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Reply to The Jewish Canon in Religion JoeUser Forums

I know that you are going to say that Jesus can see into the future. Before you do, I'd like to know how, if we can retroactively apply things to broad terms like "scripture", why do you deny the Mormons that right? You can say that Jesus looked into the future and saw the KJV, but He didn't see the Book of Mormon? They say he was talking about their book when he said "Scriptures". When you deal with post-dating prophecy, you have to deal with the fact that your deus ex mechina solut

Reply to CUT SPENDING! in Politics JoeUser Forums

No, Col, I think an idiot is a man that could look at the wonder that is mankind, it's history, its innovation, and pretend that unless we prop them up, the average person can't survive. I'm afraid that several thousand years of world history defies that. If you want a nanny state wherein the bottom third live in an overgrown, smelly daycare center, fine. I think you'll find that hasn't worked in those spots around the world wherein it was attempted.

Reply to The Jewish Canon in Religion JoeUser Forums

Jesus was not speaking about Paul's writings, because Paul hadn't written them yet. The fact that they weren't bound together means you have no clue, whatsoever, as to what Paul meant by "scriptures". As has been shown, they cite work in the NT that we consider apocryphal. We don't consider the book of Enoch to be scripture, but many early church fathers did. Others believed that Pauls letters weren't inspired scripture. Others believed that letters by other early church leaders wer

Reply to CUT SPENDING! in Politics JoeUser Forums

"When I was in the Army and local taxes paid my salary when I ran a school district. That was about half of my career. SO WHAT! It was money well spent because I did the job I was paid to do and I did it well unlike GWB!" So what? You can't see someone who was paid by tax dollars all their life maybe, perhaps, having just a little bias in favor of taxation? Public servants being, oh, maybe just a tad in favor of public services? One what side was your

Reply to The Jewish Canon in Religion JoeUser Forums

"Actually, in 2Tim.3:16-17 we read, "All scripture, inspired of God, is profitable to teach, to reprove, to correct, to instruct in justice, that the man of God may be perfect, furnished to every good work." Perhaps, KFC can come up with others." Hrm, given the Bible didn't exist when that was written, I find it odd that it could be referring to it. Much less the translations. When Paul was talking about "scripture", you really think he was referring t

Reply to Is this the start of something bigger to come?? in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

WTF? Why am I not ignoring the fact that a member of JU blatantly stole and article from someone and refuses to credit them? WTF is wrong with YOU that you'd sit here like a hypocrite and not say something? You know good and well that this has been done by other people and they were flamed off the site. Hypocrites. If it doesn't accomplish anything, i.e the post isn't removed, I won't be posting at JU any more. Period.

Reply to CUT SPENDING! in Politics JoeUser Forums

Hrm, thinking about it, I guess it was tax money that paid your wages, huh, Col?

Reply to Is this the start of something bigger to come?? in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

Stolen, uncredited article from here . I would exile you from the site for this. It's a sad thing to copy and paste someone else's article as your own.

Reply to Is this the start of something bigger to come?? in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

Whining? Lol, nah. You guys are the ones who are scared perpetually shitless. You stole this article, anyway, so I really don't know why I should argue with you about it, it isn't your thoughts, it's that other guys. Might as well go to the source.

Reply to The Jewish Canon in Religion JoeUser Forums

"Bottom line: these teachings are to be applied to daily life. What St.Paul says here, while it should be interpreted in the light of condition at the time, these teachings, nonetheless, have perennial value." As does the copy of Aurelius' Meditations I have on my desk. That doesn't mean it was intended to be an inerrant spiritual guide for people 2000 years later. To be honest, not even the Bible claims that...

