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Sent: Thu, 15 May 2008 21:58:29 +0100Neville,Me in red.Jack----- Original Message -----From: Neville JonesSent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 11:08 PMSubject: [geocentrism] Re: Wise as a serpentJack,
Let me see if I have this straight. I ask a question and you "don't bother" answering it. Instead you "shake the dust off your feet." This comment of yours is a statement, yet you expect me to answer a statement that solicits no response, when you yourself won't answer a question that does.
I wasn't expecting you to answer anything because, as you quite rightly said, I just made a comment, however I did think that my comment might have solicited one from you. In the event it didn't - no problem.There are other questions floating around here that you seemingly "don't bother" with either, such as Paul's, Regner's, Steven's, ...
Actually I did answer Steven, twice. As for Paul and Regner what type of questions did you mean? If they were of a scientific nature its probable that either I didn't know enough or had the time to invest in lengthy discussions. I'm content to ask questions, even if they are banal, to elicit a comment which I may or may not want to pursue further. Often others take up the subject in a way that I couldn't. If their questions were of a philosophical nature, then it would have been a waste of my time since they are, imho, unlikely to be really interested in the answer.The reason I stay on this forum is because I believe that God made the Earth the centre of the universe. Why? Because the book you so despise tells me so, and it was you Neville who led me to it! However I soon learn't that it is fruitless to try and discuss the Bible with those who cannot 'see or understand' what it is saying. Occasionally I feel moved to make a point or comment, but not much more. I feel quite confident that the more I see the reasoning and intelectual contortions of well educated and intelligent people who try to re-write and re-interpret the Bible, the more convinced I am that the simple and unintelligent, but more spiritually discerning ordinary folk know the truth. It wasn't the intelectuals that Jesus called as diciples, they were people from Gallilee of all places! I would unhesitatingly apply this to the so-called liberal, free-thinking Bible scholars as well. So I'm not just singling out Unitarians or Roman Catholics, I'm including anyone who does not accept thye Bible as the true word of God. This is what it is all about - being able to discern the truth which comes, as you well know Neville, through the Holly Spirit's indwelling. Intelligence and the wrong kind of reasoning can be a serious barrier to being open to the Holy Spirit. If it wasn't for the Bible you wouldn't know there was a Holy Spirit.There must be a lot of dust on your shoes, though perhaps some of it gets burnt off (The next bit is a typical Jones diatribe/mantra! 'Ya boo sucks' would have sufficed.) when you're burning 'witches', or ritually slaughtering and burning animals. Perhaps some gets knocked off by stray rocks flying around when you're stoning people to death for picking up firewood on the Sabbath.In sympathy with Regner's observation about bloodshed, there must be a lot of Christians roaming around Iraq with dust on their feet as we speak. Mixed in with Iraqi blood, of course.
As with all of us Neville, it will be between them and their conscience.1 If someone tried to kill your wife would you defend her?2 Would you defend her at the risk of killing the assailant?3 What if someone in the assailant's family got in the way and also got killed by you?4 Would the assailant's friend be justified in killing you for killing his friend and family?6 Would a bystander be justified in not interfering and let it happen?These may look like questions but they are meant to be thought provoking scenarios.All done in the name of what? Oh, whoops, I mustn't ask you a question.
:-)Neville.