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September 25th, 2018 at 6:03:17 PM permalink
Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 241 Posts: 6108	Quote: Evenbob I liked you better before you became a religious zealot.. Maybe I'm trying to make a point about religion in general. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber

September 25th, 2018 at 9:02:19 PM permalink
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 148 Posts: 25978	If we see you going door to door with pamphlets, I think an intervention would be in order. A deprogrammer might have to be hired.. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose.

September 26th, 2018 at 6:21:30 AM permalink
Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 241 Posts: 6108	Quote: Evenbob If we see you going door to door with pamphlets, I think an intervention would be in order. A deprogrammer might have to be hired.. I'm afraid I would get attacked by a pet invisible dinosaur. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber

September 26th, 2018 at 8:23:46 AM permalink
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569	Quote: Evenbob I liked you better before you became a religious zealot.. The Wizard, a zealot? He is about the furthest thing from a zealot as is possible.

September 26th, 2018 at 10:58:28 AM permalink
FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596	Quote: Wizard Pastafarians believe that Jesus was the incarnate version of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Nobody has ever proven them wrong. Does this mean we share the belief that the historical person of Jesus Christ was divine? “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” (

September 26th, 2018 at 10:59:30 AM permalink
FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596	Quote: Wizard I'm afraid I would get attacked by a pet invisible dinosaur. It is irrational to believe in something without any evidence it exists. “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” (

September 26th, 2018 at 11:03:27 AM permalink
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 148 Posts: 25978	Quote: FrGamble Does this mean we share the belief that the historical person of Jesus Christ was divine? Jesus was Divine? He died young too. (I bet you have no ides who this is} If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose.

September 26th, 2018 at 11:26:38 AM permalink

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Quote: FrGamble
It is irrational to believe in something without any evidence it exists.

That sounds like a very logical position to take. With that, may I ask whether you believe the creation story as told in Genesis to be the literal truth or might it be more of a parable, like the type Jesus spoke, to convey a point rather than an exact historical account of the event?

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September 26th, 2018 at 11:29:31 AM permalink
Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 241 Posts: 6108	Quote: Evenbob Jesus was Divine? He died young too. (I bet you have no ides who this is} FrG lives in Baltimore, also the home of John Waters and the individual you pictured. He wouldn't be so sheltered as to not know these rather infamous Baltimorians. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber

September 26th, 2018 at 4:10:44 PM permalink

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Quote: Wizard
That sounds like a very logical position to take. With that, may I ask whether you believe the creation story as told in Genesis to be the literal truth or might it be more of a parable, like the type Jesus spoke, to convey a point rather than an exact historical account of the event?

Actually, I do know the Catholic position on Biblical inerrancy.

Quote: Benedict XVI makes comment in message to Pontifical Biblical Commission on May 2011
While Catholics believe the Bible is inspired by the Holy Spirit and that it is true, one cannot take individual biblical quotes or passages and say each one is literally true, Pope Benedict XVI said.

“It is possible to perceive the Sacred Scriptures as the word of God” only by looking at the Bible as a whole, “a totality in which the individual elements enlighten each other and open the way to understanding,” the Pope wrote in a message to the Pontifical Biblical Commission.

“It is not possible to apply the criterion of inspiration or of absolute truth in a mechanical way, extrapolating a single phrase or expression,” the Pope wrote in the message released today at the Vatican.

Biblical inerrancy has always been a Protestant position. In particular that the King James Bible is also inerrant even though it is a translation (in the case of the Old Testament, also a translation of a translation from Hebrew to Greek).

Methuselah at the age of 969.

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