Re: OT: The will of God

2005-03-29 Thread leaking pen
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RE: OT: The will of God

2005-03-28 Thread thomas malloy
At 2:45 AM 3/26/5, thomas malloy wrote: and Horace Heffner replied; > You believe what you want to believe. I have suggested two propositions and a conclusion. These things are not a matter of my faith or what I believe. What matters is the general doctrine of Christians, Jews, and Moslems conce

Re: OT: The will of God (key points and loose ends)

2005-03-28 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Terry Blanton wrote: --- revtec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Lucifer is Lucifer is not Satan. There is but one reference to Lucifer in the bible. Do you know it and to what it refers? As the one who first refered to Lucifer here, I should admit that I didn't check the name in the rele

Re: OT: The will of God (key points and loose ends)

2005-03-26 Thread Terry Blanton
--- Horace Heffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Uncanny the relvance and possible future relevance > of Isaiah to modern times. Yathink? The PVTs (Prophet Veracity Filters) of the time were quite sharp and steep. "I came *this* close . . . " ___

Re: OT: The will of God (key points and loose ends)

2005-03-26 Thread Horace Heffner
At 6:43 AM 3/26/5, Terry Blanton wrote: >Lucifer is not Satan. There is but one reference to >Lucifer in the bible. Do you know it and to what it refers? Perhaps you refer to Is 14:12: "How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the Dawn! You have been cast down to earth, you who

Re: OT: The will of God

2005-03-26 Thread Edmund Storms
The "my God is better than your God" approach to religion disgusts and frightens me. This use of God is only a thin disguise used by one group to justify taking life, liberty, and property from another group. For example, the white race thought they had the God given right to enslave the black

RE: OT: The will of God

2005-03-26 Thread Horace Heffner
At 2:45 AM 3/26/5, thomas malloy wrote: >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" > >Horace Heffner replied > >>At 11:14 AM 3/24/5, thomas malloy wrote: >> >>>The idea that Yehovah, and Allah are the same entity is pure >>>nonsense. Ditto for the idea that Shariah is a substit

Re: OT: The will of God (key points and loose ends)

2005-03-26 Thread Terry Blanton
--- revtec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lucifer is Lucifer is not Satan. There is but one reference to Lucifer in the bible. Do you know it and to what it refers? __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection aroun

Re: OT: The will of God (key points and loose ends)

2005-03-26 Thread revtec
- Original Message - From: "Stephen A. Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 4:19 PM Subject: Re: OT: The will of God Lucifer is, of course, not exactly big on humankind -- according to the Testament of Moses he is horribly jealous of Ada

Re: OT: The will of God

2005-03-26 Thread thomas malloy
Merlyn replied; Fundamentalists always cite that God influenced those keepers of knowledge so that the translation is just as accurate as the original, but I have problems believing that. History abounds with examples of men misinterpreting scripture to justify heinous acts. That's why it's import

RE: OT: The will of God

2005-03-26 Thread thomas malloy
Title: RE: OT: The will of God Horace Heffner replied At 11:14 AM 3/24/5, thomas malloy wrote: >The idea that Yehovah, and Allah are the same entity is pure >nonsense. Ditto for the idea that Shariah is a substitute for Torah. >I thought I'd made the case adequately, but appar

Re: OT: The will of God

2005-03-24 Thread orionworks
> From: Terry Blanton ... > I further conjecture that to be the Creation, it must > be not G-d; therefore, all that lives is separate from > G-d. If G-d is all that is Good; then, all that is > must be Evil and the end of Creation is the return to > G-d. Is this why 'live' is 'evil' spelled bac

Re: OT: The will of God

2005-03-24 Thread Terry Blanton
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Re: OT: The will of God

2005-03-24 Thread Jed Rothwell
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: First, how can something which is all good spawn something evil?  How can pure evil come from pure good?  Clearly it can't -- if the good gives birth to the evil then the good must have incorporated the evil to start with and the good must not have been pure good, after

Re: OT: The will of God

2005-03-24 Thread Terry Blanton
LOL!  You shouldn't read my posts.  Sometimes my NLP goes haywire.  :-)   Have you ever heard of the Cathars?   It's my own gnostic variation.  Well, actually, I got it from a Playboy article about 30 years ago.  It goes something like this.  G-d got bored so he created Man for his entertainment. 

