Hello John,

>JO>What book did Jesus use when he was making the rounds preaching
>JO>His word?  What was His Authority?

JO>He used a lot of books; prob'y memorized stuff from 'em when he spent time
JO>talking to Rabbi's at the temple - a habit he picked up when he was 12...

Jesus wowed them rabbis, having no need of books.  "How could such a
little boy know so much without ever having set foot in a Temple?" asked
the rabbis to each other.  Jesus just shrugged his shoulders and told
them rabbis, "You'll have to ask my daddy.  He knows everything."

JO>OK, I got one for YOU: Was Jesus being accurately mathematical when
JO>he said that the truth will set you free?

"What is truth?" Pontius Pilate asked Jesus.  Jesus had no answer.
Talk about stumping the dummy.

JO>Is the degree of freedom that comes indicate the percentage of truth?

How much freedom does one have when stepping foot in Pilate's office?
Only as much freedom as Pilate chose to allow.

>>... Man is truly an odd
>>beast to think that he can defy his Creator;

>JO>Or to think that they can understand Her :-)

>LL>You understand women?  I certainly don't...

>JO>What was God THINKING when he forbade the fruit?

>LL>Sex.

>JO>What were Adam and Eve thinking when they partook?

>LL>Food.

JO>No, no, not what YOU are thinking...what THEY were thinking! :-)

Hey, you should try the new recipe I posted, Catfood Helper.
Actually, it is a very old tried and true recipe given to Americans
by a very concerned European...

>LL>Of course, I could be wrong.
>LL>Maybe God was thinking about food,
>LL>with Adam and Eve thinking about sex.
>LL>Which can be quite good under the old
>LL>apple tree.

JO>:-)

>LL>But that would be illogical.  You see,
>LL>God's first commandment was for Adam and
>LL>Eve to make babies.  Lots of babies.  And
>LL>Adam and Eve certainly knew how to make
>LL>babies...

JO>Terrible parenting. "Now boys, get along..." Just didn't
seem to work...

Sibling rivalry.  Really taught God a lesson.  Better to have one
begotten Son rather than two...

>JO>There are a lot of altruistic atheists... :-)

>LL>Yeah. Right. Just as there are a lot of platonic relationships. :)

JO>Just wait 'till you're 81. You'll learn that it's nice to have
JO>relationships with women who admire you for your brain...and stop that
JO>clawing after your body as they do until you are...uh...80. Ok. 60. OK!
JO>FIFTEEN!

Well, there's always the happy hour at the old folks' home.
Where happy hour can be any and all hours.  Depending on one's
state of mind.  If one has one.

>JO>All days are 'last days'...

>LL>And then there will be a new heaven and a new earth.

JO>Which happens when you think in different categories (Gurdjieff)...
JO>It's ALL 'subjective'...

relative subjective objective protective...

>>You may recall that earlier in this article...

>>, I mentioned
>>that Melchizedek actually means "King of Righteousness". As
>>I have pointed out in some of my Endtime articles, the Book
>>of Revelation tells us a number of times that we too, as
>>members of the Order of Melchizedek, will be given priestly
>>Robes of Righteousness; which we are informed is symbolic of
>>our sins being washed away by the shed Blood of Jesus
>>Christ, our Sacrificial Lamb:

>JO>Interpreting the message in Revelation is great fun for hobbyists...
>JO>I agree with Martin Luther: It's "a right strawey Epistle" :-)

>LL>It is very easy interpreting the message in Revelation.
>LL>However, interpreting it correctly is another matter...

JO>Yey, mon.

Everybody seems to think their own interpretation is the only correct
interpretation.  And with so many different interpretations going
around, how is anybody other than themselves going to know which
interpretation is correct, assuming one's own interpretation is not
correct?  Being that is impossible to ascertain whether one's own
interpretation is correct or incorrect, one must believe only in one's
own interpretation as being the one and only correct interpretation.
That way, nobody can go wrong about anything.  See how that works?

>JO>I skipped your other posts: Not accepting your premises, I'm not
>JO>about to accept your conclusions. Let me tell you about MY Church:
>JO>coming up in a 45,342 series of posts...stay tuned!

>LL>Wow!  Just think of all the traffic it would create for this echo!

JO>Traffic in what? Sedatives? :-)

If only I had more crawfish.  And cat food.

>LL>Fidonet lives!...

JO>with a limp,,,

Need a cane?

--Lee


 * SLMR 2.1a * Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

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