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"Give us, us free. Give us, us free. Give us, us free. Give us, us free. Give us, us free."
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Back to the Future (I and II)
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Pretty sure there were no Tollhouse cookies in Frozen, so no.
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Now go back to the clue and name that movie!
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"First we'll make snow angels for a two hours, then we'll go ice skating, then we'll eat a whole roll of Tollhouse Cookiedough as fast as we can, and then we'll snuggle."
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You have not identified the Iron Man villain.
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For the record: TRUCE I will no longer make an issue of the authorship of Luke ON THIS THREAD unless conclusions are drawn from it that are relevant to the thread topic. I'm not conceding the point. But I'm not going to post a qualifier every time you or I say "Luke wrote such and such." To do so would be tedious. For purposes of proceeding with the discussion, I will refer to the author of Luke as "Luke," with no quotation marks or qualifiers. As to "God-breathed," I share Ehrman's doubt that Paul wrote the pastoral epistles, which leads to the inevitable question of whether we even NEED to explore the issue of whether the scripture is "God-breathed" by ANY definition.
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A few weeks ago my cousin accused me on Facebook of worshipping Satan. His proof was that I capitalized "Satan." This is cultish behavior: inventing an arbitrary rule and then judging others for failing to adhere to it. This is what we did when we chastised people for saying "Good luck."
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You got two out of three actors. The third is throwing you off. I never said bald.
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Who Wrote the Bible?
Raf replied to Raf's topic in Atheism, nontheism, skepticism: Questioning Faith
There are letters known as III and IV Corinthians. They are so obviously forgeries that, to my understanding, no one argues otherwise. -
Who Wrote the Bible?
Raf replied to Raf's topic in Atheism, nontheism, skepticism: Questioning Faith
And now I've been through good chunks of "Forgery and Counterforgery," which I had no intention of buying until I saw it offered for a fairly reasonable price on Kindle. -
One of the stars of the film, relatively unknown at the time, would go on to play Superman's father. Another, better known than the first then, about as well known now, would go on to play Superman's human arch-enemy. A third, fairly well known but not nearly as well known as the first two, would go on to play an Iron Man villain.
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Vincent Antonelli Gil Buckman Lucky Day C.D. Bales Navin Johnson
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Different character
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Name the Actor Orin Scrivello George Banks Jonas Nightengale
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No. One of the original plans was to make it an HBO series, but THAT DID NOT HAPPEN. Should have been more clear about that. And no, not District 7 (or any other district).
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My interest in this thread is obviously academic, since I reject the concept of anything being God-breathed. I am able to participate because (a) the rules allow it and (b) I'm concerned with the statements of fact implied by the thread title. That is, there ARE errors and contradictions in the Bible. Does that mean it's not God-breathed? My position is pointless. However, IF the Bible is God-breathed, then God-breathed has to mean something. And it has to mean something consistent with the facts. That's where "plenary verbal inspiration" falls short. As I said earlier, I give fundamentalists credit for attaching a testable definition to "God-breathed," but the problem is that the Bible fails that test. It is not without error (Luke and the census provide us with as documentable an error as you're ever going to encounter). It is not without contradiction (again, the Nativity stories in Luke and Matthew cannot both be true; Acts and Galatians cannot both be correct about where Paul went after his conversion, etc). So whatever "God-breathed" means, it does not mean "verbal plenary inspiration." Fine. So what DOES it mean? I have no answer, but whatever answer YOU come up with must fit the facts. I would offer another qualification. The answer you come up with must not only fit the facts, but should probably do so in a way that would be unique to the scriptures. In other words, to say that "God-breathed" means "useful for teaching, reproving, rebuking and instructing in righteousness" would be insufficient UNLESS you are prepared to argue that a written work cannot be useful for those purposes without being God-breathed. I can think of a lot of written works that are useful for teaching, reproving, rebuking and instructing in righteousness, yet are not God-breathed. My suspicion is that you're not going to come up with a useful meaning of "God-breathed" if that's the criteria for a useful meaning. I could be wrong.
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The original. WW is up
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Herman Munster was supposed to be a DUH hint, but I think it was glossed over
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Not a lot of roles for women in this movie, but one of the brothel employees won an Oscar for her performance. Um, performance as an actress.
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"What a dangerous precedent. What if there more heroes like him? What if courage and imagination became everyday mortal qualities? What will become of us?" "We would no longer be needed. But, for the moment, there is sufficient cowardice, sloth and mendacity down there on Earth to last forever."
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The Creature Frankenstein Herman Munster
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Herman Munster