You and MEBuckner are so going to Hell for that one!
You mean, like the one making the rounds now about how the phrase “It is better to trust in the
Lord than to put confidence in man.” is in the Exact Center of the Bible?
So far, none of the sites I’ve turned this up on have said which version and edition of the Bible that they’re using. Can’t imagine why they’d leave that important piece of information out.:rolleyes:
And anyway, wouldn’t the communion wafer have to be the other other white meat?
This is the first time I’ve seen someone invoke the devil to support God. It gives me a warm fuzzy sense of hope in this topsy turvy world.
When I was in college in Tuscaloosa I was driving home in the middle of the night on the highway, and outside a small one-room church, on one of those cheap “flashing arrow” signs, I saw this:
GOD SHOOK THE WORLD WITH A BONG HIT
Perfectly set, no uneven letters. I raced home to get a camera, but by the time I drove back to the sign, it was blank.
Speaking of communion, did you hear the Catholic church is coming out with a new low-calorie wafer:
"I Can’t Believe It’s Not Jesus"
Jesus saves your soul
on the next “God’s House”
Sunday 10, 9 Central
…and the rabbi said, “For me, it’s a local call.”.
You zany Mary Worshippers. I’m stayin’ faaaaaar away. Mr. Jar dragged me to Easter Vigil once…and I felt like I was actually IN purgatory. Three hours with no sign of stopping.
yow
I’ll take good ol’ Non-Denominational if you please
j
Call me crazy, but I actually find Easter vigil to be my favorite Mass.
I mean, fer crying out loud-when else do you get to play with fire in church? That’s pretty freaking cool!
In my church we play with fire on Christmas Eve, and it’s only an hour long. Win win
j
Ah, your own link specifies the New King James Version (NKJV). And it doesn’t matter what edition, since they are counting by chapters, not words – chapter and verse designations are uniform regardless of what version or edition you’re using.
It still not the exact center of the Bible, even using chapter and verse. Psalm 118 is 29 verses long and they pick Psalm 118:8 as the center? I’m no mathmagician, but that doesn’t sound right.
There’s a church wall near my school that says:
Happiness is Submission to God
It’s been like this for years. But the other day I saw that someone had added “zilla” to the end in spray paint.
Hey, I agree it’s stupid – I was just pointing out that it wasn’t stupid for the reasons Morgyn proffered.
I mean, why somebody thought that “Add 594 + 594 and the answer is 1188; The center verse of the Bible is Psalms 118:8” was a sensible way to find the middle verse is beyond me.
Lessee, if we take as given that Psalm 118 is the “middle chapter” of the Bible (594 chapters before and after), and there are 29 verses in that chapter, then the middle verse would be verse 14.5 – essentially verses 14 and 15.
Thus, this passage is the “middle verse”:
Take your pick, I guess.
Of course, the more honest way to do this, assuming you want to avoid dealing with different versions and editions, would be to find the actual middle verse without regard to chapters. But I’ll be darned if I’m gonna do it… 
Glow sticks! Get your glow sticks! No one gets into heaven without a glow stick!
For real - I passed a church in Massachusetts that had a sign that said: “Jesus was a Catholic.”
ummmm…
Also, there is a college in my hometown with various student groups dedicated to Devotions with God that meet in the evenings and are supposed to be inviting to students, and they all have names like:
Jesus and Jellybeans
Yogurt and Yahweh
and my favorite:
Stogies and Scripture
In Oklahoma City, there’s a (or used to be) a little shop that specialized in custom-made grips for handguns. Had a big sign that said:
Tyler Custom Grips
Jesus Is Lord
Never could figure that out. But I went in once, just to see what was up. Interesting place. Had all kinds of accessories and holsters and stuff for all manner of guns, and signs that said:
Jesus Is Lord
I didn’t buy anything.
Yondan: (hijack, but I couldn’t resist)
I just realized from our respective locations that we can never be in the same place.
::sniff::
ok, back to church
this week’s sermon is brought to you by Pepsi.
OK, that is just as funny as… uh
Ooooooo! That’s great! Which church in T’town, Max?
My favorite such sign is just north of Prattville, Alabama, on I-65, in the field next to the catfish ponds on the right side of the road.
It has a picture of Satan holding a pitchfork, and the straightforward slogan, “GO TO CHURCH OR THE DEVIL WILL GET YOU.” Many’s the time when I’ve seen cars pulled over to the side of the interstate with their occupants having their picture taken next to the sign. One time I even saw a group of guys standing next to it stark, bare-assed naked, being photographed by their similarly unclothed friend. I guess he wanted in too.
Definitely a WTF moment.
No kidding? Hah! I know the exact church you’re talking about. It always seemed rather crass to me to have that enormous sign painted up there.
Happiness is Submission to Godzilla… Too funny.
Those “center of the Bible” things presume that you are using a Protestant-canon Bible, which, of course, the vast majority of the world’s Chrisitans do not.
Kirk