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24 Mar 2016, 6:03 pm

The bigger game-changer was probably Paul and John adopting Jesus as carrier of the dying/sacrificed solar deity of Tammuz, Adonis, Dionysus, and Osiris fame as well as additionally blurring the line between sacrificial solar deity and Platonic archetypal man (ie. Adam Kadmon) - something John was particularly big on.


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24 Mar 2016, 6:53 pm

techstepgenr8tion wrote:
Maybe around the time Acts of the Apostles became popularized?

Acts 10:9-16 wrote:
9 About noon the following day as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray. 10 He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. 11 He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners. 12 It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles and birds. 13 Then a voice told him, “Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.”

14 “Surely not, Lord!” Peter replied. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.”

15 The voice spoke to him a second time, “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”

16 This happened three times, and immediately the sheet was taken back to heaven.


Thank you. I've noticed before that my formal Xian education has a massive black hole where Acts is concerned...which is kinda funny considering the amount of research I've done into one particular set of passages.


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25 Mar 2016, 1:07 am

I understood the second part of your post, and not the first

Please clarify.

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25 Mar 2016, 8:52 am

Edenthiel wrote:
techstepgenr8tion wrote:
Maybe around the time Acts of the Apostles became popularized?

Acts 10:9-16 wrote:
9 About noon the following day as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray. 10 He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. 11 He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners. 12 It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles and birds. 13 Then a voice told him, “Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.”

14 “Surely not, Lord!” Peter replied. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.”

15 The voice spoke to him a second time, “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”

16 This happened three times, and immediately the sheet was taken back to heaven.


Thank you. I've noticed before that my formal Xian education has a massive black hole where Acts is concerned...which is kinda funny considering the amount of research I've done into one particular set of passages.
This may also be of interest to you Edenthiel.

“Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them? For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.)
Mark 7:18-19


It actually goes back to the ministry of Jesus Himself. As Scripture states later on, the Law (Old Testament) is a shadow of the things to come. Among those things is living by grace and not according to strict dietary regulations.

I hate seafood, personally, but I know I won't go to hell for eating it. Sausage and bacon are pretty yummy, though. :P


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25 Mar 2016, 12:07 pm

drlaugh wrote:
I understood the second part of your post, and not the first

Please clarify.

Danke.


To whom is this addressed?



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25 Mar 2016, 12:10 pm

Yes,he has.Glory be.
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25 Mar 2016, 12:20 pm

......and coming to the silver screen in yet another blockbuster.
Do you prefer classic, cartoon or other "Zilla"?


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25 Mar 2016, 1:07 pm

drlaugh wrote:
......and coming to the silver screen in yet another blockbuster.
Do you prefer classic, cartoon or other "Zilla"?

Classic,the American Godzilla is too fat.I had them all on my DVR,some I hadn't gotten a chance to watch yet and the DVR went all HAL unit on me and deleted them.


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26 Mar 2016, 2:09 am

Isn't he somewhere in your backyard, feeding off the neighbours?


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26 Mar 2016, 6:52 am

God oh God why has though...
From Psalm 22



22 [a]My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?
Why are You so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?
2
O my God, I call out by day, but You do not answer;
And by night, but I find no rest nor quiet.
3
But You are holy,
O You who are enthroned in [the holy place where] the praises of Israel [are offered].
4
In You our fathers trusted [leaned on, relied on, and were confident];
They trusted and You rescued them.
5
They cried out to You and were delivered;
They trusted in You and were not disappointed or ashamed.
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But I am [treated as] a worm [insignificant and powerless] and not a man;
I am the scorn of men and despised by the people.
7
All who see me laugh at me and mock me;
They [insultingly] open their lips, they shake their head, saying,
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“He trusted and committed himself to the Lord, let Him save him.
Let Him rescue him, because He delights in him.”
9
Yet You are He who pulled me out of the womb;
You made me trust when on my mother’s breasts.
10
I was cast upon You from birth;
From my mother’s womb You have been my God.
11
Do not be far from me, for trouble is near;
And there is no one to help.
12
Many [enemies like] bulls have surrounded me;
Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.
13
They open wide their mouths against me,
Like a ravening and a roaring lion.
14
I am poured out like water,
And all my bones are out of joint.
My heart is like wax;
It is melted [by anguish] within me.
15
My strength is dried up like a fragment of clay pottery;
And my [dry] tongue clings to my jaws;
And You have laid me in the dust of death.
16
For [a pack of] dogs have surrounded me;
A gang of evildoers has encircled me,
They pierced my hands and my feet.
17
I can count all my bones;
They look, they stare at me.
18
They divide my clothing among them
And cast lots for my [b]garment.
19
But You, O Lord, do not be far from me;
O You my help, come quickly to my assistance.
20
Rescue my life from the sword,
My only life from the paw of the dog (the executioner).
21
Save me from the lion’s mouth;
From the horns of the wild oxen You answer me.
22
I will tell of Your name to my countrymen;
In the midst of the congregation I will praise You.
23
You who fear the Lord [with awe-inspired reverence], praise Him!
All you descendants of Jacob, honor Him.
Fear Him [with submissive wonder], all you descendants of Israel.
24
For He has not despised nor detested the suffering of the afflicted;
Nor has He hidden His face from him;
But when he cried to Him for help, He listened.
25
My praise will be of You in the great assembly.
I will pay my vows [made in the time of trouble] before those who [reverently] fear Him.
26
The afflicted will eat and be satisfied;
Those who [diligently] seek Him and require Him [as their greatest need] will praise the Lord.
May your hearts live forever!
27
All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the Lord,
And all the families of the nations will bow down and worship before You,
28
For the kingship and the kingdom are the Lord’s
And He rules over the nations.
29
All the prosperous of the earth will eat and worship;
All those who go down to the dust (the dead) will bow before Him,
Even he who cannot keep his soul alive.
30
Posterity will serve Him;
They will tell of the Lord to the next generation.
31
They will come and declare His righteousness
To a people yet to be born—that He has done it [and that it is finished].


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26 Mar 2016, 2:39 pm

envirozentinel wrote:
Isn't he somewhere in your backyard, feeding off the neighbours?

He keeps Mothra from eating the garden.lol


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26 Mar 2016, 3:59 pm

Who are our neighbors, is a great question.


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28 Mar 2016, 6:37 am

After being dead for three days, wouldn't zombie jesus have some serious rigor mortis?



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31 Mar 2016, 5:06 pm

Edenthiel wrote:
nurseangela wrote:
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I Believe!!

HAPPY EASTER SUNDAY!!


Who's the white European guy in the picture - I thought Jesus was a middle eastern Jewish Rabbi?

Shhh, they don't like contradictions...