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Re: Does God have a monopoly on gods?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sun, 12 Mar 2000 05:26:12 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bill Farkas writes:
> > How do you talk with your tongue stuck in your cheek all the time? You sure
> > have the gift of sarcasm. I never said any of those things either. Each time
> > I have referenced a bible verse it was to clarify the meaning of said verse
> > which may or may not have been used out of context elsewhere. I believe it
> > to be all of those things for myself, with the caveat that time and
> > translation has opened the door to interpolations among manuscript • evidences.
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> I'm sorry, I didn't glean that. Maybe I'm reading too quickly, or have been
> adversely influenced by too many bible proponents in the past. I didn't
> realize you were intending your statements to be taken that they apply
> personally to you and you only, because the way you replied to Larry, it sure
> sounded to me as though you were correcting some statement he had made that
> you believed to be "false." If I'm understanding what you're saying now,
> it wasn't your intention to suggest that Larry's statements were "false" per
> se, but that they were "false" for you. Is this correct?
>
> --Todd
I have only maintained that the Bible is authoritative for those who put
themselves under it's authority. It is, in my opinion however, true regardless
of whether a particular individual finds it to be so. Assuming that God is in
fact real, a person's disbelief doesn't render Him powerless over that
individual. Again, that's assuming that God is real.
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| (...) At last, something I can agree with. This is most certainly true. (reminder, accepting the truth of "If A then B" does NOT imply the truth of A) Bill, there isn't much common ground between us, though, as other posters have explained quite (...) (27 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I'm sorry, I didn't glean that. Maybe I'm reading too quickly, or have been adversely influenced by too many bible proponents in the past. I didn't realize you were intending your statements to be taken that they apply personally to you and (...) (27 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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