i remember reading an (possible) explaination of one of the old testament prophecies, and it centered on Sharron. it was something to do with Israel bending her knee, but the interpreter was convinced that the grammer/words/whatever that are used in scripture related more to a damaging type bend, like cracking a branch, without it dying.

the interpreter also strongly believed that the knee in question was Sharron, again, something to do with how the text was written, and a claim that the root word of the name Sharron is derived from the word 'knee'.

the upshot was, the interpreter didn't know whether to believe that Sharron would bend his knee to the non-israeli world, or if he would be subject to some sort of breaking at the hands of the big guy. seems like he didn't need to hedge his bets after all.

Quite the poor thing to say on TV -- even as a Catholic myself, what this guy said was out of line.

The Bible has stories in which in a way, "show God's wrath" and I suppose are one of the things that people wonder about. Since God is an all loving God, then why (an example:) would he destory an entire city? It all deals with the concept of sin -- to an extent. I'm not the one to ask about interprepting the bible, and I feel relatively uncomfortable discuing topics in it -- mainly because I'm afraid of mis-interpretation of my views, or what other Catholics or people of other religions would say.

Firstly though, God wouldn't strike someone down for "dividing up his land." Yes, Israel is the "promised land" to the Jews, (I'm trying to remember these thigns off the top of my head, so bare with me) but things have happened to Judea/Israel in history, and not once did God techincally strike down a "specific" person. Firstly, time plays itself out, and God is all knowing, so anything did actually happen to Israel or "God's land" as to how it's being refered to in this case, God would let things play out since God would know things would eventually recover. Another reason for God not "striking down" Shannon, for one, allowing us to have freel and choose to sin or not, and second, God doesn't intervine with our lives very often. I believe the current time is refered to as "God has grown silent" in the sense that he does not intervine, unlike the time of Christ or before Him, where his inteventions were more abundant.

Anyways, discuss this if you feel I've pointed something out wrong -- I don't have a bible sitting in front of me, and I'm working with things that I'm trying to remember

Oooooh, something some guy said on Radio 2 which made me laugh and should stir this up-

Do you worship god for fear of his wrath and going to hell? If you are a good man because of God then surely you are a worse man than he who is good when not believing in god, because he is not being good for himself- he isn't sellfish.

I find this also funny, because when people say they don't believe in god, 9/10 people say "your going to hell"...

Funny eh? Religion is filled with loop holes and problems. Hence I'm not religious. Also in the bible he pretty much forgives everything except suicide- so if this Heaven exists, expect to see Sadam, Stalin, and Hitler there To me, religion is just like the tooth fairy, or santa- theres morals and issues there, yes, but its just made up- theres nothing to suggest otherwise.

Snarkpit should begin its own religion. We seem assured that we know all the mistakes other religions make so we should have no real trouble creating one error free.

Now, all we need to do is find a coder to make the damned thing and we're all set.

lets call it...

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