<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=148593.msg6934514#msg6934514">Quote from: Zillah on 17-09-2012, 04:32:07</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Apologies for my recent extended - and unplanned - absence. Not sure when I'll be back and able to post, unfortunately.<br/><br/>Miss you all.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Big Hugs, Z. Come back when you can, babe. We'll be here...<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=148593.msg6933877#msg6933877">Quote from: Blinkin on 17-09-2012, 02:42:11</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I've seen your use of biblical source for arguments, I'll pass. lol I don't mind a friendly discussion where we disagree; you only really learn when you have an open mind and talk to someone who has a different point of view. As long as everyone agrees to disagree and respect each other, it can be quite a stimulating experience.<br/><br/>I will never forget one gathering back in... it must of been the winter of '96... I was attending a party of a friend when another guest stood up and announced that he had found God and wanted the rest of us to pray with him. Everyone took that well enough and no one had a problem with the announcement or request.<br/><br/>Things didn't go so well when the fellow started asking people if they believed that the Bible was the true word of God; that it was God's actual words. One slightly older young man (what a term that was!) decided to play Devil's Avocate I guess and said that he didn't believe that it was. His point was that because the text was originally writen in ancient hewbrew, translated into  a more modern version, then into latin before english... that the church picked and chose what was included and what was not, that it was not the same as it might of been originally.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Actually  the OT was written in Hebrew, translated into a more up to date Hebrew, THEN into Greek. The NT was written in Greek. The whole thing was then translated into Latin (which translation contains several glaring errors we now know - most noticeably mistranslating the word "repentance" into "penance"). It was then translated into English and finally into other European Languages.<br/><br/>Oh I would have loved to have been at that party.... *evil cackle*<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">This upset the born-again so much that he took a swing at him and nearly started a fist fight over it. That's taking things too seriously. If you don't want to know what someone thinks, don't ask the questions. :)</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Uh yeah. What happened to turning the other cheek?<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Crafish mac and cheese? Your wife must be a southern girl from the Deep south. Where I come from, we called them crawdads and they looked like little gray lobsters in the bottom of streams. Growing up, it was a fun game to hunt for them without getting caught by a claw... they don't like to let go! ;)<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Actually she's from St Louis MO, but her mother is German.