrong, if perfectly unconscious ), depending, of course, on one's definitions...

Hello brother/sister jpsowin,

You and I can't judge others. We are convergent in Truth, which is the essence of God as provided in the Holy Spirit. I emphasize the verses in the Bible, and you unto me the same. We need not rebuke, we both looked to Jesus; for we have admonished one another with truth. Though, as I studied through my childhood, I was only provided simple script upon the founding of a word, that it meant so greater that a larger definitive source was needed to discern the various scope and tense of words. I would like to emphasize the crucial difference between a rebuke and a judgement as provided by Dictionary.com, as it is what I have read...

Rebuke;
-To criticize or reprove sharply; reprimand.
Synonym; Admonish;
-To reprove gently but earnestly.
-To counsel (another) against something to be avoided; caution.

(According to Dictionary.com's claims of it being a synonym, Jesus was a judge and exercised his position as Son of Man (and soon Son of God) to rebuke whilst his disciples (AD/post-crucifiction known as zealots) admonished eachother because they were all brothers which respected the position of judgment of Jesus and our Father in Heaven. I am taking context of several versus that they should have admonished eachother, taken the scope that they loved the Father in Heaven and respected the position of God (Judge).)

Judge;
-To pass sentence on; condemn.
-To determine or declare after consideration or deliberation.

(Now this is where I need to draw a fine line on what a Judge is. I consider Jesus and my Father in Heaven to be Judges, of which they only act on truth, while a false Judge acts on what appears to be truth.)

Opinion;
-A belief or conclusion held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof.

(I would like to note that Dictionary.com includes further definitions, the majority relating that an opinion is a judgment; of which is not truth. Jesus never made opinions of others, as he is the Son of God, is a true Judge which as such is limited to Truth and not any form of negative averment or maxim. An opinion is defined relevant as *not* being based upon exact knowledge or proof, what somthing appears to be; such as how many lawyers act upon the color of law or the color of evidence to deprive people from the fair use of their property. At least, that is what I discovered especialy about the united States of America (not the United States corporation, which has false Judges) originaly having courtrooms with no judges and only executives; although I have not yet reached a complete idea of how the sovereign "We, the People" acted as self-governing/self-judging to represent themselves and resolve their scuffles through their Common Law (at the time, the Holy Bible). Forward, Dictionary.com's later definitions are being construed to deal with an opinion being also a judgment; which I think lacks any sense of the word being merely a comment substantiated upon belief: in our case, the person you replied to appeared to be in direct opposition, you formed an (judgmental?) opinion, I expressed my admonishment to you with the Truth I know of, you converged more truth, and then the person we speek of reveals its true form and not as the earlier colorful expression. Keep in mind, the united States of America does not allow the r

jpsowin,

You are making a mistake in your judgment. A mistake altogether; people who follow Jesus do not judge, that's what Jesus will do when he returns. You claim the personage in your reply is a sinner. You imply that it is not true that we are all sinners. Again, only an implication. Above all, the personage you reply to is not aware of being a sinner; thus does not know right from wrong, hence has no will to repent from any transgression imposed upon others. As a animal? Deep down, they don't know they are wrong. We both know we are sinners, that doesn't mean the personage you reply to accepts being a sinner. The person you reply to denies Jesus, neither does that person know any Christ to forgive sin or any transgression of any kind in that matter; being in great danger to what or for what service does the person you reply to offer? They will not read the Bible, this is an evil generation. There is no shame aware of, in the referenced evil generation. The person you are replying to is enjoying belief in nothing, is not ashamed, and expressly does not look to Jesus Christ; a false Christ has conspired to taint the Son of God; is why the persion you reply to is acting as though. Don't be bothered, people as such are cannon fodder for their own undoing. You have been tricked! You have been trolled by the influence of a devil, brother! The person you replied to is of another venue and sin is not possible, acceptance of a mark of the beast; only commerce through fiat money.

Be careful, Brother/Sister jpsowin! Evil walks around us! Don't let any markings of the body affect your spiritual relationship with the Father in Heaven. The strategy you need to seek in the moment of confronting such a personage is that of Truth. The personage you responded to is in direct harmony with nothing (an atheism) that hath masqueraded with one of Satan's devils. Yes, Atheism is a Church, run by one of Satan's devils! They believe in nothing, what better lie can be manufactured in order to create direct opposition to the Father in Heaven?

My adversary is every demon sent at me, at the moment it is the UNITED STATES (corporation). For Satan's demons operate under color of law to fool God-fearing people into thinking the united States of America is the United States (corporation) to deprive me of my Church (Bible is my Constitution)! Know now, the united States of America lay vacant, the treachery and deceit of the UNITED STATES hath been built ontop of the original united States of America wherefore the false doctrines act to d

jpsowin,

You are making a mistake in your judgment. A mistake altogether; people who follow Jesus do not judge, that's what Jesus will do when he returns. You claim the personage in your reply is a sinner. You imply that it is not true that we are all sinners. Again, only an implication. Above all, the personage you reply to is not aware of being a sinner; thus does not know right from wrong, hence has no will to repent from any transgression imposed upon others. As a animal? Deep down, they don't know they are wrong. We both know we are sinners, that doesn't mean the personage you reply to accepts being a sinner. The person you reply to denies Jesus, neither does that person know any Christ to forgive sin or any transgression of any kind in that matter; being in great danger to what or for what service does the person you reply to offer? They will not read the Bible, this is an evil generation. There is no shame aware of, in the referenced evil generation. The person you are replying to is enjoying belief in nothing, is not ashamed, and expressly does not look to Jesus Christ; a false Christ has conspired to taint the Son of God; is why the persion you reply to is acting as though. Don't be bothered, people as such are cannon fodder for their own undoing. You have been tricked! You have been trolled by the influence of a devil, brother! The person you replied to is of another venue and sin is not possible, acceptance of a mark of the beast; only commerce through fiat money.

