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Recent content by ExTiff

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    Are there any denominations that don't believe everything from the Bible?

    You are getting your images mixed. A viewer of a modern battle tank from above on a battlefield would see turrets like a lions mane and stabilised guns as ‘the means by which the tank moved beneath them, their tails appearing to be the means by which they wound’. Much as the way observers on...
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    Lost tribes of Israel

    And claiming they speak 'English'! ^_^
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    The sun finally sets on the British Empire

    The British 'Empire' has long since ceased to exist. Empire Day is no longer celebrated and has not been for many a long year since. The ongoing reality is The British Commonwealth. It is quite likely that the sun still does not ever set on all of that. The era in which the British Empire was...
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    The Full Spectrum of Christian Belief on Origins - where are you?

    Biblical Plenany word inspirationist fundamentalists Christians haven't been able to see this much, but they are probably a minority, even in the USA. Much of what we read in the Bible is poetic prose and faithful recording of ancient verbally transmitted legend and fable. If that conflicts...
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    The Full Spectrum of Christian Belief on Origins - where are you?

    The intended meaning of the book of Job was to refute commonly held theological speculations concerning the reason for undeserved disaster, calamity and disease. Job’s Comforters put forward all the various erroneous theological speculations assuming Job DESERVED God’s wrath and therefore...
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    Evolution and Evil

    Biblically speaking, moral “evil” is that which is opposed to God, that which is the opposite of God, and that which is contrary to God. Evil does not exist as a separate entity except in its relationship to God or good. All goodness originates in God and is from God. Anything that opposes God...
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    Evolution and Evil

    Evil is not wickedness. Evil and wickedness are two different things. Please learn the difference between them before attempting to offer me advice on the subject of evil or your understanding of the doctrines of scripture. What is clear to you might not be so. That effect is known as...
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    Evolution and Evil

    Evil is not wickedness. Human wickedness did not exist until human beings evolved fully into human beings. Evil existed long before that because evil is that which opposes the will of the creator God. Only mankind, out of all evolved lifeforms so far, has been duped into believing they are now...
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    The Full Spectrum of Christian Belief on Origins - where are you?

    I think you might be missing the point here. I specified just this particular text, not the whole of the book of Job, when I wrote “No one can translate some of the words in a sentence in the book of Job accurately into English”. Some of the Hebrew words are either missing completely or their...
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    The Full Spectrum of Christian Belief on Origins - where are you?

    Perhaps I need to be cleaer in the way I couch my answers. The Hebrew words that THIS VERSE (Job. 19:26), are being attempted to be rendered into the English language by the wise, scholarly translators, are so obscure that nobody on earth now knows exactly what they meant in Hebrew. THAT is why...
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    The Full Spectrum of Christian Belief on Origins - where are you?

    Here in the UK clicking on the highlighted text results in a window coming up with this in: The letters in brackets (a), (b), (c), gives some possible alternatives. (d) indicates the fact that translators and interpreters were unable to reconstruct the meaning of the text because the original...
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    The Full Spectrum of Christian Belief on Origins - where are you?

    When I first started seriously studying the Bible about 50 years ago, I was seriusly put off by the false propaganda put about by Biblical inerrantists, suggesting, nay dictating, that the whole of scripture was the faultlessly preserved, inerrant words of God, (so you'd better believe it), that...
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    The Full Spectrum of Christian Belief on Origins - where are you?

    I don't think any 'Liberal' scholars, (and what's wrong with liberation), have ever questioned the inspiration of anything in the scriptures which pertains to our salvation. It is only yourself and a few others, who insist that the entirety of scripture is infallibly without error, mistake...
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    The Full Spectrum of Christian Belief on Origins - where are you?

    Neither do I, but THAT is why the Bible you and I buy in a shop and open up to read, is not inerrant and contains some errors, contradictions and mistakes. Those errors, contadictions and mistakes do not render the book you read uninspired, EVEN if it happens to be The New World Translation of...