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As others have pointed out, mythology from around the world does in fact contain stories like this. Diety-inspired murder is nothing new or exclusive to Christianity.

One would hope, however, that Christianity would be above doing what every other god has done. No such luck, obviously.

dannyh44

I think I get what you're going for here. You think you have a legitimate explanation for the passage you quoted in OP #1, so you want someone to contest it? Believe me, it has been successfully contested. See the LIbrary section of this site for complete refutations of any apologetics explanations for this passage.

If this isn't your reason for repeatedly referring to your OP, then further explanation is need (for me).

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WILLOWTREE

Now I see where you got this thing about Dr. Scott not being a christian.

The content of the article is 95 percent false.

Because Dr. Scott is good friends with the Chandler family he has decided not to sue the Times.

Watanabe is a well known atheist reporter who gained 15 minutes of fame when she printed her "The Exodus never happened" bias under the guise of objective reporting some time ago.

Dr. Scott never claimed to be a faith healer.

Dr. Scott nor anyone from his church ever spoke to the Times.

Dr. Scott did not have surgery for cancer.

I attend his church - I know.

WT

WILLOWTREE

Those two links are tabloid rants produced by enemies.

Anyone can alter video and photos and print total lies.

Dr. Scott and his research and his position as the eminent Bible scholar in the world enrages persons who are jealous and cannot refute him.

WT

funinspace

It easy to not be refuted when one refuses to publish in Theological Journals. And since we've already been several rounds on "the eminent Bible scholar in the world", whatever. Ah that's right it was Benny Hin/Han who you mentioned steeling from him if I remember right... I think several here asked a half a dozen times before, but just for giggles why not once again ask: Eminent to whom; what organizations/scholars recognize his leadership, scholarship, et.al.? Yep sounds irrefutable all right... :down:

Toto

I can't let this pass.

Teresa Watanabe is a very pro-religion reporter at the LA Times who can be depended on to report positive heart-warming stories about every religious group in LA (except atheists). She describes herself here as a "non-practicing Christian."

Her piece on the Exodus is reprinted here. You can see that she is reporting only on the reaction of various Jewish groups to a prominent rabbi's sermons on the issue.

funinspace

Back to the Hitler front...I would never defend Hitler's faith either direction. That's between his corpes and any potential mythical maker by my reading of the Xian canon. My questions were towards your logic in automatically decided his fate based on what appears to be some unexplained reasoning.
So I asked:
I find this a reasonable question. Can you explain why one mass murderer is godly and one isn't? Or at what point does doing bad things make one an atheist?

WILLOWTREE

I see personal bias in the story.

"Scholars have known for years .....we try to break the bad news gently"

Watanabe accepted the above quote to speak for all scholars because it suits her atheism.

I won't agrue with you because you called Dr. Scott a "televangelist" which divulges your hate and made up mind.

WT

WILLOWTREE

The issue is WHY would God allow the record of the Prophet cursing the children and their horrible deaths ?

God could of omitted this event and nobody would ever know.

The point is:

IF God will keep His word to the hurt of children then how much more will He keep His word to us based on promises via His Son's blood ?

Thats why God recorded the bears killing the children.

GOOD OR BAD WHATEVER GOD SAYS WILL HAPPEN.

WT

WILLOWTREE

Obviously it is arguable.

Dr. Scott is the worlds leading authority in greek, hebrew, arabic, aramaic, syriac, ethiopic mss and their translations.

He can by memory teach what any of the mss say and translate it into english.

I don't know of any one in the know who denies Dr. Scott's position as eminent.

Dr. Scott is not a writer.

He is an oral teacher.

This exposes your implication that he "refuses" to publish to be very misleading.

WT