I'm not sure how far you could scale it, but you could purchase an SMP license with OpenServer 5.0.6 and earlier releases. I know, because we have a legacy box running it still today. Sigh.
Here's a snipped from a current ps
61 R root 4 0 0 36 39 fb117560 0 - Jan-23 ? 00:00:00 CPU1 idle process
61 R root 5 0 0 36 39 fb1176b8 0 - Jan-23 ? 00:00:00 CPU2 idle process
SCO doesn't win any plaudits from me in the advanced technology department. They were forever behind on their porting open source products to their system. But their kernel did support SMP before release 6.
2. The viewpoint of both Testaments is the same. The Old Testament points, through the Jewish sacrificial system toward Christ. The New Testament points back toward Him. These are things you know from your Catholic upbringing. But the same God reigns in heaven in both the Old and New Testaments. He has the same standards now as He had then. The New Testament requires, if anything, a higher standard of behavior than the Old Testament. Many times Christ said - you have heard X, but I say unto you Y, where Y was greater than or a tougher standard than X. Since you reject Revelation, you conclude that the New Testament is full of loving kindness. But that is simply because you choose to reject the inconvenient bits that still point to the same Holy God, executing judgment in righteousness. Humans are not arbiters of good and evil. The Bible says our righteousness is as filthy rags compared to God's.
3. The Bible only has a couple of scriptures about the beginning - Gen. 1:1 and John 1:3. There is no time reference with either, other than "in the beginning". The Bible record (taken in whole from both Testaments) points to a pre-Adamite civilization (Psalms, Isaiah, 2 Pet) and in no way implies an Earth age of a few thousand years. I very much enjoyed "Job: A Comedy of Errors". Heinlein is one of my favorite authors. But just because he has a bit of fun with alternative deity systems doesn't obviate Christianity.
What is interesting to me is that the fossil record of early man has several paths and branches that seemingly dead end and then there is man appearing on the scene in the current form a short time later (in the geologic sense). You can have millions of years of natural selection and still have things get wiped out by an angry God and then restarted in similar fashion to what was before He had to stamp out evil. Doesn't make Genesis wrong. The thought that God could do that may disturb us. We may not like it. But He isn't asking us to like it. He's giving us His expectations for our behavior and faithfully warns us of the consequences if we don't comply. That He usually follows through with the consequences is not His fault. It isn't like His rules are all that hard to follow.
I think it was perhaps Clarke who, in one of his short stories, talked about Moses and Aaron complaining about the high cost of parchment, their readership base, etcetera in trying to convince Moses to go light on the pre-history to keep costs down. While amusing, it does point out a significant reality of the Bible. Its job isn't to account for 100% of Earth's history. Its job is to point the way to Christ.
Nobody will (or should) tell you that all copies of the Bible are inerrant or inspired in their current form. The only thing that the Bible claims is that as originally given to the original writers it was truth, inspired, and inerrant. If it has slipped over the ages as various people have copied it or handed it down by tradition, then that isn't God's fault. Considering the time span involved, I'd say a pretty good job has been done keeping the word intact. The more that archeology uncovers, the more items that originally seemed dubious are verified. There may be unfortunate alterations that have happened over time. Few, if any, change the basic substance of its message. You can't just ignore the big picture, which is comes through loud and clear, because there have been a couple of alterations in minor passages over the long passage of time that people took in writing down both testaments.
5. It is the job of every religion to communicate truth as they see it. Buddhism's lure is that it just says live together in harmony. It is one of the ultimate low cost sounds good feels good tools Satan has. You have every right to object to beliefs that other people hold as true and not follow them. But you shouldn't expect to go to a church of religion A (whatever it is) and have it appear to be religion F (whatever it is). Christianity's doctrines are pretty simple. Accept Christ as your Savior or end up i
This is a hurried attempt at a reply - my apologies.
1. It isn't in the fallen human nature to want to be subservient to anyone or anything. I can say that my life, when attempting to live as the Bible says a Christian should live, has been good. Not perfect, but good. I have a stable marriage and some pretty fine kids. I look at my co-workers - both married and single - and listen to the messes they get themselves into, the problems their kids are having, the bad days after the nights before, and feel blessed. The closer I get to the Christian ideal, the better things feel. When I drift away, the worse things seem to go. You will naturally discount the psychological basis for that, but it feels true to me. I give some things up to serve God. Some things are hard to give up, and some things I struggle with, but the return that He gives is good.
