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Me thinks you guys give to much literal attention to that which we know very little about. I mean a council of bishops deciding what is the "Word of God". So we have men deciding what is God's word. They may or not have been hung over, they may or not have an agenda we don't know. The only thing we do know is that we don't know. The "Synod of Hippo" decided about 390 these were canonical books. That's all we know.

On the MP holy grail game you had to throw the holy hand grenade . . . One . . . Two . . . Five! . . . (no three) . . . Three! (If you threw it at "Five!", you blew up and had to start the whole friggin' thing over.)

based on what? What versions? Is there one bit of credibility to this claim? I found three clones of this web page.. and all they have is lamsa and pfal.. CES (STFI) did a good job of debunking docvic's "interpretation" of *Eli, Eli . . . * citing Psalm 22. They did NOT (however) address the East/West geographic split for bible sales that docvic claimed in pfal. It's been a coupla years since I went to any of the CES sites, and I see they have a lot on video now. Here's John S. doing the teaching on Eli, Eli. They used to have this in print. Now it's on video. Go figure. <object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value=" name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>

Yeah, I think Weirwille may have had a problem with Jesus "dissing" God at that moment. But what you said is very true. He WAS flesh and blood, and suffered more than any man in history, I would think. My God, I truly wouldn't want to bear for a second, the pain he was going through. Not for an instant.

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Thursday evening, March 18.

Wow. This verse, the way I was taught it was "correctly translated", has stuck with me for years. I heard some other preacher a few years ago give a plausable meaning to this verse. He said that God could not look at Jesus at that moment because Jesus had taken on all the sin of the world. That is why Jesus asked God why did He forsake him. I don't know, that seems rather plausable to me!

I graduated from the same high school that Alice Cooper (Vince Furnier) did... only he was six years before me... He even wore his high school letter sweater when he performed (with his son's band) prior to the Super Bowl in Glendale AZ... a year or two ago... About Alice Cooper

so, as this day indicates: March Forth!

Well then... Hello to the Doc and yourself too! :)

It's just a silly thing about today being the only day of the year that is a command. And Walter is the one that made a point of pointing out this silly fact. "March Forth."

And Happy Birthday (in a few minutes) to our brother Son of the Master! :)

Happy Birthday to our brother Tom Strange! :)

And we you... (I speak -- at least -- for myself). :)

Baylor University researchers found the problem to be widespread... by Jacqueline L Salmon Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, September 10, 2009 One in every 33 women who attend worship services regularly has been the target of sexual advances by a religious leader, a survey released Wednesday says. The study, by Baylor University researchers, found that the problem is so pervasive that it almost certainly involves a wide range of denominations, religious traditions and leaders. "It certainly is prevalent, and clearly the problem is more than simply a few charismatic leaders preying on vulnerable followers," said Diana Garland, dean of Baylor's School of Social Work, who co-authored the study. It found that more than two-thirds of the offenders were married to someone else at the time of the advance. Carolyn Waterstradt, 42, a graduate student who lives in the Midwest, said she was coerced into a sexual relationship with a married minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America for 18 months. He had been her pastor for a decade, she said, and told her the relationship was ordained by God. (continued)

Good points...

Of course, in those other scenarios, there is a dimension of power imbalance in the relationship that makes it very clear that consent is questionable at best. I don't disagree with you on this Mark, I'd just clarify that intimate relationships/relations between a teacher/student; a boss/subordinate; and clergy/parishioner should be explicitly stated in applicable ethical codes to be improper. Further, as applicable, if anyone needs to assert or provide proof that nothing in such a relationship took place improperly, the burden of proof would need to be on the teacher/boss/clergy member... at least when it came to any court action of a civil nature (as opposed to criminal), and that statutes can be amended to place MORE of the burden on the alleged perpetrator, if not all of the burden.

Do you know what day it is? (except for on the West Coast, then it's in an hour or two)... It's 9-9-09

Right on! (to both Lifted Up and niKa) :)