the interpretation of the text belongs to God. As it is with every written book, the interpretation of the author.

"Although it is impossible to obtain exact figures, there is little doubt that the Bible is the worlds best-selling and most widely distributed book. A survey by the Bible Society concluded that around 2.5 billion copies were printed between 1815 and 1975, but more recent estimates put the number at more than 5 billion."

sincerity in all things?

sincerity in all things?

Well I love the idea of the picture you paint so what is the difference when you base yours on the result of your own interpretation?

God loves a sinner apparently.
Personally I hope he has a developed sense of humour too

there is a lot of missing links? you can't find missing links in the human species? one species? but there's a lot of missing links in millions of species? where are the ancestors of the bat? the spiders? any creature out there. Because they all appeared at once in the Cambrian explosion - And why if you look in the fossil record are there Spiders that haven't changed in millions of years? if it was millions of years? Scientists(some of them) out there think there might not be such a thing as time, that everything happens all at once like a computer program.

scorpions
spiders
crocodiles
fish -  that they told us were extinct but rediscovered in deep oceans.

"the coelacanths were thought to have gone extinct 65 million years ago, until a living specimen belonging to the order was discovered in 1938. A living fossil is a living species of organism that closely resembles species otherwise known only from the fossil record." wiki

So man is evolving - but spiders cannot? or any other creature that has weathered time for sixty million years?
If some animals go extinct and vanish from the fossil record, did they evolve into something else? like the dodo?

Death is a beautiful concept - a simple switch - off.

I loved it for twenty five years... no problems, I saw how everybody collects all sorts of guff in their lifetime. Butterflies, paintings, stamps, videos, books, pottery and ceramics, music and a thousand other things. People find anything to burn up their time. Some even choose the deathwish and burn time faster by eating too much, drinking too much or increasing stress levels with a career. Most people don't fear death, I didn't fear it. But now, i'm fearful for others that cannot comprehend eternity. They think it's all an abstract joke. Something to talk about over a pint or a forum? I know for a statistical fact that Jesus existed. He fulfilled three hundred prophecies and that was impossible.
You can imagine anything to get away from Him but he's going to catch up to everyone.
The creator gave us laws and grace to teach us. Some will fail the test. because they prefer to be blind. They refuse the gift of grace. they prefer the law. the rules.
You choose to imagine that God is a torturer of humanity. Those that refuse to drop their sins in the garbage might get that wish fulfillment vision right. eternal suffering?
I believe God made man a spiritual being, one that needs dreams to live, music and art for the soul. That soul is immortal and cannot die. Covered in sin, God cannot allow sin to persist so he will drop those that love their sins into the pit. The rest of Isaiah 61 will be fulfilled by Jesus. All evil will be swept away. He'll rule for a thousand years on the throne of David and then take up his place in heaven forever. All the prophecies are true and cannot change. the promise of God is a sure thing.

keep mocking him, keep up with all the BS. I see Israel coming again into the land, i see the high priests after 1,947 years in that land. Israel was formed in nov 1947, Pascal talked about this happening centuries ago. Its a reality, Jerusalem is part of Israel again(prophecy) because of a war against several nations in 1967. This is the jubilee year - perhaps the last jubilee year. Israel was destroyed in 70 AD - now israel is 70 this year. One generation in the land.

I think I'll soon know if I'm right - I won't be waiting very much longer for the coming King.

But you can stick to the world's story of Monkeys changing into men.

For as Daniel hath said that the wise shall understand, so he hath said also that none of the wicked shall understand.

If then the Prophesies which concerned the Apostolique age were given for the conversion of the men of that age to the truth & for the establishment of their faith, & if it was their duty to search diligently into those Prophesies: why should we not think that the Prophesies which concern the latter times into which we are fallen were in like manner intended for our use that in the midst of Apostacies we might be able to discern the truth & be established in the faith thereof, & consequently that it is also our duty to search with all diligence into these Prophesies. And If God was so angry with the Jews for not searching more diligently into the Prophesies which he had given them to know Christ by: why should we think he will excuse us for not searching into the Prophesies which he hath given us to know Antichrist by? For certainly it must be as dangerous & as easy an error for Christians to adhere to Antichrist as it was for the Jews to reject Christ. And therefore it is as much our duty to indeavour to be able to know him that we may avoyd him, as it was theirs to know Christ that they might follow him.

the spelling is accurate for the time period - some text from Sir Isaac Newton. Another Bampot who believed in Christ. Some say he was the smartest guy to have lived. But Dusty bin and Foinavon know better. He was just another mug.... who wrote over a million words about God,and did some part time science stuff in between his religious studies.

Cardiff, scanning zorro's meanderings, it's easy to see why religion can be so dangerous in the wrong hands. The poor brainwashed followers would do anything if they thought it would lead to the fulfilment of prophecies or has been ordained by their deity.

