France Again

[-Talbot-]

http://news.sky.com/story/attack-in-nice-30-dead-as-truck-hits-crowd-10502068

[sp1814]

v_e

You asked:

Let me try a different tack. How many Jews and Christians do you think there are who believe the Bible literally? Now how many Muslims do you think there are who take their scriptures literally?

Zero in all camps.

I'm not the kind of person who sits his friends, work colleagues and acquaintances down with a questionnaire on a regular basis.

[sp1814]

Hang on.

Let me clarify something before I ask a question...I have no idea how many Christians worldwide view the Bible as the word of God.

No idea whatsoever.

But Jews? I don't get that point.

Jews and the Bible?

[sp1814]

v_e

Honest - I'm not trying to ignore any of your points. It's just that you have made quite a few (all well thought out), and I'm multitasking right now.

Will have to leave it for now - going out to dinner.

Thanks for putting up some interesting points. Good to disagree with someone with a brain.

[vetuste_ennemi]

"..believe",not "know", SP. I'm trying to make a serious point; you seem determined to be flippant.

If Mo wrote an autobiography he could have called it "My Jihad". Do you know how that would translate in German? What I call "raw Islam" - the literal Islam of the Koran and what the Prophet himself actually did - is supremacist, intolerant and divisive. It's like Nazism. This doesn't make all Muslims, who are such largely by accidents of birth and geography, Nazis, but more than a few show just those characteristics, don't they?

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[vetuste_ennemi]

I was still typing away while after your last reply, SP, otherwise I wouldn't have posted my last note.

Enjoy your dinner.

[mushroom25]

//But Jews? I don't get that point.
Jews and the Bible? //

really, SP? I mean, really?????

[jourdain2]

sp I hesitate to join this battle, but I (very peaceably and not wanting to get involved in a row) would like to explain about Jews, Christians and the Bible.

Jews have the holy writings of the Torah. The Torah comprises the Old Testament of the Bible. Jews, therefore, have no truck with the New Testament.

The New Testament is concerned with the teachings of Jesus Christ (with a few oddities) and is the one observed by Christians. JC was very definitely non-p.c. and although he grew up with the Torah he rejected it. Christians read and try to understand the OT as a background. Belief is founded in the gentler teachings of Jesus.

The Bible comprises the Old and the New Testaments. It helps if you understand the difference. :)

PS That's it from me. I may be wrong and you already were working from this viewpoint - if so then I apologise. I do get tired of people quoting hellfire and damnation from the OT as if it were illustrative of Christian belief. :(

[-Talbot-]

A grudge against society Eddie?
Arrested for their own protection Gromit?


http://www.rte.ie/news/world/2016/0721/803955-france-attack/

[naomi24]

Talbot, http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1503605.html

[Old_Geezer]

You're not suggesting that the Christians reject Hell as a place you can end up at, are you jourdain ?

Very unfortunate for the Jews, it seems. They are still immersed in the violent tribal goings on that will have little application today, and miss out on all the luvey dovey stuff then.