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Re: Does God Have A Name For God?
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Thu, 19 Jan 2006 22:35:43 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler
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For that matter, doesn’t one of the Gospels (or several of them) indicate
that Christ departed for other lands to spread the Word? Why must
these “lands” mean nations?
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Hi Dave! Glad to see that your prose is as eloquent now as it was five long
years ago. You should get paid by the word, if you ask me. And how did you
get to be such exquisite fashion sense?
Anyway, I think I’ve found that passage you were talking about. Feast your
eyes on John, Chapter 10:
I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me— just as the
Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep. I
have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They
too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd.
Granted, it doesn’t explicity say “aliens,” but it clearly talks about sheep
“not of this sheep pen.” Sort of resonates with “not of this Earth,” don’t
you think?
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First let me say that you are not crazy if you talk to yourself, Dave! (But you
are if you listen;-)
I think Jesus is clearly referring to Jews and Gentiles here. The sheep in the
pen are God’s chosen people, the Jews. But Jesus is obviously acknowledging
that He came to serve Gentiles as well. And perhaps non Jews not of this earth?
Maybe you are on to something, and maybe one day we will all read about it in
the Gospel according to Dave!
JOHN
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| (...) Yeah, somehow I don't suspect that Jesus was talking about Vulcans or Wookies in that passage, but in the original thread I posed the question about "other lands" in a sort of tongue-in-cheek way, and Ryan Farrington suggested that my source (...) (19 years ago, 20-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler (URL) wrote:> (...) Hi Dave! Glad to see that your prose is as eloquent now as it was five long years ago. You should get paid by the word, if you ask me. And how did you get to be such exquisite fashion (...) (19 years ago, 19-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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