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Tue, 10-Sep-13 21:14:11
Arikm7 wrote:If Mark were to have simply answered the questions with one of two words, this would have all been over.
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Wed, 11-Sep-13 08:01:13
Arikm7 wrote:So to you, the "will of G-d" is a buffet platter from which you choose what you want and disregard what you don't want?
Arikm7 wrote:And pray tell, how do you determine this "Will of G-d"?
Arikm7 wrote:So who should we believe--- G-d or you?
Arikm7 wrote:And furthermore, isn't naming and claiming miracles in the name of a dead guy (jeesus) the SAME as necromancy and the Ouija board.
Arikm7 wrote:How is it that those pagan faiths are in your words "antithetical to the faith handed down from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob" but belief in a godling whose daddy impregnated a "virgin" (akin to Zeus and Diana) is NOT??? How is the religion of Mithras not line with the faith of the Patriarchs but your dying and resurrecting godling is??
Arikm7 wrote:You don't think G-d could have had the foreknowledge of your religion and forewarned us in the pages of the Torah?
ProfBenTziyyon wrote:?הֲיַהֲפֹךְ כּוּשִׁי עוֹרוֹ וְנָמֵר חֲבַרְבֻּרֹתָיו
Wed, 11-Sep-13 11:14:13
Wed, 11-Sep-13 20:50:15
mark wrote:Although I'm not from Ethiopia, I think it was a very appropriate citation.
Wed, 11-Sep-13 21:35:15
Arikm7 wrote:So at the end of all this exchange.. who really is unconvincing?
ProfBenTziyyon wrote:The verse I quoted has nothing to do with Ethiopia.
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Wed, 11-Sep-13 21:38:58
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ProfBenTziyyon wrote:mark wrote:Although I'm not from Ethiopia, I think it was a very appropriate citation. The verse I quoted has nothing to do with Ethiopia.
Wed, 11-Sep-13 23:57:25
UriYosef wrote:Mark, It's a verse out of the Hebrew Bible (hint - it's from Jeremiah).
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Thu, 12-Sep-13 00:05:00
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Thu, 12-Sep-13 00:24:31
Zvi wrote:I would have shied away from that part and focused on a leopard not changing its spots.
Thu, 12-Sep-13 09:29:45
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Thu, 12-Sep-13 18:16:30
ProfBenTziyyon wrote:Zvi, “its blotches” or “its dark patches” would be better translations of חֲבַרְבֻּרֹתָיו ḥavarbŭrōtav. The word does not mean “its spots”
Thu, 12-Sep-13 20:13:08
mark wrote:How anybody could confuse blotches with spots is beyond me.
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