Original Sin?

Quote: FrGamble

You got me. If you are referring to God by using the word God and you use it in vain then you are breaking the commandment.

About the contractual thing, which I am not sure I completely understand your question, I will refer you to Jesus who advises, "All you need to say is simply 'Yes' or 'No'; anything beyond this comes from the evil one." Mt. 5:37

So then why do you answer all of these posts with anything but "yes" or "no" - why did Jesus answer questions from his disciples without merely saying "yes" or "no"

because the Wizard mandates at least a five character answer.

Quote: FrGamble

because the Wizard mandates at least a five character answer.

Hmmmm Wizard>God

Quote: aceofspades

Hmmmm Wizard>God

Quote: FrGamble

It should.



Bob they were forcibly taken from their homeland and families and sold into slavery

You mean they weren't standing on the shore
waving at the slave ships, waiting to be picked
up? My point was, being a slave was not the
hell on earth some portray it to be. Most
were treated like part of the family, not like
dogs in a kennel as some would have us believe.
It wasn't great, but neither was it horribly awful.
A lot of slaves stayed on the plantations and
worked for money after the war, why wouldn't
they.

Quote: FrGamble

Actually there were many commandments about hand washings

Good grief. The POINT is, half the 10 commandments
are self serving or pointless. Four of them are about
the god who supposedly wrote them and one is about
honoring mom and dad, something 99% of people do
anyway. The other five are about moral issues. Not a
practical one there. Like: Your children shall attend school.
You shall not keep slaves. Women should not prostitute
themselves. The list is endless of what should have been
there. Like I said, these weren't issues in that day and
god is only as smart as those that invent him.

Quote: Evenbob

Most
were treated like part of the family

Just ask good ole TJ

Quote: Evenbob

Women should not prostitute
themselves.

I anticipate the padre incorporating this under "Thou shall not commit adultery"

Evenbob are you complaining that God was speaking to the people of the time concerning their issues? I don't know what you are expecting? Contraception wasn't around yet but it sounds like you want God to warn the people millennia before it's invention about its dangers? Some of your problem might be lessened if you remember this is why Jesus established a Church to be guided by the Holy Spirit.

Quote: FrGamble

Evenbob are you complaining that God was speaking to the people of the time concerning their issues? I don't know what you are expecting? Contraception wasn't around yet but it sounds like you want God to warn the people millennia before it's invention about its dangers? Some of your problem might be lessened if you remember this is why Jesus established a Church to be guided by the Holy Spirit.

Once again:


You'd have managed better
If you'd had it planned
Now why'd you choose such a backward time
And such a strange land?

If you'd come today
You could have reached a whole nation
Israel in 4 BC
Had no mass communication

Quote: aceofspades

Once again:


You'd have managed better
If you'd had it planned
Now why'd you choose such a backward time
And such a strange land?

Jesus Christ Superstar, I loved the movie.
It's true, the Jewish god planned it very
poorly. If Jesus wasn't coming back for
2000 years+, why not have him be born
about 1900. That way you bypass all the
ignorant jerks in the early church, no Crusades,
no Inquisitions, no any of that. Mass
communication in an enlightened era.

A real screw up by the guy upstairs.