Posted on 02/19/2011 4:44:42 PM PST by Colofornian
No worries - I’m able to discern truth from error.
Christian simply means a follower of Christ. That term came into being a bit later on to identify those people who followed Christ.
We've slowly have been finding and removing those added verses that were not in the original manuscripts. Right now we have 97% of the NT and 95% of the OT manuscripts pretty much of the originals that were used to compile the first Bibles. The New International Version is about as close as we can now come to the original manuscripts without the copyists marginal notes.
LMAO! It never ends...
Really? So what are these guys?
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Theyre mormons who like to play with snakes and none of them are named Indiana Jones ???
Great - now I’m gonna have that tune stuck in my head...
Correct you are BROTHER! We need to reach Mormons for Jesus Christ. Son of God and Son of Man. Fully God and fully man. The Blessed Hope!
Brigham Young knew something about snakes......
Guess which wife was ticked off at Big Daddy Brigham?
I’m sorry, but I like exactly what God’s Word says what sin is, what faith is, etc.
I’m not so sure what we have been giving, but what God has given. I especially do not accept “what we have been slowly finding and removing.”
Christianity has much more meaning when we read: “And the disciples were called Christians first at Antioch.”(Acts 11:26c)[they did not call themselves Christians] And in “Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persaudest me to be a Christian.” (Acts 26:28) Then “Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.” (1 Peter 4:16)
Let us look at exactly what the Bible says sin is: “A high look, and a proud heart and the plowing of the wicked is sin.” (Proverbs 21:4)
“The thought of foolishness is sin.” (Romans 14:23)
James 4:17 “Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.”
1 John 3:4 “Whosoever committeth sin trangresseth also the law, for sin is the trangression of the law.”
1 John 5:17 “All unrighteousness is sin....”
You first have to define the word sin. What is the root word? Is it part of a Latin word? I’ve never seen the word defined. Sure, the word sin is in the Bible but where did the word come from? Just saying.
Anyone with any sense or realistic view of Joe Smith and Bring’em Young realizes that mormons are a Cult. They are not “Christians”. They believe in Joe’s twisted world where he ripped-off the Bible and other writings (after calling Christianity an “abomination”) and started his own tribe. Hey, bummer for Joe. He was a snakeoil salesman; a con man, at best. Like I say, bummer for Joe. (and for those still stuck in the cult).
Technically "sin" comes from root words which mean "to miss the mark"
I'd say probably Pentecostal Church of God, timber rattlesnake, mid to late September day, in a small coal-mining town, hills of eastern Kentucky, mid to late 1940s.
Party ownership of the print media
made it easy to manipulate public opinion,
and the film and radio carried the process further.
....... The Ministry of Truth, Winston's place of work, contained, it was said, three thousand rooms above ground level, and corresponding ramifications below. The Ministry of Truth concerned itself with Lies. Party ownership of the print media made it easy to manipulate public opinion, and the film and radio carried the process further. The primary job of the Ministry of Truth was to supply the citizens of Oceania with newspapers, films, textbooks, telescreen programmes, plays, novels - with every conceivable kind of information, instruction, or entertainment, from a statue to a slogan, from a lyric poem to a biological treatise, and from a child's spelling-book to a Newspeak dictionary. Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated into a machine called a speakwrite. Winston would receive articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, in Newspeak, rectify. If, for example, the Ministry of Plenty forecast a surplus, and in reality the result was grossly less, Winston's job was to change previous versions so the old version would agree with the new one. This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs - to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance. When his day's work started, Winston pulled the speakwrite towards him, blew the dust from its mouthpiece, and put on his spectacles. He dialed 'back numbers' on the telescreen and called for the appropriate issues of The Times, which slid out of the pneumatic tube after only a few minutes' delay. The messages he had received referred to articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to rectify. In the walls of the cubicle there were three orifices. To the right of the speakwrite, a small pneumatic tube for written messages; to the left, a larger one for newspapers; and on the side wall, within easy reach of Winston's arm, a large oblong slit protected by a wire grating. This last was for the disposal of waste paper. Similar slits existed in thousands or tens of thousands throughout the building, not only in every room but at short intervals in every corridor. For some reason they were nicknamed memory holes. When one knew that any document was due for destruction, or even when one saw a scrap of waste paper lying about, it was an automatic action to lift the flap of the nearest memory hole and drop it in, whereupon it would be whirled away on a current of warm air to the enormous furnaces which were hidden somewhere in the recesses of the building. As soon as Winston had dealt with each of the messages, he clipped his speakwritten corrections to the appropriate copy of The Times and pushed them into the pneumatic tube. Then, with a movement which was as nearly as possible unconscious, he crumpled up the original message and any notes that he himself had made, and dropped them into the memory hole to be devoured by the flames. What happened in the unseen labyrinth to which the tubes led, he did not know in detail, but he did know in general terms. As soon as all the corrections which happened to be necessary in any particular number of The Times had been assembled and collated, that number would be reprinted, the original copy destroyed, and the corrected copy placed on the files in its stead. In the cubicle next to him the little woman with sandy hair toiled day in day out, simply at tracking down and deleting from the Press the names of people who had been vaporized and were therefore considered never to have existed. And this hall, with its fifty workers or thereabouts, was only one-sub-section, a single cell, as it were, in the huge complexity of the Records Department. Beyond, above, below, were other swarms of workers engaged in an unimaginable multitude of jobs. There were huge printing-shops and their sub editors, their typography experts, and their elaborately equipped studios for the faking of photographs. There was the tele-programmes section with its engineers, its producers and its teams of actors specially chosen for their skill in imitating voices; clerks whose job was simply to draw up lists of books and periodicals which were due for recall; vast repositories where the corrected documents were stored; and the hidden furnaces where the original copies were destroyed. And somewhere or other, quite anonymous, there were the directing brains who co-ordinated the whole effort and laid down the lines of policy which made it necessary that this fragment of the past should be preserved, that one falsified, and the other rubbed out of existence. |
For one who says to look at both sides, your List-o-Links is strangely one sided.
"I tell ya we got trouble; right here in River City..."
The word Christian is in the Bible only 3 times. (Acts 11:26; Acts 26:28and in 1 Peter 4:16)
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Great - now Im gonna have that tune stuck in my head...
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