Everyone serves some God. They may have elevated themselves to that position, where everything they do is right in their eyes. They may serve some other God that man has created. Or they may serve the God of the Bible. The difference between the God of the Bible and every other religion on earth is that our God became flesh, lived among us, and died for us. It sets Christianity apart from the rest of the world's religions.
I don't know what your experience with Christianity has been - I suspect it wasn't a very good one. Growing up in the denomination that I grew up in, there was never any doubt that God is and is working in people's lives. There are a lot of dead denominations and churches out there. The second and third chapters of Revelation describe much of Christianity today. That is to our shame. But I assure you, God is still the great I am. He is still doing miracles today - I have seen them happen. He is still speaking through the Holy Spirit. I have heard the evidence. If you have not, then I suggest you seek out a 100% Bible believing pentecostal church and attend for awhile.
2. As a human, I can't evaluate a being that is orders of magnitude more powerful than I am. I don't have the mental ability to wrap my mind around the concept.
Because of Adam's disobedience, sin entered the world. It wasn't God's original plan for man. From the Garden of Eden on, God has been laying out the ground rules for what behavior was acceptable to Him and unacceptable to Him. That sin of Adam has been passed down to succeeding generations. The wages of sin is death. Many were killed directly by God, and many other nations were wiped out by Him. All true. If you evaluate the history as stated in the Bible though, all of these actions are directly traced to not following the rules He clearly set out and let them know about.
The sin nature you inherited from your father will set you apart from God forever, just as much as the sins that you have committed. You're no different from me. All of the times you did something against God and the "conscience" people talk about pricked your heart that you were doing wrong, it was His Holy Spirit trying to keep you on the right path. Nobody will have any excuses when they stand before God at the time of judgment. God has set out His plans for salvation for each generation. Once you have heard about Christ and His death on the cross for you, as you are now, you will make a choice to either admit you are a sinner, accept His sacrifice for your sin, and repent and turn to God -- or reject the whole concept and keep on living as you want to live. God gives you the choice, just as Adam and all the rest of those who God killed had a choice. It's a choice with eternal consequences.
But to counter the image of the blood thirsty God, let me relate this testimony that was given by our Adult teacher a couple of weeks ago. His dad and mom divorced when he was 5. His dad remarried to a Christian woman who began praying for his dad and him. The teacher was saved in college, and began to go back to take Bible studies at his mom's house every Friday night (which of course dad didn't
The date of Christ's death is fixed on the Jewish calendar. There are other comments giving possible actual dates listed here. I personally subscribe to the 15 Nisan 31 CE date (putting the crucifixion on a Wednesday), but I don't have problems with people who prefer 14 Nisan on a different year. Passover always starts with a day of preparation on 14 Nisan, each and every year, followed by the seven day passover feast. If you go through the chronology of the Bible, you'll then come up with a crucifixion on either the day of preparation or Passover itself. This is followed by three days in the grave and a Resurrection on the Jewish first day of the week (any time Saturday sunset to Sunday morning when the tomb was seen to be empty).
The whole problem is that the Jewish calendar doesn't match up with ours. Its months are based on the lunar cycles and tend to have fixed lengths. In order to keep in sync with the Earth's rotation around the sun, leap days are added as needed and every few years a leap month is added. These are always added at the end of the year. Thus, 15 (or 14) Nisan is always a fixed date on the Jewish calendar since it's in the first month of the year, but it won't match to a fixed date on the Gregorian calendar. Likewise, the day of the Resurrection (three days after His crucifixion) will not always come on a Sunday since Passover moves w.r.t. the Gregorian calendar, which irritated a Bishop back in the early hundreds, and caused the goofy Easter mess in the first place. If you want a modern day parallel, look up Golda Meir's date of death. If you were to commemorate this as a Jew, you'd almost certainly do it on the same date on the Jewish calendar each year. Yet this moves the date on the Gregorian calendar around the same way Passover moves. Last year, it (8 Kislev) would have been November 18 Gregorian. Next year it will be December 5. The year after, it'll be back in November.