Be careful, Brother/Sister jpsowin! Evil walks around us! Don't let any markings of the body affect your spiritual relationship with the Father in Heaven. The strategy you need to seek in the moment of confronting such a personage is that of Truth. The personage you responded to is in direct harmony with nothing (an atheism) that hath masqueraded with one of Satan's devils. Yes, Atheism is a Church, run by one of Satan's devils! They believe in nothing, what better lie can be manufactured in order to create direct opposition to the Father in Heaven?

My adversary is every demon sent at me, at the moment it is the UNITED STATES (corporation). For Satan's demons operate under color of law to fool God-fearing people into thinking the united States of America is the United States (corporation) to deprive me of my Church (Bible is my Constitution)! Know now, the united States of America lay vacant, the treachery and deceit of the UNITED STATES hath been built ontop of the original united States of America wherefore the false doctrines act to d

jpsowin,

You are making a mistake in your judgment. A mistake altogether; people who follow Jesus do not judge, that's what Jesus will do when he returns. You claim the personage in your reply is a sinner. You imply that it is not true that we are all sinners. Again, only an implication. Above all, the personage you reply to is not aware of being a sinner; thus does not know right from wrong, hence has no will to repent from any transgression imposed upon others. As a animal? Deep down, they don't know they are wrong. We both know we are sinners, that doesn't mean the personage you reply to accepts being a sinner. The person you reply to denies Jesus, neither does that person know any Christ to forgive sin or any transgression of any kind in that matter; being in great danger to what or for what service does the person you reply to offer? They will not read the Bible, this is an evil generation. There is no shame aware of, in the referenced evil generation. The person you are replying to is enjoying belief in nothing, is not ashamed, and expressly does not look to Jesus Christ; a false Christ has conspired to taint the Son of God; is why the persion you reply to is acting as though. Don't be bothered, people as such are cannon fodder for their own undoing. You have been tricked! You have been trolled by the influence of a devil, brother! The person you replied to is of another venue and sin is not possible, acceptance of a mark of the beast; only commerce through fiat money.

Be careful, Brother/Sister jpsowin! Evil walks around us! Don't let any markings of the body affect your spiritual relationship with the Father in Heaven. The strategy you need to seek in the moment of confronting such a personage is that of Truth. The personage you responded to is in direct harmony with nothing (an atheism) that hath masqueraded with one of Satan's devils. Yes, Atheism is a Church, run by one of Satan's devils! They believe in nothing, what better lie can be manufactured in order to create direct opposition to the Father in Heaven?

My adversary is every demon sent at me, at the moment it is the UNITED STATES (corporation). For Satan's demons operate under color of law to fool God-fearing people into thinking the united States of America is the United States (corporation) to deprive me of my Church (Bible is my Constitution)! Know now, the united States of America lay vacant, the treachery and deceit of the UNITED STATES hath been built ontop of the original united States of America wherefore the false doctrines act to d

jpsowin,

You are making a mistake in your judgment. A mistake altogether; people who follow Jesus do not judge, that's what Jesus will do when he returns. You claim the personage in your reply is a sinner. You imply that it is not true that we are all sinners. Again, only an implication. Above all, the personage you reply to is not aware of being a sinner; thus does not know right from wrong, hence has no will to repent from any transgression imposed upon others. As a animal? Deep down, they don't know they are wrong. We both know we are sinners, that doesn't mean the personage you reply to accepts being a sinner. The person you reply to denies Jesus, neither does that person know any Christ to forgive sin or any transgression of any kind in that matter; being in great danger to what or for what service does the person you reply to offer? They will not read the Bible, this is an evil generation. There is no shame aware of, in the referenced evil generation. The person you are replying to is enjoying belief in nothing, is not ashamed, and expressly does not look to Jesus Christ; a false Christ has conspired to taint the Son of God; is why the persion you reply to is acting as though. Don't be bothered, people as such are cannon fodder for their own undoing. You have been tricked! You have been trolled by the influence of a devil, brother! The person you replied to is of another venue and sin is not possible, acceptance of a mark of the beast; only commerce through fiat money.

Be careful, Brother/Sister jpsowin! Evil walks around us! Don't let any markings of the body affect your spiritual relationship with the Father in Heaven. The strategy you need to seek in the moment of confronting such a personage is that of Truth. The personage you responded to is in direct harmony with nothing (an atheism) that hath masqueraded with one of Satan's devils. Yes, Atheism is a Church, run by one of Satan's devils! They believe in nothing, what better lie can be manufactured in order to create direct opposition to the Father in Heaven?

