<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large">I'll give the old Testament God one thing</span><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:large;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">,</div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large"> Yahweh</span><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:large;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> was consistent, everything He said was repulsive. john</div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:large;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:large;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">I've been Baptist, Episcopalian, Presbyterian and Methodist along the way and not one of them spend much time at all with Old Testament teachings or issues. It's sort of an embarrassment to them, I think. So much clashes with their God Is Love teachings. I look upon the Bible as a sort of 'theory of the personality of God' thing. And that theory changes dramatically from Old the New.</div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:large;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:large;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> bill w</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 7:38 PM, John Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 5:44 PM, William Flynn Wallace </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div></span><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>I remember a project that experts were going to perform that divided the sayings of Jesus into those he very likely said</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">I wouldn't even say Jesus very likely existed. I think it's likely that a man named Jesus who did a few of the non magical things in bible existed, likely but not very likely. </div> </font></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">a</div><span class=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">nd those that were very questionable.</span></span></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4">It's<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>questionable<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>that Jesus said anything at all, it's not<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>questionable<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>that the character "Jesus" in the Bible said some despicable things. I'll give the old Testament God one thing<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">,</div> Yahweh<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> was consistent, everything He said was repulsive. Yahweh's kid is different, on a good day he can actually say some nice morally uplifting things, be when He gets in a bad mood He's far worse than His daddy. What could be more evil that torturing somebody (even Hitler) for eternity?</div></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"><br></font></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> John K Clark </div><br> </font><div><br></div><div> </div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>
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