Nightstar! That was NOT right!

CONGRATS MR & MRS SHREK!! I wish you two the best of times I hope you are together for the next 50 years! and have many Little Shreks!...

20 seconds left in the game! I KNEW they could do it!

ANOTHER RECORD!!! the longest no score game since 1943! and they won!!! WOOHOO!!! Dolphins suck!!!

Sorry, I must have confused you.

as far as the punishing thing... I didn't believe it then and I don't believe it now.

John 3:16 (New International Version)
New International Version (NIV)
Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society



16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.


This is what I believe.

I was raised Baptist with the KJV Bible. I was also told (by my preacher and family) that if I fell in love with and married someone of a darker skin color (since they were damned by GOD) that GOD would punish me by making my children retarted...

WHAT?!?!? "GOD loves ALL the little children" Remember?

Can you see my problem?
Again, "Humanity"

Are you saying the Jewish or Catholic versions are the same?
How about the Islamic version? And if not which is the "right" one? And which is the one we should believe "word for word"?

The term "Christian" means Christ like... Ummm... Since we will never be like Christ...

The duck-billed platypus is proof that GOD has a sence of humor!

The topic was...
How do you define the Bible?

and again I'll say I define the bible was man's INTERPRETATION of GOD'S words and Jesus's time with us...

and since man makes mistakes I can not believe Everything word for word that is written.


and...
Distracted is an understatement

I NEVER said I think ALL of humanity is bad. But, humans don't run around with "Good" or "Bad" signs... and even "Good" people can do "Bad" things.

Again WE ARE HUMAN!

No. I'm Human. I make mistakes.

The One and only imperfect creature GOD made was man. And trusted us ALL with this Earth... See what we have done with it?

Trust myself? Hell No! I trust HIM though. He knows what he is doing even though I don't.

negitave toward our own humanity...

For what reason should I be positive? Murderers... Rapists... Child Molesters... all of them from our Communities, Neighborhoods, Families even. (Don't forget the church.)

But, "Religion" didn't make me that way. "Humanity" did.

"P.S.: God did not, and does not speak in parables, quite right there Feral. THAT'S BECAUSE GOD DOESN'T SPEAK!!! Man just hears a voice they attribute to God."



And since man makes mistakes and is not perfect and never will be...

I DO believe in GOD and JESUS but do NOT believe in man.
So to me the Bible is an interpretation of what God said to man and of what mankind saw and experienced while our Lord walked upon this earth.

I like the second in the line-up. I think it is the prettiest one. You have a beautiful smile

I believe it is man's interpretation of history. I think man attempted to decipher God's (unspoken) word to the best of his ability and since Man is NOT perfect then thats makes the bible flawed. I don't think it is a "Fairy Tale" but man's (flawed) attempt to pass on the intent and messages from our maker.

I went to the Trans Siberian Orchestra and this was part of the naration...

OLD CITY BAR

In an old city bar
That is never too far
From the places that gather
The dreams that have been

In the safety of night
With its old neon light
It beckons to strangers
And they always come in

And the snow it was falling
The neon was calling
The music was low
And the night
Christmas Eve

And here was the danger
That even with strangers
Inside of this night
It's easier to believe

Then the door opened wide
And a child came inside
That no one in the bar
Had seen there before

And he asked did we know
That outside in the snow
That someone was lost
Standing outside our door

Then the bartender gazed
Through the smoke and the haze

Through the window and ice
To a corner streetlight

Where standing alone
By a broken pay phone
Was a girl the child said
Could no longer get home

And the snow it was falling
The neon was calling
The bartender turned
And said , not that I care
But how would you know this?
The child said I've noticed
If one could be home
They'd be all ready there

Then the bartender came out from behind the bar
And in all of his life he was never that far
And he did something else that he thought no one saw
When he took all the cash from the register draw

Then he followed the child to the girl cross the street
And we watched from the bar as they started to speak
Then he called for a cab and he said J.F.K.
Put the girl in the cab and the cab drove away
And we saw in his hand
That the cash was all gone
From the light that she had
wished upon

If you want to arrange it
This world you can change it
If we could somehow make this
Christmas thing last

By helping a neighbor
Or even a stranger

And to know who needs help
You need only just ask

Then he looked for the child
But the child wasn't there
Just the wind and the snow
Waltzing dreams through the air

So he walked back inside
Somehow different I think
For the rest of the night
No one paid for a drink

And the cynics will say
That some neighborhood kid
Wandered in on some bums
In the world where they hid

But they weren't there
So they couldn't see
By an old neon star
On that, night, Christmas Eve

When the snow it was falling
The neon was calling
And in case you should wonder
In case you should care

Why we're on our own
Never went home
On that night of all nights
We were already there

Then all at once inside that night
He saw it all so clear
The answer that he sought so long
Had always been so near

It's every gift that someone gives
Expecting nothing back
It's every kindness that we do
Each simple little act

-TSO-

Merry Christmas To Everyone!

Thanks All! I went to the Trans Siberian Orchestra! If you have never been to see them you HAVE to check it out! it's like a rock opera but SO MUCH better! and the light show is to die for!