My adversary is every demon sent at me, at the moment it is the UNITED STATES (corporation). For Satan's demons operate under color of law to fool God-fearing people into thinking the united States of America is the United States (corporation) to deprive me of my Church (Bible is my Constitution)! Know now, the united States of America lay vacant, the treachery and deceit of the UNITED STATES hath been built ontop of the original united States of America wherefore the false doctrines act to d

jpsowin,

You are making a mistake in your judgment. A mistake altogether; people who follow Jesus do not judge, that's what Jesus will do when he returns. You claim the personage in your reply is a sinner. You imply that it is not true that we are all sinners. Again, only an implication. Above all, the personage you reply to is not aware of being a sinner; thus does not know right from wrong, hence has no will to repent from any transgression imposed upon others. As a animal? Deep down, they don't know they are wrong. We both know we are sinners, that doesn't mean the personage you reply to accepts being a sinner. The person you reply to denies Jesus, neither does that person know any Christ to forgive sin or any transgression of any kind in that matter; being in great danger to what or for what service does the person you reply to offer? They will not read the Bible, this is an evil generation. There is no shame aware of, in the referenced evil generation. The person you are replying to is enjoying belief in nothing, is not ashamed, and expressly does not look to Jesus Christ; a false Christ has conspired to taint the Son of God; is why the persion you reply to is acting as though. Don't be bothered, people as such are cannon fodder for their own undoing. You have been tricked! You have been trolled by the influence of a devil, brother! The person you replied to is of another venue and sin is not possible, acceptance of a mark of the beast; only commerce through fiat money.

Be careful, Brother/Sister jpsowin! Evil walks around us! Don't let any markings of the body affect your spiritual relationship with the Father in Heaven. The strategy you need to seek in the moment of confronting such a personage is that of Truth. The personage you responded to is in direct harmony with nothing (an atheism) that hath masqueraded with one of Satan's devils. Yes, Atheism is a Church, run by one of Satan's devils! They believe in nothing, what better lie can be manufactured in order to create direct opposition to the Father in Heaven?

My adversary is every demon sent at me, at the moment it is the UNITED STATES (corporation). For Satan's demons operate under color of law to fool God-fearing people into thinking the united States of America is the United States (corporation) to deprive me of my Church (Bible is my Constitution)! Know now, the united States of America lay vacant, the treachery and deceit of the UNITED STATES hath been built ontop of the original united States of America wherefore the false doctrines act to d

jpsowin,

You are making a mistake in your judgment. A mistake altogether; people who follow Jesus do not judge, that's what Jesus will do when he returns. You claim the personage in your reply is a sinner. You imply that it is not true that we are all sinners. Again, only an implication. Above all, the personage you reply to is not aware of being a sinner; thus does not know right from wrong, hence has no will to repent from any transgression imposed upon others. As a animal? Deep down, they don't know they are wrong. We both know we are sinners, that doesn't mean the personage you reply to accepts being a sinner. The person you reply to denies Jesus, neither does that person know any Christ to forgive sin or any transgression of any kind in that matter; being in great danger to what or for what service does the person you reply to offer? They will not read the Bible, this is an evil generation. There is no shame aware of, in the referenced evil generation. The person you are replying to is enjoying belief in nothing, is not ashamed, and expressly does not look to Jesus Christ; a false Christ has conspired to taint the Son of God; is why the persion you reply to is acting as though. Don't be bothered, people as such are cannon fodder for their own undoing. You have been tricked! You have been trolled by the influence of a devil, brother! The person you replied to is of another venue and sin is not possible, acceptance of a mark of the beast; only commerce through fiat money.

Be careful, Brother/Sister jpsowin! Evil walks around us! Don't let any markings of the body affect your spiritual relationship with the Father in Heaven. The strategy you need to seek in the moment of confronting such a personage is that of Truth. The personage you responded to is in direct harmony with nothing (an atheism) that hath masqueraded with one of Satan's devils. Yes, Atheism is a Church, run by one of Satan's devils! They believe in nothing, what better lie can be manufactured in order to create direct opposition to the Father in Heaven?

My adversary is every demon sent at me, at the moment it is the UNITED STATES (corporation). For Satan's demons operate under color of law to fool God-fearing people into thinking the united States of America is the United States (corporation) to deprive me of my Church (Bible is my Constitution)! Know now, the united States of America lay vacant, the treachery and deceit of the UNITED STATES hath been built ontop of the original united States of America wherefore the false doctrines act to d

A lot of church pastors and other Christian speakers put their sermons online -

Dr. Daniel Harrell

Ravi Zacharias

Alister Begg

RC Sproul

A lot of church pastors and other Christian speakers put their sermons online -

Dr. Daniel Harrell

Ravi Zacharias

Alister Begg

RC Sproul

Do you even know what all of the enforceable laws on you that are applicable in just your city?

The Shire of Kalamunda (satellite city in Perth, Western Australia) has (or had) a bizarre law on its books that specified a fine for operating a two or four stroke motor between midnight and midnight on Sundays. Why so specific? Why only Sundays?

It turns out that this particular law is due to a single councilor who lived in sunny Bickley, in Kalamunda's East Ward. Said Councillor was in the habit of going out and "raging" (nightclubbing, partying etc) every Saturday night, coming home at silly- o'clock on Saturday morning (or sometimes holding the party at his house and keeping his neighbours up to silly o'clock), and expecting to sleep in until the sun was over the crow's-nest.

The sand in this particular vaseline was his many Seventh-day Adventist neighbours, who after enjoying a refreshingly restful Sabbath day between sunset Friday and sunset Saturday would get up early on Sunday morning, full of beans, vim vigour and vitality, and start doing stuff. Like mowing their lawns not before 07:00 as per the excessive noise laws.

Three or more neighbours running two-stroke mowers was not exactly what Mr I-went-to-bed-at-04:23 wanted to hear at 07:00, so he acted. He went out and talked to his neighbours about it - not. Instead, he talked the Shire into enacting a "Blue Law" prohibiting the operation of two-stroke motors throughout the Shire between midnight and midnight on Sundays.

