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To: WallStreetCapitalist
Hobbes wrote about your brand or religionists... The false prophets like Bishop Gene Robinson...

LIARS!

Part IV. Of the Kingdom of Darkness
Chap. xlvii. Of the Benefit that proceedeth from such Darkness

[1] Besides these sovereign powers, divine and human, of which I have hitherto discoursed, there is mention in Scripture of another power, namely, that of “the rulers of the darkness of this world,” [Ephesians, 6. 12] “the kingdom of Satan,” [Matthew, 12. 26] and “the principality of Beelzebub over demons,” [Ibid., 9. 34] that is to say, over phantasms that appear in the air: for which cause Satan is also called “the prince of the power of the air”; [Ephesians, 2. 2] and, because he ruleth in the darkness of this world, “the prince of this world”:[John, 16. 11] and in consequence hereunto, they who are under his dominion, in opposition to the faithful, who are the “children of the light,” are called the “children of darkness.” For seeing Beelzebub is prince of phantasms, inhabitants of his dominion of air and darkness, the children of darkness, and these demons, phantasms, or spirits of illusion, signify allegorically the same thing. This considered, the kingdom of darkness, as it is set forth in these and other places of the Scripture, is nothing else but a confederacy of deceivers that, to obtain dominion over men in this present world, endeavour, by dark and erroneous doctrines, to extinguish in them the light, both of nature and of the gospel; and so to disprepare them for the kingdom of God to come.

43 posted on 11/01/2009 4:55:31 PM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood (Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???)
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood
Again, I have no desire to discuss the mindless rantings of an atheist who is foolish enough to attempt to use theologians to discredit a position in which he himself does not believe.

You're an atheist. You don't believe God exists. You don't believe in Jesus Christ. I have absolutely no interest in your opinion on the matter. You're wasting your time.

Someone else who actually believes in Christ, who wants to come along and say, "Hey - but what about [insert verse here]. You need to think of it this way." is useful. As a Christian, I value that input because if I'm wrong on something, I want to know.

But I don't want an atheist telling me what is or is not in the Bible when I can open for myself and find the verse.

47 posted on 11/01/2009 5:01:05 PM PST by WallStreetCapitalist
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