Questions for someone of the Christian Faith.

[tbam]

These are the questions I was going to ask on the night of Kat's confirmation. (This was not why I went to Kat's confirmation, however Kat actually suggested asking questions so I wrote a few down.) Once again, congratulations to Kat for her confirmation and public declaration of her faith

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[bassetgirl]

If Moses wrote the Old Testament, why did he refer to himself in the third person?

The Rock says this. The Rock always refers to himself in the third person, and The Rock believes there is nothing odd about that. If you see the wonderful things The Rock has done, it sounds so much more impressive than saying "the wonderful things I have done".

It's basic WWE-style self promotion, and it makes perfect sense to me that The Rock.... ermm, I mean Moses... would have written or dictated large parts of his life personally, and deliberately put it in the third person. As for the bits written after his death, obviously they would have had to be written by someone else but by writing the LIVING sections in the third person, it then flows seemlessly when another author takes over.

It's a very effective writing technique to write about yourself in the third person.

PS.

[bassetgirl]

What does the Gospel of St Thomas state about Jesus? Why is this not included in the Holy Bible considering it existed prior to the compilation of the Bible?

7. b) Same question, however referring to the Gospel of Mary Magdalene

Have you read the Da Vinci Code? Maybe not FACT even though it's a bloody good book but an interesting theory...

[aspetism]

I'm gonna give it a shot, i'm a practical Christian and am not heavily fluent in the bible as of yet. Very good questions, Nathan

[tbam]

1a) We are imperfect and are destined to sin. But we also have free choice

Part Deux

[tbam]

1b) Is free will a curse or a blessing? We may be pre-destined but what

Yes I know this is a VERY long reply.

[tbam]

5a) To create or to father

[amisphon]

The dvd is not ours nath, and i'll have to return it soon. So all those who want to see it make a date REAL soon, I need to know so I can let the guy who really owns it know what's going on with it.

[sikat]

me me me *puts hand up*

let me know when you guys are free :)

[sikat]

ok, i have a few sec's so im going to answer a few points, the rest later i promise!!!

firstly, a general thing that strikes me, is that if we could perfectly understand all of God's thinking and working.. then that would be strange, wouldnt it?
God is God. i mean, thats huge you know, He's huge! so we cant fully understand Him

BUT that doesnt mean we shouldnt try, we should be constantly trying!!

i just said this to you on msn, im pasting it here for my own sake
i used to understand it(that is the question about free will and fate living together) as free will, thats easy,its just free will. and fate is more like God knows us, more intimately than we could possibly imagine. he knows how many hairs are on our head, it says that in the bible. So God knows what choices we are going to make, he knows how we work you know.. so he knows what is going to happen. but then there's the whole fact that God is beyond time, he is past present and future, so he can see what will happen. so he knows. and he knows when He needs to be there

The reply pt I

[tbam]

"i just said this to you on msn, im pasting it here for my own sake

The reply pt II

[tbam]

"as for moses: it doesnt say anywhere in the bible that moses wrote any of it. its something we've researched and thought about since then. It is not God's word that moses wrote stuf. its us saying that, historians

The reply pt III

[tbam]

"so then we get into the was jesus who he said he was thing