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(...) Why should I? This is something I strongly believe in which is being challenged in a civil discussion, so lugnet.off-topic.debate T&C's notwithstanding, I'm entitled to speak. You're bored with it? Don't read it. (...) Not true, at Bible (...) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yes indeed you are, but you're wrong and it's not just me thats disagreeing with you. You're just repeating your arguments over and over but they've been discredited. (...) How do you know these are copies of the original texts? How do you (...) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) One of the arguments that has been repeated over and over here is the issue of the gender of God, and how to address God, which I think we'll all have to agree to dissagree on. I've stated my case on what I have researched and believe. You (...) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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First off, sorry if anyone was offended by the subject...I was getting tired of the old one. (...) <sigh> There you go again, speaking as if your opinions are the prerequisite for Christianity. It may not be a secret to anyone else, but to me the (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The prereqs for being a Christian have been around long before I graced this earth. You make it sound like I'm professing to be the be-all and end-all of Christian knowledge. If stating what I believe based on facts I have researched is (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Doh! You assumed right, I did not. I thought you lived in the USA too. Sorry about that! I'm sure that it happens all of the time because a lot of Americans tend to assume that everyone on the Internet is an American too (NOW I notice the .au (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Sorry (...) Americans (...) No stress, although when I see some of the FOTW posts I wish I was in the US so I could get my hands on some cheap LEGO. Whoops...On-Topic. Pete Callaway (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'm not Christain, but I am gay, and my daughter is Christian, so I've done some digging on this to combat the stuff she was getting from her church which had her really worried about *me*. Without getting into a long rigamarole, there are (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Before I start, I'd like to say that there is no "super-bad" sin. All sin is considered equal in the eyes of God (except perhaps blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. Matthew 12:31. Not sure how that one works). Many people, Christians included, (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Actually, its not so clear if you consider what is known as "pseudographia" -- the books selected out by Peter and the other late-comers (some of these were 200 years later late-comers). I, like others in this mad thread, have forgotten and (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Peter Callaway writes: (much snippage, excepting the passage references cited as advocating against homosexuality) (...) I can't address most of these, as my memory is horrible, and I don't have a bible handy, but I will (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) <snip> Somewhere we have a pamphlet about all this but I gave it to Liz and so I don't remember where it is. I'll try and find it and type some of them in for you, but I've no intention of typing in the whole thing :-). The only one I remember (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) And the fact that my tent isn't x cubits long and y cubits high, and I prefer to shake hands on an agreement rather than carve up an ox and walk through the middle of it means that most of the Levitical laws I don't practice. Jesus stated that (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) If you tell me a bit about it I'll try to source it from my side of the Pacific Pond. I'm still interested in the response to the other verses I cited, as one of them specifically mentions "homosexual offenders". (...) Most of which make (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) of (...) [megasnip] (...) Top 10 Reasons God is Not Gay: 10. A gay god would never have allowed catholisism to exist in its current 14th century state of mind. 9. A gay god would have hymns that sound more like showtunes. 8. A gay god would (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) <snipped list> (...) Well, for all intents and purposes, all of Leviticus is given equal weight. So if you are going to cite it as a source for correct behavior, you should either cite it as a single work, or disregard it, IMHO. Either (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Wow, Ed, that was not only not funny, it was pointless. Great job. Really. Scott S. < snipped top 10 reasons etc. > ___...___ Scott E. Sanburn-> ssanburn@cleanweb.net Systems Administrator-Affiliated Engineers -> (URL) Page -> (URL) Page -> (URL) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I thought it was the funniest thing I'd read in several weeks. --Todd (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) That's great. Scott S. ___...___ Scott E. Sanburn-> ssanburn@cleanweb.net Systems Administrator-Affiliated Engineers -> (URL) Page -> (URL) Page -> (URL) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I tend to have an extremely objective sense of humor. --Todd (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Very amusing, although one doesn't need to be gay to have those thoughts about Tammy Baker ;-) Here's something that might crack you up too. I laughed myself stupid for quite some time. (URL) the author of the site where it's hosted thinks (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Day 27 - Still at Sea Arrr, the rain she falls all th' night and all day long. Spent all day feedin' the cattle and scooping poop, AGAIN. Thanks a lot God! I still say we shoulda left those darn skunks to drown. Mrs. Noah looks like she's dun (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well I wondered...no, too easy. Besides, that would be mean. ;) Ben Roller (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) feedin' (...) ROTFL! You sometimes have to wonder, if Noah was really a man of infinite patience, or if God just let him complain as long as the job got done. :-, Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well, I don't think the Bible said that every animal made it OFF of the ark (alive anyway). I bet every time that Noah got really mad he just up and tossed a smelk, frabot or a unicorn off the side. Oh he was crazy alright. The guy was 600 (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I bet it was really lonely in that little boat. :-) --Todd (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Scott, you don't think god has a sense of humor? Look at the platypus! (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I thought you asserted that you didn't believe in God, Ed. Therefore, how can He have a sense of humor. I have a sense of humor, but this really didn't "enlighten" me, nor did I think it was funny. Scott S. ___...___ Scott E. Sanburn-> (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Hey! Lay of the little fellas, I think they're cute! ;-) Pete Callaway (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well you wouldn't be the first, and there are times I won't deny it either ;-) Pete Callaway (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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