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    2 Cor 3:6-11 Affirms the Law of God, and the New Covenant where it is written on the heart

    Out of curiosity, when lightning accompanies the blessing of rain on the Sabbath and results in the destruction of a church building, is that also one of God's blessings or is He guilty of breaking the Sabbath by working to send a bolt of lightning earthward?
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    DNA and Christ's Birth

    Actually I have attended Catholic mass a few times this century with friends. I have no idea how mass is conducted in your parish, although the format is identical, as we all know. The only significant variation IMO that has happened over the past few decades during are changes brought about...
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    DNA and Christ's Birth

    As you well know, the hallmark of scientific work is peer review. I am unaware of any scientific work which does not receive criticism, sometimes extremely negative, when subjected to peer review. Charles Darwin springs to my mind as a classic example. In any event, I do not intend to be...
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    DNA and Christ's Birth

    This is not particularly new to me. I am aware that various samples of pollen were examined with the results you mentioned. What I am simply suggesting in response to the OP is that, rather than speculating on the possible paternal DNA of Jesus Christ an obvious means of would be to simply...
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    DNA and Christ's Birth

    I am not going to pursue this rabbit trail further with you because it is obvious that neither of us works from the same set of data. I still highly recommend Walter McCrone's book. He was a devout Catholic who had no religious bias to discredit the authenticity of the shroud. My original...
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    Seventh-day Adventist denomination - said to be 5th largest Christian denomination world-wide

    I can only provide anecdotal support based on local observations here in Iowa. The SDA church in my home city, which was always a tight-knit group of SDA folks who had moved into the city, now has a non-native pastor. Here in Davenport, Iowa the SDA church is increasingly ethnic in make up...
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    Keep a word, Drop a word

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    2 Cor 3:6-11 Affirms the Law of God, and the New Covenant where it is written on the heart

    Apparently loving our neighbor as ourselves, apart from its possible implications spelled out in the last six of the ten commandments, is not necessary. Perish the thought that one would go to the aid of someone dying alongside of a road on a Saturday morning.
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    2 Cor 3:6-11 Affirms the Law of God, and the New Covenant where it is written on the heart

    I agree. It took later folks time and effort to delete various and irrelevant commandments because of the clear understanding of the strict limitations placed on those commandments. As I noted previously, Thomas Jefferson may have been one of the most notorious in this line of effort, but he...