Lars

@Michael

re: continuous ducking and dodging

Give us the specific NAME, LOCATION and YEAR of someone raised from the dead by the arc of the covenant. Or admit you made an unjustified claim.

Otherwise I will put you on my ignore list (as I’m sure several users have already done).

Michael I asked you to give me specifics, not a link. Name, place and date. As I expected you didn’t deliver. I looked at that page and lo and behold…you’ve wasted my time. I read the link you referenced and NONE of those mentioned the arc of the covenant. I could not have been more clear. I never asked for a list of those raised from the dead.…[Read more]

That is still a long string of words…which do not remotely answer my question. I’ll put it as clearly as I can:

I need a CONCRETE EXAMPLE. Not an explanation, not an anlysis. Give me the NAME and TIME of a specific person who was raised from the dead BECAUSE of the ARC.

@michael17 I have no idea of what you would call a miracle. I’m presuming it would be something that defies the laws of science as we understand them. What exactly are you looking for?

So basically, @michael17 , you are saying that miracles are necessary to evidence the ‘true’ god/Jesus/entity and that because there are no miracles evidenced in the current worldwide religious organizations, those organizations are false.  You are saying that evidence of miracles is needed to authenticate the religious groups. As there is no…[Read more]

michael17 wrote:
living oracles of God
Yikes. they heal the sick, cleanse the leprer and raise the dead Could you give a concrete example of this? Christianity must put up or shut up. Without the day to day events descibed in the Book of acts continuing in the present no church has any legitimacy. The only excuse that I accept is the “body” has…

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Is it the actual eyeball that you see as evil? Or the whole eye?  If it’s the whole eye, then I imagine their facial expressions alter and mutate with age and might reflect their overall comportment. I’ve seen intense eyes, focused eyes and cold eyes.  I don’t think I’ve ever seen ‘evil’ eyes.

michael17 wrote:
Talking of the rebirth, I would love to see simple swearing and cussing fisher folk turn into brilliant elloquent miracle bearers overnight.

I have seen it go the other way in the pub in my youth

michael17 wrote:
I don’t believe anyone that says they are.

Why would you doubt someone who was indoctrinated into a religious cult, slowly came to their senses and drifted away from it (or cast it a way) and then find themselves drawn back to it (even possibly more devout than before). This happens every day. If they say they are born again, t…[Read more]

Honestly, Reg, your depictions across the years of your interactions with the Mormons and Jehovah Witnesses have entertained me and probably many others :). Never stop!

Noel, I was tricked by an old mate on TA into a situation where the Mormons came to visit us.  I opened the door in horror as the woman started her speech.  I interrupted her to s…[Read more]

The average American does not trust government

Paranoia seems to be a way of life for many people indeed. They are the last people who should have weapons of murder from a distance.

I often grab a gun when just wandering around my property, I have shot 6 foot long rattlesnakes.

In some Canadian provinces you are allowed to have certain guns in…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
I think it may look like Americans are crazy with this gun thing.

I don’t think Americans are crazy in this sense. But the average citizen is as deluded as a typical Christian is. Delusion is repeatedly doing the same thing over and over again expecting one result when it is always the other result. The illusion that the general…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
If your home is under assault by a band of bad guys, you’ll wish you had a fully automatic weapon

No. No I wouldn’t wish it because having a loaded weapon in your house increases the likelihood of someone getting shot, something which usually has nothing to do with a gang of guys entering your house and bringing out  a gun may in…[Read more]