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Old 02-02-2007, 08:33 AM   #11
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Sounds like an experience I had which lead me to a crisis of non-faith. Try googling "temporal lobe transients"
... or smoking some good pot. :devil1:
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Acts 26:14 , 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.'
Paul kicked Jesus where now?

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... or smoking some good pot. :devil1:
I was in rehab at the time.
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Now towards the end of his ministry, Paul tells the story a third time. Follow along Jesus’ words and see how Paul has made this story much better.

Acts 26:14 , 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.'

Acts 26:15 , 'I am Jesus whom you are persecuting.
The story is better because it was written, dialog and all (The line is "it is hard for you to kick against pricks) by Euripides hundreds of years earlier and was scenes from his play called Bacchae
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