Not to be outdone in the lets-resolve-this stakes, and of course turning their collective backs on 1Thessalonians5:14-15, the dawn chorus in Bickley the following Sunday included a four-stroke-mowers section from all of his neighbours. Taking care not to abuse his position as Councillor, Mr I-went-to-bed-at-04:23 then had the law amended to include four-stroke motors.

The consequences included that as he was driving his car home at 04:07 on Sunday morning, he broke his own law. Any propellor-driven aircraft flying over the Shire were in violation, and so on. I don't think he realised how lucky he was that turbine-driven mowers are still hard to buy. (-:

The Sons of Noah
18 The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.) 19 These were the three sons of Noah, and from them came the people who were scattered over the earth.
20 Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded [1] to plant a vineyard. 21 When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent. 22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers outside. 23 But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father's nakedness. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father's nakedness.
24 When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him, 25 he said,

"Cursed be Canaan!
The lowest of slaves
will he be to his brothers."

26 He also said,

"Blessed be the LORD , the God of Shem!
May Canaan be the slave of Shem. [2]
27 May God extend the territory of Japheth [3] ;
may Japheth live in the tents of Shem,
and may Canaan be his [4] slave."

28 After the flood Noah lived 350 years. 29 Altogether, Noah lived 950 years, and then he died.

Zion is mentioned alot in the bible, because it is the name of the city of David. I was going to quote the verses where it is mentioned, but there are so many! If you are interested, the search is HERE.

More likely God's Dinosaurs Fun Book.

Look that up for yourself.

That write up is a total white wash. They don't even come close to touching on the truth of the matter, they intentionally mislead people away from the truth.
This movie is such a disgusting display of ZIONIST propaganda it's stomach wrenching.
This nothing but a PRO-JEWISH, ZIONIST bunch of trash that it take a totally blind man to not see it the messages they are planting in the minds of the GOY...

Consider that as you inhale the stench of this zionist propaganda movie. Remember, you movie $$ go directly to Israel where they are used to terrorize and murder civilian Palestinians in the Holy Land.

John 8:44 "You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies."
"hymeis ek tou patros tou diabolou este"
Jesus reveals his identity and the identity of the Jews.

but my only problem with Matrix is that it borrows heavily from other sources of pop culture

It also borrows heavily from classical philosophy as well. The general idea parallels one of the ideas that Plato writes of in The Republic, namely the allegory of the cave.

I personally think the Matrix is cheese, it doesn't have a strong message, and is a little too melodramatic...

To put it briefly, what if a group of people lived in darkness, chained in a cave. What if they could only face forward, and all they could ever see is shadows ahead of them, shadows of people travelling by behind a wall. If they spent their whole lives like this, they would believe that the shadows were the people, they were the objects. What if, then, you 'liberated' someone from their chains, and took them outside? Showed them the real physical objects, not just the shadows? Socrates argues that he would be overwhelmed by this reality, but that he would eventually get used to it. If he returned to his friends in the cave, however, they would not believe him, could not believe him, unless they were shown for themselves.

Socrates uses this as an allegory of his own life, and of the struggles of philosophers - the cave-dwellers are the general populace, and Socrates is the one who returned to the populace with tales of 'reality' which they did not believe. The cost of his attempt to convince them was his own life.

Sound similar? Neo is the one who has seen shadows. 'It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes', blinding him from the reality that Morpheus showed him. Still, when he returns to the Matrix, he could not just tell everyone the truth, because no one would believe him. No one would accept the truth.

There is also another similarity to these two stories, and that is of Jesus from the Bible. The lives of Jesus and Socrates are remarkably parallel, with the crux of the difference being that Jesus rose again after death - as did Neo.

The Matrix actually has a lot of Christian themes, which go well with its being released on Easter weekend, which was no accident. Consider Neo - Greek for 'new', and an anagram for 'one'. Consider Thomas Anderson - a doubting Thomas (John 20:24-29) who does not accept the unreality of the Matrix, or the reality of his abilities and identity - and an Anderson (Swedish for 'Andrew's son' from the Greek root andr-, meaning 'man'), a 'son of man'. He's your saviour, man. Your own personal Jesus Christ.

Another one: Descartes' classic 'I think therefore I am'. To us, it's a cliched phrase, but consider what it meant when he originally concieved of the notion. In his time, mankind lived through the church, and existed by the grace of god. We humans were His creation, and owed our existance to him, we did not exist without His grace. Then Descartes, laying in bed until noon as he usually did, closed his eyes to disbelieve everything he could. He decided to try to disbelieve everything that he could not prove, and in the end, with his eyes closed, trying all though he might, the only thing he knew for sure was that he existed. He knew this, because if he didn't exist, then who was it that was so certain he existed? What made him him existed, his thoughts and feelings and memories, so therefore, he was himself, no matter what, and no one could take that away from him.

In The Matrix, humans are turned, as Morpheus points out, into batteries. Stuck in pods, the Matrix gives them a false reality, with false people and false lives, doing false actions in false places. In this dehumanizing state, nothing is real, so what is the value of anything? What is the value in not going on a killing spree? It doesn't matter, in the end, because it's all false, but no matter what you do, you are still you, and no one, not even the Mach

This is not what Christianity is. This is what ignorant fools think Christianity is this. Christianity's basic message is this:

"We are all totally hosed because we choose to do evil things. Every human being who has ever existed has always chosen to do evil things. We may do some good things, but we also do evil. God is perfect. Perfection cannot coexist with evil. Therefore God cannot coexist with us. God has provided a way to bridge the gap, but it is not forced on us. We retain the right to choose: to accept or reject. Those who choose not to accept the bridge will remain hosed.

