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Alpha_Omega
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Message 1 of 3 (9762)
05-16-2002 2:32 AM


I just spent some time in church tonight, and the speaker was trying to get the point across that competition is only mentioned twice in the whole Bible. I would have dissagreed there, but I would have been jumped probably. But how can a person say competition is only mentioned twice in the whole book? I can think of at least three instances of competition in the time it's taken me to write this. I feel the entire Bible has a slight underlying sence of competition in it. But "speaker" was trying to tell us competition is not a good thing. What are your views on the topic?

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Percy
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Message 2 of 3 (9788)
05-16-2002 10:47 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Alpha_Omega
05-16-2002 2:32 AM


What a great idea - the Bible for a book review!
Well, the Pope would probably agree with your speaker. The Catholics would have loved the communists if they hadn't been Godless. The Catholics strongly believe in cooperation for the greater good, and in "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs," one of the communist manifestos. Unfortunately the Godless aspect proved an insurmountable obstacle to cooperation with the communists, so Catholocism backs socialism instead.
Perhaps your speaker was using a particular definition of competition. If his definition excluded conflict (eg, murder, battles, wars), then perhaps he has a point, though I think two competitions can't possibly be right, because like you I can think of three off the top of my head. Another possibility is that he was focusing only on the NT.
The Bible is a big book and can be interpreted in many ways, with the expected result that there are many, many Christian religions. It is the Biblical interpretations of one particular portion of Christian religions usually known as evangelicals that is relevant to the debate here.
--Percy

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Brad McFall
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Message 3 of 3 (9792)
05-16-2002 11:42 AM
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05-16-2002 2:32 AM


A/Z- I have never felt this way about the BIBLE insofar as one were to write beyond the likes of EA POE's trip to the moon genera because the whole thing about such a review seems merely to be whether to argue about the inclusion of the Apocrapha or whether the leaf of fig is in Genesis or not. This seems to be what I was trying to say when I gave a Lentin Service on the occocaions that parent-child relations are mentioned in the same. So I beg to differ.
The creationist revival seems to suceed and criticism in spirit of competition or not becuse the descriptive dispute seems scientifically to me, I know this is not a generalized Christian position, to be localized to the void materiality and then may be some difference of interpretation between the Hebrew and the Greek Versions. I don't know. I certainly have never been able to follow much of the fall of man and pre-adamites discussions for from my generations perspective it can never be gain SAid that one is sinless. One might wish this and choose a social circle/economics to avoidSUnday school but to enumerate competition I would have done only in a prior reading of the book I made when I was fixated as to the kind of wood Jacob was able to wave infront the cleveaded hoof beasts that caused artifical selection by man or God before the working out of the competition instances feel free to display enumerated. Nice idea I think

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