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NASB | Psalm 22:16 For dogs have surrounded me; A band of evildoers has encompassed me; They pierced my hands and my feet. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Psalm 22:16 For [a pack of] dogs have surrounded me; A gang of evildoers has encircled me, They pierced my hands and my feet. [Is 53:7; John 19:37] |
Subject: Does Psalms 22 stand up to the skeptics? |
Bible Note: Last part: Joe said, in summation: Your fellow debaters are really amateurs who do not know how to read literature very well at all, much less the Bible. If they are looking for reasons to rebel against God, they will always find them, no matter how feeble they may be. She said, in summation: Odd, that I could have written the above for you. How’d I know you’d end it with the condescending you began with? You “assume” they (and I?) are looking for reasons to “rebel” against God. That kind of assumption assumes that there is a God, your god specifically. Bad assumption. My “pals” as you call them, might inquire, “Which God?” The one who tells the pope what to do and say? Is that the one? The one (Allah) who the Muslims say is Great? The Jewish God, you know, the God who is still waiting for his own Messiah to come? The Hindu deity? Then, there is the God of the Mormons? Can you be more specific? The God of the Jehovah Witnesses; there’s a good one. Church of Christ? Not much room in heaven for those two, is there? Or, is it the God of the Old Testament? Have you read that horror story, lately? What kind of monster resides there? I hope that isn’t the God you think I’m rebelling against. I wouldn’t even try and recognize that kind of creature. How about a little Christian Science God? I wouldn’t worry about being sick. Maybe the God of Benny Hinn? But I need to practice my buckling backward instead of forward, as is normal. Gods, Gods, Gods, everywhere! Which God to choose? But it’s hard to shop when THEY can’t be seen, when no one has ever seen, heard, touched, smelled a God. But I’m not ready for any kind of controlled insanity and never will be. As for the “feeble” reasons always to be found, you neglect the “Superman” reasons that you don’t have to find. They find you. No matter how much you deny, avert, disguise, lie to yourself, your mind knows better. Go back and look at the Gods. Do you think they’re ALL real? Do you think that just yours—whatever that is—is real? The biggest, and most absurd, lie that you keep telling yourself is that the Bible is “God-breathed”, “infallible”. And this without the investigation of its history; without the investigation of how it came to be. How many on this forum know about the pagan religions that surrounded Christianity and what Christianity absorbed from them? Mithra, Persian God of the 5th-century B.C., was the God of Light and Wisdom. He aided human souls to heaven after death; he was born on December 25, and his birth was the result of a miracle; shepherds worshipped at his birth; his rites included baptism and a sacred meal; and he was to raise the dead and judge humankind at the end of the world. Doesn't this have a familiar ring to it? The End |