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SecularFuture · 06-04-2003, 11:40 AM

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Originally posted by Zimyatin
While we're on the subject - what can we unbelievers do if we miss the rapture?

This is too funny.....
I can't even put it into words.....

DoubleDutchy · 06-04-2003, 02:25 PM

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Originally posted by JP2
. It was the Christian factions who denied Paul's teachings (and thus the validity of the Roman occupation) and, by and large, who accepted the tenets postulated by James, who were persectuted. Many of the fundamental tenets of these decentralised, Jamesian Christian factions appeared later on in - you guessed it - Islamic theology.

I am interested ; can you provide a link or give some litterature ?

catmar · 06-04-2003, 02:32 PM

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Originally posted by TomboyMom
Why do christians constantly feel the need to oppress, discriminate against, control, torture, burn at the stake and generally be unpleasant to everyone else on the planet? Just wondering.

Rene

:notworthy :notworthy :notworthy

JP2 · 06-05-2003, 09:38 AM

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I am interested ; can you provide a link or give some litterature ?

This is a start:

http://www.rationalist.com.au/62/p20-26.pdf

It's a PDF file so I can't copy any of the text (and can't be bothered typing it out) but this is (heavily edited) part of what I'm talking about:

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A number of scholars have observed how ideas, motifs, themes, even words from the Dead Sea Scrolls make a suprising reappearance in Islam (in Shi'ite Islam especially, as it happens).

[...]

[T]he early church tackles the problem of which laws converts to Christianity must obey. [...] In the Acts of Apostles the problem is taken to James [...]. He gives Paul a letter to take to the Gentiles that says that, in short, some Jewish laws [...] prevail while others don't apply. [...]Paul never delivered this message to the Gentiles. Instead he claimed an apostleship of his own and developed his own radical doctrine [...]. Remarkably, though, centuries later, exactly these Jamesean legal rulings [...] reappear in Islam, in Islam's food regulations and general approach to law.

It's an interesting article, worth a read if you have the time.

Radcliffe Emerson · 06-05-2003, 01:23 PM

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Originally posted by Zimyatin
While we're on the subject - what can we unbelievers do if we miss the rapture?

This site should say:

"if you've found this website after the rapture, please login to www.raptureletters.com and start sending emails every Friday.

Thank you.

DoubleDutchy · 06-05-2003, 01:43 PM

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Originally posted by JP2
This is a start:

http://www.rationalist.com.au/62/p20-26.pdf

It's an interesting article, worth a read if you have the time.

I 'll certainly take the time; thanks. :notworthy

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