Do you see the difference? Check it out.

Or, as I actually sum it up in the article itself, do to others what you would have them do to you [Matthew 7:12].

Gerv

Many people who refuse to believe in God do so because they don't want to believe that we are accountable for our actions. For anyone reading this post who fits in that category, I implore you to consider the possibility, because one day we will all be judged whether we like it or not.

Others often refer to the 'hypocricy' of Christians and use that as a basis to refuse to accept the gospel. We all sin, yet we often try to hide our sins from one another because of our shame. Sadly this can lead to an apparent arrogance, where non-believers hear our criticism of sin and feel it as a personal attack. We don't mean to say "I'm better than you because I am without sin." Instead, we mean to say, "I'm just like you because I commit sins, too." The difference is that we have confessed our sins to God and asked for forgiveness.

And fortunately for us, there is good news. ! God sent his son Jesus to die for our sins. Through him we are made clean.

After you have accepted the fact that we are accountable for our actions, and that we all sin, and that the price of sin is worse than anything you could experience here on Earth, you may be wondering: ok, so what should I do?

Read the Gospel (For those unfamiliar with that term, I mean the first four books of the New Testament: the accounts of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John). There you will read about the life of Jesus, his teachings, and his ultimate death on the cross. Confess your sins and accept him as your savior. Then do your best to follow his teachings.

Many people who refuse to believe in God do so because they don't want to believe that we are accountable for our actions. For anyone reading this post who fits in that category, I implore you to consider the possibility, because one day we will all be judged whether we like it or not.

Others often refer to the 'hypocricy' of Christians and use that as a basis to refuse to accept the gospel. We all sin, yet we often try to hide our sins from one another because of our shame. Sadly this can lead to an apparent arrogance, where non-believers hear our criticism of sin and feel it as a personal attack. We don't mean to say "I'm better than you because I am without sin." Instead, we mean to say, "I'm just like you because I commit sins, too." The difference is that we have confessed our sins to God and asked for forgiveness.

And fortunately for us, there is good news. ! God sent his son Jesus to die for our sins. Through him we are made clean.

After you have accepted the fact that we are accountable for our actions, and that we all sin, and that the price of sin is worse than anything you could experience here on Earth, you may be wondering: ok, so what should I do?

Read the Gospel (For those unfamiliar with that term, I mean the first four books of the New Testament: the accounts of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John). There you will read about the life of Jesus, his teachings, and his ultimate death on the cross. Confess your sins and accept him as your savior. Then do your best to follow his teachings.

Many people who refuse to believe in God do so because they don't want to believe that we are accountable for our actions. For anyone reading this post who fits in that category, I implore you to consider the possibility, because one day we will all be judged whether we like it or not.

Others often refer to the 'hypocricy' of Christians and use that as a basis to refuse to accept the gospel. We all sin, yet we often try to hide our sins from one another because of our shame. Sadly this can lead to an apparent arrogance, where non-believers hear our criticism of sin and feel it as a personal attack. We don't mean to say "I'm better than you because I am without sin." Instead, we mean to say, "I'm just like you because I commit sins, too." The difference is that we have confessed our sins to God and asked for forgiveness.

And fortunately for us, there is good news. ! God sent his son Jesus to die for our sins. Through him we are made clean.

After you have accepted the fact that we are accountable for our actions, and that we all sin, and that the price of sin is worse than anything you could experience here on Earth, you may be wondering: ok, so what should I do?

Read the Gospel (For those unfamiliar with that term, I mean the first four books of the New Testament: the accounts of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John). There you will read about the life of Jesus, his teachings, and his ultimate death on the cross. Confess your sins and accept him as your savior. Then do your best to follow his teachings.

Many people who refuse to believe in God do so because they don't want to believe that we are accountable for our actions. For anyone reading this post who fits in that category, I implore you to consider the possibility, because one day we will all be judged whether we like it or not.

Others often refer to the 'hypocricy' of Christians and use that as a basis to refuse to accept the gospel. We all sin, yet we often try to hide our sins from one another because of our shame. Sadly this can lead to an apparent arrogance, where non-believers hear our criticism of sin and feel it as a personal attack. We don't mean to say "I'm better than you because I am without sin." Instead, we mean to say, "I'm just like you because I commit sins, too." The difference is that we have confessed our sins to God and asked for forgiveness.

And fortunately for us, there is good news. ! God sent his son Jesus to die for our sins. Through him we are made clean.

After you have accepted the fact that we are accountable for our actions, and that we all sin, and that the price of sin is worse than anything you could experience here on Earth, you may be wondering: ok, so what should I do?

Read the Gospel (For those unfamiliar with that term, I mean the first four books of the New Testament: the accounts of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John). There you will read about the life of Jesus, his teachings, and his ultimate death on the cross. Confess your sins and accept him as your savior. Then do your best to follow his teachings.

Many people who refuse to believe in God do so because they don't want to believe that we are accountable for our actions. For anyone reading this post who fits in that category, I implore you to consider the possibility, because one day we will all be judged whether we like it or not.

Others often refer to the 'hypocricy' of Christians and use that as a basis to refuse to accept the gospel. We all sin, yet we often try to hide our sins from one another because of our shame. Sadly this can lead to an apparent arrogance, where non-believers hear our criticism of sin and feel it as a personal attack. We don't mean to say "I'm better than you because I am without sin." Instead, we mean to say, "I'm just like you because I commit sins, too." The difference is that we have confessed our sins to God and asked for forgiveness.

