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   From: nospaam_ajwerner@optushome.com.au   
      
   "Dore" wrote in message   
   news:iZWRc.3974$AA1.882@trndny06...   
   > "Ayin" <-ammitusen-@excite.com> wrote in message   
   > news:f65075f6.0408050635.3291fc44@posting.google.com...   
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   >> sure sure Dore ... and all religious texts have such truths and   
   >> demands ... all religions have thier deities and dogmas and zealous   
   >> believers always believe that only thier belief system is the One Way   
   >> and the ONLY Way. that's called "spiritual egotism.   
   >   
   > Yes, all religions have their self-imagined deities and dogmas,   
      
   And yours is just another of them.   
      
   > but the   
   > difference is the POWER, SPIRIT, MIRACLES, and TRUTHS   
      
   The others have those too. What makes yours truth and their's imagined?   
   You haven't demonstrated that your beliefs extend anywhere beyond your own   
   mind.   
      
   > that is revealed to   
   > those who obey and follow Christ that cannot be denied. The plan of   
   > salvation, the prophecies and truths provided in the Bible reveal the   
   > whole   
   > history of man with God, and His plan from the beginning to the end. If   
   > God,   
   > Himself deems that there is ONLY ONE way to Him, then it is the way and no   
   > one can refute it.   
      
   The Illuminati and other groups could have written those things into the   
   bible.   
   They certainly had enough time to do so.   
      
   > Sure other can claim it, but it is lies and you and they   
      
   They say that it is your bible religion that is the lie.   
   For all we know they could be the ones telling the truth.   
   Then again you could both be duped by dark forces.   
   Judging by all the childish finger pointing that goes on in religion I'd say   
   that that's most likely the case.   
      
   > will discover those lies when you are dead,   
      
   Promises, promises.   
      
   > because you refused to seek the truth when you were living.   
   >   
   > cont   
   >> well Dore ... without the catholic church's aggressive conversion   
   >> tactics christianity would have stayed a minor jewish cult and likely   
   >> would have disappeared into obscurity.   
   >   
   >   
   > No, it wouldn't have, for God promised that the gospel would be preached   
   > to   
   > every nation, and in fact, it was the PROTESTANT movement that brought the   
   > truths of Christ, not the Catholic church, who tried to have the Bible   
   > squelched, when they discovered that it's publication lead to the people   
   > realizing their lies and deception.   
      
   It's more likely the Catholic church simply decided that the lies in the   
   bible were incompatible with their own lies and agendas.   
      
   >   
   > Obviously, you know nothing about witchcraft, or evil demons, from which   
      
   You haven't exactly demonstrated your comprehensive knowledge of such   
   either.   
      
   > they get their power. I suppose you have never been a victim of witches   
   > and   
   > their spells,   
      
   Have you ever been a victim of witches?   
   Tell us about some of the things they do.   
   And no using Google.   
      
   > so you shrug them off as superstition. It is clear you never   
   > read the situation that lead to the Salem witch burnings, nor what the   
   > people suffered because of it.   
      
   Most of the ones who suffered were the women healers and herbalists who were   
   falsely accused of being witches. Many of those were only guilty of owning   
   property (after being widowed by the state) which the religious clergy (who   
   were also the government at that time) wanted to acquire for themselves.   
   By killing the widows they got the properties for free.   
      
   There are very few documented cases where normal people have been harmed by   
   so called witches.   
   If you have some then please site them.   
      
   > Evil, Satan, demons, witches, sorcerers, etc   
   > DO evil to others,   
      
   Yes, by convincing people that he/they are supreme and getting you to   
   worship him/them, and then getting you to persecute others in their name,   
   just like the god of the bible has done so easily with you.   
      
   >   
   >> but it's not very difficult to find verses in the bibe that can   
   >> justify nasty behavior ... such as slavery   
   >   
   > It is NOT the verses in the Bible that justifies it,   
      
   No but it contains it never the less, and it fully condones and in many   
   cases encourages it as well.   
      
   > it is man's own   
   > desires, interpretations, distortions and twistings because of evil,   
   > corruption, ignorance, lack of God, understanding, comprehension and the   
   > Holy Spirit, which does. In the Bible, people were given over into   
   > slavery   
   > NO different than you are given over to be enslaved by your employer. The   
   > only difference is that they were given food, clothing, shelter and their   
   > needs by their masters and you are given money to buy those things for   
   > yourself.   
      
   Apologising for your god again as usual?   
   Your apology for your bad bible god is not accepted.   
   He must apologise to us himself.   
      
   >>   
   >> oh i could go on and on cutting and pasting such verses but you'll   
   >> find a way to clear yourself and your deity of any responsibility for   
   >> the creepy edicts written in your "Word of God".   
   >   
   > When Adam and Eve sinned and brought death into the world, a blood   
   > sacrifice   
   > was required,   
      
   Why?   
      
   > a LIFE to overcome DEATH.   
      
   Life is the opposite of death.   
   Why is it necessary to kill one person to save another?   
   If God is omnipotent then he should be able to make it so that both can   
   live.   
      
   > In the OT an animal life was the   
   > sacrifice,   
      
   Why? What would a Creator of all things want with a dead animal carcass?   
      
   > the man had to "give up" sacrifice the best of his flock,   
   > proving to God that he is willing to give HIM the firstfruits of his   
   > possessions, honoring God more than possessions.   
      
   Why not sacrifice ones jewellery or other belongings instead, or ones time   
   and effort for a worthy cause?   
   Why mutilate a living thing?   
   It's because that's what the ancient pagans and polytheists used to do and   
   that's what christianity adopted for it's own tradition.   
      
   > But God loved man so much   
   > that He sent Himself, in His only begotten Son, to be that final sacrifice   
      
   Huh? He sent himself to sacrifice himself to himself?   
   What an absolute screwball!   
      
   > so you would have the OPPORTUNITY to be forgiven of your sins,   
      
   What kind of an opportunity is that?   
   It would be an opportunity to laugh it if wasn't so sick and paganistic.   
      
   > if you   
   > believed and repented. GOD is the AUTHOR of LIFE and DEATH. WHO are YOU to   
   > determine what He should require from men, that GOD has created?   
   >   
      
   --   
   Andrew W.   
      
   "If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save   
   you..."   
   ~ Jesus. The Gospel of Thomas.   
      
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