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Basically the Bible is just a book with stories and taughts. It's not a history book with exact facts. Genesis for example can't be taken as it was a fact, not even if mr George believes in it. Understanding it literally is really dangerous (same with any other "holy" books, not only the Bible) because chain our thoughts. Prove it. How is it dangerous? People often bring Galileo into this. They say "oh the church didn't want to believe him so they persecuted him"... ironically, Galileo wrote a dialogue about these new beliefs, where the Pope was named "simpleton" or something along those lines. It was Galileo's refusal to let the church let the idea sink in along with his insulting the pope that led to his persecution, you see. The media just wants us to believe that the church is evil, so they conveniently forget this little tidbit. Again, prove it. Extremely old scrolls of Isaiah were found, and when compared to todays manuscripts, they were found to be 99.5 or 95% correct, I can't remember, but it's irrelevent - the only difference in the percent was caused solely by spelling and grammatical errors. In fact, the New Testament for that matter is more reliable than any historical document we have - if you want the facts, I can show them to you - but we have more manuscripts, written closer to Christ's life, than any other document pertaining to any other historial figure, ever. My thoughts exactly, which makes me wonder... And apparently the church is the society full of intolerance... Ah, yes, Adam and Eve is a myth. This is shown through the historical documents telling us so, correct? So far, we have only one document telling us it's true, and 0 telling us otherwise. Random statements claiming it's invalidity really are laughable... Look, I'm not saying that Genesis is literal, or isn't symbolic. I just don't appreciate people who generally call the church intolerant cut *our* views down, call them laughable. It's quite hypocritical. At least offer some proof as to why we are incorrect! Evolution is irrelevant to creation being untrue, fyi, so don't bring that against it. Of course things could be symbolic, but it doesn't mean they aren't applicable, or "true" in some sense! The fact that the church thinks that they can now, after all these years, begin to change what is "true" and "not true" just shows how far we've strayed.

Ditto. yeah,you're right :) What makes you three all so sure this is a good thing? Just curious. Maybe you don't believe the Bible is true, but to think it a good thing when those whose very belief system are dependent on the Bible being true declare it somewhat false, is very spiteful indeed. Good call.

no its just making the transition from part cult to full cult *shrugs* what I get out of it is that the Catholic hierarchy doesn't actually understand how to read the Bible. Just because something is figurative (which they cannot prove, I don't know how you get Genesis 1 is untrue out of evolution, seeing as going back to the Hebrew makes the word for 'day' a very vague meaning indeed), doesn't make it unapplicable, or untrue for that matter - it's a matter of reading between the lines, something they are apparently unable to do. The fact that they are trying to make Christianity "more appealing" as the article said, just goes to show that they aren't leading the true Christian life - as it should be the most appealing thing out there... but because of all the corruption and hypocrisy, they need to declare parts of the Bible untrue to basically trick people into believing a false Christianity... And I don't know how they can say "this verse is true", and "this verse is untrue"... it's sickening. How can they know that any of the Bible is true now, for that matter. The very existence of the Church is dependent on the Bible being captial-T-True. So basically, they're destroying themselves.

Catholicism is dead.

They could just create a loop to scan their database :P

Exactly. Paul went as far to say in the book of Romans that God gave us the Law *so that we would realize we cannot do it alone and put our faith in God to be graceful*.

cool :D

TO whooped them last season... But they may return the favor! >_< Let's hope so. I'm not a TO fan ;). I made a mistake earlier...Ottawa lost one pre-season game. TO is winning 1-0 right now, should be 1-1 because that Ottawa shot went in, but they never went "upstairs" for a ruling. Sundin took a puck to the eye... :( he's out for a while...

I dunno, I think it was pretty stupid of them to get Lindros like... one hit into the boards and he'll have another concussion and be out for the year :|

Go TO :D I'm excited...

I can read sheet music for piano, but for guitar I need tabulature.

This isn't going too well now is it...

The only stuff I ever make is doused in mayonaise or fried in a pan :D (which is alot of stuff :P) But I guess I run/skateboard every day so I'm staying healthy in that sense ;)

Man, you'd crack up at all the stuff I've produced from trial and error :rofl: Although I'll admit I made a fairly sweet pasta dish once. Pity I couldn't remember what I used and such :x I've been pretty lucky so far... I think it's instinct... or my Mennonite blood :D

One thing to note is that taste is a very personal thing. What one person might like, another might hate. So it's best to just experiment, put some random stuff and some random spices in a frying pan and see what comes out :D like the stuff I posted, I didn't "get" from anywhere, it's all trial and error :P

Stuff with chicken :D just take a white flour tortilla (raw), and fill it with mayonaise (add garlic powder), swiss cheese, diced tomato, bacon, and lettuce... And for potatoes - dice a potatoe, put it in a frying pan (hot hot hot), with 2 tbl spoons vegetable oil... beforehand - add onion salt, thyme, garlic powder, paprika, and black pepper to the vegetable oil before you put the potatoes in for flavour... Oh and roastbeef on a tortilla with sourcream, tomato, cheese, and lettuce is sweet too :) Hmm.... I'd post a sweet macaroni salad recipe but it would take forever :P

Hugs... I love hugs! (where's Mad? ;)) And the fact that there is a beautiful lake so conveniently positioned near my house :P

This problem happened to me... except multiply the time taken to load things by 5. 1 hour to load, 30 minutes for desktop icons etc... I ran a diagnostic and one of my harddrive blocks was permacorrupt and windows ingeniously decided to use that block for a critical process. So my laptop is currently at Dell getting a new harddrive.... :-\

This isn't going too well...

We never really agreed on anything, but that's pretty much the same as every other poster here with me :P Take care.

In Barrie, Ontario it hit $2.40CA/litre. That's $9.10/gallon (Canadian funds, which are getting closer and closer to the American funds...)

I agree 100% their new album "Plans" rocks my world. Pure genius. For sure :D normally I make it a goal to not "kill" a cd (you know, listening to it over and over until you can't stand it)... but after two weeks of 3 times a day... I'm still totally into it. Oh, and yeah, Further Seems Forever is pretty good :) try getting stuff (or the actual album) from "Hide Nothing"... half the songs off that cd have been at the top of my iPod 25 most played list for 6 months now.

Mmmm you make them sound so enticing :D Damn.. Anyone wanna go to Red Lobster? :D Oh man.... those biscuits...

guess what, changing your color is NOT cool. not everyone uses the same forum style, and some cant read it. Agreeed: *image* Anyhow, props to the pilots for that landing. And yes, now the hell does that 90deg shift happen anways :-? .... that was hard :P Anyways, apparently what got the passengers really freaked out is that they each had their tv on the back of their chairs to watch, and they could see all the news agencies trying to get a sweet story on them.... "IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD, LET'S SEE WHO SURVIVES THIS ONE!"... kind of stuff to get people watching, and unfortunately the people in the plane could see it...

Wow, great job :)