Here's a fun site for Biblical literalists (well, kinda)

[mrfish]

these are for you my esteemed friends salute!

the den mother award- kieran this is all you bud for sticking up against the mean old anti-christian bullies who keep relentlessly attacking poor unarmed christians. when will they just believe and stop being so mean!?

the coveted gymnastics award - you'll have to share this one- godwinson, cajun, festus and friends- congratulations on such wonderful leaps and stretches in attempting to make what you'd like to believe match what we can see in our reality.

the best use of the devil's evil tools of illusion award - innominate, grunherz and karnak for attempting to use reason and logic which as we all know are evil and bad. shame on you all -sinners.

honorable mention- goes undoubtably to toad for best reference to a super cool band

honorable mention - hortlund for most irritating thing from sweden since abba

the i'm covering my ears i can't hear you lalalalalal award - this award isn't pictured but it really exists!  some of you have won it straight out, i won't say who you are-no, instead a magical being will appear and award it to you if you say candyman 5 times in front of the mirror.

if i forgot you sorry, but the damned are always looking for a way to be evil what did you expect!

[Apache]

Originally posted by mrfish


these are for you my esteemed friends salute!

the den mother award- kieran this is all you bud for sticking up against the mean old anti-christian bullies who keep relentlessly attacking poor unarmed christians. when will they just believe and stop being so mean!?

the coveted gymnastics award - you'll have to share this one- godwinson, cajun, festus and friends- congratulations on such wonderful leaps and stretches in attempting to make what you'd like to believe match what we can see in our reality.

the best use of the devil's evil tools of illusion award - innominate, grunherz and karnak for attempting to use reason and logic which as we all know are evil and bad. shame on you all -sinners.

honorable mention- goes undoubtably to toad for best reference to a super cool band

honorable mention - hortlund for most irritating thing from sweden since abba

the i'm covering my ears i can't hear you lalalalalal award - this award isn't pictured but it really exists!  some of you have won it straight out, i won't say who you are-no, instead a magical being will appear and award it to you if you say candyman 5 times in front of the mirror.

if i forgot you sorry, but the damned are always looking for a way to be evil what did you expect!

lol, that magical being wouldn't be your little grey guy with big eyes would it fish?

[Kieran]

the den mother award- kieran this is all you bud for sticking up against the mean old anti-christian bullies who keep relentlessly attacking poor unarmed christians. when will they just believe and stop being so mean!?

I accept this award on behalf of all those that contributed I just hope this breaks down the barriers! We've been held back too long!

Seriously, I have all your addresses and have disseminated that information to the Jehova's Witnesses, Mormons, and other visiting denominations. You'll be receiving your courtesy visits soon.

[cajun]

Originally posted by mrfish


these are for you my esteemed friends salute!

the den mother award- kieran this is all you bud for sticking up against the mean old anti-christian bullies who keep relentlessly attacking poor unarmed christians. when will they just believe and stop being so mean!?

the coveted gymnastics award - you'll have to share this one- godwinson, cajun, festus and friends- congratulations on such wonderful leaps and stretches in attempting to make what you'd like to believe match what we can see in our reality.

the best use of the devil's evil tools of illusion award - innominate, grunherz and karnak for attempting to use reason and logic which as we all know are evil and bad. shame on you all -sinners.

honorable mention- goes undoubtably to toad for best reference to a super cool band

honorable mention - hortlund for most irritating thing from sweden since abba

the i'm covering my ears i can't hear you lalalalalal award - this award isn't pictured but it really exists!  some of you have won it straight out, i won't say who you are-no, instead a magical being will appear and award it to you if you say candyman 5 times in front of the mirror.

if i forgot you sorry, but the damned are always looking for a way to be evil what did you expect!

Thank you very much for this fine award, coming from you it is truely the best award I have yet to receive

I think it is clear who won the I can't hear you lalalalala(l) award

[cajun]

Originally posted by Kieran
I accept this award on behalf of all those that contributed I just hope this breaks down the barriers! We've been held back too long!

Seriously, I have all your addresses and have disseminated that information to the Jehova's Witnesses, Mormons, and other visiting denominations. You'll be receiving your courtesy visits soon.

lol!  Mormons & Morons, they should get allong quit well!

[mrfish]

yeah apache how could i forget you- you get the "most likely to have been to a tent revival" award, enjoy!

and kieran, please send a southern baptist instead. if we can't agree on the message at least i can bust out my guitar and let it do the talkin' for me.  they understand that language, those other guys are too dry.

[Apache]

Originally posted by mrfish
yeah apache how could i forget you- you get the "most likely to have been to a tent revival" award, enjoy!

and kieran, please send a southern baptist instead. if we can't agree on the message at least i can bust out my guitar and let it do the talkin' for me.  they understand that language, those other guys are too dry.

Is my award worth more money than your "Area 51" gate pass?

[H. Godwineson]

Mrfish,

The cream always rises to the top.  But are you really qualified to judge our talents?

Regards, Shuckins

[whgates3]

Originally posted by H. Godwineson
...The cream always rises to the top....

the scum also rises

[H. Godwineson]

whgates,

Hey!  I resemble that remark!

Shuckins

[mrfish]

Originally posted by whgates3
the scum also rises

i loved that book - hemmingway was a genious wasn't he

[crowMAW]

Originally posted by cajun

The comet hitting the earth and allowing for it to rain is actuelly a very good theory, and I wouldnt be surprised if this is how God made the flood.   People tend to think of God as some king in the clouds pointing his rod at earth magically making things happen..
Thats not how it works

Unfortunately, the comet theory does not explain where all the water went (that is if you contend that all the extra water needed to flood the planet over all the mountains, including Everest, came from the comet).  Even now there simply is not enough water in any state on this planet to flood it to the level described in the Bible...so if it came from a comet, where did the water go?

Oh and I just wanted to point out somthing I heard in another thread, someone said ALL religions evolve over time, and this is what I thought too even with christianity, but come to find out a modern bible was compared with the writings of the bible 2000 years ago, and they were exactly identicle! Nothing had changed!

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Hmmm...which modern Bible did they use.  It has been documented by theologians that there has been significant tampering with the texts over the years.  Not to mention that some of the Gospels were a written transcription of the oral stories of Christ--read the opening words of Luke--and it is of course impossible to compare the original oral tradition to the written transcription.

Here is one very famous instance of Bible tampering:


The most notorious case of an added reading in the Textus Receptus -- and in this case there is no doubt about its having been added -- is found at 1 John 5: 7. It is the strongest statement in the KJV on the Trinity, but it has no basis in the Greek text. It is found in the KJV, of course, because it is in the Textus Receptus. How did it get there? Erasmus did not have it in his first edition of the Greek New Testament (1516) or his second edition (1519). It is thought that under Roman Catholic pressure -- because the passage was in the Latin Vulgate -- Erasmus put it in his third edition (1522). Martin Luther wisely did not include it in his German New Testament of that same year. It seems that Roman Catholics produced Codex Montfortianus, inserting this passage from the Latin. It is a sixteenth century manuscript in Dublin. The facts are that these added words are not quoted by any Greek Fathers of the early church and are absent from all the early versions. They were not in the text of the original Latin Vulgate made by Jerome but were inserted later. There can be no doubt today that the words are not a part of the original text of 1 John.[/i]

This is from http://www.theology.edu/journal/volume1/tr.htm ,which is a Christian site by the way.