post some good old fashioned biblical truth!!!!

[datasuspect]

-if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out.

-it's better to dwell in the corner of a rooftop than to share a palace with a scornful woman.

-a man must set aside his childish things.

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. Love your neighbor as yourself (Jesus). you shall not cheat one another. (Lev 25:14)

And Numbers 35:14-15

you shall designate three cities beyond the Jordan, and three cities in the land of Canaan, to be cities of refuge. These six cities shall serve as refuge for the Israelites, for the resident or transient alien among them, so that anyone who kills a person without intent may flee there.

And then as Joshua further elucidated this law in Joshua 20:3-6

so that anyone who kills a person without intent or by mistake may flee there; they shall be for you a refuge from the avenger of blood. The slayer shall flee to one of these cities and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and explain the case to the elders of that city; then the fugitive shall be taken into the city, and given a place, and shall remain with them. And if the avenger of blood is in pursuit, they shall not give up the slayer, because the neighbor was killed by mistake, there having been no enmity between them before. The slayer shall remain in that city until there is a trial before the congregation, until the death of the one who is high priest at the time: then the slayer may return home, to the town in which the deed was done.'"

[RevCheesehead]

17. I can't decide if you're a smartass or a showoff.

Knowing you, I'm thinking it's a little of both. :P

[La Lioness Priyanka]

37. both.

[Rabrrrrrr]

38. I've just always been fascinated with the idea of city of refuge since I first read it.

I think it's a pretty cool concept.

[RevCheesehead]

45. Do you ever watch "The 4400"?

I think you'd like much of the imagery. Doesn't take much to figure out who "Jordan Collier" is. ;)

[Rabrrrrrr]

47. I've never even heard of it.

What is it?

[Deep13]

46. The admonition to love ones neighbor as himself ...

...strikes me as an impossible standard. Christianity contains many impossible standards of conduct designed so that people fail, feel like they failed and, therefore, accept that they really are doomed sinners if they do not accept Christ and the authoritarian power structure that goes with him.

[Rabrrrrrr]

48. All of Jesus' standards are impossible - that's the beauty of them.

Doing the minimum is not a good enough ethical standard, he says. Go further than you think you need to.

Your understanding of Christianity is deficient, however. SOME Christians act the way you prefer to slander the entire religion with. Not all. And in my opinion, the way you characterize Christianity is not Christianity, but an example of a failed church and bad doctrine.

[Deep13]

50. First, you conceed that they are impossible.

So that's a nonissue. Requiring impossible standards is unethical in and of itself. The purpose of impossible legal standards is to put people in constant fear of state retribution. The impossible standards of Christianity are to put people in constant fear of damnation and, therefore, beholding to the church for "forgiveness."

"...the way you characterize Christianity is not Christianity, but an example of a failed church and bad doctrine."

So the Christianity that actually exists is not the real Christianity. I have heard that a lot recently. Many people are uneasy about the atrocities commited by their religion, past and present. "Real" Christianity is what is practiced by Christians. I don't really care what your particular heretical beliefs are, I am looking at the actual, brand-name religion as it is actually practiced.

By the way, it is libel, not slander. Slander is spoken. And only if the statement is false.

[Rabrrrrrr]

51. Damn the evidence, eh? Believe what you will, then; clearly your mind is made up.

(and thanks for the libel/slander info - I constantly mix those two up; now that I look, I see slander and spoken start with "s" - maybe that will help me remember).

[Deep13]

52. It is. nt

[triguy46]

2. Matthew 6:5-8 (Hmmmm, wonder who this might fit??)

When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, who love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on street corners so that others may see them. Amen, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you pray, go to your inner room, close the door, and pray to your Father in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will repay you.

[datasuspect]

3. that's like christian kryptonite

they squirm all kinds of ways around that one.

it's one of my favorites.

[BobMorr]

35. my favorite

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

4. He who is without sin, cast the first stone.

I paraphrased but, you get my drift?

[datasuspect]

5. what is your drift?

are you counseling me with this wisdom?

because the biblical truths i posted are ideas that i can give my assent to.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

7. All I meant was that one should be able to recognize the verse to

which i was referencing. Trust me, I am too new here to be intentionally snarky. I gather from your reply that you DON'T agree with verse I mentioned?

[datasuspect]

8. i was just seeking clarification

nah, that's one of the cool things about jesus.

i would have done the same thing.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

10. Jesus is just all right with me. I can dig that water to wine thing.

I would hang with a dude like that ;)

[triguy46]

6. 2 Kings 2:23 Revenge for all us bald men!!! WooHoo!!!

23 From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some youths came out of the town and jeered at him. "Go on up, you baldhead!" they said. "Go on up, you baldhead!" 24 He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.

