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user: You are replying to Glen Todd about ""Christian" History".

They wrote:
GT> @MSGID: 1:128/203.2@fidonet.org 31d4b41c
GT> Hi, Tom!
GT> Sunday June 23 1996 15:38, Tom Patierno wrote to Gwen Todd:
GT>> This view is compatible with the teachings of Jeshua, called Jesus
GT>> Christ. For he said (in John 10:34): Jesus answered them.  "Is it not
GT>> written in yo Law, 'I have said you are gods'?  If he called them
GT>> 'gods,' to whom the wor of God came--and the Scripture cannot be
GT>> broken--what about the one whom th Father set apart as his very own and
GT>> sent into the world?" The view of man as worthless came from the
GT>> Apostate Saul, the liar.  He perverted the simple truths that Jeshua,
GT>> the son of David, taught and creat a Jew hating religion.  He got his
GT>> revenge for not being made a rabbi.  He caused the persecution of the
GT>> Jews for two millenia.
TP> Absolutely fascinating!
TP> First, I must commend you on knowing your stuff...!
GT> Thanks....I think.
TP> I, however, never heard the term "Apostate Saul" before, but could see
TP> how he could be considered that.  It had never occurred to me....
GT> I had a very eye-opening experience in Junior High....I was assigned
GT> to read _The American Revolution from the British Point of View_.  I
GT> have never been able to look at any "glorius, wonderful" anything
GT> without seeing the ramifications for the other side.
TP> Tell Glen that I had to answer... he's been known to be as forgiving
TP> as some christians! O_|-O
GT> Tell him yourself.  That's what netmail is for.
GT>> 11:50-52)"  There is no evidence that non-believers will suffer
GT>> torment or that Jehovah is the only god....just that he is the only
GT>> God for the Jews a spiritual Jews.  In fact, there is quite a bit of
GT>> evidence for other gods. Rev. 1:6 say....And hath made us kings and
GT>> priests unto _God and his Father The prophet Micah said, (Micah 4:5)
GT>> "For all people will walk every one in name of his god, and we will
GT>> walk in the name of the LORD our God forever." Psalms 82:1 says, "God
GT>> standeth in the congregation of the mighty, he judge among the gods."
TP> ...fascinating, fascinating!
GT>> Then, if you accept the validity of fossils, why doesn't the total lack
GT>> of fossil evidence of a world wide flood bother you??  There should be
GT>> a layer sediment to evidence this flood.  It should be full of all the
GT>> creatures th weren't on the ark...including aquatic mammals and fish.
GT>> For should you
TP> Well, there was the study done by Phillip Morris (not the cigar king!),
isTP> (or was, he may have died) a paleantologist that has found/is finding
TP> evidence of the what every culture in the world referrs to as a "global"
TP> flood.  The straits of Gibralter were, at one time, a -connected-
TP> range... the Mediterrainean has rock indigenous to the Atlas-Cantabrian
TP> mountains scatered all the way -eastward- to the Turkish coast... an
TP> impossibility if you consider that water from the Mediterrainean flows
TP> -WESTWARD- out to the Atlantic!
GT> I have no doubt that there is a basis for LOCAL flood stories.  As I
GT> recall, there is considerable evidence that the Straits of Gibralter
GT> were effected by the rising waters at the end of the last Ice Age.
GT> Much of what is now submerged coastal areas in the Mediterranean would
GT> have been dry land since so much of the Earth's water was trapped in
GT> glaciers and the much more extensive polars caps.  The pressure of
GT> water on the western side of the Strait could have created the Straits
GT> and filled the Mediterranean.  However, this is not support for any
GT> global flood. GT>> 11:50-52)"  There is no evidence that non-believers
GT> will suffer GT>> torment or that Jehovah is the only god....just that
GT> he is the only GT>> God for the Jews a spiritual Jews.  In fact, there
GT> is quite a bit of GT>> evidence for other gods. Rev. 1:6 say....And
GT> hath made us kings and GT>> priests unto _God and his Father
TP> Holy Mackeral! (with forgiveness to all good catholic bishops that wear
TP> christian", you know far more than most professing christian
GT> professionals!TP> (meant as a compliment!)
GT> <chortle>  I was raised Catholic.  When I left the church at age
GT> thirteen, I got my first bible from my grandfather's minister...a
GT> Presbyterian.  I couldn't believe they'd let me read it!  So I did.  My
GT> knowledge of the bible is what has gotten me in trouble in every
GT> religion I have belonged to or studied with. <snicker>  The Witnesses
GT> even told me to stop reading the bible as it was confusing me...that I
GT> should just read the pamphlets they brought to me. <g> Sheesh.  Just
GT> because I had found almost a dozen places where it said people had
GT> "seen God" and their books say that John was right, no one can see god
GT> and live.  I told 'em they couldn't have it both ways.
GT>> One of the great things about having the moderator as a husband is
GT>> that he look over your shoulder and say...."You are taking that to
GT>> netmail, right?"
TP> Er, uh... yeah- okay... there's Evolution echo, too... interested?
GT> Maybe some other times.  I make just above minimum wage and my next
GT> check for two weeks will be almost six hundred dollars.
GT> Gwen
GT> ... Under Protection of the Goddess. (Hear that, Goddess??)
GT> -!- GoldED/386 2.50+
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assistant: ****On 06-29-96  04:24, Gwen Todd wrote to Tom Patierno
******about '"Christian" History'.
 whoTP>  was a little guy that rode around on one of those Lark scooters.  He
mountain
 theTP>  miter of Dagon- the "fish" god of the pagans...};-) ) For a "non-
Glen, I'm still waiting to see if you have even a shred of integrity.
To blast Ken Woodard the way you did and ignore this. Are you going to
apologize for abusing your position. You blast those you disagree with
as off topic while allowing lengthy discources like this, written by
your wife, no less.
Danny Carlton
danny.carlton@bgbbs.com
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