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(...) Getting picky here! (...) Why not? I agree that an "Anglican" Christian such as myself may have differing views on issues than a "Baptist" or "Mormon" Christian, but on this issue I think we're all pretty universally in agreement. (...) I (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) IANAM(1), but I believe that one of the basic beliefs is that "That there is no god but God and that Mohammad is His messenger". Though, they mean the same God, so maybe that doesn't count. This leads me to wonder: Is there a term to describe (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yes they are, in the book of Exodus is where we see them first. The Jewish Bible is basically the Old Testament only, whereas the Christian Bible has both the Old and New Testament. A freind of mine recounts an interesting story. He went to a (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I think it's safe to go ahead and say "not in the picture". If not then I ask where exactly were they walking? That is unless you mean the creation of Earth and are suggesting that man came from elsewhere (not my personal belief but I could (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) OK, so that would be (b) then? How about other non-God deities (from other religions)? Do those gods deny the existance of other gods? (Obviously the Greek gods, for instance, don't fall into that category.) That is, is Christianity the only (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) He says many times that there are no other gods beside Him. All other gods are fabrications. Bill (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'm voting for "splunge" both here and in the presidential election. ^_- (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I disagree, creationism can stand quite aptly on it's own two feet. It doesn't get it's validation from disproving evolution. There is quite a lot of geological and biological evidence to support the bible. The fossil record is not as the (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) My bad ^^; Though, technically, aren't the 10C included in the Old Testiment? I can't remember for certain. (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) No, they would be favouring Judeism, as the 10 Commandments were given to Moses, who at the time was leading the Israelites out of Egypt. They were Jews. Christianity is based on Judeism with one fundamental difference - we believe that Jesus (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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On Fri, 3 Mar 2000 01:34:14 GMT, Sproaticus <jsproat@io.com> wrote: First I'll say this... this thread is making me homesick!!!! (...) Man, they'd just just have to see my music collection to freak out about me. ^_^; Oh well. (it's that naughty (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) ... (...) Maybe they thought that life was so terrible that death was better than the hell that was their life. For some people nowhere is a better place. Not that I think they were non-religious, I just don't think that their statement (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The Plagues, I guess. I think that's a great way to teach religious things in school. If you want to believe that a higher power caused them, knowing how the power did it should only reinforce your belief in the power (by saying that not only (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The question of whether God exists or not for me is clear cut. He does. This whole Creationist v Evolutionist argument has pointed towards a Great Creator of the Universe, and that is God. Man certainly had nothing to do with the original (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) An extreme example of this would be walking into a government building and seeing a swastika mounted on the wall. Now, I don't know about you, but I would very quickly get the impression that which ever government agency was housed in said (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) That's a great question! But more than that, what I wanna know is whether God (THE God): (a) admits that other deities exist and disallows their worship, or (b) disavows the existance of other deities, or (c) whether His answer to that would (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yes, but what about whether or not this 'deity', aka God, exists? -Shiri (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) What it means is that whatever is primary in our lives is our god. For some people it is money, or power, property, sex, popularity, image, relationships, ........., even LEGO. It could be a combination of any of these things or a different (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Err, just to make myself clear - I don't mind teaching the bible, as long as it is taught as a foundation to our country (Israel) and not as a practice we should all believe in. I also believe that it should not be enforced after grade school (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Or me either. You Americans don't know how lucky you are to at least have SOME degree of separation between the two. In Israel the two are totally mixed, wisted and intertwined to a horrible and utterly disgusting mess. The orthodox Jews have (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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