WE> ... Both atheists and theists think too much about god.
 CH> And all these years I thought it wuz the other way round!
 WE> Went to an atheist meeting and dang if they just didn't talk about god
 WE> all night long.  Why shucks, some even up and quoted bible at me:
 WE> "Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the
 WE> flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto
 WE> Christ;" (Ephesians 6:5) "Let as many servants as are under the yoke
 WE> count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and
 WE> his doctrine be not blasphemed." (I Timothy 6:1) "Exhort servants to be
 WE> obedient unto their own master, and to please them well in all things;
 WE> not answering again;" (Titus 2:9) "Servants, be subject to your masters
 WE> with all fear;  not only to the good and gentle, but also to the
 WE> forward." (I Peter 2:18)
   Atheists (grin) would not be bothered with science or historical context 
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literature but it might be remembered in interpreting all of this that Paul,
for his part was convinced that the return of his "Christ" would happen in 
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lifetime of all living at his particular time so social position would be of
no consequence to those who had followed his teachings and were "in Christ."
They were immortalizing already and would soon be "caught up" into
immortality.  A few centuries further on in the development of response to 
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theophany an Augustine would straighten that out for the faithful. 
   I don't style myself a Christian but as something of a historian I hate to
see ancient literature quoted without any context as though it were
self-explanatory.  ALL literature has context.  People in the epoch of the
Roman Empire would have considered a "hard drive" a trip from Rome to 
ompey!!
In fact, Pompey was a flourishing coastal town with a LOT of churches
(temples).  So is New Orleans.  Vesuvius caught them like a snapshot right in
the middle of what they were doing just as one crumbling of levies coud do to
New Orleans or shifting crust could do to California.  In fact, old Pliny was
killed because he tried to get too close to Pompey to study the phenomenon. 
Sincerely, 
                                     Frank
                                                                              
                                                       
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