Folks, he’s jerking our collective chains on purpose. Ignore him.
You do know that words can mean more than one thing…right?
In addition, you still haven’t explained the “rules” to determine whether someone’s a Jew or not.
Fenris
Oh, for fuck’s sake.
Do you really think that arguing about a building will suddenly make you not be an ignorant asshole? Do you think that, if you only tell people that they’re not really as Christian as they thought they were, they are obliged to take your opinion above that of their own heart and soul (not to mention their God)? Are you actually that unutterably stupid? If so, why?
BTW, as a fellow agnostic, please quit making such an uter mockery of my philosophy. Can’t you just claim that you’re a lapsed Yezidi or something?
(Yes, Gaudere, there are such things as militant agnostics. We’re not all as worthless as EternalFucknut here, I swear.)
Umm no. First, “whenever two or more of you are gathered in My name” etc. The woods, the beach, your living room, a wedding, a funeral, whatever. Not necessarily A FUCKING BUILDING. Second the “great big body of believers” includes millions of people. We do not all get together to worship and pray, ever. Y’know, Methodists go to the Methodist Church, Catholics go to the Catholic Church – we all go to different physical churches, but we are all in the body of believers.
What’s the obsession with the building, anyway? I mean, you claim to be an eternal student, but it doesn’t appear from your posts you’ve ever gone to an actual school. So you’d think you wouldn’t get so hung up on such a bagatelle.
POLY, I really do begin to believe you’re a saint. Endless wellsprings of tolerance and all that. I’m in awe of you.
Look, ES, Lets try this once more…
Go study-up on the subject, in and openminded manner, hmm? Please?
This little bit here…
Tells me that you’ve not done your homework. I, fer instance, generally Worship in a house. My house, most often, but sometimes a friend’s house. Mennonites, IIRC, do the same. I’m not a Mennonite. They’re (AFAIK) not Born-Again, but we’re both Christian.
The Fundamental Act of my Re-Birth had only the sky for a ceiling. The nearest building was over a hundred yards away, and it was someones residence, not a building dedicated to Worship.
“Church==Building” is false at it’s core, except when you’re describing a building with Worship as it’s primary purpose. The Congregation is the Church.
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You’re still trying to “win” your point. Again using myself as an example, I Worship in small groups. Like with my family, and a few like minded groups of friends. Sometimes we have a big 'ol Party to Praise the Lord, but in general, it’s in small groups that we do our thing.
I’m begining to believe that you’re only in this for the fun of throwing rocks at the hornet’s nest. Do something original: Go study and prove me wrong.
Fenris, Fenris, we covered that last week, remember!
You can only be a Jew by believing…
Uh, he never got to what you have to believe; he was too busy explaining to LaurAnge that she couldn’t be a Jew because it was a religion. (Must be there’s a new dictionary out with only one definition for each word. We’ll each have to pick up a copy; it’ll reduce ambiguity greatly.)
You don’t suppose Ed Zotti’s signed the board up for the Troll-of-the-Week Club, just to keep things lively, do you? :eek:
The bible is the word of god.
Denying the bible is denying the word of god.
Denying the word of god is denying god.
And one who denies god certainly cannot call themselves christian.
Gaudere, you were startled at a militant agnostic.
We now have a Biblical-literalist agnostic.
Either that or a troll.
Lynn, formal request: Please read through the threads Eternal Student has posted in. And then clarify whether, in your view, he’s engaging in proctocephalia or trollery. I was inclined to the first view, until that last post. The tone there is that of a militant fundy. trolling as a “liberated” college student. Thanks for your anticipated help on this.
But it says that Jesus is the Word of God. Of course, you knew that, so you meant to say something else. Oh wait, no, that’s not it. I misunderstood what you were saying. Or something. Anything, of course, other than that you might be mistaken. By the way, am I a real libertarian?
I’m going to close this. It’s been fun but frankly, I’ve enevr seen anybody as stupid as Eternal Student in my entire life and I see no reason to provide a forum for his idiocy.
It has become ABUNDANTLY clear that we are all clueless callers to the Phil Hendrie show.
That is the only possible explanation.
I insist that we all stop feeding this troll this second! (Sorry, I’m on my period and feeling a little crabby, which makes me bossy)