Some I know will be offended that I propound these things so earnestly to all men as if they were fit onely for the contemplation of the learned. But they should consider that God who best knows the capacities of men does hide his mysteries from the wise & prudent of this world and reveal them unto babes. They were not the Scribes & Pharisees but the inferiour people who beleived on Christ & apprehended the true meaning of his Parables & of the Prophesies in the old Testament concerning him. The wise men of the world are often too much prepossest with their own imaginations & too much intangled in designes for this life. One has bought a piece of ground, another has bought five yoke of Oxen, a third has Married a wife, & therefore since they are for the most part otherwise ingaged it was fit that the poor and the maimed & the halt & the blind & those that are in the high ways & hedges should be also invited. God who intended this Prophesy chiefly for their sakes is able to fit their understandings to it. And it is the gift of God & not of human wisdom so to understand it as to beleive it. - sir isaac newton - ya dilberts

yes

But the designe of them is to try men & convert the best, so that the church may be purer & less mixed with Hypocrites & luke-warm persons. And for this end it is that they are wrapt up in obscurity, & so framed by the wisdom of God that the inconsiderate, the proud, the self-conceited, the presumptuous, the scholist, the sceptic, they whose judgments are ruled by their lusts, their interest, the fashions of the world, their esteem of men, the outward shew of thing or other prejudices, & all they who, of how pregnant natural parts soever they be, yet cannot discern the wisdom of God in the contrivance of the creation: that these men whose hearts are thus hardned in seeing should see & not perceive & in hearing should heare & not understand. For God has declared his intention in these prophesies to be as well that none of the wicked should understand as that the wise should understand, sir isaac newton = loving this guy

how do you expect people to take you serious when you believe in a talking snake

not a snake bozo - ignorant monkey - it's a serpent. You get that from Holywood?

http://www.newtonproject.ox.ac.uk/view/texts/normalized/

Oxford has made available some of the one million words that SIR ISAAC NEWTON wrote about God.

Previously in Latin.

isn't that nice - that they take the time to do this.

I've been watching "The Cult Next Door" on BBC2 this evening. Quite an eye-opener. I hope you watched it too Zorro.

Zorro is is a well-educated man of normal intelligence brought up through the British education system. Somewhere along the line he became indoctrinated into a religious cult and believes that every word in its religious book is the word of god and therefore true.
He is what you might call a religious fundamentalist.
We know this has happened time and time again. The mind control system was perfected long ago by bronze age tribes and is still very effective today despite our greater knowledge of the way the world works giving the lie to many of the ancient claims.

Amazing innit?

Where did I say that bronze age people were not as smart as people today?
We are the beneficiaries of the painstaking work of many thousands of scientists and a few inspired geniuses who discovered that the earth is not the fixed centre of the universe but revolves around a very ordinary star on the edge of a galaxy containing billions of other stars, our galaxy being one amongst billions of others. Men and women who discovered a myriad of other things not known to the bronze age tribes such as the cause of many natural phenomena, rainbows, earthquakes, volcanoes, the water cycle, thunder and lightening etc. In the bronze age, these were mainly attributed to the changing moods of deities. You can probably find examples in your book.

Some reverence for science - top voted physicist on gogle - Sir Isaac Newton - you accept his work in science and throw out everything else?

the third top voted physicist James Clerk Maxwell - devout christian.

the second guy - einstein talks about God a lot.


three smart scientists tell you - God exists?

You have been blinded by God. You won't see it. You can't see it. It's so fkin funny.

mantras are Buddhist, part of your pal Satan's portfolio.  who's doing a fantastic job recruiting little anti christs into the beast system. Anti - means opposing, in opposition to..
You've placed yourself in opposition to christ here.
John says you are anti christ.

A typical normal person usually does not discuss the validity of God at all. they just get on with their day. You have actively opposed him. Bravo. How stupid is that?

Because even if it's a 1 in a thousand he exists - you've been opposing him.

please tell your wife what you've been doing.

You have been blinded by God. You won't see it. You can't see it. It's so fkin funny.

A typical normal person usually does not discuss the validity of God at all. they just get on with their day

That's rich coming from you Zorro, but you don't see it do you?

I do see it - your wife has made a choice like me. you call me deluded , a cultist for being a christian. you said your wife was a christian too. Is this how you see your wife's choice.

All the christians out there know that Jesus is coming back very soon. They keep watch for the groom. You are faffin about with some earthly BS while God prepares it all. What's more important than your eternal soul.

normal people don't give a thought to God who are unbelievers, you are actively in opposition to God. polluting the waters for others.

History department's say Jesus existed - Constantine the emperor believed it. The Protestant church fought to keep the true faith, men died to wrestle it from Latin into english. You belittle generations of faith with the intellect of the pot bellied man of the 21st century. With a burp, you say Sir Isaac Newton was a twit and knew nothing. Well the man spent half his life in the bible's pages.

The Year of the Lord’s Favor

The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor
(Jesus repeated that bit in the synagogue - then completed it in actions)“Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”

(jesus will now do this part)
and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn,and provide for those who grieve in Zion—to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy
instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair.
They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor. They will rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated;
they will renew the ruined cities that have been devastated for generations. Strangers will shepherd your flocks; foreigners will work your fields and vineyards.
And you will be called priests of the Lord, you will be named ministers of our God.
You will feed on the wealth of nations, and in their riches you will boast.
Instead of your shame you will receive a double portion, and instead of disgrace
you will rejoice in your inheritance. And so you will inherit a double portion in your land, and everlasting joy will be yours. “For I, the Lord, love justice; I hate robbery and wrongdoing. In my faithfulness I will reward my people and make an everlasting covenant with them. Their descendants will be known among the nations and their offspring among the peoples. All who see them will acknowledge that they are a people the Lord has blessed.” I delight greatly in the Lord; my soul rejoices in my God.
For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest,and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. For as the soil makes the sprout come up and a garden causes seeds to grow, so the Sovereign Lord will make righteousness and praise spring up before all nations.

oil - holy spirit
seeds - the word of god
bridegroom - Jesus