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Recent content by Manford

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    ‘Sell all you have, and give to the poor'

    You cant take the story of the widow to mean to give away everything until you have nothing. She was already poor. She only gave what she could find which was so little she might as well have given it away because she could not do much else with it. Jesus was merely making note of a remarkable...
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    ‘Sell all you have, and give to the poor'

    Some of you are such hypocrits on this forum when you say jesus literally means go flat broke giving money and possessions away when you are sitting here with obviously a computer, internet service, cars homes and at least some degree of material comfort in this life now when you should nt have...
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    Another 3D printed Jesus Christ crucifix figurine for purchase

    3d printing is revolutionizing the the manufacturing business and changing the way things are being produced for the marketplace even on the mass production scale. It is projected that most massed produced products will the be 3d printed in the future to save of overhead, cost of labor...
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    Heaven the end or not?

    Well, the scriptures make clear that the only reason evil exist is because The Tempter subjected it to evil (via the fall) Romans 8. The "end" or "new beginning" will signify and time when The tempter will be forever be done away with there will not be a possibility of the cycle starting over...
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    3Dprinted Jesus Christ

    3d printing is becoming very popular. It's revolutionizing manufacturing for the future. Many speculate that almost all massed produced and manufactured goods will be 3d printed in the future from toys and artistic sculptures to cloths and even cars and military equipment, fully funtional...
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    Soldiers and Thou Shalt Not Kill

    I agree war is never excusable. War in the old testament was judgement on heathen nations. War in the new testament is inexcusable and never justified because God does is not judging as he did then but. But that is not to say that a soldier is condemnable for the thou shalt not kill command...
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    Soldiers and Thou Shalt Not Kill

    God in the old testament excused killing in the cases of self defense, accidental killing, judgment and war. http://www.shapeways.com/model/1144977/4-5-inch-sculpted-cruxifix-figurine.html?li=productBox-search
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    The authority of the bible

    As far as the time frame mix up between judges and genesis. I am not quite sure I know what you are refering to. The primary characters in the books are chronologically place in a consistant pattern as far as I can recall. If you can show where specifically. That would help. I know some...
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    Question

    amen
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    What is Truth?

    Thank you. well said as well
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    Death Penalty

    true
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    A question about Job.

    I dont think God punished them or anything. he just rebuked them for their ignorance. I am sure after seeing and hearing from him in a storm cloud, he didn't have to many more problems from them or job (who excessive complained as well by the way, even though he was considered righteous by God)
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    Old covenant LAW

    Jews only. But passed to us as an example to us for rewards for obedience and punishment for disobedience of anything God commands, allthough today we are under a different set of rules both Jews and Gentiles. One command he gives us under the New Covenant. To love. If we don't, we can...
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    Can God LITERALLY speak to us today?

    John 1:1 makes synonymous with God, Reason, Intelligence, etc defined by the greek term "Logos" written in greek version for english translated "Word". Logos is where we derrived the english equivalent "Logic" . So when one uses reason or sound judgement, or intelligence, the same can be said...
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    Death Penalty

    Genesis 9:6 condones it. I don't think christians should fight it except to make sure it just and proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the person has killed someone