Re: OT: The will of God

2005-03-24 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Terry Blanton wrote: I think you might find this of interest: "There are certain striking similarities between the Hindu god *Brahma* and his consort *Saraisvati,* and the Jewish *Abraham* and *Sarai*, that are more than mere coincidences." http://www.hermetics.org/Abraham2.html Thanks -- v

Re: OT: The will of God

2005-03-24 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Terry Blanton wrote: Nope, I make no assumptions about the worshiper. The condition is that G-d is Omnipresent. This is an interesting philosophy in that before there was a Creation, there was only the Creator. The only material to compose the Creation must come from the Creator; therefore,

Re: OT: The will of God

2005-03-24 Thread Terry Blanton
Nope, I make no assumptions about the worshiper.  The condition is that G-d is Omnipresent.  This is an interesting philosophy in that before there was a Creation, there was only the Creator.  The only material to compose the Creation must come from the Creator; therefore, all that is, is G-d (depe

Re: OT: The will of God

2005-03-24 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Terry Blanton wrote: There is a general solution. If G-d is Omnipresent, there is but One by exclusion; and, all monotheistic religions are worshiping the same G-d by definition. "I am that I am" Um ... You are assuming all those who _think_ they are worshiping the One God are indeed doing

Re: OT: The will of God

2005-03-24 Thread Terry Blanton
I think you might find this of interest:   "There are certain striking similarities between the Hindu god Brahma and his consort Saraisvati, and the Jewish Abraham and Sarai, that are more than mere coincidences."   http://www.hermetics.org/Abraham2.html"Stephen A. Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

RE: OT: The will of God

2005-03-24 Thread Terry Blanton
There is a general solution.  If G-d is Omnipresent, there is but One by exclusion; and, all monotheistic religions are worshiping the same G-d by definition.   "I am that I am"Horace Heffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jews and Christians worship the god of Abraham. Islamists worship the godof Abra

Re: OT: The will of God

2005-03-24 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Horace Heffner wrote: At 11:14 AM 3/24/5, thomas malloy wrote: The idea that Yehovah, and Allah are the same entity is pure nonsense. Ditto for the idea that Shariah is a substitute for Torah. I thought I'd made the case adequately, but apparently I didn't. You completely failed to address

RE: OT: The will of God

2005-03-24 Thread Horace Heffner
At 11:14 AM 3/24/5, thomas malloy wrote: >The idea that Yehovah, and Allah are the same entity is pure >nonsense. Ditto for the idea that Shariah is a substitute for Torah. >I thought I'd made the case adequately, but apparently I didn't. You completely failed to address the issue and you seem to

RE: OT: The will of God

2005-03-24 Thread thomas malloy
Keith Nagel and Horace Heffner responded; J. Swift writes: Our histories of six thousand moons make no mention of any other My first reaction was to say that I fail to see the connection between this part of Gulliver's Travels and the the question at hand. On further reflection You have the misgu

RE: OT: The will of God

2005-03-23 Thread Keith Nagel
ffner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 11:00 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: OT: The will of God At 1:32 PM 3/10/5, thomas malloy wrote: >The scenario which is being played out was prophecized 4000 years >ago, ergo it is the will of G-d. The Islamists belie

Re: OT: The will of God

2005-03-23 Thread Horace Heffner
At 1:32 PM 3/10/5, thomas malloy wrote: >The scenario which is being played out was prophecized 4000 years >ago, ergo it is the will of G-d. The Islamists believe that Allah has >blessed their enterprise too. The fact that Allah isn't god has no >bearing on their behavior, they believe that he is

Re: OT: The will of God

2005-03-23 Thread Merlyn
I apologize for not hearing the sarcasm, which is now obvious to me. I live and work with fundametalists every day and so sometimes I am inclined to take people at their word when they say such things. I must admit it has been a fun conversation though. --- "Stephen A. Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: OT: The will of God

2005-03-22 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Merlyn wrote: Of course I'm being nit-picky Stephen, I believe the bible to be a good book, and to have some excellent lessons for our society, but I do not believe it to be the revealed word of God as you obviously do. The main point is that the bible you and I read is not only a translation of a

Re: OT: The will of God

2005-03-22 Thread Merlyn
Of course I'm being nit-picky Stephen, I believe the bible to be a good book, and to have some excellent lessons for our society, but I do not believe it to be the revealed word of God as you obviously do. The main point is that the bible you and I read is not only a translation of a translation,

