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6/19/07 2:02 PM |
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Hey Darwin dude-- I've read Darwin. Have you? I doubt it.As for slavery, practices regarding it are described in the Old Testament but the New Testament is mostly silent on the issue, save the fact that far from supporting slavery Paul indicates his preference for manumission. If you don't know what the Roman practice of slave manumission was, go look it up. Paul was also requesting Onesimus' manumission in the letter to Philemon. There is not a shred of support for slavery in the New Testament. Since you're an enlightened, intellectual type, I'm sure you also know that atheism is responsible for far more deaths than theism (in particular in the form of 20th century communism--something else I'm sure you've read all about). I'm sure you also know about the incalculable amount of text preservation and copying which Christian monks performed throughout history--not just transmitting Christian writings but all ancient wisdom--astronomy, philosophy, etc. Why, without Christianity to have preserved it, you would never have Aristotle, and without Aristotle you'd never have Darwin (in that a tremendous amount of Darwin's thought is predicated on Aristotle's Biology--but I'm sure you knew all that). |
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6/18/07 2:41 PM |
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The Qur'an has it that at the end Jesus plays roughly the military role Michael plays in our own eschatology. Jesus will bow down before Muhammad, and Jesus Himself will confess that there is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is his prophet. Of course our Biblical account confesses that every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Christ is Lord to the glory of God. Islam is predicated on doing the works of Allah, having merely a vague hope that one's works are good enough. Christianity is predicated upon the sure work of a sinless savior who was God made man to win and assure salvation. Muhammad vehemently denounces worship of Jesus as damnable heresy. Jesus claims to be a God worthy of worship. Islam teaches progressive revelation--i.e. that the Jews had some kernel of revelation, the Christians had more, and the Muslims had the final word from God 500 years after the Christian canon. Christianity teaches that addition to the canon will be rewarded with the full wrath of God. Christianity was begun by a man of peace, eminently wise and yet humble and kind. Islam was started by a demon-possessed pedophile mass murderer. I don't see any contradictions. What's there to get bent out of shape over? |
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6/4/07 3:12 PM |
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Jim Lincoln-- Funny you mention Constantine in connection to the papacy. Remember what he styled himself? "Pontifex Maximus."hmmm...sounds familiar somehow...where have I heard that title since then?... savedbygrace-- Point taken about the reformers and the real presence, although the Zwinglians were a slim minority (especially with the rise of international Calvinism). Good guess--although not seminary. I did an M.A. in Historical Theology. I think it's great the Pope wants to encourage the practice of the Tridentine Mass. Latin is of course the language of Jerome's bible, which as we all know was more inspired than the Greek manuscripts. Maybe he could also encourage the Lord's Supper in one kind. Heb. 7:26-27 26For it was fitting for us to have such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners and exalted above the heavens; 27who does not need daily, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the sins of the people, because this He did ONCE FOR ALL when He offered up Himself. and 8:12 12...and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place ONCE FOR ALL, having obtained eternal redemption. |
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