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 Yark Hutprancer |
Re: "Hanged on a tree"? | #1 | ||
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Posts: 3808 10/28/06 08:51:42 |
My ex-pastor, of course, preached that the "tree" was a metaphor for a cross.
"It is my observation and experience that the only thing which is clear about Christianity in general is that it is not clear." - Mez1 on the Skeptics Annotated Bible Message Board |
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NobleSavage1 |
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Posts: 3766 10/28/06 09:39:27 |
That's quite a stretch.
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"The individual human mind (is holy to me). In a child's power to master the multiplication table there is more sanctity than in all your shouted amens and holy-holies and hosannas. An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral and the advance of man's knowledge is a greater miracle than all the sticks turned to snakes and the parting of the waters." -Henry Drummond, character in "Inherit the Wind" http://www.godvsthebible.com/ God's Creation discredits the scriptures. |
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Argy Lacedom |
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Posts: 2429 11/01/06 04:43:18 |
Quote:Stretch; it sounds more like a hanging than a crucifixion. ________________________________________________________________________
Those who can induce you to believe in absurdities can convince you to commit attrocities.- Voltaire When I use a word, it means exactly what I want it to meannothing more and. nothing less. Humpty Dumpty (Alice in Wonderland) one of the world's greatest apologists. |
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NobleSavage1 |
Order of events? | #4 | ||
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Posts: 3766 11/01/06 07:59:45 |
Hmmmmmm.
Actually,the verse says they "slew and hanged on a tree". Emphasis on order of events here. First they slew him and then they hanged him on a tree. =================
"The individual human mind (is holy to me). In a child's power to master the multiplication table there is more sanctity than in all your shouted amens and holy-holies and hosannas. An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral and the advance of man's knowledge is a greater miracle than all the sticks turned to snakes and the parting of the waters." -Henry Drummond, character in "Inherit the Wind" http://www.godvsthebible.com/ God's Creation discredits the scriptures. |
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Yark Hutprancer |
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Posts: 3808 11/01/06 12:23:22 |
Wow. I never noticed that. This whole story is so screwed up that it is impossible to know what, if anything, actually happened back then. Did someone even die? What a disaster.
"It is my observation and experience that the only thing which is clear about Christianity in general is that it is not clear." - Mez1 on the Skeptics Annotated Bible Message Board |
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Argy Lacedom |
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Posts: 2429 11/01/06 19:29:20 |
Quote:You're suggesting it would be a disaster if no-one died? Actually I guess it would be. Xians would have nothing to worship. ________________________________________________________________________
Those who can induce you to believe in absurdities can convince you to commit attrocities.- Voltaire When I use a word, it means exactly what I want it to meannothing more and. nothing less. Humpty Dumpty (Alice in Wonderland) one of the world's greatest apologists. |
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NobleSavage1 |
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Posts: 3766 11/01/06 20:57:25 |
I looked up the New Oxford translation. It says "killed BY hanging him on a tree."
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"The individual human mind (is holy to me). In a child's power to master the multiplication table there is more sanctity than in all your shouted amens and holy-holies and hosannas. An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral and the advance of man's knowledge is a greater miracle than all the sticks turned to snakes and the parting of the waters." -Henry Drummond, character in "Inherit the Wind" http://www.godvsthebible.com/ God's Creation discredits the scriptures. |
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Rambo123UK |
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Posts: 590 01/30/07 09:11:28 |
These new translations deliberately cover up discrepancies through translating things differently than common sense and the language would indicate.
-- Crosses were just substitute trees anyway. The Romans used to plant trees along the roadsides to give shade to marching soldiers, plus it made a convenient place to crucify people on in full view of anyone travelling. Crucifixion is not, despite the claims of some christians, a uniquely Roman form of execution, either. It was practised by Persians, Seleucids and Carthaginians as well since at least the 6th century BC. -----
Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. - Sir Winston Churchill p070.ezboard.com/bbiblebabble |
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| "Hanged on a tree"? | 10/28/06 07:11:10 | NobleSavage1 |
| Re: "Hanged on a tree"? | 10/28/06 08:51:42 | Yark Hutprancer |
| Re: "Hanged on a tree"? | 10/28/06 09:39:27 | NobleSavage1 |
| Re: "Hanged on a tree"? | 11/01/06 04:43:18 | Argy Lacedom |
| Order of events? | 11/01/06 07:59:45 | NobleSavage1 |
| Re: Order of events? | 11/01/06 12:23:22 | Yark Hutprancer |
| Re: Order of events? | 11/01/06 19:29:20 | Argy Lacedom |
| Re: Order of events? | 11/01/06 20:57:25 | NobleSavage1 |
| Re: Order of events? | 01/30/07 09:11:28 | Rambo123UK |
| Re: "Hanged on a tree"? | 10/29/06 23:46:00 | FastHack |
| From alt.bible.errancy a few years ago | 10/30/06 06:47:46 | drseinfeld |
| Re: From alt.bible.errancy a few years ago | 10/30/06 09:58:15 | Yark Hutprancer |
| Re: From alt.bible.errancy a few years ago | 10/30/06 10:05:49 | Keith and Company |
| Re: From alt.bible.errancy a few years ago | 10/30/06 10:19:50 | NobleSavage1 |