If you're really interested, you should study what the passover was about (instituted long, long before Christ was born), and look at how perfectly it was a type of Christ's death. It's really fantastic. Even the actual Jewish passover rituals are a type of Christ's death, burial, and resurrection. It's a shame not many Jews have really seen that yet. The next passover, when He returns for His church in the air will be just as great an event. We don't know when that will be, but many of the Christian "big events" (Christ's birth, Christ's death, the initial outpouring of the Holy Spirit) have occurred at the times of established Jewish festivals.
I tend to agree that we should celebrate Christ all the time and not just on one day, but I'd like to see it move to be in sync with passover, regardless of whether that happened to put it on a Sunday or not on the Gregorian calendar. They ought to get Maundy Thursday and Good Friday corrected while they're at it.
And yes, the December 25th birth date is just as goofy - both for reasons of a fixed Jewish calendar date never being fixed on the Gregorian calendar, and for it needing to be tied to the Feast of Tabernacles which is much earlier in the year (15 Tishri). A good bet for a birth date would be October 4, BC 4 (Tishri 15, 3757) according to some sources.
Getting bogged down in debates over dates obscures the most important facts. He was crucified to provide a holy sacrifice for our sin. He bore stripes for our healing. Roman guards were posted to guard the tomb under penalty of death if anything happened to the body. They didn't count on angels showing up and rolling away the covering rock (not that Christ needed angels help - that was for the benefit of the people who would come). He arose, just as He said He would after three days. He arose with keys to the death and the grave, and led those righteous souls who were being kept under Satan's control in the grave to heaven. He appeared bodily to hundreds after that point in time (and at the time of His resurrection, many others who had died were also seen in Jerusalem before going to Heaven). He is reigning on the right hand of God. At some point, God will send Him to gather up His church. You don't want to miss that time.
I agree. That's why I think the TV or radio faith healers have a tendency to give Christianity a bad name. Perhaps these posts I'm making do too, but I took my homepage link off to try to ensure there wouldn't be any stink of getting something for making the comments I'm making, even though I don't think there are any buried links there to the church I'm now attending.
I'll give another example. A person I work with was having chest pain. He went to the hospital and was flown to SLC for more help the next day. The doctors there decided he was going to need a heart transplant instead. He doesn't go to church much, didn't ask me for prayer, and didn't (as far as I know) know our church was praying for him. Our church (and others) did anyway. God didn't heal his heart so he could avoid the transplant, but he did get a transplant in the primary window of time, got a heart that the doctors said was an amazing match (the new 19-year old heart had been exposed to the same chemicals, etc as the original), and he made progress that was above and beyond what the doctors had seen before and was able to come back to work in 2 months - the best they'd ever had. God's hand, or not?
Another lady I personally know had had an X-ray taken of her chest because she wasn't feeling well. The doctors diagnosed lung cancer. She was prayed for and went back to the doctor the next day since she was feeling better. A second X-ray showed her lungs clear. God at work, or no?
The thing is, there are always people in EVERY religion that give that religion a bad name. Christianity and Islam are alike in that one sad respect. There is an aspect of faith that is involved in believing every reported miracle - especially ones that you didn't witness firsthand or that are reported on the religious news sites.
One of the downsides of the health care system is that it is very expensive to back up miracles so most people just go on about their way when they are healed and never get the documentation that the world wants to see. The world doesn't have faith in God.
I do think that if God got more of the glory for the miracles that He did do, and if it was effectively used for evangelism, there might be more and greater miracles done today. As it is, why should He bother? I hope you find your faith and that you never have to count on a miracle firsthand.
Of the various recorded purposes for Christ's miracles in the New Testament - Making believers, fulfilling prophecy, demonstrating God's will, destroying the works of Satan, giving abundant life, confirming His sonship and messianic claims, confirming God's word and love, proving that God was with Him, demonstrating God's power over Satan, proving the kingdom of God was present, bringing glory to God, setting an example for all Gospel ministers, demonstrating the power of the Spirit baptism, and demonstrating full salvation for body, soul, and spirit, I see little place for God's performing a miracle as a sideshow antic as you would suggest.
