LittleNipper wrote:Sorry. This one was a rather involved.
All your posts are rather involved. This thread has accomplished nothing. Give yourself a break. If any of the members here don't have their own copy of the Bible, the can look it up online just like you do.
All you are doing is wasting bandwidth.
This, or any other post that I have made or will make in the future, is strictly my own opinion and consequently of little or no value.
"Faith is believing something you know ain't true" Twain.
LittleNipper wrote:Sorry. This one was a rather involved.
All your posts are rather involved. This thread has accomplished nothing. Give yourself a break. If any of the members here don't have their own copy of the Bible, the can look it up online just like you do.
All you are doing is wasting bandwidth.
Yes, it does seem as thought nobody is reading this thread...
Misery to the city of David, Jerusalem. Yearly you make your many offerings, but God will send heavy judgment upon you, and there will be sorrow & crying for the "Lion of God."
God will become your enemy. I will encircle Jerusalem and lay siege against it, and build forts around it to destroy it.
Your voice will whisper like a ghost from the ground where you are buried.
However, suddenly your ruthless enemies will be driven off like dust before the wind.
Instantly, God, will come upon them with thunder, earthquake, tornado, and flames.
And all the nations besieging Jerusalem will vanish as a nightmare!
As a starving man dreams of feasting but is still hungry, and as a parched man dreams of drinking but is still faint from thirst when he wakens, so your enemies will dream of victorious conquest, all for nothing...
Will Israel be shocked, incredulous and unbelieving? They will continue to be blind! They are in a stupor—yet not from drinking! Stagger, yet not from wine!
For the Lord has poured out upon a spirit of deep sleep. He has closed the eyes of your prophets and seers.
All of these future events are a sealed book to them. When handed to one who is literate, he says, “I can’t --- it’s sealed.”
Everyone else replies the same.
And so the Lord says, “Since these people say they are mine but do not obey. Their worship amounts to mere jargon learned without thought.
As a result, there will be terrible consequences taken on these hypocrites making their wisest counselors fools.
Misery to those who try to hide their plans from God, who attempted to keep Him in the dark concerning what they do! How stupid! Isn’t He, the Potter, greater than the jars he molds? Will you say to God, that He doesn't exist? God didn’t make us! Does a machine call its inventor dumb?
Soon—and rather quickly—the wilderness of Lebanon will become a fruitful field again, a lush and fertile forest.
At that time the deaf will hear the words of a book, and out of their darkness the blind will see God's plans.
The meek will be filled with fresh joy from the Lord, and the poor shall exult in the Holy One of Israel.
Bullies and scoffers will cease, and all those with evil plots will be gone.
Including the violent man whose ready for a fight, the man who waits in hiding to beat up a judge who sentenced him, and individuals who use any excuse to be unfair.
That is why the Lord, redeemer of Abraham says: “My people will no longer suffer with fear or be ashamed.
For when they see surging birthrates and the expanding economy, then they will regard and rejoice in my name; they will praise the Holy One of Israel and stand in awe of Him.
Those in error will accept the truth, and complainers will be willing to be enlightened!"
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
1 Wo [to] Ariel, Ariel, The city of the encampment of David! Add year to year, let festivals go round.
2 And I have sent distress to Ariel, And it hath been lamentation and mourning, And it hath been to me as Ariel.
3 And I encamped, O babbler, against thee, And I laid siege against thee -- a camp. And I raised up against thee bulwarks.
4 And thou hast been low, From the earth thou speakest, And from the dust makest thy saying low, And thy voice hath been from the earth, As one having a familiar spirit, And from the dust thy saying whisperest,
5 And as small dust hath been The multitude of those scattering thee, And as chaff passing on the multitude of the terrible, And it hath been at an instant -- suddenly.
6 By Jehovah of Hosts thou art inspected, With thunder, and with an earthquake, And great noise, hurricane, and whirlwind, And flame of devouring fire.
7 And as a dream, a vision of night, hath been The multitude of all the nations Who are warring against Ariel, And all its warriors, and its bulwark, Even of those distressing her.
8 And it hath been, as when the hungry dreameth, And lo, he is eating, And he hath waked, and empty [is] his soul, And as when the thirsty dreameth, And lo, he is drinking, and he hath waked, And lo, he is weary, and his soul is longing, So is the multitude of all the nations Who are warring against mount Zion.
9 Tarry and wonder, look ye, yea, look, Be drunk, and not with wine, Stagger, and not with strong drink.
10 For poured out on you hath Jehovah a spirit of deep sleep, And He closeth your eyes -- the prophets, And your heads -- the seers -- He covered.
11 And the vision of the whole is to you, As words of the sealed book, That they give unto one knowing books, Saying, `Read this, we pray thee,' And he hath said, `I am not able, for it [is] sealed;'
12 And the book is given to him who hath not known books, Saying, `Read this, we pray thee,' And he hath said, `I have not known books.'
