Original Sin?

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What is guilt? Guilt is the pledge drive constantly hammering in our heads that keeps us from fully enjoying the show. Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy.

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I think guilt is directional. You should get rid of it, but the way to get rid of it is not to get rid of the guilt feelings. It is to get rid of the wrong that you did that caused the guilt feelings.

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Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they're big, flashing signs that something needs to change.

Speaking of sin...

Why did Jesus call the money changing going on where he turned tables over a den of thieves? Was this criminal behavior even outside of a place of worship, doing "money changing." (I know the point of the example was other than that, just curious why he called it thievery)

I figure Jesus quotes aren't allowed to be wrong, so it had to be crime, if he called them thieves.

Quote: FrGamble

Some stories are myths because it is an important genre of literature and can get across truths that are divinely inspired. Myth and Divine Inspiration by the Holy Spirit are not mutually exclusive. Also myth and truth are not mutually exclusive, don't get myth confused with fiction.

That seems like a very sensible adult way to look at the oldest books in the bible. Some purists get all worked up trying to explain that there was an antedeluvian era where people lived for hundreds of years. Just admit that it is a myth, and know that Myth and Divine Inspiration by the Holy Spirit are not mutually exclusive.

This compliment is a brief interruption in the attack on the father.

About 2015 years ago, God paid a nocturnal visit to then 12 year old Mary and left her with child.

It won't be long now until the Coppers from Operation Yew Tree catch up with him.

Quote: Fleastiff

About 2015 years ago, God paid a nocturnal visit to then 12 year old Mary and left her with child.

The word virgin is a mistranslation, it actually
reads 'young girl' and shows that way in the
new translations.

Mistranslation of word virgin ....
yeah, I know. Same as with "dominion" when proper translation would be "stewardship".

But lighten up .... its a joke!! Its about Operation Yew Tree which targets men in their sixties or eighties about events from the sixties to eighties. Just as in that other thread... there are not really giant crabs hunting Ashley by her big toe. Its humor.

Quote: Fleastiff

But lighten up .... its a joke!! Its about Operation Yew Treer.

Oh. It's a Brit thing. Never mind. You
know way more about what happens
here then we know about what happens
there. Never even heard of Jimmy Savile.

Flea, you should know better than agree with Bob concerning his knowledge of Catholicism or the Bible.

Rxwine, I forgot to reply that Jesus tells the money changers and others that they should stop making "My House (namely the Temple) into a den of thieves." I don't think selling animals or exchanging money was necessarily a crime by itself outside of the temple.

Quote: FrGamble

Flea, you should know better than agree with Bob concerning his knowledge of Catholicism or the Bible.

I am sure his knowledge of each is greater than mine and I would venture to think that despite your indoctrination rather than education you are more knowledgeable about each than he is.

However, I refer you to Kelly MacDonald's rejoinder to "A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing" ..."A lot of knowledge can be dangerous too....keeps you from seeing the heart of things". (Girl in the Cafe).

Do you dispute the 'young girl' versus 'sexually inexperienced' interpretation?
Do you dispute the 'dominion' rather than 'stewardship' interpretation?
Do you really think Ashley is under attack by toe-crazed crabs?

Quote: FrGamble

Flea, you should know better than agree with Bob concerning his knowledge of Catholicism or the Bible.
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Or the good Padre's. Mary was a virgin because
she said so. Very convincing, who would argue
with that. 2000 year old hearsay evidence,
it convinced me.