Why so friggin' confident?

God sovereignly gave the land of Israel to Abraham and his descendants (Gen 15:7) for this purpose: In the fulness of time would send forth His only begotten Son to redeem man from his sin.But before Abraham's descendants were ready to posses the land, God sent them into Egypt for 400 years "because the iniquity of the Amorites was not yet full" (Gen 15:16).When the Israelites came out Egyptian bondage, the iniquity of all the people living in the land God had given to Abraham and his descendants was "full." So God then used the Israelites as an instrument of His judgment to punish sinful people living in an unredeemable sinful society.God then established laws through Moses to keep His own people pure and in right relationship with Him. The Israelites willingly chose to enter into this covenant relationship with God which included God's laws of punishment if they chose the break these laws (Ex 19:8).When "grace and truth" came through the Lord Jesus Christ, man now has the choice of either living only by man's law or no law at all, or living by God's grace and man's law.It's your choice.

Excellent post!!! Hits like a 20lb sledge. Points that need to be infused into the Topic to show just what is & was and where all came from.

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There is no better love between 2 people than mutual respect for each other WT Young, 2002Who gave anyone the authority to call me an authority on anything. WT Young, 1969

So says you but where is the physical evidence that any of this occurred?

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There is no better love between 2 people than mutual respect for each other WT Young, 2002Who gave anyone the authority to call me an authority on anything. WT Young, 1969

You do realise that after extensive searching there has not been a single piece of archaeological evidence for the Israelite presence in Egypt?Modern archaeological techniques are capable of tracing the movements of far more ancient and relatively tiny nomadic hunter-gatherer tribes.600,000 Israelites I beleieve is what the bible suggests escaped encamped in the Sinai for 40 years? Is that correct?Yet not a single piece of corroborating archaeological evidence.But who needs archaeology when you have faith huh........?Edited by Straggler, : No reason given.

Hey Straggler, I don't suppose you caught Message 2 of this thread? Please, for the love of all that is Noodley, try and avoid going down that weary road again, eh?Yeah, it's a big thread and I can't criticize you since we all do it. Just letting you know that there is a hornets nest under your foot, and you might want to consider your next step (on this thread anyway) with care Edited by Modulous, : No reason given.

Two spin off threads have been created. Has lead to 51 scientific facts that disprove the Bible. Feel free to help us out over there, we're having difficulty finding the list of fifty-one. Confidence in evolutionary science has been created for that purpose.Once again - I hope your friend is doing well, and I reassure you that there is no time pressure from anybody here in getting to them. Some things are more important than SIWOTI syndrome:

Percy writesOK thanks Ill get caught up on what has been discussed this far and respond in turn to the last post yours and Modulation's and anyothers I see relevant, thanks again.

DA writes:DA do you enjoy being a wife beater, Im not looking for a rationalization just strickly yes or no.D BertotEdited by Bertot, : No reason given.

Unfortunately Bertot, your question is not of the same form as DA's. You are just ducking and it is obvious that you are.

Bluesbrothers writes:Laughing really hard while reading. Blues you are a trip, I swear. Your posts are very comical to me.Bertot

Nedster writer:Ofcourse its not the same knothead, but the principle is the same, he trying to manuver John into a nonsensical question that would ofcourse require some explanation like the one I asked.D Bertot

The wife beating question is meaningless if someone is not beating their wife.The "what would you do if..." is a perfectly well formed question. It is not nonsensical. If someone claims to hear voices it is very reasonably to ask them how far they will follow those voices.In fact it is imperative to know since individuals have listened to what they claim is exactly the same voice that John hears and you know the kind of outcomes that have followed.ABE
The question is also directly related to the thread topic. It is asking John just how "friggin' confident" he actually is.Edited by NosyNed, : added a bit

Brian wrotes:Nice piece of evidence you presented there Brian. But my suggestion to you would be to quit presenting examples of evidence and just keep maintaning that all of this in the scriptures was a myth and that it has no historical content or context. Thanks again for yet more confirmation of its validity. And exacally what is the name of this stone?D Bertot

Ned writes:Ya think?You guys are an enigma to me sometimes, at times you can appear so intelligent and other times dumber than a fence post. DAs question would have no relevance Ned, if John was not indicating that God had ask him to do this, correct? DA is presenting a scenario that does not exist and does not apply to John.D Bertot

Clue me in. Wheres the comedy. I asked for corroborating evidence, please supply.Edited by bluescat48, : qs goof

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There is no better love between 2 people than mutual respect for each other WT Young, 2002Who gave anyone the authority to call me an authority on anything. WT Young, 1969