And fortunately for us, there is good news. ! God sent his son Jesus to die for our sins. Through him we are made clean.

After you have accepted the fact that we are accountable for our actions, and that we all sin, and that the price of sin is worse than anything you could experience here on Earth, you may be wondering: ok, so what should I do?

Read the Gospel (For those unfamiliar with that term, I mean the first four books of the New Testament: the accounts of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John). There you will read about the life of Jesus, his teachings, and his ultimate death on the cross. Confess your sins and accept him as your savior. Then do your best to follow his teachings.

What is the point of having a skill? If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is around to hear it, does it make a sound? If a person has a talent and nobody around is allowed to benefit from it, does the talent have any usefulness? And if you use your talent only for personal gain, what special virtue is that?

Being the only "computer person" in your family puts you in a fantastic position to show love to your family and others who need your help. Love means giving up -- yielding your preferences, comfort, goals, security, money, energy, or time for the benefit of someone else. In practice, that may be hard work, but know this: How you treat other people, not your wealth or accomplishments, is the most enduring impact you can leave on earth. If you've truly done your best (competently, without complaining) to help someone with something they can't do for themselves, you know that you've done what is right. Don't lose sight of that fact in spite of possible negative reactions or misguided backlash. Realize that the gratitude of God counterbalances and far outweighs the ingratitude of the people you've helped.

All the cases you listed involve people responding irrationally or with undue hostility (assuming that you were actually competent to do the job). To adapt a phrase of author Rick Warren, those are "EGR situations" - extra grace required. Do your best to be gracious in those situations, because you yourself create EGR situations for other people. Everybody does.

You are a peacemaker when you overlook an insult or offense, especially when it is unwarranted. Recognize and respond to the fault behind the offensive attack (e.g., differing expectations, misunderstanding, argumentative personality, pre-existing anger, other worries, fears, or insecurities) rather than to the offense itself. Concentrating on the offense will kindle anger and hatred within yourself against the other person; but responding to the underlying fault will awaken compassion. Consider that their complaints against you may not be really against you, but have to so with some other source of dissatisfaction in their lives. Of course, first honestly consider that part of the blame really does belong to you.

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What is the point of having a skill? If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is around to hear it, does it make a sound? If a person has a talent and nobody around is allowed to benefit from it, does the talent have any usefulness? And if you use your talent only for personal gain, what special virtue is that?

Being the only "computer person" in your family puts you in a fantastic position to show love to your family and others who need your help. Love means giving up -- yielding your preferences, comfort, goals, security, money, energy, or time for the benefit of someone else. In practice, that may be hard work, but know this: How you treat other people, not your wealth or accomplishments, is the most enduring impact you can leave on earth. If you've truly done your best (competently, without complaining) to help someone with something they can't do for themselves, you know that you've done what is right. Don't lose sight of that fact in spite of possible negative reactions or misguided backlash. Realize that the gratitude of God counterbalances and far outweighs the ingratitude of the people you've helped.

All the cases you listed involve people responding irrationally or with undue hostility (assuming that you were actually competent to do the job). To adapt a phrase of author Rick Warren, those are "EGR situations" - extra grace required. Do your best to be gracious in those situations, because you yourself create EGR situations for other people. Everybody does.

You are a peacemaker when you overlook an insult or offense, especially when it is unwarranted. Recognize and respond to the fault behind the offensive attack (e.g., differing expectations, misunderstanding, argumentative personality, pre-existing anger, other worries, fears, or insecurities) rather than to the offense itself. Concentrating on the offense will kindle anger and hatred within yourself against the other person; but responding to the underlying fault will awaken compassion. Consider that their complaints against you may not be really against you, but have to so with some other source of dissatisfaction in their lives. Of course, first honestly consider that part of the blame really does belong to you.

</lecture>

That question reminds me of the story of Solomon deciding which woman was the baby's mother.

1 Kings 3:16-28

Nowadays most knowledgeable and intelligent people would suggest using DNA tests for such a case.

In contrast, Solomon's method would find out who was better suited to be the baby's mother. Even if you are physically the baby's mother, if you'd rather the baby be chopped in two, you aren't a mother to the baby.

Whilst many intelligent people have a tendency to answer just the given question, a wise person will often give an appropriate response for the entire situation.

Giving correct answers to questions shows your your knowledge and intelligence. Responding appropriately to the entire situation shows your wisdom.

Relevant Revelations there ( Amplified Bible )

Actually, I'd figured it'd be either microchiping ( like we do with our pets, and yes the FDA approved this for humans for ID and commerce ), especially since:
a) the two places microchipping is approved-for is hand and neck ( yeah, very slightly off, but .. weird visions are noted for their weirdness & getting-the-details-slightly-off in communicating-the-essence ), and
b) "stamp (mark, inscription)" is about as close as one could possibly expect, of them biblical-era people, to 'identity-microchip'.

... or ... maybe it meant ID-card in hand and PIN in one's head ( no cash-transactions permitted anymore, because of they're being non-traceable ).

Weirdly, both look likely to be implemented before the climate-break destroys resource-comfort from our richer nations, and when /that/ hits ... BAM!

