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Monday, April 27, 2009

Not too barbed

I see that one of the blots we report has got airplay on one of the blogs we also report.
Check it here.

Two of our members have had a go at the Blogging Parsnip for his blog on fundamentalists. Watcher takes it further. We all wonder why the Parsnip didn't.

All down to the speed of the net and late night reading!!

9 comments:

Warwick said...

Eric, a visiting pastor preached on this last Sunday. Not some flake but a serious Baptist pastor.

Hebrews gave names to their children because of the meaning of the name. Not just they liked the sound.

Consider:

Adam = Man , or human
begat
Seth = appointed
begat
Enosh = mortal
begat
Keenan = sorrow
begat
Mahalalel = the blessed God
begat
Jared = shall come down
begat
Enoch = teaching
Methuselah= his death shall bring
begat
Lamech = despairing
begat
Noah = Comfort


Put them in chronological order and you get:

Man is appointed mortal sorrow. The blessed God shall come down teaching His death shall bring despairing comfort.

What is the chance that the gospel is spelled out accidentally, in Genesis ch. 5. He said it was one chance in 10 to the 240th!

Comments please!

neil moore said...

Warwick, I need a little more time because my sources don't all agree with the meanings provided by you.

I'll check it out further.

neil moore said...

Oops! I posted before finishing.

Warwick, I will get back to you shortly.

Neil

neil moore said...

Warwick,

There may well be the meanings mentioned by the Preacher but the references I have don't all match. Most agree. It could be just a failing of my sources. Nevertheless, the closeness does suggest something of significance. It is not something I have been taught before.

BTW, did anyone catch that hater of Christianity, Maralyn Parker, Education Writer for the Sydney Daily Telegraph today 30/4? As usual, she advocates tolerance so long as it is tolerance to her views. She makes the outlandish and demonstrably erroneous statement that "... Islamic schools do not teach that the world was created in six days 2,000 years ago - as 200,000 Australian children are taught today in evangelical Christian schools."

2,000 years ago? - I have never heard of anyone teaching this. 6,000 years ago, yes but not all evangelical Christian schools - the Anglicans have renegued on Scripture some time ago when it come to the Creation account.

Neil

John said...

I hope you contacted Parker and made the point that since she can't get the views of her opponents correct there's not much hope for believing anything else she says.

neil moore said...

Oops! Will do.

Neil

neil moore said...

John, I attempted to post a comment on Maralyn Parker's blog at the Telegraph, something along the lines of the absurdity of her claim that Christian Schools teach creation just 2,000 years ago, but it went to a 'Moderator' and, as far as I can see, it didn't get a run.

Censorship to protect a rare species?

Neil

gwen said...

Hi guys,

Just dropped in to let you know I'm still around.

It reads like Maralyn Parker is an Atheist by what several of her columns. They are really precious 'dears' aren't they the worlds Atheists.

They have been living off the back of Christian morality for the length of their existence and yet are eagerly trying to supplant it in many and various ways.

They are also resolute in rejecting censorship unless it is criticism of their belief or argument.

You wouldn't want to be born an Atheist would you? What a miserable, hypocritical and wasted existence.

Gwen

Ktisophilos said...

I have to say that this list of meanings is a bit contrived. The propositional revelation is unambiguous, so doesn't need any hidden codes.