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Old 11-24-2007, 01:38 PM
 
Location: Ireland
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Oh please keep this thread going. I'm really enjoying the laughs... I never realised that religious stuff could be so funny.

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Old 11-24-2007, 02:44 PM
 
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Jesus was sent to Earth to deliver a Message to mankind. A startling message from Outer Space

GOD IS REPRODUCING HIMSELF! That's the glorious Good News that Jesus boldly proclaimed!

Why have the vast majority of professing Christians been deceived on this point? Why do they go about bleating they're "born again" alread

THIS IS THE WHOLE PLAN AND PURPOSE OF GOD!

Soon it'll be mission accomplished in our lives and we'll experience the "finishing touch" to our spiritual creation (Phil. 1:6; Rev. 1:8; Ephes. 2:10).

We're actually the Kingdom of God in embryo - the PIONEERING COMMUNITY of an advanced civilization - who'll soon help establish HEAVEN ON EART

June, June..Can I make an appointment

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Old 11-25-2007, 07:54 PM
 
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Are you familiar with the apostle Paul's encouragement to the early Christians to "follow me, as I follow Christ"? I follow Jesus Christ whom Herbert W. Armstrong followed, and faithfully taught the plain truth of the Bible rather than the idolatrous traditions of counterfeit Christianity (with their Gentilized Jesus and Roman wolves in sheep's clothing).

I was baptized into the Body of Jesus Christ, not into any sect or denomination of men, by Worldwide Church of God pastor George Kackos in 1979. Please note the current Worldwide Church of God is no longer the Church of God (the faithful members forsook that corrupt organization when Tkachism ran roughshod over our biblical beliefs), but just another synagogue of Satan (counterfeit Christianity who substitute traditions for the commandments of God).
Is Mr. Armstrong the same guy who stated only God heals and that medical science is ineffective..

yet in is later life he took heart medications and had a traveling nurse with him..
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Old 11-28-2007, 06:38 PM
 
Location: Toledo, Ohio, USA/Menashe
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Well I won't deny that Germany is part of Europe and that there probably are Jesuits living in Europe, but who is this divine emperor?
Europe's wannabe divine emperor will be revealed. The provocation of the "King of the South" (some Muslim leader, perhaps an Iranian?) will bring out the BEAST in Europe. Such a man of the moment will actually appear like a hero, a savior, a good guy, at first...saving Europe from Islam.

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isn't a prototype a test model to discover the flaws, before one proceeds with the mass-production?
That is one of the definitions of prototype. Another, which I had in mind, is:

An original type, form, or instance serving as a basis or standard for later stages.

prototype: Definition, Synonyms and Much More from Answers.com

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Why did this Yeshua appear so late in the game?
Part of God's plan. There were to be 4 Gentile Kingdoms and then the Kingdom of God is to be established that destroys what's left of the others, their composite will become so much compost.

Yeshua came to announce, at the end of the 4th kingdom (Rome), the Kingdom of God that He will establish when He returns and set things straight.
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Old 11-28-2007, 06:41 PM
 
Location: Toledo, Ohio, USA/Menashe
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Is Mr. Armstrong the same guy who stated only God heals and that medical science is ineffective..
Herbert W. Armstrong did teach only God heals, but that doctors and medicines have their very limited place. You mean to tell me you believe doctors heal? Just because they're dressed in white...

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yet in is later life he took heart medications and had a traveling nurse with him..
Were you that nurse or you're just going by hear-say? It's irrelevant, anyway. I really hope you don't believe doctors or medicines heal...they don't. Is that a shock to your system?
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Old 11-28-2007, 06:43 PM
 
Location: Toledo, Ohio, USA/Menashe
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I never realised that religious stuff could be so funny.
Don't die laughing.
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Old 11-28-2007, 09:19 PM
 
Location: The Netherlands
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The provocation of the "King of the South"
He could be anyone, even an American southerener (like Colonel Saunders from KFC).
It could even be Bush who brings peace to Israel and Palestine (although I find this highly unlikely since Dubya only stumbled through the Oval Office).

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An original type, form, or instance serving as a basis or standard for later stages.
I'm more inclined to believe that the definition of the Sci-Tech or Small Business Encyclopaedia would be more accurate, since Yoshua appeared so late in the game.

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Yeshua came to announce, at the end of the 4th kingdom (Rome), the Kingdom of God that He will establish when He returns and set things straight.
I believe that western civilisation is just a continuation of the kingdom of Rome.
So the kingdom of Rome has not ended yet.
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Old 11-29-2007, 04:18 AM
 
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Default Reason versus faith?

Does reason deny the beauty and worship of life?
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There is only spirit
Your intelligence already knows?
Philosophy is the true pursuit of God!!!!
This is our salvation and our need?
To see?
To know the One? Reason? Spirit? God?
This and only this---------the Priests of a new age?
Spirit!!!!--------we need the help of the wise? so be wise!
cheers Stu
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Old 11-29-2007, 04:28 AM
 
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I am willing to go again---to stand as an intelligent person in confrontation/ confronted by the a mockery of the non-religious.

What is the infinite? I am not sure I even understand God!!!----but you do not know either!!!!!! The infinite?
Is there power in the idea? Can I go into such a place and learn? The lesson of life?
Can you?---you do not have the capacity to see? Truly?
Faith!
Mankind/ philosophers/ not scientists!!!!----there is an expectation? An infinite finite group seeking truth? give me God!!! Stu
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Old 11-29-2007, 10:26 AM
 
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Oh please keep this thread going. I'm really enjoying the laughs... I never realised that religious stuff could be so funny.
Yes, you will consistently be amused, shocked, disappointed and possibly terrified by the ever-growing web of religious beliefs that are discussed here.

Particularly interesting to me are the new American Christian religions or denominations. You would think that newer forms would jive more with the modern world (most claim to) but they appear more and more primitive in their beliefs. Yet, the logic behind the beliefs are modernized. Christians seem to study the Bible more and more meticulously, then form newer sects that are convinced they have found the truth (after all, they've taken the time to do the research!) and that everything that came before is the, uh, product of satan or something.

Funny, fascinating, scary stuff indeed.
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