Re: OT: The will of God

2005-03-21 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Merlyn wrote: Not to interrupt, thomas malloy wrote: As for prophecy, that's all in the interpretation, Oh, dear, you're being much too nit-picky here. Check out the book of Isaiah, which, one could argue, is the most important OT book (that's Old Testament, not Off-Topic) for most liturgic

Re: OT: The will of God

2005-03-19 Thread thomas malloy
Steven Johnson replied; Hi Thomas, From: thomas malloy First of all, our world view is that there are two religious systems, Judeo Christian and everything else, which we call the pagan religions. Now that every thing else is a range of beliefs, what they all have in common is a disregard for t

Re: OT: The will of God

2005-03-18 Thread Terry Blanton
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Actually, I think I may have been a rabbi in a > former life. Yeah, my wife is a Messianic Jew and we have been together over 20 years. We *do* argue over her tithe thing . . . I say it's *after* taxes! __ Do y

Re: Re: OT: The will of God

2005-03-18 Thread orionworks
> From: Terry Blanton > While I was raised Baptist, I certainly am not now. > AAMOF, I wasn't too sure what I was until I found: > > BELIEF-O-MATIC!!! > > Not sure about what religion you are? Then go to: > > http://www.beliefnet.com > > and take the 20 question test of the belief-o-mat

Re: OT: The will of God

2005-03-18 Thread Terry Blanton
While I was raised Baptist, I certainly am not now.  AAMOF, I wasn't too sure what I was until I found:   BELIEF-O-MATIC!!!   Not sure about what religion you are?  Then go to:   http://www.beliefnet.com   and take the 20 question test of the belief-o-matic (third bullet on the left).  I am 100% ne

Re: OT: The will of God

2005-03-18 Thread orionworks
Hi Thomas, > From: thomas malloy ... > Not at all, we call our religion Messianic Judaism. > We keep Sabbath and the Levitical Festivals and do our > best to be Torah Observant. Thanks for the clarification. I can pretty much respect anyone who remain true to their own school. I only wish to

Re: OT: The will of God

2005-03-18 Thread thomas malloy
Hi Thomas, I hope you don't find this too forward of me to ask but I could use a clarification as to what your religious preferences are. It is my understanding that you are of the Evangelical persuasion. Pardon my ignorance but what remains unclear to me is whether this means you are Christian

RE: OT: The will of God

2005-03-14 Thread thomas malloy
Not to interrupt, thomas malloy wrote: Steven Johnson posted; > > >So, you know for an absolute fact that Allah isn't God? > Different name; yod hay vav hay as opposed to Allah, and Merlyn added; Same God, different interpretation. The Jewish/christian god has NO name, this is why He/She is

RE: OT: The will of God

2005-03-11 Thread Merlyn
Not to interrupt, thomas malloy wrote: > > Steven Johnson posted; > > > > > >So, you know for an absolute fact that Allah isn't > God? > > Different name; yod hay vav hay as opposed to Allah, > different legal > system; Sharia verses Torah, different treatment of > women; no need to > commen

Re: RE: OT: The will of God

2005-03-11 Thread orionworks
Hi Thomas, > From: thomas malloy > >So, you know for an absolute fact that Allah isn't God? > Different name; yod hay vav hay as opposed to Allah, > different legal system; Sharia verses Torah, different treatment > of women; no need to comment further on that, eh? different > outcomes, the na

RE: OT: The will of God

2005-03-10 Thread thomas malloy
Hi Thomas, From: thomas malloy Steven Johnson posted; >A recent comment by the esteemed Mr. Malloy got me to thinking... > >The problem I always have when I hear catchy little phrases like: >"We Evangelicals see W's [Bush's] election as the will of G-d", or >"It is Allah's will" The scenari

RE: OT: The will of God

2005-03-10 Thread Steven Vincent Johnson
Hi Thomas, > From: thomas malloy > > Steven Johnson posted; > > >A recent comment by the esteemed Mr. Malloy got me to thinking... > > > >The problem I always have when I hear catchy little phrases like: > >"We Evangelicals see W's [Bush's] election as the will of G-d", or > >"It is Allah's will"

Re: OT: The will of God

2005-03-10 Thread thomas malloy
Steven Johnson posted; A recent comment by the esteemed Mr. Malloy got me to thinking... The problem I always have when I hear catchy little phrases like: "We Evangelicals see W's [Bush's] election as the will of G-d", or "It is Allah's will" The scenario which is being played out was prophecized