[Breeze54]

9. That's a tall order.

[LibertyLover]

11. Hmm, I've always been partial to these:

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine. and

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. or

O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely. and finally

Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.


Good old Song of Songs which is Solomon's.

[idgiehkt]

12. thou shalt not piss upon thy fellow DUer's thread

unless thou hast great talents of amusement and makest thy fellow DUer "rofl"-eth.

[jeff30997]

13. If thy want to take a shortcut..

Walk on water.

[rurallib]

14. Heard an atheist on the radio long ago.

The host asked the atheist if anything in the bible was true and the atheist said there was one thing:
"And this too shall pass"

[DarkTirade]

15. Leviticus 19:27

Do not cut the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.

That's my favorate one to tell to all the fundies who give me funny looks for having long hair. :)

[KitchenWitch]

16. "Jesus wept." John 11:35

[RevCheesehead]

18. "And God saw all that (he) made, and said it was good."

Take that, Augustine! :evilgrin:

[KitchenWitch]

19. ...

:yourock:

[RevCheesehead]

21. Hi, Kitchy!

Glad someone else can't sleep tonight. Or are you just a nightowl? :hi:

[KitchenWitch]

23. Can't sleep

all riled up...

:shrug:

[Ptah]

20. locusts

Now John wore a garment of camel's hair, and a leather girdle around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey."

[Mythsaje]

22. To paraphrase nearly every religious leader in history

including Jesus.

"Don't be an asshole."

[datasuspect]

36. To paraphrase christ

"forgive them lord, they know not what they do."

[Oeditpus Rex]

24. ' A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me;

he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.

"Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.

"Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.

"Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

"How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.

"Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.

"This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.

"I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;

"And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak."

[RevCheesehead]

25. It begs the question:

Why did one of the Wise Guys give Jesus sex toys? :shrug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

26. 'What is myrrh, anyway?'

:hi:

[RevCheesehead]

27. It's a noise my cat makes when he wants attention.

Sometimes he asks for "Murray?" I have no idea who he is. The only Murray I know is Murray Slaughter.

:hi:

[Oeditpus Rex]

30. I know!

Every time I think of that bit, I think of Mary Richards.

"Murray, Murray, Murray! MUR'!"

:rofl:

[RevCheesehead]

32. How is li'l Lucy?

Give her a scritch from her Aunt Ruth. :)

[Oeditpus Rex]

33. She's got some itchies

So she'll appreciate the skritch. :)

I need to get her antihistamine refilled. Po' thang. :(

[Bunny]

34. .

:spray:

The Wise Guys? :rofl:

:hi: Rev!

[krispos42]

28. pi is exactly equal to three

II Chronicles 4:2

[bridgit]

29. "And you shall hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all..."

"...these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places." ~ Matthew 24:6-7

[Oeditpus Rex]

That's from the bible?

I thought it was from "Things to Come." :shrug:

[RevCheesehead]

31. One of my favorites:

"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord' will inherit the Kingdom of heaven.... On that day, I will say to them, 'I never knew you. Go away from me, you evildoers.'"

[ContraBass Black]

53. .

:hi:
:hug:

[Mad_Dem_X]

39. Blessed are the peacemakers...

for they shall be called the children of God.

--Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.

--Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.

The Book of Matthew is full of really good ones.

[Dr. Strange]

40. The cheesemakers?

What's so special about the cheesemakers?

[Mad_Dem_X]

44. LOL!

I knew somebody was going to mention that.

[Tyler Durden]

41. 1 Corinthians 13, 1-13. Some of the finest words man ever set down.

1Cor.13
<1> Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
<2> And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
<3> And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
<4> Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
<5> Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
<6> Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
<7> Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
<8> Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
<9> For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
<10> But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
<11> When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
<12> For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
<13> And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

[Aristus]

42. "That which you do even unto the least of these, you do also unto me."

Bush obviously doesn't know that one or he wouldn't have vetoed medical care for children.

[conscious evolution]

43. Then did he raise on high the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch,

saying, "Bless this, O Lord, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy." And the people did rejoice and did feast upon the lambs and toads and tree-sloths and fruit-bats and orangutans and breakfast cereals ... Now did the Lord say, "First thou pullest the Holy Pin. Then thou must count to three. Three shall be the number of the counting and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither shalt thou count two, excepting that thou then proceedeth to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the number of the counting, be reached, then lobbest thou the Holy Hand Grenade in the direction of thine foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it."
A Reading from the Book of Armaments, Chapter 4, Verses 16 to 20:

Very usefull when they have teeth like this:

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[Rabrrrrrr]

49. Uh... skip a bit, brother...

:rofl:

[LadyoftheRabbits]

54. My roommate requested I post this...

I think she said it was from Romans: "Let us behave with decency as befits the day: no drunken orgies, no debauchery or vice, no quarrels or jealousies!"

Guess that leaves out the Lounge... :P