On (18 Nov 05) LEE LOFASO wrote to GEORGE POPE...
 LL> >LL>Peter was a hothead, getting in bar fights and killing at least
 LL> two
 LL> >LL>people.  And Paul hated Christians, to the point of murdering
 LL> >LL>thousands of them.
 LL>
 LL> GP>Paul, duh, but where do you get that about Peter?
 LL>
 LL> Acts.

Where in Acts?

 LL> >LL>Oh, well.  I guess both Peter and Paul have gone to Hell.
 LL>
 LL> GP>Possibly, along with a lot of others!
 LL>
 LL> Supposedly, they were forgiven for their sins.

Doesn't keep them out of "hell" (Hebrew "sheol", Greek
"hades",
modern English best translation, "the common grave of all mankind") --
when you die, you get buried (which puts you in "hel"(in the Norse,
referring to the grave domain below the sod)

It's appointed unto [a] man once to die(ie. & then to "hell") and after
that the judgement. . .

This in no way refutes reincarnation, as the person dies, receives
judgement, and if not utterly corrupte ("the soul that sins that
surely[utterly] die[be utterly destroyed]")

 LL> GP>According to some of the earliest Christians, Jesus himself went to
 LL> GP>hell!
 LL>
 LL> Of course He did.  Of course, He also escaped from Hell, freeing many
 LL> others in the process.

Nowhere in the Scriptures, but that's a minor detail, eh?

 LL> >GP>-not to commit adultery
 LL>
 LL> >LL>Some folks say Peter was married.  And quite a womanizer.
 LL>
 LL> GP>Which folks?  Based on what?
 LL>
 LL> Jealous women who wanted Peter for themselves.  When those women
 LL> found out they couldn't have him, that he was already taken, they
 LL> started spreading wild rumors.  You know how some women are...

Where is it written?

 LL> Actually, Paul was a real ladies' man.  However, he did have one
 LL> problem.  Jesus was bald.  And Paul, not always having a razor or
 LL> a pair of scissors, could never be truly bald.

Well, you either have a corny punchline to this one, or you're just
being pointlessly silly?

 LL> Mebbe God was trying to remind Cajuns of them rules by sending two
 LL> major
 LL> hurricanes our way.  :'(

Actually, the hurricanes were part of God's ongoing war against trailer
parks, and He was busy staring at all the Mardi Gras tits and got
distracted in targetting. . .

 LL> GP>Jesus was a blaspheming hypocrit, and yet, he's considered GOD!!!
 LL>
 LL> Jesus mocked the Devil all the time.

Mocked God, too. . .

Or are you saying the devil is like Dad when he's drunk?

 LL> When Moses came down from that mountain, he destroyed the first set of
 LL> tablets.  And then, when Moses came down from that mountain a second
 LL> time, he made sure them folks in the valley got the message.  You see,
 LL> when Moses held up them tablets in order to read da rulz to them folks
 LL> there was an inscription on the back of the tablets.  I say tablets,
 LL> but it was actually one giant tablet, split into two parts.  And on
 LL> the back of them tablets was written The Eleventh Commandment.  It
 LL> was The Eleventh Commandment that got them idolators to change their
 LL> evil ways.

Actually, to be serious, the ten were written across both the fronts &
backs of the tablets, with a miraculous engraving, whereby the letters
were burned right through the stone on both sides, but still perfectly
legible.

Oh, and they're not 10 "commandments" as the first isn't even a
commandment, it's a simple "statement" ("I am Y-H-V-H your God.")

 LL> "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor.  That is the
 LL> Torah.
 LL> All the rest is commentary." - Rabbi Hillel

And this was the first example of Hip Hop lyrics!

 LL> If one loves God with all his mind/strength/heart, then one will
 LL> naturally love his neighbor as himself.  That is obvious.

Of course, because one would then know that God loves all mankind, and
it would be an insult to one's relationship with God to not likewise
have a loving loyalty to one's fellowman!

 LL> If one truly loves God with all his mind/strength/heart, then how
 LL> could
 LL> one even think about committing a sinful act?

Exactly!

And since nobody can possibly love God with ALL their
mind/strength/heart (to TOTALITY!!) people still fall short. . .
And shouldn't dare point fingers(or "cast stones") at anyone else's far
less severe sins!)

 LL> Jesus was a Jew, as were his parents and all his relatives.  But Jesus
 LL> spoke not only to Jews, but also to others.

Not really, in fact, when a gentile woman approached Jesus to ask for
his boons, Jesus stated that they were only for Israel -- she pointed
out the analogy that even a dog can have crumbs from the Master's
banquet table, and only THEN did Jesus show his first acknowledgement of
non-Jews! (because of her faith, as JC put it)

 LL> GP>Which made sense, as he was speaking to Jews (He intended the
 LL> gospel
 LL> GP>first for the Jews, then the crumbs for the rest of the world, as
 LL> in his
 LL> GP>own words!)
 LL>
 LL> Jesus' words are for everyone, Jew and non-Jew alike.

No, Jesus' words were for Israel -- Peter was the one who had a
revelation that the Jesus message was for non-Jews as well (Peter was
Jesus' best buddy, yet was convinced the message Jesus preached was
solely for Jews, until God had to directly intervene through a prophetic
dream and open the Message so as to be preached to all peoples)

 LL> GP>Did Jesus murder, lie, fornicate, et al?
 LL>
 LL> Jesus was a fun guy, and crowds loved Him as a result.  Of course,
 LL> there were some folks who hated fun, and wanted to take the fun out
 LL> of everything.

Point: did Jesus murder, lie, fornicate, et al?

followup point: does it seem at all reasonable that those who follow
Jesus WOULD continue in any of that? (Paul puts it plainly, "for that is
what you ONCE WERE(liars, fornicators, thieves, et al)

Because I care,
<+]::-{)}  (Cyberpope(the Bishop of ROM!))


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