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PostPosted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

dick wrote:
I wonder how Jesus cured all those hangovers. Now that would be a miracle.


Maybe that miracle is documented in the Dead Sea Scrolls! Laughing
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

OndinitaAKALibchit wrote:
I've always thought that St. John the Divine had to be hitting the hookah and probably doing some other harder stuff when he wrote the Apocalypse. Those were some "revelations"! Laughing
And just 'cause i'm such a Bible geek - the current scholarly consensus is that St. John of Patmos (a/k/a St. John the Divine), who wrote the Apocalypse, was most likely a Palestinian Jewish Christian who fled to the Diaspora as a consequence of the First Jewish Revolt against the Romans (66-72AD). Therefore (despite what fundies might claim) not the John who was one of the Christ's 12. It wasn't until decades later that the writings of Justin Martyr first equated John of Patmos with John the son of Zebedee and started the church's traditional claim that St. John the Apostle wrote the book of Revelation. Other early church writers (late 3rd century- Eusebius Pamphili, Bishop of Cæsarea in Palestine and 4th century - St. Jerome of Stridonium) attributed authorship to a third John, John the Presbyter.

Sorry. Like i said, i'm a Bible geek. Wink
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

No apologies, Amphy! I love this stuff too & I appreciate you sharing your vast knowledge on the subject! Smile
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

OndinitaAKALibchit wrote:
No apologies, Amphy! I love this stuff too & I appreciate you sharing your vast knowledge on the subject! Smile
Eh, i know very little and am certain about even less, LOL!
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 2:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

" i know very little and am certain about even less,"

That is the best statement ever printed
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