When reading this passage (1 Cor 14) please note carefully that God did not put the word 'unknown' in there; the KJV translators did. This act is responsible for a good deal of the sorry confusion today about 'tongues' I believe.
I thought it was really cold in the USA right now msc? Our summer here has been mild so far.... yesterday was 105 degrees but today is in the low 90's. When I was a kid it would often stay around 105 degrees for days at a time, sometimes more than a week, with night time temperatures around 85 - 90 degrees. Glad things have cooled off a bit from those days.
-Not that this is what King said; his statement is clearly in error as men are self-evidently NOT all created equal. Even a klutz like me can see and appreciate the fact that there are some people smarter and some dumber, some pretty and some pretty ugly.... etc
Reading these comments it would seem that sex is the only consideration for marriage to Americans.....?
Anyway Samuel might be as fit as a fiddle - a modern day Methuselah just starting to wind up.
According to the CIA the average Nigerian males life expectancy is 47 years so Samuels age is either another Nigerian scam or - like Johhny Walker - he just keeps going strong! The average age in Nigeria is 18.7 years so by that standard 30 is an old bird anyway....
"They murdered or drove out most of their Protestants...."
I guess the French felt the need to have at least one military victory in its history, so protestent families seemed the surest bet; least chance they would have to surrender again.
Prior to the Barbary wars Moslems were regularly conducting pirate raids upon American ships, stealing the cargo and enslaving the people on the ships, then demanding ransom money.
Jefferson and John Adams went to call on Tripoli’s envoy to London, Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdrahaman. They asked him by what right he extorted money and took slaves in this way. As Jefferson later reported to Secretary of State John Jay, and to the Congress:
"The ambassador answered us that [the right] was founded on the Laws of the Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have answered their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Mussulman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise."
Abdrahaman did not fail to add that a commission paid directly to Tripoli—and another paid to himself—would secure some temporary lenience.
All the best Lance & God bless you! Once you settle (away from the rat-race known as Sydney) I hope you find more time to study Gods word, sure you would find this a blessing.
1/17/07 9:02 PM
