[clue-talk] Re: Bible Academia

[David L. Willson]

> ...skeptic...
...
> skeptic...

Shocking.  No, not really, but very disappointing.  Sean, do you post
links to their website, and then accuse men that speak out against
homosexuality who are later caught in it of hypocrisy?  Which is worse?

I asked for the context, not some crap from a hater site.  Find me one
noble thing that can't be destroyed.  Find me a good man that can't be
crushed.  It doesn't exist, but that's not the point.  The point is that
creation is better than destruction.  It ~is~ better to cleanse than to
befoul, better to build than to tear down.

Do you suppose that these skeptics have an eye for truth?  Have they
found something that is noble, good, and praiseworthy?  Send me a link
to that section of their site, or they have nothing I'll ever be
interested in.

One of the best lessons I ever learned took two days to process.  A
rafting guide told my party, "If you go in the water, look at me.  I'll
be shouting and pointing.  Go where I'm pointing.  I won't be pointing
at the danger, I'll be pointing at the good."  I've attempted to follow
his fine example.

> ...I think
> even believers would came away knowing a lot more about the Bible than they
> would have before.

"...~even~ believers..."  Must be some good material if it'll even get
through to us believers.

> > In any case, we need to remember that Jewish laws (and customs) were not
> > what Jesus was here to uphold, but the thing that they reflect.
> 
> Later, from the above site:
> 
> "If Jesus was anything, he was a stickler where Mosaic law was concerned. In
> Matthew 5:17-19 he says, .Do not think that I come to abolish the Law or the
> Prophets: I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill. For truly I say unto
> you, that until heaven and earth pass away not the smallest letter or stroke
> shall pass away from the Law until all is accomplished. He goes on to warn
> his listeners that, .Whosoever breaks one of God.s laws will be the least in
> the kingdom of heaven.. In Luke 16:17 he says, .But it is easier for heaven
> and earth to pass away than for one stroke of a letter of the Law to fail..
> In John 10:35 he says, .Scripture cannot be broken.." 

This is a lie of implication.  It implies that the Law Jesus spoke so
strongly for, that is stronger than heaven and earth, is Mosaic Law, but
what Jesus represented was God's Law.  Mosaic Law, and Jewish
interpretation thereof, are reflections of God's Law.  Read Mark,
Chapter 7, from a Bible, not a Bible-attacking site.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%207

I said before, there's a difference between critical thinking and
cynical thinking.

/me hates haters.