Interesting.

According to one of the four REAL gospel accounts, Jesus did
NOT order Judas to betray Him, but he DID "order" him to
hurry up and do what Judas himself was planning (betrayal).
See John 13:27.

"Judas was a traitor—even a "demon"—according to a new translation
of the recently revealed Gospel of Judas."

Judas was a DEMON??!!

I suppose that a hasty read of John 6:70 could lead someone to
believe this...and then write their own "gospel" account based
on the resulting bad hermanutics.

Jhawk44 wrote:
Lol, with our country's education scores, should the statement be instead "Humans match monkeys in arithmatic tests"?
Anyway, the title is misleading:
The monkeys scored 74% and the humans score 94%. That not "matched" in my book.
Also, it was just extremly simple addition facts. Let's see how the monkeys score against the humans in solving complex calculus equasion. I bet the monkeys don't do well there.

She wouldn't even EXIST had her people
not been able to dicipline her children
in times past--including smacking the
kids when neccessary.

Dr. Yamil Luciano wrote:
Amen! Just got done listening to that sermon. It is so encouraging to hear other men of God shunning the culture and preaching the unadulterated principles of the Word of God.

Some points of interest:
1. Jesus makes a irrefutable distinction between fornication and adultery.
2. God instituted marriage to be a picture of Christ and the church. Just like God does not divorce us when we go and commit adultery with other Gods, so he expects the victim of adultery to be.
2. The issue of forgiveness. Now this is a point that I have not made but it is worth noting. Divorce is nothing more than a complete disregard of Jesus's command to forgive.

2 years ago a huge fight broke out at my dad's place, where
we were all gathered for our usual family celebration,
because some (the believers) wanted to go to church before
opening presents while others (the non-belivers) wanted us
to "skip" church for once, and open presents this time.

Spiritual division in the family became very apparent when
the non-belivers became very offended by our insistance of
emphasizing church over family-time, which they insisted
was more inportatant than Sunday worship.

It was a VERY ugly situation that, thankfully, was quickly
resolved AFTER we (the believers) got back from church,
which only ended up delaying the family gift-exchange by
about 90 minutes.

Sounds almost like God is dealing with our state's public school kids
the same way he dealt with the "Children" of the church of Thyatira
in Rev. 2:23.

Wow! Any organization that would include "religious proselytizing" in such a list
of general vices as that listed in the above quote RICHLY deserves any and all the
current problems (role-diffusion, etc.) it's now enduring, and then some!

Bible promises "woe" to those who call evil good and good evil.

PreacherJonD. wrote:
John from CA, Amen! The resurrection should have been the most important part!!
What about the more modern day production of the "Passion of the Christ"? That movie did exactly the same thing-- going on and on and on with the brutality and then almost nothing regarding the ressurection. (Not to mention infusing the audience with the catholic doctrines of the stations of the cross, and putting unbiblical emphasis on Mary.)
I do not care for any media productions about the Bible or Jesus Christ. They only care about making money and not about upholding God's Word.

In every case where Bible accounts are
committed to film, the filmmaker's bias
always ends up compromising the account
being portrayed.

This man's testimony and motives
are based on common sense wisdom--
which appears to be increasingly
despised by low-self-esteem-motivated
post-modern folk of my own and
subsequent generations of Americans.

I got a Christmas card from the Bush's, one they sent
out to all their supporters back in the year 2000,
which contained the passage:

Jer. 29:13

I thought this was pritty slick, since quoting from
the OT rather than the NT is more likely to appeal
to Jews as well as Christians.

As a believer I'm no fan of Freud by any means, but even I was
insulted by the demeaning portrayal of such a great (if reprobate)
man of history.

How much more offensive then is a similar portrayal of the one who
created freud as well as the rest of the physical universe?

Why (I puzzled) would anyone want to make a story about Christ
without using his total victory over death as an obviously huge,
dynamic climax and/or finale?

No suprise here. Perpetrators with even a modest amount of smarts
are always going to persue the weakest victims.

I honestly hope you guys (in the former group) NEVER leave this forum, as
Walt and others might suggest you do. Otherwise my OWN education would almost
certainly suffer!