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jar
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Message 88 of 278 (428246)
10-15-2007 4:44 PM
Reply to: Message 87 by simple
10-15-2007 4:23 PM


Re: How spelled out can it be?
How many witnesses there were is unknown. To assume the wise men were the only ones is silly. There is no reason I see yet, to assume that there were not hundreds of thousands that saw the light. Not that they all knew what it was, but word likely spread fast.
That's called "just making shit up."
The reason the wise men followed the star, was because the thing led them right to the house. No astrological sign can do that.
Well, first, it wasn't that easy. They even had to stop to ask directions, so the astrological sign is even more likely.

Aslan is not a Tame Lion

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jar
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Message 260 of 278 (430678)
10-26-2007 5:09 PM
Reply to: Message 259 by arachnophilia
10-26-2007 5:01 PM


Re: Clarifying Positions
the problem is actually not so much with simple, here. it is with the bible. the god of genesis is rather petty, violent, human, and not-so-omnipotent. heaven, in genesis, is literally just overhead as a physical place.
The God of Genesis 2:5 on. The God of Genesis 1-2:4 is quite different, transcendent, but also somewhat separated from the creation.

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