Although I haven't personally seen body parts regrown, a person who had a blood clot mess up their foot badly had their foot healed just a few weeks ago at a service at our church with the help of prayer by ordinary folks. Don't mock what you haven't experienced.
That isn't a defense of the "faith healer" class. I don't think God is particularly happy with them as a group. But He is still doing His work - particularly when He gets the glory and not the person doing the work.
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Here's a snipped from a current ps
61 R root 4 0 0 36 39 fb117560 0 - Jan-23 ? 00:00:00 CPU1 idle process
61 R root 5 0 0 36 39 fb1176b8 0 - Jan-23 ? 00:00:00 CPU2 idle process
SCO doesn't win any plaudits from me in the advanced technology department. They were forever behind on their porting open source products to their system. But their kernel did support SMP before release 6.
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2. The viewpoint of both Testaments is the same. The Old Testament points, through the Jewish sacrificial system toward Christ. The New Testament points back toward Him. These are things you know from your Catholic upbringing. But the same God reigns in heaven in both the Old and New Testaments. He has the same standards now as He had then. The New Testament requires, if anything, a higher standard of behavior than the Old Testament. Many times Christ said - you have heard X, but I say unto you Y, where Y was greater than or a tougher standard than X. Since you reject Revelation, you conclude that the New Testament is full of loving kindness. But that is simply because you choose to reject the inconvenient bits that still point to the same Holy God, executing judgment in righteousness. Humans are not arbiters of good and evil. The Bible says our righteousness is as filthy rags compared to God's.
3. The Bible only has a couple of scriptures about the beginning - Gen. 1:1 and John 1:3. There is no time reference with either, other than "in the beginning". The Bible record (taken in whole from both Testaments) points to a pre-Adamite civilization (Psalms, Isaiah, 2 Pet) and in no way implies an Earth age of a few thousand years. I very much enjoyed "Job: A Comedy of Errors". Heinlein is one of my favorite authors. But just because he has a bit of fun with alternative deity systems doesn't obviate Christianity.
What is interesting to me is that the fossil record of early man has several paths and branches that seemingly dead end and then there is man appearing on the scene in the current form a short time later (in the geologic sense). You can have millions of years of natural selection and still have things get wiped out by an angry God and then restarted in similar fashion to what was before He had to stamp out evil. Doesn't make Genesis wrong. The thought that God could do that may disturb us. We may not like it. But He isn't asking us to like it. He's giving us His expectations for our behavior and faithfully warns us of the consequences if we don't comply. That He usually follows through with the consequences is not His fault. It isn't like His rules are all that hard to follow.
I think it was perhaps Clarke who, in one of his short stories, talked about Moses and Aaron complaining about the high cost of parchment, their readership base, etcetera in trying to convince Moses to go light on the pre-history to keep costs down. While amusing, it does point out a significant reality of the Bible. Its job isn't to account for 100% of Earth's history. Its job is to point the way to Christ.
Nobody will (or should) tell you that all copies of the Bible are inerrant or inspired in their current form. The only thing that the Bible claims is that as originally given to the original writers it was truth, inspired, and inerrant. If it has slipped over the ages as various people have copied it or handed it down by tradition, then that isn't God's fault. Considering the time span involved, I'd say a pretty good job has been done keeping the word intact. The more that archeology uncovers, the more items that originally seemed dubious are verified. There may be unfortunate alterations that have happened over time. Few, if any, change the basic substance of its message. You can't just ignore the big picture, which is comes through loud and clear, because there have been a couple of alterations in minor passages over the long passage of time that people took in writing down both testaments.
5. It is the job of every religion to communicate truth as they see it. Buddhism's lure is that it just says live together in harmony. It is one of the ultimate low cost sounds good feels good tools Satan has. You have every right to object to beliefs that other people hold as true and not follow them. But you shouldn't expect to go to a church of religion A (whatever it is) and have it appear to be religion F (whatever it is). Christianity's doctrines are pretty simple. Accept Christ as your Savior or end up i
This is a hurried attempt at a reply - my apologies.
