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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-05 09:25 AM
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What is this Freeper talking about?
Are the fundies just making up Bible quotes now? :shrug:

To: USAfearsnobody
The real problem with everything on this planet is man's fallen, sinful nature. Before the flood, a canopy of water encircled the Earth, giving us a green house effect. It also protected us from solar winds, and the harmful rays of the sun. This is why we have famine and floods, hurricanes and tornadoes. The sun is THE weather maker.
That is why John saw a "new Heaven and Earth, with no more sea. The water will be put back where it belongs, in orbit around the Earth. All permanent solutions to all of man's problems can only be found in Christ and His eternal Kingdom. All man has in his cursed state is a band aid approach, which only covers up the problem, but never cures it.


39 posted on 06/07/2005 7:28:07 PM PDT by HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath (Doctors may delay your death, but only Jesus Christ can save your life.)
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davepc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-05 09:27 AM
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1. the book of Genesis with some Revelations thrown in
Edited on Sun Jun-19-05 09:28 AM by davepc
and some weird rambling pseudo-scientific theory on why we have bad weather.
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-05 09:28 AM
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2. Methinks
that he needs a mental evaluation.
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non sociopath skin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-05 09:30 AM
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3. Let me translate it into English for you....
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Amen.

Any Questions?

The Skin
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mzteris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-05 09:36 AM
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6. You're sooooo insightful!!
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-05 09:33 AM
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4. Whaaa??
Ten years of Catechism, three years of Episcopalean schooling, and six years of memorizing the Bible, followed by an academic path of studying history with an emphasis on religion, and I've never heard this.

Maybe this guy is a level four Thetan, or whatever the equivalent is in his cult. This is some secret knowledge kept from the masses--probably because it's so stupid it would immediately destroy the credibility of anyone who said it.

It's not in the Bible. It may be one of those theories based on the belief that it never rained until Noah's flood. Or maybe dude is a troll trying to make them look like idiots? Nah, that wouldn't take such creativity, they look like idiots all the time.
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bertha katzenengel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-05 10:15 AM
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20. You wouldn't have gotten this knowledge from your kind of education -- I
got it from MINE, though. This is Baptist college stuff, 101.
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-05 09:33 AM
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5. Um.... Water will be put back in orbit around the Earth?
:crazy::crazy::crazy::crazy::crazy:

Ok, so he does make one good point. You really HAVE to have enormous faith in something to believe that.
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-05 09:37 AM
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10. still smoke free?
:bounce: :thumbsup:
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-05 09:40 AM
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11. Yes!
I am proud to say!! :) :hi:
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-05 09:45 AM
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13. whoo-hoo
:woohoo: :bounce:

:hi:
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-05 09:36 AM
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7. This freeper has truly lost it.
:silly: :crazy: :tinfoilhat:
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China_cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-05 09:36 AM
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8. Yes, they do make it up
According to the majority of fundies, it never rained before the Noachan 'flood'. All water not in oceans, rivers or lakes was contained in a vapor canopy and this is where the water came from for the flood. (Don't bother asking them where the other 2 hydrospheres worth came from, they don't know)

When you ask how they know it never rained before Noah and his boat, they'll tell you it's because the bible never said anything about it raining. That's how they know there was a vapor canopy.

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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-05 09:47 AM
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15. I've heard something like this nonsense before.
It came from an intelligent, well-educated, but ill-informed nurse on matters of politics and religion.
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-05 10:00 AM
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17. I have never heard of this.
I thought I'd heard it all.
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Seabiscuit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-05 10:23 AM
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23. A vapor canopy??? WTF? Vapor between the ears, if you ask me.
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-05 09:36 AM
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9. He's trying to solve the world's problems...
...just as we often do, but with the only tools he has: pseudo-biblical rants that project an absolute morality onto his little universe. Trouble is, no one can be sure exactly what each word means as he's using it, and therefore his post is meaningless.
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-05 09:45 AM
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12. All I know is that if water is put "back in orbit around the Earth"
Edited on Sun Jun-19-05 09:45 AM by ET Awful
folks are gonna get mighty thirsty.

:evilgrin:
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AntiCoup2K4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-05 01:25 PM
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26. Don't be ridiculous! It's all about the Halliburton water sattelites
Cheney's not sure whether this idea is "Scriptural" or not, but he's looking into the viability of the orbiting water supply, totally under corporate control.
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gmoney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-05 09:45 AM
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14. No rain before the flood?
How did like PLANTS grow? Miracle juice? The tears of the unborn baby Jesus?

And if God wanted everyone dead, why bother with a flood and an ark? Why not just vaporize them, or have them devoured by flesh-eating bacteria? And God killed all the little babies? And the unborn feti? And the brain-dead women on feeding tubes?

Cinderella doesn't have as many plot holes as the Bible.
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-05 09:47 AM
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16. Dude, Independence Day doesn't have as many plot holes as the Bible
:).

I agree. For that matter, if "God" is omnipotent and all powerful, why does he need to send his "son" (or himself depending on which version you listen to), to earn his own forgiveness? I mean . . . if he's all powerful, couldn't he just say "poof! You're forgiven?"
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Igel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-05 10:06 AM
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18. Genesis 2.
(5) And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

(6) But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
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gmoney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-05 10:11 AM
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19. Mist from the earth?
Edited on Sun Jun-19-05 10:12 AM by gmoney
Sweet... like the sprinklers on corporate lawns at night? Or just fog, or dew, or wet naps?

That does it... I'm conviced. The Bible is true because the Bible says it's true! Hallelujah!
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-05 10:19 AM
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22. Hmmm, mist from the ground rising into the air and falling back down
sounds like rain to me.
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Igel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-05 01:01 PM
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24. I don't interpret, just
look up the texts that I know they rely on.

www.biblegateway.com has a neat enough search engine and covers lots of translations.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-05 10:15 AM
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21. Somewhere the Bible claims the water once existed in the sky?
So how did humans drink? Did they drink?

And, yeah, somebody would have to be in orbit... at least to write that piece of science fiction...
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rasputin1952 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-05 01:09 PM
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25. WTF...someone is really pushing the envelope on this one....
:banghead:

If this individual really believes this, they are beyond the realm of ignorance and straight into the bowels of stupidity, IMO.
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-05 01:31 PM
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27. puh-raze Gawdjeezis
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Ikonoklast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-05 02:03 PM
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28. Explains a lot
No wonder when you try to have an intelligent conversation with these people it is always so frustrating. They actually believe in fairy tales, and have a limited rational thought process. If one is intellectually lazy and not curious about the dimension in which our physical universe is manifested, I suppose it is easier just to believe stories told by ancient nomadic sheepherders.
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