Subj : Today's Thought
To   : Newborn
From : George Pope
Date : Sun Oct 16 2005 14:49:00

N>  > Like I said, Exodus clearly validates the Mishnah (Moses brought down the
N>  > AND the Mishnah, it says)
N>  >
N>     Nowhere does it say Moses BROUGHT down other then the commandments.  It
N>     was the Pharasises' that added their own rules and regulations to the
N>     commandments.  Please when you make a statement of fact give me the chap
N>     and verses in which it is written.  It is easy to quote something that n
N>     valitidity and cannot be found in Scripture.

Check your own preferred translation, in English it usually says, "and the
instructions concerning the Torah" (this is the "oral Torah" aka Mishnah)

Moses often referred to the oral Torah (in saying "as was shown to me on the
mountain" without "it" being recorded in the written Torah)

N>  > You probably mis-presume that using "Xian" instead of "Christian" is a ne
N>  > diminutive, when the originators of it thought exactly the opposite (beca
N>  > "X"(in Greek) was the first character of "Xristos"("Christ") it was consi
N>  > to have special honour, and to use it singularly  without explanation was
N>  > that he had his own clear identity that was greater than the expected con
N>  > of using a single letter. . ..
N>  > (eg. how when we say "the F-word" everybody KNOWS which of the 10's of
N>  > thousands of words starting with "F" is meant, because it has gained its
N>  > significane/notoriety above all others.
N>  >
N>    I know the history I just find it degrading to Christ NOT to use His name

So it would be if YOU didn't use his name -- and, besides, as I said, Xmas is
pronounced identically to "Christmas" (I used to pronounce it "CHRISTmas"(with
a long "i" as in "Christ" (rather than the short as in the common "Chrismiss")

N>    I take it your are a reformed Jew.  You seem to have no qualms about usin
N>    the name of GOD in ways that the orthadox would find blasphmeous.

You take it wrong.

I was baptized in the Mennonite Brethren, and studied with them, with the
Presbyterian Church(in America) and with pastors of the R.C.C., Anglican, and
Pentecostal faiths, as well as rabbis of various faiths, plus theologians of
all sorts.

I stand for Truth wherever it may be found, and I hold no quarter to
disintegration of the facts as they are plainly made known by God's mouth
directly to thousands of eyewitnesses.

N>  > You really need to stop criticizing based on your own erroneous presumpti
N>  >
N>    And you need to stop criticizing based on your own erroneous presusumptio
N>    of what I mean.  Error is in the eye of the beholder.

I only replied to YOUR own statements.

Because I care,
|<+]::-)  (Cyberpope(the Bishop of ROM!))


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