"tommyknocker" wrote in message
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Stephen M.H. Lawrence wrote:


"Leigh Marrin/KM6JE" wrote:

| Al, you started this "thread" on Pete Peters, and now you're quickly
| drifting off your own topic.
|
| Speaking of truth, I wonder how many of Pastor Pete's "truths" do you
| believe?
|
| --His "Christian" Identity belief that Jews are the spawn of Satan?
|
| --Homosexuals should be executed?
|
| --Peters' support of domestic terrorist groups like "The Order"?

Aww, don't mind Al; he's RRS's resident Jew - hater®.

Al also believes the Bible is literally true and correct. Unfortunately
this is not an isolated view among Americans. I personally have a hard
time taking seriously anybody who believes in the literal truth of say
the account of Creation in Genesis, or the Great Flood (and Noah's Ark).
Jonah wasn't literally swallowed by a whale, Moses didn't literally hit
the ground with his staff and cause water to appear, the Red Sea didn't
literally open up and allow the Israelites to walk across on dry land
then cave in on Pharaoh's troops (despite what the movie shows). You'd
think all of this would be obvious in an age of science, and that the
Bible is full of metaphors and parables, but apparently not. (Tackling
just one of those: the original Hebrew said Jonah was swallowed by a big
fish, which was their equivalent of an American saying somebody is
between a rock and a hard place; it's a figure of speech, we don't mean
it literally. In Jonah's case, he was in a tough position because he was
made to go and preach moral reform to a wicked city, something he didn't
want to do.)

"... Jonah was swallowed by a big fish..." ... A whale is not a fish.
k35454.


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