what the bible says about money

[Greebo]

i thought dwyer would have been shitting all over this thread.

Maybe he's busy elsewhere.

 

[DotCommunist]

coming down from the mountain 'Right, I've been given some rules and the first, most important one is.....fuck. You twats.

 

[danny la rouge]

how does that work?

Shhh. <it doesn't>

 

[frogwoman]

Shhh. <it doesn't>

sounds like blasphemy to me anyway

 

[Greebo]

how does that work?

I'll explain when I've got more time, right now I need to get dressed and catch a bus.

Shhh. <it doesn't>

It does in the presence of enough belief.

 

[Humberto]

I think they worshipped the idol itself. Like in Daniel, Nebuchadnezzar tried to make the Jews in Babylon worship a massive golden statue and they got put in a furnace for refusing.

 

[frogwoman]

Supposedly the golden calf was a statue of Moloch, that's one of the things that made it so bad. Moloch was an idol you were meant to sacrifice your kids to until he who must not be named came along and told them not to do it any more.

Dont know why it posted that twice

my computer must hate idolatry

 

[Pickman's model]

Supposedly the golden calf was a statue of Moloch, that's one of the things that made it so bad. Moloch was an idol you were meant to sacrifice your kids to until he who must not be named came along and told them not to do it any more.

voldemort?

 

[frogwoman]

voldemort?

 

[butchersapron]

I think they worshipped the idol itself. Like in Daniel, Nebuchadnezzar tried to make the Jews in Babylon worship a massive golden statue and they got put in a furnace for refusing.

Do you think this actually happened? It's not even quite in the bible is it?

 

[Humberto]

Do you think this actually happened? It's not even quite in the bible is it?

He put 'some' Jews in the furnace for not worshipping the statue. That is what I should have said.

 

[butchersapron]

He put 'some' Jews in the furnace for not worshipping the statue. That is what I should have said.

Was it a golden statue?

 

[Humberto]

Yes

 

[xslavearcx]

my computer must hate idolatry

 

[butchersapron]

Yes

You don't think that it was in some way a metaphor, given the fakery of daniel?

 

[Humberto]

You don't think that it was in some way a metaphor, given the fakery of daniel?

I'm not with you. It says in the Bible it was a golden statue. Is this just you saying 'I don't believe what is in the book of Daniel'. That's a different question.

 

[butchersapron]

I'm not with you. It says in the Bible it was a golden statue. Is this just you saying 'I don't believe what is in the book of Daniel'. That's a different question.

What do you know about the book of Daniel and its construction? Not that you should need to know this in order to grasp a clear metaphor.

 

[Humberto]

What do you know about the book of Daniel and its construction? Not that you should need to know this grasp a clear metaphor.

Well what do you know? If you know something interesting lets hear it.

 

[butchersapron]

Well what do you know? If you know something interesting lets hear it.

Are you serious? You haven't even bothered to check out its provenance?

 

[TruXta]

At least the conversation is back on track

 

[Humberto]

Are you serious? You haven't even bothered to check out its provenance?

I haven't. I bow to your superior knowledge and must look quite the foolish ignoramus. Thats me told.

 

[butchersapron]

I haven't. I bow to your superior knowledge and must look quite the foolish ignoramous. Thats me told.

Do you know why apocalyptic literature was produced? Prophetic literature? To achieve and end within time - they are not literal accounts of history. They even use past events to illustrate this! Sometime they pretend to use those old events to illuminate the modern. (Also Daniel was the birth of christianity with the judgment and all that). Up your game, if you have a game.

 

[Humberto]

Do you know why apocalyptic literature was produced? Prophetic literature? To achieve and end within time - they are not literal accounts of history. They even use past events to illustrate this! Sometime they pretend to use those old events to illuminate the modern. (Also Daniel was the birth of christianity with the judgment and all that). Up your game, if you have a game.

Well ~ thats one angle. The other being that its prophecy from God.

 

[TruXta]

Well ~ thats one angle. The other being that its prophecy from God.

And that's supposed to give you a license to be an ignoramus then?

 

[butchersapron]

Well ~ thats one angle. The other being that its prophecy from God.

Which, of course, is childish nonsense.

 

[butchersapron]

If you think the literary forgery called daniel was inspired by the word of god (think believing Sherlock holmes was real) please say.

 

[TruXta]

If you think the literary forgery called daniel was inspired by the word of god (think believing Sherlock holmes was real) please say.

You're leaving him an out by using the word "inspired" (unless you're quite literal about your usage)

 

[butchersapron]

You're leaving him an out by using the word "inspired" (unless you're quite literal about your usage)

let's see if he uses it. It's a wea defence though as we can evidence all sort of other divine inspirations. It must be the word of god.

 

[Humberto]

I'm not playing games. If you happen to know Daniel is a forgery then say so. As I've not seen that evidence I thought it was a 'legitimate' part of the Bible.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

They venerated the golden calf as a representation of a deity they wished to help them. This is why it's called an "idol". it's not the actual deity itself.

Who knows: through the miracle of transubstantiation, maybe the idol became the god at certain times.