.. therefore the timing is remarkably precise... ( no, I'm not a Proper Christian type, I just intend to understand everything as deeply as I can, from as many perspectives as possible, and don't assume that scientism is the only-meaningful reality, nor do I assume that conventional-interpretations of biblical texts are only-meaningful reality... God's gotta be infinite, right? Creator of Universes/Worlds? )

It is impossible for us to know that. Trying to locate Ante-Diluvian (pre-Diluge/Flood) geography in a post-Diluvian world is an exercise in futility. For example, even though river names like Tigris and Euphrates are found in Genesis, we should not expect that the present-day Tigris and Euphrates are in the same locations. The world-wide, cataclysmic flood of Noah's era surely carved out canyons, demolished mountains, and reshaped the whole landscape.

We can agree that iraq is one of the most important and amazing sites.

In my view, not nearly as important as Israel, and the Temple Mount in particular. For over two years, Palestinians have been systematically destroying Hebrew archaeology dating back to the First Temple built by King Solomon around 960 B.C. This is where the Ark of the Covenant and the tablets of the Ten Commandments were housed. Recently, a tablet was discovered with inscriptions from the book of II Kings in the Bible. We'll never know what other archaeological treasures have been intentionally, maliciously destroyed and dumped into landfills by Muslims.

The Taliban destroys a Buddha statue in Afghanistan, and the world condemns the action.
The war with the Butcher of Baghdad threatens to destroy an old battery in Iraq, and the world cries out.
Israel is subjected to cultural genocide for years, and the world yawns.

Item 1: read a translation, rather than an interpretation, of the bible. ( the closest I've been able to discover is The Amplified Bible, and try reading it with several different perspectives -- short-view, millenia-view, gnostic view, etc. It seems that some routers are fscked, right now, but there's an online copy at http://bible.gospelcom.net/cgi-bin/bible, so you don't need to buy or borrow anything to consider it )

Item 2: it'd be "Old Covenant" and "New Covenant", not "~ testament", since it's an active bargain, rather than a passive receiving ( and yes, this mis-translation has been known for years, same as some "translator" seemingly-deliberately mistranslated the hebrew term for 'witchcraft' as 'dreams' .. because he had issues with dreams, and wanted to make god's word obey his views... )

Item 3: don't confuse spiritual reality with 'established religious organization' or "an established religion's authority", as they isn't identical, in any way.

Item 4: Ahmed Ali's translation of the Koran ( Qu'ran? ) is amazing, I think it was on Princeton Press... ( didn't quite finish it, so the last surah's I didn't get, but the sense of it is fascinating ).

Item 5: don't believe for an instant that immersion in western culture gives you one iota of the actual text of any scripture ( any tradition, and I'm buddhist ).
e.g. The Excellent Jew gave healing to anyone whose HEART asked.
Remember that bit about being in a crowd, all pressing against him, and one woman crawled to touch his cloak, and he called her out and said to her "woman, your faith healed you"? Show me a single christian who deeply removes illness from themself by faith in some Jew's God... ( oh, but that'd mean accepting responsibility!! )

yeah, right.

Or how about the rock-certainty The Excellent Jew had in interrupting a state-execution ( of a hooker )?

I don't have guts to put me in the path of projectile-weapons as he did...

Or how his Jewish-style lacing-into Position-People is part of his religion, yet .. oh, Christians made Popes and things, to smother that bit, so god'd glorify 'em, wasn't that right?...

Or how-about the term 'day' being used in several different senses in the same bible? "The Day of Moses" .. "The Day of Isaiah" .. then you get christians 'INFORMING ONE' that .. GOD DON'T EVER MEAN THAT... because 'day' means human-scale-calendar-day, therefore the 7k years planet-age tripe... ( yeah, God isn't infinite enough to've created worldS? )

An excellent book is Donald Spoto's "The Hidden Jesus: A New Life", which is the first time I'd ever come-across living christianity/faith, rather than believing...

Yeah, I really mean that.

I don't think he goes far-enough, though ( The Excellent Jew was Jewish, right? .. and seemed rather gnostic, rather than authority/position-ic. )

Also, reading 'John', remember that his friend was quite Jewish, and at-least-once called Rabbi ( means he were married ), in the 'gospels', so he woulda been really Jewish, .. so how come John keeps using the term 'the Jews' in the accusative? Sarcasm! he was referring to Positional Jews, not to real ones...

Semitic Irony, I gather it's called : )

Anyways, don't get me started on the harmonics between the Tibetan Buddhists, the Toltecs, and Brane/Superstring theory...

( PS the same damn establishment-authority games that get played in 'christianity' happen in buddhist cultures, too: some buddhist practitioners have to live in hiding for fear of being murdered by enforcer-types who believe they're protecting their establishment or are protecting buddhism itself, or something, even though I don't recall murder having ever been taught by Buddha Shakyamuni hisself, but it seeeems the establishment's authority is threatened by independent realizations, and so... you get the picture.
Fuck 'em ( the establishments ). Realize your soul, and let 'em ( establishment-holders ) go-it-again, and again, and again, and again, reincarnating blindly, determined to make reality/Universe obey their assumption-rules. Why this strange attitude? -- ALL experience contributes to realizations, indirectly or directly, eventually or really-eventually, and there isn't any other way ( for one's soul ) out ( excepting realization ), so having as many 'days' as it takes to awaken one's soul is .. inevitable ( throws the concept 'eternal hell(s)' into a new light, when seen within Universe's recycling, or our-souls re-incarnating, don't it? )
: )

Links to this Bible famous verse that I had on my personal Web site (in The Reading Room):

1. Ants in Plan.
2. To Be Like The Ant.
3. How Strong Is the Ant: "Ants have many lessons to teach us. The power of unity and cooperation, the importance of the wise use of resources, the value of keeping busy and not wasting time, and the incredible wisdom built into the design of all living things. 'Go to the ant, thou sluggard; condider her ways, and be wise:' (Proverb 6:6)."

