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To: bruinbirdman
Huh? Cyrus is spoken of reverentially in the Hebrew Bible as G-d's anointed. The Persians freed the Jews, allowed them to return to Eretz Israel and permitted them to rebuild The Temple.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

2 posted on 07/16/2008 9:51:19 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop

Well, technically you can say all leaders are God’s anointed, as they would not hold their position unless God didn’t give them it. That doesn’t mean everything they do is right, or that they couldn’t be capable of doing evil, or great evil. They could still be very smart and wise, and admired ofr certain qualities, and still do great evil.

Look at the evil David did (he arranged the murder of one of his own men in order to take his wife - who he already had gotten pregnant). That was evil, yet David was a man God loved.


6 posted on 07/16/2008 10:02:18 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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