Ah, The bible is so full of it.

**Um no silhouetted moo juice gobbling on the moon cow, You fail to understand that this debate in guided by my hand, Not yours. Got it grumpy in a Leviticus 20:13 neo-noir shell? Indeed the barfly up your rubbery shell is slipping into a tired glass of your runny panther baited breath. If you don't like it, Why them mousey on down your yellow rick toad and forget about this twine that gargles your flat iron fist. ** My response: Nope. The debate is guided by both of us. Please clarify. Not quite sure what you mean these statements. **"which came first-- the Church or the bible? " Is irrelevant and has 0% of nothing to do with the conversation. ** My Response: It"s a 100% relevant. Just answer the question if you can. If you can"t, Then I assume you don"t know. If you don"t know, Then chances are high you don"t know the proper context of a particular passage. Sorry, That"s how it goes when you interpret writings. Most historians, Anthropologists, And literature enthusiasts would probably agree. **Then you broadly grow where no ferngully has gone before and ask another silly question, Totally ignoring the rules, AND, Completely ignoring the article, AND being a Mad Max Power Rangerette dressed upped in her cotton whoolies batgirl outfit to reflect the eclipse if the halloween moonlight "So the question remains, How do YOU know you are reading each passage in it's proper context? " Irrelevant. Why don't you answer it since you think you are god everything? ** My response: First, I don"t think I"m god everything. Lol. In order to find the proper context, One must look to the entity that has the proper authority to provide that context. When one wants to know the context of a piece of literature, Who is the person that has the proper authority to provide that context (I"ll give you a hint, It"s in the root word of the word "authority"). Give up? It"s the author. If I want to know what YOU meant by the first sentence you wrote above, Would I go to the neighbor down the street and ask him? No, I would ask you, The author (which is what I did). When the author is not available, Then you figure out who the next best authority is". Perhaps it"s people who know the author well, Etc. There"s a few things I"m not terribly concerned about: 1. Grammer and typos. If the only rebuttal the opposition has is to criticize my use (or lack of use) of a comma, An apostrophe, Or other punctuation, Then it pretty much says the opposition has no other means of defending their position. 2. Insults. Doesn"t bother me at all. Keep "em coming. If the only rebuttal the opposition has is to hurl insults or ridicule me, Then it pretty much says the opposition has no other means of defending their position. So please" keep "em coming. If you"re trying to goad me into replying with insults as well, It won"t work, A$$hole. ". Jk"I thought that would be pretty funny. 3. Votes. I"m not on this site to garner votes or win support or favor from other folks on the site. I"m not here to impress you or anyone else. I"m simply here to debate. I love to debate. It does a few things: it will either strengthen me in my position, Or perhaps point me to other areas of Truth. 4. When I debate someone, I don"t care what Joe, Jill, Jack or Jane thinks. What matters is what I think, And what my opposition thinks. I always want to know what my opposition thinks, And I do that by asking questions.