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Freodin

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You're right ... I do.

Real witches are in cahoots with someone you deny even exists; and in Old Testament times, they could conjure things you deny exists, from places you deny exists.

That seems to imply that "real witches" are no longer able to do that, or do no longer exist.

What do you base this belief on?
 
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That seems to imply that "real witches" are no longer able to do that, or do no longer exist.
Bingo!

Yet we're supposed to be out there looking for them.
What do you base this belief on?
For the umpteenth time, when Christ died on the Cross, then arose, He walked the earth for 40 more days, then ascended to Heaven.

Taking His place was the Third Person of the Godhead, the Holy Spirit.

John 16:7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.

One of His duties is to keep Satan and his infrastructure in check.

Witchcraft took a major hit after this, and New Testament witches are just a shell of what they used to be.

At the end of this dispensation, the Holy Spirit is going up in the Rapture as well, and He will release His suppression on Satan's infrastructure, and as they say, Hell will be loosed on earth.
 
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When we "prod you to hunt them down" we are taking the mickey out of you.
No, you're not.

You might think you are, but you're not.

You guys think you're making a point by prodding us to hunt witches, but it shows your ... lack of education in theology.

Telling us to hunt witches is like we telling you to produce Phlogiston.

The only difference is, Phlogiston never existed except in scientists' imaginations.
 
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No, you're not.

You might think you are, but you're not.

You guys think you're making a point by prodding us to hunt witches, but it shows your ... lack of education in theology.

Telling us to hunt witches is like we telling you to produce Phlogiston.

The only difference is, Phlogiston never existed except in scientists' imaginations.


Ah yes, there is the additional bonus that some of you are barmy enough to actually believe in witches, which just makes it even funnier.
 
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Ah yes, there is the additional bonus that some of you are barmy enough to actually believe in witches, which just makes it even funnier.
Really?

Who prompts whom to hunt?
 
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You're prompting yourself really. We're just pointing out your double standard in not following through.
Right ... lol.

Post 247 went right over your head, didn't it?
 
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Bingo!

Yet we're supposed to be out there looking for them.

For the umpteenth time, when Christ died on the Cross, then arose, He walked the earth for 40 more days, then ascended to Heaven.

Taking His place was the Third Person of the Godhead, the Holy Spirit.

John 16:7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.

One of His duties is to keep Satan and his infrastructure in check.

Witchcraft took a major hit after this, and New Testament witches are just a shell of what they used to be.

At the end of this dispensation, the Holy Spirit is going up in the Rapture as well, and He will release His suppression on Satan's infrastructure, and as they say, Hell will be loosed on earth.
Yes, I know that you believe that... you have told us for the umpteenth time. I want to know what you base that belief on.
 
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Right ... lol.

Post 247 went right over your head, didn't it?

You mean your dispensationalist claptrap? You are making the mistake of assuming I take your beliefs seriously. I don't. Well, apart from being interesting psychologically.
 
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Yes, I know that you believe that... you have told us for the umpteenth time. I want to know what you base that belief on.
The Bhagavad-Gita ... :doh:
 
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You mean your dispensationalist claptrap? You are making the mistake of assuming I take your beliefs seriously. I don't. Well, apart from being interesting psychologically.
Why do I get the impression that I treat your science with more respect than you do our faith?

I claim scientists are gifted to us from God.

What do you claim about us?
 
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Why do I get the impression that I treat your science with more respect than you do our faith?

I've no idea. You pick and choose which science pleases and which doesn't, which sounds to me like self-indulgence rather than respect.

I claim scientists are gifted to us from God.
That's nice. Except that you treat the science itself as ungodly.

What do you claim about us?
What do I claim about you? I don't claim anything. I'm interested in why and how human beings believe things. You are an example of a certain type of extreme belief.
 
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Well, even the mainstream church regards it as heretical nonsense, so an atheist calling it claptrap isn't very noteworthy.
Really?

I don't know what 'mainstream church' you're referring to, but we call it 'basic doctrine.'

Let's see you go here and call it 'claptrap.'
 
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Really?

I don't know what 'mainstream church' you're referring to, but we call it 'basic doctrine.'

Let's see you go here and call it 'claptrap.'

It may be news to you but dispensationalism isn't the mainstream church. Young earth fundamentalism isn't the mainstream church. To give you some idea, you are just as far from mainstream Christian beliefs as Muslim fundamentalists are from mainstream Muslim beliefs, if not further. The gulf is as wide. If not wider.
 
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