If I am really a servant of Christ, I will do good deeds. Those deeds are a reflection of the inner change, and do not help me get to heaven.

With all due respect, I don't believe that I said that Jesus hated Jews.

He did say that no one could be saved without Him.

The Bible is clear that God hates our pride. The religious leaders that Jesus criticized were very proud people.

Their pride came as a result of their belief that they were good enough on their own to please God. Salvation for all people who are to be saved comes through faith, not by works.

Respectfully,
Anomaly

In the sermon on the mount Jesus says that the teachers of the law are like tombs.

WRT the "filthy rags" - I concede that I was in error. It was the prophet Isaiah who said that our righteous acts are like filthy rags

However, Jesus warned us not to do acts of righteousness in public merely so that men would see us doing it.

Jesus also said that pleasing God is not about what we do

Paul said that we are saved by grace through faith - not of works!

I wholeheartedly agree with you that Jesus was a Jew, and that He loved and loves Jews. There's no question, about that. I must respectfully disagree with you about Christ's approach toward the Pharisees.

He called the religious leaders on the carpet again and again for their hypocrisy. They were filled with pride about how well they fulfilled the law - that their deeds made them acceptable to God. That was never the point. If this does not make sense to you, please email me and I commit to searching the scriptures with you so that we clearly understand each other.

In Hebrews 11 the heroes of the Hebrew scriptures are held up as role models because of their faith, not because of their deeds.

Of course, God created us to do good works. We do good deeds out of a thankful heart, but the work of redemption was complete on the cross. My good works don't earn me heaven. Christ did that. My good works are an evidence of the internal change that happened when God saved me from my selfishness.

Respectfully,
Anomaly

In the sermon on the mount Jesus says that the teachers of the law are like tombs.

WRT the "filthy rags" - I concede that I was in error. It was the prophet Isaiah who said that our righteous acts are like filthy rags

However, Jesus warned us not to do acts of righteousness in public merely so that men would see us doing it.

Jesus also said that pleasing God is not about what we do

Paul said that we are saved by grace through faith - not of works!

I wholeheartedly agree with you that Jesus was a Jew, and that He loved and loves Jews. There's no question, about that. I must respectfully disagree with you about Christ's approach toward the Pharisees.

He called the religious leaders on the carpet again and again for their hypocrisy. They were filled with pride about how well they fulfilled the law - that their deeds made them acceptable to God. That was never the point. If this does not make sense to you, please email me and I commit to searching the scriptures with you so that we clearly understand each other.

In Hebrews 11 the heroes of the Hebrew scriptures are held up as role models because of their faith, not because of their deeds.

Of course, God created us to do good works. We do good deeds out of a thankful heart, but the work of redemption was complete on the cross. My good works don't earn me heaven. Christ did that. My good works are an evidence of the internal change that happened when God saved me from my selfishness.

Respectfully,
Anomaly

In the sermon on the mount Jesus says that the teachers of the law are like tombs.

WRT the "filthy rags" - I concede that I was in error. It was the prophet Isaiah who said that our righteous acts are like filthy rags

However, Jesus warned us not to do acts of righteousness in public merely so that men would see us doing it.

Jesus also said that pleasing God is not about what we do

Paul said that we are saved by grace through faith - not of works!

I wholeheartedly agree with you that Jesus was a Jew, and that He loved and loves Jews. There's no question, about that. I must respectfully disagree with you about Christ's approach toward the Pharisees.

He called the religious leaders on the carpet again and again for their hypocrisy. They were filled with pride about how well they fulfilled the law - that their deeds made them acceptable to God. That was never the point. If this does not make sense to you, please email me and I commit to searching the scriptures with you so that we clearly understand each other.

In Hebrews 11 the heroes of the Hebrew scriptures are held up as role models because of their faith, not because of their deeds.

Of course, God created us to do good works. We do good deeds out of a thankful heart, but the work of redemption was complete on the cross. My good works don't earn me heaven. Christ did that. My good works are an evidence of the internal change that happened when God saved me from my selfishness.

Respectfully,
Anomaly

In the sermon on the mount Jesus says that the teachers of the law are like tombs.

WRT the "filthy rags" - I concede that I was in error. It was the prophet Isaiah who said that our righteous acts are like filthy rags

However, Jesus warned us not to do acts of righteousness in public merely so that men would see us doing it.

Jesus also said that pleasing God is not about what we do

Paul said that we are saved by grace through faith - not of works!

I wholeheartedly agree with you that Jesus was a Jew, and that He loved and loves Jews. There's no question, about that. I must respectfully disagree with you about Christ's approach toward the Pharisees.

He called the religious leaders on the carpet again and again for their hypocrisy. They were filled with pride about how well they fulfilled the law - that their deeds made them acceptable to God. That was never the point. If this does not make sense to you, please email me and I commit to searching the scriptures with you so that we clearly understand each other.

In Hebrews 11 the heroes of the Hebrew scriptures are held up as role models because of their faith, not because of their deeds.

Of course, God created us to do good works. We do good deeds out of a thankful heart, but the work of redemption was complete on the cross. My good works don't earn me heaven. Christ did that. My good works are an evidence of the internal change that happened when God saved me from my selfishness.

Respectfully,
Anomaly