13 And the Lord saith: Because drawn near hath this people, with its mouth, And with its lips they have honoured Me, And its heart it hath put far off from Me, And their fear of Me is -- A precept of men is taught!
14 Therefore, lo, I am adding to do wonderfully with this people, A wonder, and a marvel, And perished hath the wisdom of its wise ones, And the understanding of its intelligent ones hideth itself.'
15 Wo [to] those going deep from Jehovah to hide counsel, And whose works have been in darkness. And they say, `Who is seeing us? And who is knowing us?'
16 Your perversion! as clay is the potter esteemed? That the work saith of its maker, `He hath not made me?' And the framed thing said of its framer, `He did not understand?'
17 Is it not yet a very little, And turned hath Lebanon to a fruitful field, And the fruitful field for a forest is reckoned?
18 And heard in that day have the deaf the words of a book, And out of thick darkness, and out of darkness, The eyes of the blind do see.
19 And the humble have added joy in Jehovah, And the poor among men In the Holy One of Israel rejoice.
20 For ceased hath the terrible one, And consumed hath been the scorner, And cut off have been all watching for iniquity,
21 Causing men to sin in word, And for a reprover in the gate lay a snare, And turn aside into emptiness the righteous.
22 Therefore, thus said Jehovah, Who ransomed Abraham, Concerning the house of Jacob: `Not now ashamed is Jacob, Nor now doth his face become pale,
23 For in his seeing his children, The work of My hand, in his midst, They sanctify My name, And have sanctified the Holy One of Jacob, And the God of Israel they declare fearful.
24 And the erring in spirit have known understanding, And murmurers learn doctrine!'
LittleNipper wrote:Sorry. This one was a rather involved.
All your posts are rather involved. This thread has accomplished nothing. Give yourself a break. If any of the members here don't have their own copy of the Bible, the can look it up online just like you do.
All you are doing is wasting bandwidth.
I came onto the board recently, so I have no idea why this thread exists, is there a reason for posting biblical sentences online? All I know is it's one of those things that was always here, but who knows why.
There is an interesting discussion about human sacrifice back a bunch of pages. There are some other discussions which have been done many times but the sacrifice discussion covered less trampled ground.
Lemmie wrote:I came onto the board recently, so I have no idea why this thread exists, is there a reason for posting biblical sentences online? All I know is it's one of those things that was always here, but who knows why.
I think LittleNipper may feel he is scoring points with God by posting the entire Bible on this board. It's obvious that if someone desires to read the Bible online, there are many websites to go to. He is wasting an enormous amount of band width, but if Shades doesn't care, I guess it's OK.
I would call it self flagellation, but it is pretty easy to copy and paste.
This, or any other post that I have made or will make in the future, is strictly my own opinion and consequently of little or no value.
"Faith is believing something you know ain't true" Twain.
Lemmie wrote:I came onto the board recently, so I have no idea why this thread exists, is there a reason for posting biblical sentences online? All I know is it's one of those things that was always here, but who knows why.
I think LittleNipper may feel he is scoring points with God by posting the entire Bible on this board. It's obvious that if someone desires to read the Bible online, there are many websites to go to. He is wasting an enormous amount of band width, but if Shades doesn't care, I guess it's OK.
I would call it self flagellation, but it is pretty easy to copy and paste.
Thank you for the background, Quasi. I also got that message from Dr. S. to not copy the full OP if I was the second poster, which I took as a request to not waste bandwidth, so that aspect was puzzling me also.
Lemmie wrote:Thank you for the background, Quasi. I also got that message from Dr. S. to not copy the full OP if I was the second poster, which I took as a request to not waste bandwidth, so that aspect was puzzling me also.
Oh well, c'est la vie!!
Happy new year, Quasi.
Happy new year to you too, Lem (nicknames are a term of endearment around here)!
This, or any other post that I have made or will make in the future, is strictly my own opinion and consequently of little or no value.
"Faith is believing something you know ain't true" Twain.
on p. 32, LUCIFER, apparently discussing the afterlife with ludwigm, wrote:Not so much haste. There’s time enough to spare. You’ll reach the goal before you think you’re there - and break your heart to find it so inane. I’ll have my laughs. Meantime - we’ll try again.
Thanks for the heads up, ludwigm, gives new meaning to the finding of easter eggs.
Gadianton, with all sorts of seriousness, wrote:The devils of past religions have always, at least in part, had animal characteristics, evidence of man's constant need to deny that he too is an animal, for to do so would serve a mighty blow to his impoverished ego.
- The Satanic Bible
I may have to contribute. I am currently re-reading Good Omens, I'm sure I can find something appropriate.
