Whoops multiple choice ok um,The name God gave Jacob?A) IssacB) IsraelC) JacobethD) Beth-el

What is the name God gave to Jacob?

b) Eve

oh, i see.Well we could have a bible trivia thread.

Towshab,What if your rejection of the Christian Faith is partly based off of your adherence to the masoretic traditon?The Septuagint was the first translation made of the Hebrew Old Testament into Greek. It was begun over two hundred years before the birth of Jesus. It was translated from a Hebrew Old Testament text-type that is older than the…[Read more]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeptuagintSee for yourself.While reading see what the consensus on these questions are:Which is the oldest?Which text variants are influenced by which others?What is most likely the “original” traditional renderings?

Groovy,sounds fun. So who starts?

Quote (Towshab @ Nov. 07 2007,13:02)I like this one Deu 11:16  Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;I like this verse:Genesis 48:1515And he blessed Joseph and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my…[Read more]

Quote (acertainchap @ Nov. 07 2007,12:13)Not sure what you mean by honor system, Morningstar, although people if people look up the answers then it defeats the whole purpose in a way. Let's save looking up the answers exclusively for other topics on the site. Please respond.Honor system means we trust each other to be good christians who keep…[Read more]

Quote (Towshab @ Nov. 07 2007,13:16)Quote (Morningstar @ Nov. 06 2007,07:39)I said orthodox christians are wrong along with orthodox jews.I believe christians go to hades (sheol) just as Jesus described in Parable of the Rich Man and Lazurus. Christians are on the side of Paradise.Jesus turned to the thief on his right and said “Today you will be…[Read more]

Are we allowed to “look up” the answers? If not is it the honor system?

Sounds fun how would it work?

Quote (acertainchap @ Nov. 07 2007,01:05)Quote (david @ Oct. 28 2007,19:38)Quote What exactly are you saying here? Simply put…. Giants in Genesis: DinosaursCan anyone think of what they could be except dinosaurs?Giants like Goliath, Og of Bashan, Gog and Magog.The anakim, zamzummin, Rephaims….etc…etc..

Quote (Towshab @ Nov. 06 2007,23:21)Quote (Stu @ Nov. 05 2007,01:14)Quote (Towshab @ Nov. 05 2007,02:57)When Moses wrote that the world was created in six days, Philo argued, he did so to show God’s love of order.  “The law corresponds to the world,” Philo declared, “and the world to the law.” Philo believed that creation in fact happened a…[Read more]

Quote (Morningstar @ Nov. 07 2007,00:39)I said orthodox christians are wrong along with orthodox jews.I believe christians go to hades (sheol) just as Jesus described in Parable of the Rich Man and Lazurus. Christians are on the side of Paradise.Jesus turned to the thief on his right and said “Today you will be with me in paradise.”Unless you want…[Read more]

I said orthodox christians are wrong along with orthodox jews.I believe christians go to hades (sheol) just as Jesus described in Parable of the Rich Man and Lazurus. Christians are on the side of Paradise.Jesus turned to the thief on his right and said “Today you will be with me in paradise.”Unless you want to believe the Torah was written after…[Read more]

Quote (Towshab @ Nov. 06 2007,13:03)Quote (Morningstar @ Nov. 05 2007,07:08)Quote (Towshab @ Nov. 05 2007,23:47)In Judaism when a person who dies in much transgression they just die. There is no afterlife there is no resurrection. End of story. In Christianity, these same people are brought back to life so that the Christian god can say 'see told…[Read more]

Quote (Towshab @ Nov. 05 2007,23:47)In Judaism when a person who dies in much transgression they just die. There is no afterlife there is no resurrection. End of story. In Christianity, these same people are brought back to life so that the Christian god can say 'see told you so' and then toss them in a lake of fire.Fear of the lake of fire is…[Read more]

I agree that the Lucifer teaching is false. Satan is not really named Lucifer. I also don't believe that the being discussed in the Isaiah verse is Satan. I don't just believe that is was a man either. I believe both a man and a fallen angel were being spoken to. The KJV of the bible helped create of false teaching by this translation.Isaiah…[Read more]

Quote (TimothyVI @ Nov. 05 2007,22:29)Gehenna is ot the lake of fire. It is merely the garbage dump outside of jeruselum.Where the garbage was burned, and sometimes the bodies of the dead.Jesus used it because his desciples knew what it was.Hades and the lake of fire can not both be hell because in the end hades is throwninto the lake of fire.…[Read more]