1. It isn't in the fallen human nature to want to be subservient to anyone or anything. I can say that my life, when attempting to live as the Bible says a Christian should live, has been good. Not perfect, but good. I have a stable marriage and some pretty fine kids. I look at my co-workers - both married and single - and listen to the messes they get themselves into, the problems their kids are having, the bad days after the nights before, and feel blessed. The closer I get to the Christian ideal, the better things feel. When I drift away, the worse things seem to go. You will naturally discount the psychological basis for that, but it feels true to me. I give some things up to serve God. Some things are hard to give up, and some things I struggle with, but the return that He gives is good.
Everyone serves some God. They may have elevated themselves to that position, where everything they do is right in their eyes. They may serve some other God that man has created. Or they may serve the God of the Bible. The difference between the God of the Bible and every other religion on earth is that our God became flesh, lived among us, and died for us. It sets Christianity apart from the rest of the world's religions.
I don't know what your experience with Christianity has been - I suspect it wasn't a very good one. Growing up in the denomination that I grew up in, there was never any doubt that God is and is working in people's lives. There are a lot of dead denominations and churches out there. The second and third chapters of Revelation describe much of Christianity today. That is to our shame. But I assure you, God is still the great I am. He is still doing miracles today - I have seen them happen. He is still speaking through the Holy Spirit. I have heard the evidence. If you have not, then I suggest you seek out a 100% Bible believing pentecostal church and attend for awhile.
2. As a human, I can't evaluate a being that is orders of magnitude more powerful than I am. I don't have the mental ability to wrap my mind around the concept.
Because of Adam's disobedience, sin entered the world. It wasn't God's original plan for man. From the Garden of Eden on, God has been laying out the ground rules for what behavior was acceptable to Him and unacceptable to Him. That sin of Adam has been passed down to succeeding generations. The wages of sin is death. Many were killed directly by God, and many other nations were wiped out by Him. All true. If you evaluate the history as stated in the Bible though, all of these actions are directly traced to not following the rules He clearly set out and let them know about.
The sin nature you inherited from your father will set you apart from God forever, just as much as the sins that you have committed. You're no different from me. All of the times you did something against God and the "conscience" people talk about pricked your heart that you were doing wrong, it was His Holy Spirit trying to keep you on the right path. Nobody will have any excuses when they stand before God at the time of judgment. God has set out His plans for salvation for each generation. Once you have heard about Christ and His death on the cross for you, as you are now, you will make a choice to either admit you are a sinner, accept His sacrifice for your sin, and repent and turn to God -- or reject the whole concept and keep on living as you want to live. God gives you the choice, just as Adam and all the rest of those who God killed had a choice. It's a choice with eternal consequences.
But to counter the image of the blood thirsty God, let me relate this testimony that was given by our Adult teacher a couple of weeks ago. His dad and mom divorced when he was 5. His dad remarried to a Christian woman who began praying for his dad and him. The teacher was saved in college, and began to go back to take Bible studies at his mom's house every Friday night (which of course dad didn't
The date of Christ's death is fixed on the Jewish calendar. There are other comments giving possible actual dates listed here. I personally subscribe to the 15 Nisan 31 CE date (putting the crucifixion on a Wednesday), but I don't have problems with people who prefer 14 Nisan on a different year. Passover always starts with a day of preparation on 14 Nisan, each and every year, followed by the seven day passover feast. If you go through the chronology of the Bible, you'll then come up with a crucifixion on either the day of preparation or Passover itself. This is followed by three days in the grave and a Resurrection on the Jewish first day of the week (any time Saturday sunset to Sunday morning when the tomb was seen to be empty).
The whole problem is that the Jewish calendar doesn't match up with ours. Its months are based on the lunar cycles and tend to have fixed lengths. In order to keep in sync with the Earth's rotation around the sun, leap days are added as needed and every few years a leap month is added. These are always added at the end of the year. Thus, 15 (or 14) Nisan is always a fixed date on the Jewish calendar since it's in the first month of the year, but it won't match to a fixed date on the Gregorian calendar. Likewise, the day of the Resurrection (three days after His crucifixion) will not always come on a Sunday since Passover moves w.r.t. the Gregorian calendar, which irritated a Bishop back in the early hundreds, and caused the goofy Easter mess in the first place. If you want a modern day parallel, look up Golda Meir's date of death. If you were to commemorate this as a Jew, you'd almost certainly do it on the same date on the Jewish calendar each year. Yet this moves the date on the Gregorian calendar around the same way Passover moves. Last year, it (8 Kislev) would have been November 18 Gregorian. Next year it will be December 5. The year after, it'll be back in November.
