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Mountain moved 124 mph!

May 21, 2006 11:52AM PDT

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(NT) (NT) I think NBC is running a miniseries like that...
May 21, 2006 1:43PM PDT
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If the Bible had made that claim, the sceptics would use it
May 21, 2006 1:46PM PDT

as prime evidence of how wrong the Bible can be.

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Maybe some old prophet DID tell mountain to move.
May 21, 2006 6:24PM PDT

Matthew 17:20 - And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.

Matthew 21:21 - Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done.

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(NT) (NT) Only the prophet was 50 million years ago ;-)
May 21, 2006 10:46PM PDT
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(NT) (NT) Do it, again ;-)
May 22, 2006 6:13AM PDT
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Good quotes, but
May 23, 2006 7:46AM PDT

you no doubt also know that "mountain" symbolically means "government" on occasion. Bad news, indeed, for some. Happy (Devil face belongs here, but don't know how to make it.)

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True, but now they'd have to eat their words
May 21, 2006 9:17PM PDT

wouldn't they, because science has discovered it to be true, and has discovered the mechanism by which the mountain moved. Had Joshua blown the shofar 3 times and walked around it and it moved, Science would have looked at its peculiarities (the top older than the bottom and said, can't explain that, maybe they're right. Now they'd be saying well, he did what he did, and it did what it did, causation or just good luck with the timing? Who knows? Scientists are loath to adopt any single explanation when there are so many possible scenarios.

Rob

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the next thing science will tell us
May 21, 2006 11:19PM PDT

is that the ark myth was a legend. the 'true story' was ancient astronauts carried all the dna, stem cell research, and bio research in their lunch buckets and left them here because it was too dark.

source:

http://www.newspeekipedia.gov/

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Too bad there was no
May 22, 2006 3:05AM PDT

peer review process when people were making up the bible. That would have been useful.

Dan

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(NT) (NT) they rather peer through your windows
May 22, 2006 3:20AM PDT
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No need.
May 22, 2006 4:00AM PDT

We just added a deck with a spa out back. It's all there.

Dan

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gee, I 'm torn between
May 22, 2006 4:57AM PDT

wanting to be your neighbor or REALLY wanting to be your neighbor.

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(NT) (NT) ''These are the times that try mens' souls.''
May 22, 2006 6:07AM PDT
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Although people did write it, I don't think they were making
May 22, 2006 6:22AM PDT

it up. Most folks agree with my view.

However, you really just wanted to slip in a little zinger to get a response didn't you?

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I read a similar scenario on the Columbia
May 23, 2006 7:49AM PDT

River basin. (NW USA)
Says there was a glacial ice dam 'way upriver that failed catastrophically during a melt period. Scientist says the noise alone would have killed living things. Must have been an atmospheric shock wave from your mountain, also.

BTW, thanks for sharing - another blankety-blank possibility to keep us awake nights. Happy