Badger3k
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| Quote (Quack @ Dec. 24 2009,06:49) | | Quote | | The clear text meaning in any translation was the expectation that it would occur within the current generation. |
We also have Mark 9:1:
| Quote | | And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power. |
It takes an inhuman effort to reconcile all the conflicting words of the Bible.
Floyd is desperate; he "knows" the truth but have hell of a job convincing himself as well as anyone else. I am afraid he is lost. His intellectual house of cards is a Damocles sword demanding a perpetual struggle for peace of mind.
Without studying to origins of the Bible, the who, when and why of the different, often contradictory texts, sorting out the more or less obvious forgeries, editions, cut-and-paste jobs, additions, deletions. What has been left out and why? Why just the four gospels; there were many others?
Don't remember, may have been Tertullian who felt the need of explaining: "There are no more, no less that four gospels because of the four corners of the Earth and the four principal winds." Convincing?
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Both Pagan and Gnostic sources also deserve to be studied. |
I'm surprised he hasn't used the "Wandering Jew" apologetic - that was the origin of that myth, so that the medieval apologists could say that there was one who heard and was made immortal so that the "prophecy" could be fulfilled.
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"Just think if every species had a different genetic code We would have to eat other humans to survive.." : Joe G
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