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Re: Does God Have A Name For God?
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Fri, 20 Jan 2006 02:31:46 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
   In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
   In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
   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?

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?

   I think Jesus is clearly referring to Jews and Gentiles here.

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 might have been the Book of Mormon. I only posted the follow-up because I stumbled upon the John passage and happened to recall the old discussion here.

   maybe one day we will all read about it in the Gospel according to Dave!

Now that would be some serious apocrypha!

Dave!



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(...) Now this IS intriquing. What were you doing in the belly of the beast? I think it's HIGH time YOU come clean and confess to the heinous crime of worship;-) (...) Hey, it could be canon for the Emergynts... {:^D JOHN (19 years ago, 20-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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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 (...) (19 years ago, 19-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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