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Post by Dead Hoosiers on Mar 20, 2007 18:49:05 GMT -4
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Post by gillianren on Mar 21, 2007 1:04:35 GMT -4
Yeah yeah yeah. I know who started the topic and I understand you're being deliberately provocative. But just once more for the record, here's what Jesus actually said (from my first post on this thread): Well, actually said after a history of transcription errors and deliberate miscopying, as the basic study you refuse to do will indicate. Still, it's an awfully stupid concept to believe that Jesus was actually literally consumed by the Apostles. |
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Post by Bill Thompson on Mar 21, 2007 19:28:50 GMT -4
Yeah yeah yeah. I know who started the topic and I understand you're being deliberately provocative. But just once more for the record, here's what Jesus actually said (from my first post on this thread): Well, actually said after a history of transcription errors and deliberate miscopying, as the basic study you refuse to do will indicate. Still, it's an awfully stupid concept to believe that Jesus was actually literally consumed by the Apostles. No more stupid than him asking them to do so. |
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Post by Bill Thompson on Mar 21, 2007 19:31:10 GMT -4
"assending into heaven"? Like what? A hot air ballon or something? The ancient hebrew idea of heaven being above the sky-dome above our heads is figurative not litteral. Him living on in the bellies of the first christians providing nurishment for their tasks makes more sense. |
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Post by Jason on Mar 22, 2007 10:35:21 GMT -4
Don't worry - Bill doesn't really believe Jesus was eaten by his apostles. He's only trying to provoke an emotional response.
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Post by gillianren on Mar 22, 2007 16:50:11 GMT -4
It's funny. Given that I lost the faith some fifteen years ago, you'd think I'd be the one spouting all kinds of nonsense about Christianity, but last I recall, Bill stilldid consider himself Christian. Oh, well. At least I can have my differences with someone ideology and still be polite to them, right, Jason?
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Post by Jason on Mar 22, 2007 17:18:04 GMT -4
Correct. You have usually been quite polite towards me and I hope I have been the same.
Disagreeing with Christianity doesn't mean you have to mock it.
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Post by gillianren on Mar 22, 2007 20:04:40 GMT -4
Usually, yes. And no, I don't. I try very hard not to mock anyone's religious belief. How you see God is your business, not mine.
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Post by Bill Thompson on Mar 22, 2007 20:43:26 GMT -4
Don't worry - Bill doesn't really believe Jesus was eaten by his apostles. He's only trying to provoke an emotional response. I do not think it is such a big deal. If he was, then it does not change my christian faith. A body is meat, let's face it. It is the spirit that counts. Do you vision Christ's body literally flying in the sky? Give me a break. No, I don't think he was eaten just because of the calculations. Still, it is more likely than that silly Da Vinci code stuff:  |
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Post by Jason on Mar 22, 2007 21:31:10 GMT -4
What exactly is your christian faith, Bill? I've asked you a couple of times to explain your religious views without getting much of an answer.
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Post by Bill Thompson on Mar 23, 2007 13:58:52 GMT -4
What exactly is your christian faith, Bill? I've asked you a couple of times to explain your religious views without getting much of an answer. I avoid any derailment of this discussion thread. This has nothing to do with Christ's body being eaten. Something else I have just thought of is this. Organic milk tastes better than unorganic milk. Wouldn't the flesh of Christ be better for someone than any other meat? So eating the flesh of Jesus Christ would probably be thougth of as a very good thing, perhaps. |
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Post by gillianren on Mar 23, 2007 15:47:17 GMT -4
Something else I have just thought of is this. Organic milk tastes better than unorganic milk. Wouldn't the flesh of Christ be better for someone than any other meat? So eating the flesh of Jesus Christ would probably be thougth of as a very good thing, perhaps. Um . . . loath as I am to respond to you at all, Bill, I need to point out a flaw in your reasoning, here, and it's not just that I can't taste a difference between "organic" and "unorganic" milk. (I'll also point out that, technically speaking, all milk is organic, and that the word has no legal meaning anyway.) Can you taste the difference between pork and chicken and beef? Or even between just chicken and turkey? The only implications of your idea is, essentially, that free-range Jesus should be better than farmed Jesus. |
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Post by Jason on Mar 23, 2007 18:49:57 GMT -4
What exactly is your christian faith, Bill? I've asked you a couple of times to explain your religious views without getting much of an answer. I avoid any derailment of this discussion thread. This has nothing to do with Christ's body being eaten. So start a new thread. I'm interested. |
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Post by delirium on Mar 25, 2007 16:31:30 GMT -4
Okay, that one for the win. The rest of the thread has had me smiling, but this made me outright guffaw.
I've often thought that black humor is one of the things which truly separate us from the rest of the animals. Thank you all. You've made my day.
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Post by Bill Thompson on Mar 26, 2007 21:06:24 GMT -4
Something else I have just thought of is this. Organic milk tastes better than unorganic milk. Wouldn't the flesh of Christ be better for someone than any other meat? So eating the flesh of Jesus Christ would probably be thougth of as a very good thing, perhaps. Um . . . loath as I am to respond to you at all, Bill, I need to point out a flaw in your reasoning, here, and it's not just that I can't taste a difference between "organic" and "unorganic" milk. (I'll also point out that, technically speaking, all milk is organic, and that the word has no legal meaning anyway.) Can you taste the difference between pork and chicken and beef? Or even between just chicken and turkey? The only implications of your idea is, essentially, that free-range Jesus should be better than farmed Jesus. Thanks for the laugh. |
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