XPost: alt.bible, alt.religion, alt.religion.christian.biblestudy   
   XPost: alt.christnet.bible, alt.religion.christian.roman-catholic   
      
   >>Good to see you friend james after a long posting absence. You wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>>In the whole Bible, there is only two references to imperfect men's   
   >>>>birthdays. One, no? was the pagan Egyptian Pharaoh. And for his 'happy   
      
   The jw vatican plays fast and loose and irradic on logical thinking.   
   >>>>birthday' he killed the chief of the bakers.(Gen 40:20-22)   
   >>>>   
   >>>>The second one mentioned was King Herod. And for his 'happy birthday'   
   >>>>he had the head of John the Baptist brought to him on a platter.That's   
   >>>>it!! None of Jesus' apostles celebrated their birthdays nor did they   
   >>>>of Jesus.So the Bible doesn't look favorably upon birthdays.   
   >>   
   >>This is the logical fallacy of argument from silence.  There are many   
   >>things the jw vatican does or forbids on which scripture is silent.   
   >>   
   >>The OT has a long and complex list of what 'incest" is and several examples   
   >>commited by OT figures held in high esteem.  The NT has only two mentions   
   >>from the list, one a brother's wife and a stepmother. This is the   
   >>   
   >>The first example was king herod, the same above; who married his neice;   
   >>who was also his living brother's wife.  If his brother died the king was   
   >>expected to marry the wife.  In the OT a neice is not on the incest list.   
   >>   
   >>Using friend james' logic of silence, the two NT examples are the only   
   >>incesst, all the other OT incest rules are not mentioned..  So he is free   
   >>to marry only a dead brother's wife or a neice; but not stepmother.  All   
   >>other relatives can be married..   
   >   
   >What does that have to do with ducks on a lake?   
      
   It is to show that the jw vatican badly needs to get its logical ducks in a   
   consistant row.  If scripture remains silent on cars, it must be forbidden   
   to own/ ride in one, no?   
      
   If scripture says a man must marry the wife of his brother if he should   
   die.  Following that waddling row of ducks, there must be many such   
   marriages? So too for uncle/neice marrages on which scripture is silent.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)