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(...) I am reading right now Colleen McCullough's _Caesar_ (book number 5 of her excellent novels) and there is a passage where she has a fictitious conversation between Caesar and the chief Druid, Cathbad. Caesar is anxious to make an impression, (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) According to KJV Galatians Ch. 3, in particular verses 18 and 21, the promise given to Abraham for fulfilling those laws is still valid, even after some were made redundant by Christ's ministry. Granted, the speaker gives a fair amount of (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Pretty dead on. Satan didn't mess it up. You're right, God knew this would happen. If you read Genesis and Revelation, the beginning of the first is the same as the ending of the latter. Everything in between has to do with God's plan of (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) hell management to open a piano bar) is being continued in an ongoing series by another great brit writer, mike carey. yours truly is getting ready to embark on the illustrations for a back-up feature or guest issue of the book. i just (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Despite the size of this thread, I don't feel this question has been answered yet. There are many places in the Bible that God specifically says "there are no other Gods (deities)". So God clearly denies the existance of other Gods. (See a few (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) worship (...) sabbath (...) was (...) Sabbath, (...) In the New Testament, all of the commandments are repeated, not as commandments but as exhortations to fufill the law of love, (because we are saved by grace not by our deeds) all are (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I don't know if it was mentioned in RELIGIOUS texts, but C.S. Lewis mentioned it in "The Lion, the witch & the wardrobe", which is definitely christianity- influenced... (Not to mention it's like a bible to me :) I love Narnia!) -Shiri (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) It never says "forever". It just says he'll be a fugitive and a vagabond (...James VagaBond) sorry. Also, it doesn't say there were only four people at this point. It says she gave birth to them two and then it says, "in the process of time" (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) We never left it. Fridays are (IIRC) typically slow days for traffic on Lugnet, for a bunch of reasons. Today, that low volume is combined with a fast-paced debate (not the first, won't be the last), so it looks a bit weird on the stats, but (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.general)
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(...) Besides, we're having fun. ;) James (URL) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I can't know exactly which message you mean (I can guess) without a group and message number, but if you can point precisely to it (send me an email) I can cancel it upon your request. However, I can't (won't) cancel other peoples' replies (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Outside of .off-topic.debate, certainly please -do- complain...but here in .off-topic.debate, this is on-topic. --Todd (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) S'okay, Erin. I was just playing around. I hope there are no hard feelings? Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Okay, I may have made a .........er............terversial error in posting that message, so.....Todd, please delete my message (and if you could, all the messages in reply to my message) Thanks. Erin -- "The only god minifigs believe in, are the (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Love that word! Anyway, this thread is more interesting to me than the Loud Urguments about Goofballs, erm, presidential candidates. :-, Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Okay, if I can't complain about religious discussions on a Lego newsfeed, then I might as well get myself in trouble by stating my views. =) Okay, so let's start at the beginning. (Of sorts) God creates everything, and finishes up with Adam and Eve. (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Why do you feel that way? I am of the understanding that in the New Testament, the law of the Sabbath was never revoked. Christ challenged many laws concerning activity on the Sabbath, but as far as I can determine, Christ never denounced (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Because they were naked. It doesn't say that they were ashamed of what they did. They said that they hid because they were naked. If you think of it as they are equal with God now (that they know everything like Him), they still would have (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) It's equally pathetic to believe that God is a male. You're limiting the supreme power with gender. (...) Don't be so sure of yourself. I've seen translations that use Mother and She instead of He. I don't need that, but if I had a twisted (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) ...? Which role playing games? I'm sure the game company lawyers would *love* to argue that they had the idea first, but Lilith is a valid character from several ancient religious texts. I found the reference: Lilith is mentioned early on in (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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