User Profile: PubliusScipio

PubliusScipio

Member Since: June 06, 2012

CommentsDisplaying PubliusScipio's 10 most recent comments.

  • The Bible Is Making a Big Comeback in One Secular European Country

    June 6, 2013 at 1:55pm

    In reply to dont_drive_slow_in_the_left_lane_obliviot.

    @Moderation

    He loves everyone, but favors those who love Him back. I’m sorry if you don’t like that arrangement, but perhaps you’d be more comfortable if no one had free will and everyone was forced by God to live according to His rules? You cant have it both ways.

    With regard to Him setting up an imperfect system, it’s the result of Him both allowing humans to have fee will and giving Satan free reign on earth. Basically Satan rebelled because, among other things, he thought he could do a better job than God – so God’s response was, in effect, “Okay, prove it.” The Bible even states the angels are watching like a “court” to witness the outcome. So, in the end, God is playing a much larger game for much higher stakes than your self-centered silliness could apparently appreciate.

  • The Bible Is Making a Big Comeback in One Secular European Country

    June 6, 2013 at 1:41pm

    In reply to dont_drive_slow_in_the_left_lane_obliviot.

    @TheOther

    Your link cited all of three verses – not much to build a credible case for your assumptions. Allow me to destroy one:

    “In Colossians 1:16 we find the preposition en (in, by means of). This preposition governs auto (him, in the dative case). Most of the 74 occurrences in the NT of “en auto” in the dative case are locative, that is, they refer to something or someone being in some place. Only one of the examples points to a direct agent (1 Corinth. 6:2). In the last part of verse 16 we find the preposition dia, which governs autou in the genitive case. This is the typical marking of an INTERMEDIATE agent, so this must be the proper way to view Jesus.” (emphasis mine.)

    Feel free to consult an actual scholar to dispute me.

  • The Bible Is Making a Big Comeback in One Secular European Country

    June 6, 2013 at 1:23pm

    In reply to dont_drive_slow_in_the_left_lane_obliviot.

    @Moderation

    Jesus said the path of righteousness was narrow and few would find it. In the OT, God commanded Gideon to reduce the numbers in his army based on how they drank water from a river.

    While God may wish to see as many people as possible join Him, He has no problem accepting only a fraction into His kingdom. And those who are studious and truly desirous to know Him will be able to learn the truth. It will not be easy but then, if you accept the notion that He created the universe (as believers do,) He has the right to be as picky as He wants to be.

  • The Bible Is Making a Big Comeback in One Secular European Country

    June 6, 2013 at 1:09pm

    In reply to GuruMeditation.

    @Cosmic

    Eh, you’re using the failings of the creations to infer a failing upon the Creator. I suppose He could have made us perfect but then would that leave us, truly, with any free will?

    Regarding “Yet, when it comes to books, and making them perfectly clear to his creations, he still has some trouble” I would propose that it’s not His fault at making His intention clear – it’s the will/pride/vanity/ego of men who mess with the message. In example, human editors of the Bible have chosen to remove the name of God from most versions (even though it’s written almost 7,000 times in the OT and Jesus made a point of making His name known – John 17:6) and then you have the additions over time ala the Complutensian Polyglot and then mistakes like homeoteleutons and simple typos (those are all over the ancient codices.)

  • The Bible Is Making a Big Comeback in One Secular European Country

    June 6, 2013 at 12:50pm

    In reply to dont_drive_slow_in_the_left_lane_obliviot.

    @TheOther

    I don’t know about you, but I enjoy reading Koinic Greek (personally, I favor Polybius) and I’ve found – strangely enough – the NWT and NRSV are the most accurate when I compare them to my facsimile of the Codex Sinaiticus. There are subtle variations, to be sure, but as far as NT translation is concerned they’re both very good.

    For OT, I like to refer to my Walton Polyglot and for that the NWT is very good indeed.

  • Shocking Video: Police Shoot Crazed London Terrorists Accused of Butchering British Soldier

    May 24, 2013 at 12:12am

    In reply to tnman65.

    @tnman65

    Sadly comments like yours would get you banned from entering the UK (and I agree with you for the most part, btw.) So, as far as I’m concerned, their government has been asking for this sort of thing to happen.

  • Another Teen Atheist Successfully Gets 10 Commandments Removed at His High School

    May 14, 2013 at 10:50pm

    In reply to PubliusScipio.

    @Rationalman

    I just hope we can institute a school voucher system since most of the youth in this country are educated via the public system (perhaps you don’t realize the average/majority family can’t send their child to a private school.) Then those schools will see a massive drop in funding. Should the majority be forced to fund institutions that are antagonistic toward their beliefs?

  • Another Teen Atheist Successfully Gets 10 Commandments Removed at His High School

    May 14, 2013 at 10:42pm

    In reply to mcsledge.

    @AnimalsAsLeaders

    MCSLEDGE didn’t assert the Commandments were the cornerstone for laws in this country. If you were half as rational as you’d like everyone to believe, you’d have clued in to the fact that he referred to them as “the basis [sic] for our moral values in this country.” In case you’re not aware, laws and morals are different things.

    Commandments 1-4 if actually made into law, and ignoring the unconstitutionality of such an act for the moment, would be of little value to the secular world (although #3 might help if people took it as an opportunity to both increase their vocabulary and spend more time thinking about what they’d like to say – but that would put you in a bind, wouldn’t it?)

    The rest of the Commandments would absolutely help society’s daily functioning. Respect each other along with each other’s property (whoops, just made liberals illegal with that one!) and tell the truth. Feel free to argue how these values would lead to societal decay and the decline of world civilization.

  • Another Teen Atheist Successfully Gets 10 Commandments Removed at His High School

    May 14, 2013 at 10:26pm

    Protecting minority rights is one thing, but I am really sick and tired of minority groups pushing around the majority. One of the critical ideas that separated the U.S. at its founding from every other nation in the world was the government following the voice of the majority. What these ******** fail to understand is that by enforcing minority rule, they’re actively taking us back to a time when power was held by a few to the detriment of all.

  • Yikes: Museum adds 2 dead terrorists to ‘Journalists Memorial’

    May 12, 2013 at 2:29am

    Notice to all “journalists” providing comfort to the enemy… in my book, TV stands for “Target Vehicle.” :)

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