Say Anything Blog

It is, as my post on the U.N. trying to outlaw Christianity suggest, part of a global attack on Christianity designed to silence people of faith or make them criminals, ruin them economically or all three.

No matter the age or state of health, for a military man it is always glorious to tilt at windmills, rescue a fair Dulcinea and be a gallant knight in armor in a glorious cause.

Lefties trying to outlaw the Bible?  What a surprise! /sarcasm

If life doesn’t begin at conception, why do they call it birth control?

Okay, so what was the problem?

Fowler says the deliberate changes made to first Corinthians, chapter six, verse nine caused him “or anyone who is a homosexual to endure verbal abuse, discrimination, episodes of hate, and physical violence ... including murder.”

No, it wasn’t because what he was doing was disgusting and abhorrent, in and of itself?

Let’s take a look at the offending verse, supposedly worth $70 mil in damages…

6:8 No, but you yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that against your brothers.

6:9 Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

6:10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortioners, will inherit the Kingdom of God.

-- 1 Corinthians, chapter 6

My understanding of Corinthians is that it came from a letter or series of letters from Paul to folks in that area to quit making up their own liberal version of Christianity and to hew closer to what the Bible actually commanded.

Homosexuals weren’t being singled out, but included in a laundry list of bad practices.  Nor is the Corinthian condemnation of homosexuality the only reference in the Bible. Nieman, you and Gene seem to be a Biblical scholars, perhaps one or both of you can cite to the relevant chapter and verses.  I seem to recall the Book of Judges and Leviticus have something to say about men who lie with men as women.

To be fair, was that aspect of Corinthians actually changed, as alleged?

It is my understanding that the Dead Sea Scrolls are a good indicator as to what was in the original contemporaneous writings making up the Bible.

Regardless of who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls, we can safely state that there is little in them that can be used against the Traditional Hebrew Text. In fact, because the evidence from Qumran overwhelming supports the Masoretic Hebrew Text, we must say the findings at Qumran strongly favor the Traditional Text and the Authorized Version. Additionally, as we have seen, findings at Murabbaat and Masada exclusively support the Masoretic Text, proving that the established text accepted as the oracles of God (Romans 3:1-2) was the Traditional Hebrew Text.

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When I read more, I found something else that the same archaeologists said with equal conviction. They said the field of archaeology has indeed confirmed, by and large, that the history of the Bible is sound.

Was Corinthians among the original writings, and if so, what was their content?

Apocrypha and Missing Books of the Bible

Missing Books listed among the Apocrypha
There are many books mentioned in the Bible which are not found in the current biblical canon. Some of them are known in various languages and versions today, but most are not. They are usually classed with the Apocrypha, implying that they were written by someone pretending to be the ancient and more famous author of the title. The adopted persona was intended to add authority to the text. It is not clear that such was always the case. Early Church councils were clearly interested in clarifying and systematizing the Biblical Canon. That meant removing any untidy or inconsistent writings which contradicted any of the more prestegious books, which clearly could not be removed from the Bible or significantly emended.

Among the extra-Biblical Books included among the Apocrypha, along with the relevant references, are the following:

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a missing epistle of Paul to the Corinthians
(1 Cor. 5:9);

Lastly, yes the photo is outrageous, and a little bit funny… yet this is what it is to be homosexual.  It’s not the white-washed version of cutesiness that Hollywood, the ACLU and the NEA are doing their level best to ram down greater Societies’ throats.

...for great justice

Nieman, you and Gene seem to be a Biblical scholars, perhaps one or both of you can cite to the relevant chapter and verses.

Biblical Scholars… hahahahahahahahaha

Only if memorization is now scholarship.

About all of those extra gospols and extra missing books of the Bible.  Every book of the New Testament was written by 60 A.D. with the exception of Revelations that was written by Apostle John in 90 A.D.  All of the extra books that were uncovered recently were written on parchment which weren’t used until around 300 A.D.  That’s why they weren’t in the Bible.  Every New Testament book with the exception of Apostle Paul were written by people who personally knew Jesus while he was alive on the earth.

Talking about the Bible, why doesn’t the guy stop reading it if he doesn’t like it.  He just doesn’t want to face his guilt because he believes that what he reads IS truth.

A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.

Only if memorization is now scholarship.-Lestatl

Lestatl? From the clown who hasn’t fully memorized his user name yet! Heh.

For any voter trying to choose between the two candidates for commander in chief, there is no better test than this: When American strategy in a critical theater was up for grabs, John McCain proposed a highly unpopular and risky path, which he accurately predicted could lead to success. Barack Obama proposed a popular and politically safe route that would have led to an unnecessary and debilitating American defeat at the hands of al Qaeda.

Frederick W. Kagan

About all of those extra gospols and extra missing books of the Bible.  Every book of the New Testament was written by 60 A.D. with the exception of Revelations that was written by Apostle John in 90 A.D.  All of the extra books that were uncovered recently were written on parchment which weren’t used until around 300 A.D.  That’s why they weren’t in the Bible.  Every New Testament book with the exception of Apostle Paul were written by people who personally knew Jesus while he was alive on the earth.

Actually, that’s not entirely true.

For example,

There is evidence that the Gospel of Matthew was written by an anonymous source that did not know Jesus toward the end of the first century.

The Gospel of Mark was written by the Apostle Peter’s disciple, Mark (who never personally knew Jesus).

The Gospel of Luke is believed to have been written 85-90 A.D.. The author of it is still being debated, but they don’t believe he knew Jesus personally.

The Gospel of John is believed by experts to be an unknown non-eyewitness. It is believed to be written 90-100 A.D., but a few believe that it could have been as early as 60 or as late as 100 A.D.

Those are just a few examples. It is false to claim that every New Testament book was written by 60 A.D. and/or that every book was written by someone who personally knew Jesus.