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Most people don't have trouble with the Gospel message summed up in John 3:16.

Also a lot of people find the effort to understand God a worthwhile effort. That's why there's approximately 2 billion Christians worldwide.

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10-04-2009 , 10:41 PM

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batair

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Originally Posted by Splendour

But how many of them are REAL Christians.

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10-04-2009 , 11:30 PM

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zugzwang83

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splendour is doing a DAMN fine job at ruining one of the only christian-started threads that i like. a DAMN fine job.

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10-05-2009 , 12:23 AM

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Maximum Rocknroll

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so that means they're still the minority, by a lot?

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10-05-2009 , 02:01 AM

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Teferi

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Revelation 13:17-18 (King James Version)

17And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

18Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

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10-05-2009 , 07:11 AM

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Splendour

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Originally Posted by zugzwang83

splendour is doing a DAMN fine job at ruining one of the only christian-started threads that i like. a DAMN fine job.

Ummm what makes you think the OP is a Christian just because he started a bible verse thread?

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10-05-2009 , 01:50 PM

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Mark H

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Mark 3-16 Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for I am the meanest son of a bit ch in the valley

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10-06-2009 , 01:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Pyromantha

Judges 19:29

29And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, together with her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel.

So all the Israelites came out as one man: from Dan to Beer-sheba, and from the land of Gilead, the community was gathered to the LORD at Mizpah.
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The leaders of all the people and all the tribesmen of Israel, four hundred thousand foot soldiers who were swordsmen, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God.
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Meanwhile, the Benjaminites heard that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah. The Israelites asked to be told how the crime had taken place,
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and the Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, testified: "My concubine and I went into Gibeah of Benjamin for the night.
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But the citizens of Gibeah rose up against me by night and surrounded the house in which I was. Me they attempted to kill, and my concubine they abused so that she died.
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So I took my concubine and cut her up and sent her through every part of the territory of Israel, because of the monstrous crime they had committed in Israel.

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10-06-2009 , 01:35 AM

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come on prax, thats some shoddy biblical interpretation on your part.

7 Now, all you Israelites, speak up and give your verdict." 8 All the people rose as one man, saying, "None of us will go home. No, not one of us will return to his house. 9 But now this is what we'll do to Gibeah: We'll go up against it as the lot directs.

The crime you so strangely bolded, is the crime that the Gibeah did against the man who chopped up his concubine, not the actual chopping up of his dead concubine, they had no problems with that.

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10-06-2009 , 01:44 AM

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"Their children shall be dashed
to pieces before their eyes!
There houses spoiled, and their
wives raped...Dash the young men
to pieces...have no pity on the
fruit of the womb, the children
shall not be spared"
-- Isa 13:16-18

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10-06-2009 , 02:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Praxising

26As the day began to dawn, the woman came and fell down at the doorway of the man's house where her master was, until full daylight.

27When her master arose in the morning and opened the doors of the house and went out to go on his way, then behold, his concubine was lying at the doorway of the house with her hands on the threshold.

Wasn't it also a monstrous crime for him to fall asleep as his concubine (and apparent wife, didn't know you could be both) was being raped to death?

The moral lesson i get from the story is it's ok with God to have concubines. Which is good.

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10-06-2009 , 05:39 AM

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And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel. (Judges 3:31)

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10-06-2009 , 09:16 AM

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2 Kings 2:23-24:

And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.
And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.

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10-06-2009 , 01:00 PM

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Splendour

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1 John 4: 19 NKJV: We love Him because He first loved us.

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10-06-2009 , 03:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Splendour

Ummm what makes you think the OP is a Christian just because he started a bible verse thread?

Good point, i'm sure hes islamic or jewish, but would rather enjoy the bible over the respective texts from those religions.

Jesus god almighty christ on a crutch do you ever stop being an idiot?

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10-07-2009 , 03:36 AM

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Originally Posted by All-In Flynn

Ecc 9:11 Damon Runyon version

I looked again and saw that under this Sun, the race goes not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor wealth to the learned; nor yet favour to those of skill, but that's the way to bet.l

Brilliantly, brutally bleak.

I liked this version. More +EV