Is Tom Turkey in the Bible? Was he subservient to white people?
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Yes he makes a brief appearance in the book of Base-Ting's, chapter 10 paragraph 2-7\n\n "...and the Lord spake unto Thomas, and said 'Go forth into the pantry, and stuff thyself with all manner of stale bread and cranberries and herbs and garlic and onions and cocktail wienies and ...                \n  ... and Thomas did as the Lord instructed, and the Lord did grin, and flash fried Thomas with lightning from His glorious appendage, and served him up unto the astonished congregation of paparazzi, who had gathered upon the crushed red velvet steps of the temple of Golli-Golli at news of the Lords appearance..."   (Base-Tings 10-2 through 10-7.)\n\nTo my knowledge, no mention is made of evil whitey or his minions in this book of the bible.
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As I understand it, Jesus chose a diverse assortment of people to follow him, a doubter being only one of them, so that all sections of society were 'represented' if you like.  That means people who doubt in todays society can look to Thomas, and if they so wish, take comfort from the fact that even though Jesus knew he was a 'doubter' he was still chosen.   It's another reason why Matthew, Mark, Luke and John all had different professions, it was to include people from all walks of life, thereby excluding no-one
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There is a story in the bible (forgive me b/c I forget which book it is in) but it talks about why God created different languages & why he set apart different people. It talks about race & how it was not something that was created but something that the world & the environment around us has evolved.  That is why people closer to the equater have darker skin & those farther away have lighter skin, etc.. It explains all of that so keep reading.. You'll get there.. Oh yeah & dinosaurs are in the bible as well.. Trust me..
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Here are some other gems for you(posted these in another thread) \n\nProof of the 'love' of God in the bible\n\n"God" slaughtered innocent babies because of Pharaoh's stubbornness: "At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner, who was in the dungeon, and the firstborn of all the livestock as well.” (Exod. 12:29)\n\n"God" had babies dashed to pieces and pregnant women ripped open: "The people of Samaria must bear their guilt, because they have rebelled against their God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to the ground, their pregnant women ripped open." (Hosea 13:16)\n\n"God" wanted children to be murdered as human sacrifices: "I let them become defiled through their gifts - the sacrifice of every firstborn - that I might fill them with horror so they would know that I am the Lord.” (Ezek. 20:26)\n\n"God" threatened to have innocent children be devoured by wild animals: “I will send wild animals against you, and they will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle and make you so few in number that your roads will be deserted.” (Lev. 26:22)\n\n"God" threatened to have children cannibalized: "If in spite of this you still do not listen to me but continue to be hostile toward me, then in my anger I will be hostile toward you, and I myself will punish you for your sins seven times over. You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.” (Lev. 26:27-29)\n\n"God" ordered the genocide of women, children and babies: "Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy everything that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.”” (1 Sam. 15:2-3)\n\n"God" aborted fetuses and murdered children in answer to the prophet Hosea's prayer: "Give them, O Lord – what will you give them? Give them wombs that miscarry .... Ephraim is blighted, their root is withered, they yield no fruit. Even if they bear children, I will slay their cherished offspring." (Hosea 9:14-16)\n\n"God" murdered a baby because of David's adultery: “Then David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the Lord." Nathan replied, "The Lord has taken away your sin. You are not going to die. But because by doing this you have made the enemies of the Lord show utter contempt, the son born to you will die." (2 Sam. 12:13-14)\n\n"God" ordered people to kill their brothers, friends and neighbors: “Then he said to them, "This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: 'Each man strap a sword to his side. Go back and forth through the camp from one end to the other, each killing his brother and friend and neighbor.'" (Exod. 32:27
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Ellen G. White is NOT a prophet nor does she claim to be.  She is a messenger of GOD.  I am SDA and believe in her writings.  Her writings, everything that I have read thus far, when compared to the Bible are right on.  She has not diverted from the Holy Bible so I find her writing acceptable.\n\nGod Bless.
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Absolutely. If you read your OT you will find their God routinely telling the Jews to kill all the people in some neighboring country. One gets the impression God loved the Jews and hated everyone else on earth.\n\nThe OT God also routinely killed Jews for minor transgressions against tyrannical demands.\n\nStoning people to death for minor transgression of their laws was a popular pastime among the ancient Jews. They believed God wanted this.\n\n\nevilbible.com has tons of examples to support everything I am saying.
