sitegod said:a nation under God is not a nation under the Bible. the most important Commandment was the one given by Jesus was it not?
"do unto others as you would have them do unto you"
so would YOU like to be burned for a religion that isnt the burners?
would YOU like to be shunned and condemened for loving a woman?
would you like to keep a baby although you knew you couldnt support it? adoption is a hard option because you are seperated from a child for ever.
personally- I am not Christian, but I know my bible
Shamgar said:
Aryan Imperium said:Shamgar-or should that be Sean Doc Martin?
What on earth are you talking about? This is the first time that I have seen the American Constitution called a "pagan document"! Why do you infer that pagans are in favour of homosexuality and other such perversions?From what I can see the xtian churches have more than their fair share of closet and practicing homosexuals and paeodophiles. You need to clean up your own religious backyard.
Shamgar said:Excuse me hypocrite but it appears your hitler was a sexual pervert . . . . national socialists make me want to puke.
Shamgar said:Well obviously you are not credible since you are not Christian, the Scriptures say you have no clue what the Scriptures mean. . . . so it appears you don't know "your bible."
I Corinthians 2: 11 For who among men knows the things of a man except the spirit of man within him? So also no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. 12 But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit from God, so that we might know the things that are freely given to us by God. 13 These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; neither can he know them , because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged by no man.
Napoleon's Nightingale said:That passage is not saying that we don't know the scriptures. It's saying that we cannot know or comprehend how God does what he does,ie how he communicates with us, how he puts thoughts in our mind, because they are devine methods.
For the rest of you... The Constitution is not a pagan doccument but look at capitol Hill. Every building of importance has statues and depictions of pagan gods and godesses.
Aryan Imperium said:State you evidence for this accusation!
Shamgar said:You are as credible as a butcher on surgery techniques . . . . just becasue you have the Scriptures in hand doesn't equate that youhave the skills or knowledge to understand them . . . .
Acts 8: 30 And Philip ran there to him and heard him read the prophet Isaiah, and said, Do you indeed understand what you are reading? 31 And he said, How can I unless some man should guide me? And he asked Philip to come up and sit with him.
Your credibility is ZERO . . . . . .
Silly person I know my own feelings . . . .
. . . . oh you would have to show me FIRST the evidence that real Christians do not throw out their perverts . . . . since you seem to want to compare pseudo Christians with real Christians . . . .
Napoleon's Nightingale said:My credibility is a GREAT deal more than yours will ever be. I have read the bible 3 times and I understand a great deal of the scriptures. Your examples were both faulty because YOU misconstrued them. All that second passage means is that Philip who was a MAN taught another MAN what he knew of the scriptures and their meaning. How hypocritical of you to say that we cannot understand the scriptures yet use them in an attempt to support YOUR argument. If Jesus or God did not believe that we had the capacity to understand the bible THEN HE WOULD NOT HAVE TOLD IT'S AUTHORS TO WRITE IT IN THE FIRST PLACE. You sir are the one who lacks credibility.
Shamgar said:Your "creditials" may impress the simple minded but certainly not me as they are nothing but a smoke screen . . .
. . . . the worldy (you) have no clue what the Scriptures mean since it is a closed book to you . . . .of course since you "understand" the Scriptures you should have found that out after "three times" . . .
Napoleon's Nightingale said:Again, it is not a closed book to me, I continue to read verses everyday, I am a Christian, I have been baptised, and I try to behave as the bible commands. I'd sudgest that you read 1 Peter chapter 1 verse 25, 2 Timothy chapter 3 verse 16, 1 Thessalonians Chapter 2 verse 13, etc etc ad infinitum. You have yet to explain why God would command the bible to be written if no one was capable of understanding it.
Shamgar said:
Napoleon's Nightingale said:Funny how you blatantly ignore the part where I say that I do my best to behave as the bible commands. I don't know why I'm justifying myself to you. It's NOT you who will be judging me when the end times come. YOU will simply be in the crowd of billions who are judged right along with me.
Shamgar said:Keep talking as I am having a good time . . . .
1 Cor 6: 1 Do any of you dare, when you have a matter against another, to go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? 2 Do you not know that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 3 Do you not know that we shall judge angels, not to speak of this life?
Napoleon's Nightingale said:John chapter 14 verses 5-7 "Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him"
John chapter 17 verses 20-23: "Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me."
sitegod said:to the guy who isnt important enough for me to remember his username who said I am not credible.. maybe not.. but I know that that IS a commandment of Jesus- if it is irrelevant to you because it is not in its exact wording, then you my freind, need to get out more. learn to accept that which isnt straight from the "mouth of god" and you may be able to grasp the entire meaning of the reply I made to the original post- the fact that the constitution is (althouh I am not american) an important peice of text, because it is a guaranteed freedom, whether pagan or not.
vergiss said:Well, my Wiccan friend in America will be happy. It'll give her something to use, to shut up the next simpleton who bothers her.
nkgupta80 said:what is the point even if you consider the document pagan?
sitegod said:the fact that the constitution is (althouh I am not american) an important peice of text, because it is a guaranteed freedom, whether pagan or not.
The problem with this and the whole them of thread is in the argument that since the document isn't christian then it must be pagan. This is a false dilemma and completely ignores what the definition of a pagan is on top of that.Shamgar said:US constitution - pagan document for pagans
The constitution is nothing but a pagan document worshiped by a bunch of pagans . . . .
A limited number of options (usually two) is given, while in reality there are more options. A false dilemma is an illegitimate use of the "or" operator.
Putting issues or opinions into "black or white" terms is a common instance of this fallacy.
Using your logic further, we'll get:The name in Latin means "after this therefore because of this". This describes the fallacy. An author commits the fallacy when it is assumed that because one thing follows another that the one thing was caused by the other.