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[TLK Valentine]

It appears to have only been seen by these men, as Herod had to inquire when it appeared.

Then the word you're looking for is 'hallucination."

 

[Ubogion]

It's either a type of star that God created that scientists are unfamiliar with; or it's an object that can be semantically referred to as a star; e.g., "falling star" for meteor.

but you say literal translation only. literal translation star is star, nothing else.

 

[AV1611VET]

Then the word you're looking for is 'hallucination."

Then why do scientists scratch themselves silly trying to figure it out?

Running it through their big Y2K computers and trying to associate it with mundane records of who was governor and employing their big-shot scientific methods and coming up with ....

... nothing?

Now you come along and say it was an hallucination?

LOL

Mabye the god (muse) of science should have checked with you first?

 

[AV1611VET]

but you say literal translation only. literal translation star is star, nothing else.

Anyone even remotely familiar with the book of Revelation knows better than to take the book of Revelation with absolute literalism.

Revelation 1:1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

That bolded part means the book was "signified" or "encoded" into symbolic language.

It's still literal, but encoded into symbolic language.

 

[Ubogion]

Anyone even remotely familiar with the book of Revelation knows better than to take the book of Revelation with absolute literalism.

Revelation 1:1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

That bolded part means the book was "signified" or "encoded" into symbolic language.

It's still literal, but encoded into symbolic language.

Under no circumstances whatsoever is the literal translation of the King James Bible to be contradicted.

so Revelations violates rule 1?

 

[AV1611VET]

so Revelations violates rule 1?

No.

 

[Armoured]

Rule One: Clams fly.

Rule Two: Koalas teleport.

 

[TLK Valentine]

Then why do scientists scratch themselves silly trying to figure it out?

They don't --Christians scratch themsleves silly trying to pass it off as science.

Running it through their big Y2K computers and trying to associate it with mundane records of who was governor and employing their big-shot scientific methods and coming up with ....

... nothing?

You act like it took a lot of work to figure out it wasn't there.

Now you come along and say it was an hallucination?

Even scientists censor themselves due to political correctness -- I choose not to.

LOL

Mabye the god (muse) of science should have checked with you first?

Maybe you should give that poor ol' strawman a break?

 

[AV1611VET]

They don't --Christians scratch themsleves silly trying to pass it off as science.

Not this Christian.

Treating the Bible like It is a science book is like treating Bill Gate's diary like it's a computer manual.

 

[Armoured]

Unicorns as featured in the KJV aren't literally unicorns, either, are they AV?

 

[DogmaHunter]

It wouldn't be a star as we know it.

Remember the star of Bethlehem?

I believe it was a hologram.

I believe it was a 7-headed dragon playing stupid pranks.

 

[Ecowolf]

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Sound familiar?

 

[AV1611VET]

Unicorns as featured in the KJV aren't literally unicorns, either, are they AV?

They are animals now extinct.

 

[AV1611VET]

I believe it was a 7-headed dragon playing stupid pranks.

No, you don't.

 

[Armoured]

They are animals now extinct.

Just the other day you were claiming the Bible is talking about some sort of gazelle or something. Which, as I say, isn't LITERALLY a unicorn, is it?

 

[AV1611VET]

Just the other day you were claiming the Bible is talking about some sort of gazelle or something.

Huh?

 

[Kylie]

The Bible doesn't mention it as a "problem" either.

I did not speculate in order to solve the problem; I speculated in order to solve your problem.

The Bible says one thing, then it says a contradictory thing. Sure sounds like a problem for you, AV. Not a problem for me because I can see a very simple solution.

I don't know ... would they?

If you read either one of these passages, would you be aware that he was both father and brother?

No.

But it is.

Nothing at first.

At maximum capacity, it had the Ten Commandments, Aaron's rod that budded, and I believe a pot of manna; if my memory serves me correctly.

Not according to 1 Kings and 2 Chronicles...

But while we're on the subject, how long was the ark of the covenant at Abinadab's house?

 

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