If you're really interested, you should study what the passover was about (instituted long, long before Christ was born), and look at how perfectly it was a type of Christ's death. It's really fantastic. Even the actual Jewish passover rituals are a type of Christ's death, burial, and resurrection. It's a shame not many Jews have really seen that yet. The next passover, when He returns for His church in the air will be just as great an event. We don't know when that will be, but many of the Christian "big events" (Christ's birth, Christ's death, the initial outpouring of the Holy Spirit) have occurred at the times of established Jewish festivals.
I tend to agree that we should celebrate Christ all the time and not just on one day, but I'd like to see it move to be in sync with passover, regardless of whether that happened to put it on a Sunday or not on the Gregorian calendar. They ought to get Maundy Thursday and Good Friday corrected while they're at it.
And yes, the December 25th birth date is just as goofy - both for reasons of a fixed Jewish calendar date never being fixed on the Gregorian calendar, and for it needing to be tied to the Feast of Tabernacles which is much earlier in the year (15 Tishri). A good bet for a birth date would be October 4, BC 4 (Tishri 15, 3757) according to some sources.
Getting bogged down in debates over dates obscures the most important facts. He was crucified to provide a holy sacrifice for our sin. He bore stripes for our healing. Roman guards were posted to guard the tomb under penalty of death if anything happened to the body. They didn't count on angels showing up and rolling away the covering rock (not that Christ needed angels help - that was for the benefit of the people who would come). He arose, just as He said He would after three days. He arose with keys to the death and the grave, and led those righteous souls who were being kept under Satan's control in the grave to heaven. He appeared bodily to hundreds after that point in time (and at the time of His resurrection, many others who had died were also seen in Jerusalem before going to Heaven). He is reigning on the right hand of God. At some point, God will send Him to gather up His church. You don't want to miss that time.
I'll give another example. A person I work with was having chest pain. He went to the hospital and was flown to SLC for more help the next day. The doctors there decided he was going to need a heart transplant instead. He doesn't go to church much, didn't ask me for prayer, and didn't (as far as I know) know our church was praying for him. Our church (and others) did anyway. God didn't heal his heart so he could avoid the transplant, but he did get a transplant in the primary window of time, got a heart that the doctors said was an amazing match (the new 19-year old heart had been exposed to the same chemicals, etc as the original), and he made progress that was above and beyond what the doctors had seen before and was able to come back to work in 2 months - the best they'd ever had. God's hand, or not?
Another lady I personally know had had an X-ray taken of her chest because she wasn't feeling well. The doctors diagnosed lung cancer. She was prayed for and went back to the doctor the next day since she was feeling better. A second X-ray showed her lungs clear. God at work, or no?
The thing is, there are always people in EVERY religion that give that religion a bad name. Christianity and Islam are alike in that one sad respect. There is an aspect of faith that is involved in believing every reported miracle - especially ones that you didn't witness firsthand or that are reported on the religious news sites.
One of the downsides of the health care system is that it is very expensive to back up miracles so most people just go on about their way when they are healed and never get the documentation that the world wants to see. The world doesn't have faith in God.
I do think that if God got more of the glory for the miracles that He did do, and if it was effectively used for evangelism, there might be more and greater miracles done today. As it is, why should He bother? I hope you find your faith and that you never have to count on a miracle firsthand.
Although I haven't personally seen body parts regrown, a person who had a blood clot mess up their foot badly had their foot healed just a few weeks ago at a service at our church with the help of prayer by ordinary folks. Don't mock what you haven't experienced.
That isn't a defense of the "faith healer" class. I don't think God is particularly happy with them as a group. But He is still doing His work - particularly when He gets the glory and not the person doing the work.