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Someone quotes the Conservative Bible Project's translation of John 3:16Schlafly's bible posted:For God so loved the [people in the] world that He gave His Unique Son, so that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. They complain that the "[people in the]" bit is clunky. Andy's reply? Andy Schlafly posted:I'd like a response to the issue of how the phrase "so loved the world" now has an environmentalist spin in English. That does make me wonder why they didn't go a little further with the translation: "For God so loved the [Conservatives in the] world..."
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Occupy Japan posted:Do you actually know what "out of context" means? Because presenting that whole verse in an unedited form is not "out of context". What context could be relevant here? That the book of the Bible it came from is a laundry list of laws? That ancient people weren't exactly social justice warriors? It's a historical document, so the context is the beliefs and attitudes of the time. Women were property, so to "lie with a man as with a woman" would mean reducing a man to property. (There are several of other interpretations of this passage which also seem pretty reasonable.) The bible is not some kind of clear-cut easy-reader. You have to account for the authors and the intended audience, and those can change on a sentence-by-sentence basis since the whole thing was stitched together both when it was compiled and later when it was copied.
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Parahexavoctal posted:One interesting problem that Conservapedia has is their policy of not being neutral regarding viewpoint, because sometimes they'll say something It's a real shame that that page was killed for its thoughtcrimes, because it was one of the best. quote:Conservapedia Prediction: Conservapedia predicts that "By Tuesday night [Election Night], most American voters will have cast their ballots against Barack Obama."[33]
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I was disappointed that it didn't say "if anyone suspects he might be the antichrist take note: that means he'll burst into flame when he touches that bible!"
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bessantj posted:Do people on alt.football.atheists not believe in the Hail Mary pass? We believe that they happen, but we don't believe anyone is there to catch them.
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Epicurius posted:Johnny Cash didn't really shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die, right? Are you open-minded enough to consider that he did?
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