Found out during worship yesterday....

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I think Muslims are mostly demonic. But one of the most disturbing things I have ever seen is a picture of a catholic priest blessing u.s. soldiers and a German priest blessing German soldiers during ww2. If Catholics were children of god, how could god bless Catholics killing Catholics? Wouldn't that be the same as apostle peter killing apostle john?
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IPorange said:
There will always be some segment of the population that will believe a sort of greater power of some sort or another, imo. We are hard-wired for it.
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Some believe in the nanny state as the ultimate authority.

Others believe in their own intellect as their god.

What's new about that?
 
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Oldvol75 said:
Daniel is a book of prophecy that deals with end time predictions. Old Testament. Yes!
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Aye, I know that Daniel is a book of prophecy, but couldn't we say that man has been gaining knowledge throughout our existence? What's happening today is simply a continuation of what's been happening forever. It isn't the fulfillment of a prophecy that denotes end times.
 
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VolInMn said:
Aye, I know that Daniel is a book of prophecy, but couldn't we say that man has been gaining knowledge throughout our existence? What's happening today is simply a continuation of what's been happening forever. It isn't the fulfillment of a prophecy that denotes end times.
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You can say whatever you want. Believe whatever you want
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VolInMn said:
Aye, I know that Daniel is a book of prophecy, but couldn't we say that man has been gaining knowledge throughout our existence? What's happening today is simply a continuation of what's been happening forever. It isn't the fulfillment of a prophecy that denotes end times.
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You can say whatever you want.
 
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Oldvol75 said:
How many of the inquisitors do you think read the NT? I would bet almost all of them.

But this quote is from you, thus why I wrote what I wrote. You didn't mention Aquinas reading, you said inquisitors.
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Aquinas believed in the throture in killing of heretics, did he not? That was my point. I highly doubt he wasn't familiar with the Sermon on the Mount.
 
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VolInMn said:
Aye, I know that Daniel is a book of prophecy, but couldn't we say that man has been gaining knowledge throughout our existence? What's happening today is simply a continuation of what's been happening forever. It isn't the fulfillment of a prophecy that denotes end times.
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But no where in time has mans knowledge exploded as the past 100 or so years. Doesn't knowledge now double or triple almost daily? I read that somewhere.
 
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Oldvol75 said:
But no where in time has mans knowledge exploded as the past 100 or so years. Doesn't knowledge now double or triple almost daily? I read that somewhere.
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I agree that we have the ability to learn more these days, and learn it faster, but I don't equate that with the verse from Daniel...
 
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I ask it here and in the religious debate thread.....

Any one buy into the documentary hypothesis for the formation of the pentateuch?
 
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I must admit that I didn't read it all but from what I read I would have to say I find it falls in line with assumptions I had already made.
 
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rjd970 said:
Aquinas believed in the throture in killing of heretics, did he not? That was my point. I highly doubt he wasn't familiar with the Sermon on the Mount.
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I would say you are correct about that, but it also helps out my point about the inquisitors themselves not being able to read. They were going by what they were taught by the priest.
 
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VolInMn said:
I agree that we have the ability to learn more these days, and learn it faster, but I don't equate that with the verse from Daniel...
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Well, back then they either walked or rode an animal. In the dark they had fire to see by, little written word. Knowledge by the majority of people was limited. For the past 100 to 150 years we have went from that to, trains, planes, automobiles, space shuttles, computers,etc..... To where knowledge has increased to what it is today. I see it plainly. Why did it take so long for man to suddenly "get smart"?
 
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Oldvol75 said:
Well, back then they either walked or rode an animal. In the dark they had fire to see by, little written word. Knowledge by the majority of people was limited. For the past 100 to 150 years we have went from that to, trains, planes, automobiles, space shuttles, computers,etc..... To where knowledge has increased to what it is today. I see it plainly. Why did it take so long for man to suddenly "get smart"?
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War accelerates the "get smart" process.
 
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Oldvol75 said:
Well, back then they either walked or rode an animal. In the dark they had fire to see by, little written word. Knowledge by the majority of people was limited. For the past 100 to 150 years we have went from that to, trains, planes, automobiles, space shuttles, computers,etc..... To where knowledge has increased to what it is today. I see it plainly. Why did it take so long for man to suddenly "get smart"?
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I'm not arguing that we can learn at a faster pace than we used to be able to. I'm just saying I don't believe it has anything to do with what was written in Daniel. Correlation does not equal causation, and all that.

A thousand years from now, people are likely to look back at us and ask the same question. "Why did it take so long for man to suddenly get smart?"
 
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