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One of the wisest stories my father ever told me was about the old wiseman who used to sit out by the lake thinking all day. Every day he'd go out there and almost every day he would think of something profound to say. People eventually began to gather to hear his thoughts. Soon people started writing down those same thoughts.  \n\nOne day a mouse disturbed the wise man's meditations. So from then on a cat was brought out every day to prevent mice from disturbing him again. \n\nEventually the wise man died. The people who came to listen to him continued to gather under the tree by the lake to remember him and to read again the wisdom he had given them.  It did not seem right without a cat. So a cat was brought out each gathering. Soon people began to argue over whether it should be a white cat or a black cat or a striped cat. Then there were three gatherings... \n\nThat is basically what happened with Christianity. The fights became blood fueds however. In England for example Catholics and other Christian minorities at one time could not own property, be a noble and faced many other restrictuions on their lives. Most European nations became one one religion or another. Wars that were really national aggression were fought in the name of religion. Those who tried to remain another religion in these nations were often executed. Being Protestant or Jewish during the Spanish Inquisition for example could be fatal. \n\nSo today people hate without even knowing why. False rumors like the one about Catholics worshiping idols float around. Discrimanation still exists on a very subtle level with various forms of Christianity. Then there are the quasi Christian religions such as the Mormans who faced severe persecution early in their formation. \n\nIt is nothing new. The Catholic church became unified by Rome's sword. Any sect not approved of by Rome generally did not survive long. After that the Chruch held great sway until Protestents fought wars to secure freedom for their particuler brand of Christianity. \n\nWith so many non-denominational chruches springing up I think you'll see a major softening in the lines between branches of Christianity over the next decade. Most Christians are tired of it and there are enough non-Christians around in the West today that Christians are starting to feel a Christian is a Christian instead of the fierce rivalries that dominated the last few hundred years.
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Matthew 9:9-13\n9  And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him.\n \n10 And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples.\n\n \n11  And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your master with publicans and sinners? \n \n12  But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.\n \n13  But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice:for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.\n      Praise God for anyone who finds Jesus!!!!!!!!
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God "told" it to the Jews in Babylonian captivity during the Exile.  It is a creation account that uses the Babylonian creation myth--Enuma Elish--as its beginning point but reveals a more transcendent God who alone is Divine.
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Joshua.  People like you crack me up.  Really!  You argue about biblical-specific entries and events as if they were factual and undeniable.  "written 4000 years ago"  On what?  Notebook paper?  Do you have some copies of those 4000 year old writings?  Do you have some secret text that nobody else has ever seen?  Are you on heroin or acid?  What's your trip?  None of the authors of the NT witnessed the alleged resurrection.  No matter how you stretch it, there are no actual accounts of it.  Most of the NT was created and written in 320AD under the direction of Constantine the Great, and its puirpose was NOT for historic accuracy.  Its purpose was to create a doctrine at the Council of Nicea that all factions of religious doctrine could agree upon and pull everyone together.  Why does it appear that there only a few people that post here regularly who actually know this?  Is your only source of "history" the Bible itself?  Are you crazy enough to use the Bible to prove the Bible?  Talk about illogic!\n\nThe original poster is correct -- if the notion of god portrayed in the bible is accurate, then there is no need for "free will" -- God already knows how things turn out.  He already knows who chooses free will and who doesn't choose free will, how they act, and who the sinners are and who goes to hell.  He already knows the choices people made in the past and what they'll make in the future.  He already knows how things will turn.  Already been there.  Outside of the time line?  Fine, state it however you wish.  It's still the same.  He's all knowing.  He knows how the "souls" will turn out. There's no need for a test on earth.\n\nThe question is not flawed at all.  Your assumption that the Bible is incontrovertible is flawed, and your statements of biblical myths as assertion are ridiculous.  It is one of hundreds of unprovable myths on this whole planet, full of fatal flaws, like the one this question raises.
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That's a hard question because the Bible specifically states that God and Jesus are two different people. But to answer the question I'd say it because in most all images of Jesus He is depicted as being lilly white when in reality He would have had darker skin, like the Jewish people do today.
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Who is their God? Not the God of the Bible who was in to BBQ and called it a "sweet smelling savor".\n\nAnd then there is also this in 1 Timothy 4:3...\n"...speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron, forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth."
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Yes. Watchtower missreads this verse:\n\nAnd I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed a hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel. \n(Revelation 7:4)\n\nThese 144,000 are 12000 from each of the 12 tribes of Israel. They will receive Christ and preach boldly the word of God during the tribulation period.\n\nAlso, the bible says:\n\nFor the Scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. \n(Romans 10:11-13)\n\nFor God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. \n(John 3:16)\n\nBottom line: when a denomination contradicts the Bible, the Bible is always right
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Being of the jewish  race they probably prayed to God as the jews are monotheistic based?Hear ye o Israel the lord God is one!says so in the Bible. check it out?Trinity was conceived at the Coucil of Nicea? I think?it explains the Father,Son,Holy Ghost most Christians believe in?One reason Muslims have a problem with Christians is their belief in a triune god[3 godhead]as they believe in Allah as the one true god?
