On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 10:55:04 +0000, Uncle Davey wrote:
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>> On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 01:24:29 +0000, Uncle Davey wrote:
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>> >> Uncle Davey wrote:
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>> >> > news:fTxXb.20687$hR.581241@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
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>> >> >>Patrick James wrote:
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>> >> >>>On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 11:12:01 -0500, Uncle Davey wrote (in message
>> >> >>><c0lhh3$mg9$0@pita.alt.net>):
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>> >> >>>>Well, you don't know if I'm God's spokesman or not, do you?
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>> >> >>>I'm pretty sure that you're not.
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>> >> >>I'm positive he's not and may any deity that exists strike me dead
>> >> >>if I'm incorrect.
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>> >> >>Ken
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>> >> >>P.S. I'm still breathing BTW
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>> >> > God doesn't take orders from you, that's why.
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>> >> > He decides when to strike you dead, get used to it.
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>> >> How the hell do YOU know what God does or doesn't do, Davey.
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>> > I read it in the Bible.
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>> >> So what's the scoop, Davey. Are you God's Spokesman, or aren't you.
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>> > I'm not, the Bible is.
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>> And how should the Bible be best interpreted?
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> By other parts of the Bible.
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Okay, but since the Bible was written over the course of millennia by
numerous different authors with very different goals, doesn't it make more
sense to interpret the various books of the Bible in context with
comparative literature of the time, and in context with its historical
context?
> Uncle Davey
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...and it is my belief that no greater good has ever befallen you in this city
than my service to my God. [...] Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness
brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and that state.
Plato, quoting Socrates, from The _Apology_
--Daniel Harper
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