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  1. JohnDB

    30 pieces of silver and Judas Iscariot

    Because....in the overall picture of Jesus....He was the least successful of the many "messiahs" running about at that time. Jesus only had 200+ dedicated followers. The others had tens of thousands. When Jesus said "drink my blood and eat my flesh" that turned off the thousands who might...
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    30 pieces of silver and Judas Iscariot

    In John's Gospel.
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    30 pieces of silver and Judas Iscariot

    Judas believed that the Son of God instituting the heavenly kingdom on Earth would make him wealthy. So believing that endangering God's son with arrest and capital punishment would cause God to act and institute the kingdom at the same time. He would be a hero by forcing God to act...
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    Speak Your Mind.

    I used to sing it to my son all the time... Granted, I can't sing or carry a tune...but I always meant it and sang it to him with a smile and pointed at him while singing it. I love you more than the stars i taught how to shine and you shine for me too.
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    Speak Your Mind.

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    Could Trump do anything to make you stop supporting him?

    They are definitely trying to stop him from getting elected. He is at the top of every poll.... What happened with Democracy? did it get replaced with a "ruling class" only? https://x.com/LauraLoomer/status/1757433441467932989?s=20
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    This Month we in America Celebrate Black History

    In keeping with the theme.... America's first missionary.... (Which is ALWAYS SPECIAL) George Liele. George had been born a free man his wife was not. George had been preaching to the slave populations in various locations with a strong bent towards the 10 commandments....teaching often...
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    AUTHENCITY OF THE JEWISH BIBLE

    Nebacanezzar wrote a section in Daniel. (He has a long name and funky spelling so I probably got his name wrong) But he, himself tells about when he went out of his mind....remember that story?
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    AUTHENCITY OF THE JEWISH BIBLE

    Don't forget about the section in Daniel. He was a *gasp* Babylonian/Chaldean
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    AUTHENCITY OF THE JEWISH BIBLE

    The Hebrew Tenakh also included what we call the apocrypha as well. Sorry....but it's true. He didn't quote any of the Apocryphal writings...instead he quoted fictional books like Enoch....very very "unorthodox" at the time.
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    AUTHENCITY OF THE JEWISH BIBLE

    Well... If they actually had two Latin Bibles that actually matched each other word-for-word....then they might actually have a leg to stand on. But they don't...and so can't.
  12. JohnDB

    Shooting at Joel Osteen's Church

    Using the child as a shield. And the other tapes from the Church's surveillance cameras? They are currently in the custody of law enforcement of some sort. They will be released eventually. Because....they want to criminally prosecute EVERY instance of gun deaths....but that doesn't mean...
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    Speak Your Mind.

    Well... (Thinking Aussie for a moment) Sometimes being a spoon is really necessary.
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    AUTHENCITY OF THE JEWISH BIBLE

    From wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblia_Hebraica_Stuttgartensia The Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, abbreviated as BHS or rarely BH4, is an edition of the Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible as preserved in the Leningrad Codex, and supplemented by masoretic and text-critical...
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    Speak Your Mind.

    It's something you have to stir in yourself.... It's not like iced tea which in the South is usually served with sugar in it.... For tea without sugar you have to ask for "Unsweet tea" and then they bring you an assortment of artificial sweetners with it. I regularly make green iced tea...
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    AUTHENCITY OF THE JEWISH BIBLE

    Hate to break the news to some of you.... But Jesus read and wrote Hebrew. Then He regularly quoted the Septuagint.... ALL of the New Testament writers used the Septuagint translation as a reference exclusively....not the Hebrew scriptures. The allusions are too closely matched to be...
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    Shooting at Joel Osteen's Church

    It's in Texas....it's almost a crime to NOT pack your iron there. Houston is not exactly a mild mannered town. Where 13 yo and under prostitutes walk the streets on a daily basis. Fentanyl and just about any drug is readily available.
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    Pastoral requirements

    Of the churches I have attended... All senior pastors have held a seminary degree and several have held doctorates. The associates have all had seminary degrees. And then most held a minor in their particular field of service....music, early childhood education and etc. Some have ROCKED...
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    Shooting at Joel Osteen's Church

    It was a transvestite for sure.... With "Free Palestine" on the rifle stock. So.... Joel Olsteen has a church that welcomes the sexually deviant. LGBTQ Friendly. So it must be the "pro-Israel" stance perceived. EVERY church is going to have PLENTY of volunteers patrolling with their...
  20. JohnDB

    AUTHENCITY OF THE JEWISH BIBLE

    Wisdom books and the order are different from our Bibles. Also the Jews regularly include Maccabees (1&2) and there are other differences. Especially in the naming of the books of the Bible. But the texts are the same. Our modern translations (which most devout jews ignore all...