The three kings. Please this is not intended to be sacrilegious, irreverent or facetiousor ?
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There is no evidence they arrived the night He was born. That is a teaching from drama programs. If fact there is evidence to the contrary. When Joseph and Mary went to make an offering   in the temple, the offering was turtle dove. That is what poor people gave. So some time after that the wise men came. \n\n2:1  After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem\n2  and asked, "Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him."\n\n11  On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold and of incense and of myrrh.\n\n21  On the eighth day, when it was time to circumcise him, he was named Jesus, the name the angel had given him before he had been conceived.\n22  When the time of their purification according to the Law of Moses had been completed, Joseph and Mary took him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord\n23  (as it is written in the Law of the Lord, "Every firstborn male is to be consecrated to the Lord"),\n24  and to offer a sacrifice in keeping with what is said in the Law of the Lord: "a pair of doves or two young pigeons."\n25
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It's good for propping up tables, but not much else.  It does contain errors, though not nearly so many as the bible.\n\nI note the prior response of Mr. Stick.  The sort of intolerance which he expresses gives Islam a bad name, and he needs to clean up his act.
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The bible is a book of stories passed down thro generations. Don't take it seriously
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"funny" King Saul did the same with the Witch of Endor\n\nto answer: \nJohn 3:19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. \n\nMen rather seek man, then God for light. God is truth, and the truth hurts
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1Cor 6:9\nKnow ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,\n\nWasn't hard at all took me less than 15 seconds....   Jim
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sure no problem \n\nthough I do not think that he can lead the Seder by reciting the blessings for others as one needs to be obligated in the Commandment to fulfill others.
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THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! SOMEBODY IS BRAVE ENOUGH TO SPEAK OUT IN TRUTH! You are 100% CORRECT! ALL of the so-called "holidays"(holydays) were NEVER commanded in the Bible-EVER!!! Jeremiah Chapter 10 directly mentions a "christmas tree" as an IDOL! Astarte (Easter) is mentioned many times in the Old Testament as an ABOMINATION TO GOD!!! Tammuz is also in the Old Testament! And not in a good way! People simply follow what the "crowd" says to follow! DOES THAT MAKE IT RIGHT??? Borrowing Pagan traditions and somehow transforming them into "holy days" is unacceptable worship to GOD! DON'T BELIEVE A NOBODY LIKE ME--READ YOUR BIBLE!!! Please see for yourself! Then you will know what God REALLY feels about man-made traditions.....
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You know, YOU take the Bible more literally than we ""Bible-thumpers"" do! You here, not us, seem to be claiming that every single verse in the Bible MUST be taken literally, and we believe that, yes, there really are verses that are meant only to be taken as allegory. Did Gd actually ""walk"" in the Garden of Eden? YOU seem to say that this, too, must be taken literally, and not us!\n\nSo, it is possible, FOR US, to ""Believe in"" the Bible without taking Every Single verse literally, although you seem to say this verse must be taken literally for us to believe in it....
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in answer to your question i dont believe in the bible full stop purely because it is a story nothing more, but if people want a crutch then thats fine as long as they are happy and not forcing it on others which is way goes on on here everyday
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Wow, you sure brought on some original one liners with this one. Personally, I don't want a bunch of hypocritical spin doctor morons calling me great.\n\nAnd I take exception to this response:\n Remember the commandment THOU SHALT NOT KILL? that means NO KILLING! Who's the hypocrite? \n\nThe intent of the commandment was Thou Shalt Not Murder. I know that not all of us have access to a bible, but it's there- Exodus, Chapter 20. \n\nMaybe it's just me, but I think that there is a profound difference in killing an unborn child and removing toxic waste like Ted Bundy from our midst. Anyone who can't see the difference should probably go read The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule.\n\nSorry about getting off subject here, but I didn't see a whole lot of other valid points being made. And you have to admit, I was right about the cracks from the short bus stalker nimrods, wasn't I?
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This story (2 Kings 2:23-25), like the one about Elijah and the captains (2 Kings 1), is preserved for us in Scripture to convey a popular understanding of the dignity of the prophet. Told in popular vein, it becomes a caricature, in which neither Elisha nor the bears behave in character.\n\nThe story in 2 Kings 1 was told among the people to enhance the dignity of the prophet and to reflect the power of God whom he served. The prophet Elijah was well aware of the mercy which God extends even to the wicked. "Then the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, 'Have you seen that Ahab has humbled himself before me? Since he has humbled himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his time. I will bring the evil upon his house during the reign of his son.'" 1 Kings 21:28-29.\n\nSee also the contrasting narrative in 2 Kings 4.
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The God of the Old Testament certainly exhibits a violent nature. He is truly not a God of love or compassion. I notice his personality makes drastic changes from time to time. The more I study the Bible, the more I am coming to think that it is no more than myth.
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How old is the bible? If it was a film there would have been a remake by now.\n\nLove is love, I'd rather be married to a loving woman than a man that hit me everyday for no reason.
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I don't see why not.  People take the bible too literally.
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And let William be King????\nI bet lots of people would prefer that but I think Chuckles deserves a chance. What real harm can he get into?
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I think that you are taking the story in Genesis 3 a bit too far, too literally. The fancy word for it is called anthropomorphism, ascribing human attributes and emotions (like fear, intimidation) to a deity.
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*Shaking my shaggy skull* While I believe that bounties to kill, killing, violence of any kind is wrong, seems a lot of people either forget or just dun understand some basics...\n\nTop of the list, that cartoon to a Moslim is highly highly insulting thing and basically is like 2 "You shall have no other gods besides Me...Do not make a sculpted image or any likeness of what is in the heavens above..."\n\nI mean how would a christian feel if a cartoon was made showing say jesus performing homosexual acts? They wouldn't like it, not one little bit and would be screaming bloody murder...\n\nNext, frankly the Middle East has gotten the short end of the stick from the western society for a loooooooooong time. Now the top superpowers are invading them one country at a time. They are fed up and I dun really blame them for it.\n\nLastly the cartoonist should have known better, so should have the papers that printed them. When the Moslims said "Hey, we don't like that!" an apology should have been made right then and there. But instead all they got was arrogance.\n\nNow before anyone says "But we have freedom of speech and creativity." Do we really? I certainly couldn't put the before mentioned cartoon of jesus in a national/continental newspaper. It would have been nixed purely because it would upset people.\n\nSo before calling them insane, imagine how you would feel if the roles were reversed and it was your savior that was shown in a nasty light...