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Someone posted a question trying to justify incest with his daughters using the OT example of Lot as an example. I spent quite a time answering this, only to find the next morning that the question had been removed. Just in case anybody else has problems with the passage, here's my answer anyway.\n\nLot and his Daughters\n\nThank you for raising this question, it's caused me to get my Bible out and read the story again for myself. If anybody is actually interested in understanding it properly, they need to go back to Genesis 11 and start from the beginning.\n\nAn old pagan called Abram is worshipping one day at the local ziggurat in Ur of the Chaldees and Yahweh comes and reveals Himself to him. The Bible doesn't tell us that Abram did anything special to earn or merit this revelation, just that God, for His own reasons, chose to reveal Himself to him. This really upset the religious locals, who followed a mixture of astrology and Babylonian mystery religions. Abram was rejecting their pantheon of Gods and going round telling people there was only one true God. Talk about upsetting the neighbours. And you should have heard the gossip!\n\nAbram leaves Ur with his father Terah, his nephew Lot and their households. They passed through the Euphrates (a type of baptism) and arrived at Harran, where they got too comfortable and stayed until Terah dies. At this point Yahweh gives Abram a kick up the backside and points him towards the Promised Land.\n\nSome time after they arrive in Caanan there is a famine, and what happens next has a direct bearing on Genesis 19 as cited.\n\nAbram, taking Sarai his wife and Lot with him, goes down into Egypt (always a type for the world). Here they encounter all the corruption of Pharaoh’s court and the fleshpots of the most advanced nation on earth. After moving back to Caanan, Lot sits round the campfire and dreams of the forbidden things he has seen. If you carefully read the start of chapter 13, you will see that when Lot separated from Abram, he looked to the east, towards Sodom, and chose that because it reminded him of Egypt and the forbidden pleasures that he had been dreaming of.\n\nFast forward now to chapter 19 and Lot has given up farming on the plains outside of Sodom and has allowed the lure of sin to draw him inside the city. Lot had abandoned his God to the extent that he was prepared to allow his daughters to marry those that God called detestable, but even so, God did not abandon him.\n\nWe know what happened next, but if you really think that God condoned the sin you have to be crazy. The offspring of those illicit unions went on to form the Moabites and the Ammonites, two of the most cursed tribes in history.\n\nThis is a classic morality tale of reaping that which you have sown and is recorded not only as historical truth, but as an admonition to all of us. Genuine queries on any of this are welcome.
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Sura - 71 Noah\nOrder Of Revelation 71, Verses: 28\n \n\n[71:0] In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful \n\n[71:1] We sent Noah to his people: "You shall warn your people before a painful retribution afflicts them." \n\n[71:2] He said, "O my people, I am a manifest warner to you. \n\n[71:3] "To alert you that you shall worship GOD, reverence Him, and obey me. \n\n[71:4] "He will then forgive you your sins and respite you for a predetermined period. Most assuredly, GOD's appointment can never be delayed, once it is due, if you only knew." \n\n[71:5] He said, "My Lord, I have invited my people night and day. \n\n[71:6] "But my invitation only increased their aversion. \n\n[71:7] "Whenever I invited them to be forgiven by You, they placed their fingers in their ears, covered themselves with their clothes, insisted, and turned arrogant. \n\n[71:8] "Then I invited them publicly. \n\n[71:9] "Then I proclaimed to them loudly, and I spoke to them privately. \n\n[71:10] "I said, `Implore your Lord for forgiveness; He is Forgiving. \n\n[71:11] " `He will then shower you generously with rain. \n\n[71:12] " `And provide you with money and children, and orchards, and streams.' " \n\n[71:13] Why should you not strive to reverence GOD? \n\n[71:14] He is the One who created you in stages. \n\n[71:15] Do you not realize that GOD created seven universes in layers? \n\n[71:16] He designed the moon therein to be a light, and placed the sun to be a lamp. \n\n[71:17] And GOD germinated you from the earth like plants. \n\n[71:18] Then He returns you into it, and He will surely bring you out. \n\n[71:19] GOD made the earth habitable for you. \n\n[71:20] That you may build roads therein. \n\n[71:21] Noah said, "My Lord, they disobeyed me, and followed those who were even more corrupted when blessed with money and children. \n\n[71:22] "They schemed terrible schemes. \n\n[71:23] "They said, `Do not abandon your gods. Do not abandon Wadd, Suwaa`, Yaghouth, Ya`ooq, and Nasr.' \n\n[71:24] "They misled many. Therefore, let the wicked plunge deeper into loss." \n\n[71:25] Because of their sins they were drowned and assigned to the hellfire. They found no helpers to protect them from GOD. \n\n[71:26] Noah also said, "My Lord, do not leave a single disbeliever on earth. \n\n[71:27] "For if you let them, they will only mislead your servants and give birth to nothing but wicked disbelievers. \n\n[71:28] "My Lord, forgive me and my parents, and anyone who enters my home as a believer, and all the believing men and women. But do not give the disbelievers anything but annihilation." \n\nhttp://www.submission.org/suras/sura71.html
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I dont think that the anger toward Tom is because of his religion. We have so many different religions in this country and everyone should be able to believe what they want to believe. What people have against Tom is that he is so arrogant about it. HE is the one acting like other people shouldnt believe what they believe because HE is right. We dont care what he believes but he shouldnt be telling everyone else that they are wrong.