Reply to The Jewish Canon in Religion JoeUser Forums

"People are lacking in biblical literacy today." Literacy isn't a requirement for salvation, is it? Odd that God would put the souls of men in the hands of other men when He could just do it himself... "Keep in mind that Satan was a great quoter of scripture himself. But you can be sure he always twisted it to his advantage. Should God not have left it behind for us knowing that it would be ill used?" O

Reply to Gays in the Military? I honestly don't see the problem... in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Yes, there are stalls, but still you don't see them because in general people don't want them. You also hear people toss fits about transgendered people using their chosen sex's bathrooms. Isn't it utterly hypocritical for us to expect a separation and then pretend that it is somehow bigoted for the military to expect it? I'm trying to imagine the difficulties you'd have if you imposed unisex bathrooms right now. Would women and men be bigoted to feel awkward or threatened? I don't

Reply to Gays in the Military? I honestly don't see the problem... in Current Events JoeUser Forums

When we have unisex bathrooms universally, then it will make more sense. If people shouldn't have such separation between themselves and people attracted to them sexually, why don't women want to share bathrooms, showers at the gym, etc., with men? It's a hypocritical double standard for someone like Hillary Clinton to complain about gays in the military, and then expect to have a man-free public facilities. Tell ya what, when all the Congressional bathrooms are unisex, we should talk

Reply to Is this the start of something bigger to come?? in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

The FBi went through this kid's computer, all his things. They found *nothing*. They couldn't even say whether or not he held any Muslim beliefs. It's pathetic how hateful people will stretch to make a monster out of what they hate. This is why I left JU for a while, and I may leave for good. I'm sick of the 'true blue' idiots around here, I don't even like to see this kind of hateful crap.

Reply to The Jewish Canon in Religion JoeUser Forums

"no, he doesn't require it. We have our own English translation that is fine. But for those that want to go a bit deeper to understand exactly what is being taught, it's beneficial. And yet, we have hundreds of years of people in one denomination or another saying women must be silent, etc. An all-powerful God who intended an inerrant book, and who could get it put together in such a way, and yet walked off from it before the majority of the world read

Reply to Is this the start of something bigger to come?? in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

This is a plagiarized article and needs to be removed. Here is the original . It is an article called "Salt Lake Jihad?" by Robert Spencer.

Reply to CUT SPENDING! in Politics JoeUser Forums

I'm sure Colonels in the military live hand to mouth, too...

Reply to The Jewish Canon in Religion JoeUser Forums

"It really does help to go into the original language for meaning. Check this link" Odd that God would require us to know greek...

Reply to The Jewish Canon in Religion JoeUser Forums

I understand the situation, but the fact is the details of that situation aren't lined out in the Bible. I was taught that it was a church in a town where the pagan temple had prostitutes for priestesses. For that reason any semblance of female leadership was to be purged. "A text, taken out of context is nothing but a pretext and you can make it say whatever you want it to say." And that is my point when I say that Paul's letters were never i

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"It's like this Baker....women according to God's plan are to be under the headship of men. There's nothing wrong with a women teaching, prophesying or even leading a battle (as in Deborah)etc. but it's always under the headship of a man." Wow. Lol. Well, don't be halfway about it. There's nothing in the context really that you can debate much. It's there again in Timothy: "1 Timothy 2:11-12 (King James Version)<br

Reply to Is this the start of something bigger to come?? in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

I wonder what SW would do if someone took an article he wrote, tagged a couple of sentences to it, and didn't credit him. I doubt it would be kosher. People have been tossed off JU for stealing articles like this. Someone should email the guy and see what he thinks about it, maybe. Stealing content isn't usually a nice thing to do.

Reply to The Jewish Canon in Religion JoeUser Forums

I pointed out that the Bible itself quotes apocryphal lit. Not good enough?.

Reply to Is this the start of something bigger to come?? in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

P.S. You still haven't linked the article or credited the author, btw.

Reply to CUT SPENDING! in Politics JoeUser Forums

Who are you to say what people deserve? If you want to haggle over Senator's salaries, or the salaries of public servants, fine. They work for you. Private corporations can pay their employees anything they want, it's none of your business. Punitive taxation doesn't take money out of their pocket, they just pass it on to the consumer, anyway. So you're just harming the 50% of the population that YOU say lives paycheck to paycheck.

Reply to CUT SPENDING! in Politics JoeUser Forums

"I do not believe there is anything like 90% overhead in government programs. That is an unsubstantiated statement to make people like you believe we should end them. " As has been shown, several times over, this whole blog is an unsubstantiated statement. Not only have you NOT shown that there is no dross in the budget, you've admitted that you don't even know what IS in the budget. "“In thy lifetime receivedst thy g