"Uncle Davey" <noway@jose.com> wrote in message news:<c1q5ag$pvb$0@pita.alt.net>...
> news:earle.jones-ED8BC4.10513827022004@netnews.comcast.net...
> > In article <b9b3de8.0402270533.6080f790@posting.google.com>,
> > branchofjesse@hotmail.com (Jerzy Jakubowski) wrote:
> >
> > > eros_talk_origins@hotmail.com (Eros) wrote in message
> > > news:<ab0de77f.0402262024.16c3ac25@posting.google.com>...
> > > > "Jason Gastrich" <newsgroups@jcsm.org> wrote in message
> > > > news:<Le__b.2503$Bb5.698@twister.socal.rr.com>...
> > > > > Snowbird wrote:
> > > > > > Jason Gastrich wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >> Even if all of those quotes were fabrications or exaggerations,
> it
> > > > > >> still wouldn't help the theory of evolutionism any.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > There is no theory of evolutionism. You are not doing Christians
> any
> > > > > > favours by parroting nonsense like this.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > On its own merits, it
> > > > > >> requires tons of faith.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Since when has tonnes of evidence required faith?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > It requires belief in things that have never been
> > > > > >> seen or proven.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Apart from that fact that this is false, doesn't your faith in God
> > > > > > require belief in things never seen or proven?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > This quote rabbit trail is a convenient somescreen for the
> > > > > >> ones that don't want to confess that there is precious little
> > > > > >> evidence for the theory of evolutionism.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 1) There is no theory of evolutionism.
> > > > > > 2) Even if there were, it would be different from the theory of
> > > > > > *evolution*. 3) There is a huge mountain of evidence for
> evolution.
> > > > > > Creationists just deny it.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > It's sad that you can't see the true beauty and reality of
> creation.
> > > > >
> > > > > Yeah, believing I have a common ancestor with a banana and came from
> a
> > > > > rock.
> > > > > Now that's true beauty and reality! Not.
> > > > >
> > > > > Jason
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Yeah, it's much better to believe you have a common ancestor with
> > > > nothingness and came from a pile of dirt, like the Bible says. Now
> > > > that's true beauty and reality! Not.
> > > >
> > > > EROS.
> > >
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> --
> > > > --
> > > > "The next day..., Jesus was hungry. Seeing in the distance a fig tree
> > > > in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit. When he reached it,
> > > > he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs.
> > > > Then he said to the tree, "May no one ever eat fruit from you again."
> > > > ... In the morning..., they saw the fig tree withered from the roots.
> > > > Peter ... said to Jesus, "Rabbi, look! The fig tree ... has
> > > > withered!"" -- Mark 11:12-14, 20-21 (NIV)
> > > >
> > > > Points to remember:-
> > > > Jesus was hungry.
> > > > He looked for figs on a tree.
> > > > But it was not fig season.
> > > >
> > > > Questions to ponder:-
> > > > If it wasn't fig season, why would even a moron look for figs?
> > > > Is talking to a tree and then killing it for not bearing fruit out of
> > > > season a reasonable response, by any standard?
> > >
> > >
> > > Don't worry about the tree, the LORD was just making a point. Worry
> about
> > > your soul.
> > >
> > > Uncle Davey
> > >
> >
> > *
> > Why don't you explain the Lord's point, Uncle Davey. He walks up to a
> > fig tree out of season and is obviously pissed and begins to talk to
> > the tree: "May no one ever eat fruit from you again."
> >
> > And the poor tree withers and dies.
> >
> > Now, Davey, please explain the point.
> >
> > earle
> > *
> >
>
> The point is that we should bear fruit.
>
> What's the Greek again? "Hekaston dendron ek tou idiou karpou gignosketai".
>
> Uncle Davey.
Mammals should bear fruit? Hair, fine. Milk, some of us, sometimes.
But *fruit*???
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