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This is a divine fallacy, also called argument from incredulity.

I have not dismissed that there is allegory in Genesis. I'm not saying that there isn't allegory in Genesis.

My position is that instead of taking everything either completely woodenly literally, or seeing it all as completely poetic, one should read it as-is, taking the literal parts to be literal, and the figurative parts to be figurative. Just like you would read any other book.

Once agin, you have failed to provide evidence to support your claim that Genesis is "poetic."

Instead, you have begged the question that all of it is poetic, and expect others to accept it.



By literally, do you per-chance mean "woodenly" literally?

Because if you do, then my answer will just be me talking past you.

I read Revelation literally. No, that does not mean that I take everything to be literal.

I read the literal parts as literal, and the figurative parts as figurative, just like when you read any other book, there are parts that are literal, with figures of speech, allegories, etc, scattered throughout.

Again, the Bible says six days and from the beginning of creation.

I have no reason to take those phrases to mean anything other than what they say.

If you have evidence that says they mean something else, I am more than happy to look at it. But so far, you haven't presented any.

Where do you decide what's absolutely literal and what can be taken as figurative? What absolute criteria do you have for that that isn't subjective to any extent? Fundamentalism is indeed a strict adherence to a set of dogmatic beliefs. That's why it should be questioned.
 

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There's one key parallel between the two religions: dogma.
Why do you believe Islamic fundamentalists hate the Christian dominated west and vice versa?

There's obvious political animosity but religious hate for the infidels is a key, cultural issue.

I believe the Islamic fundamentalists hate the Christian dominated west for only one main reason, they believe the west is so very wealthy and they envoy that wealth. They really do assume all in the USA are very wealthy and have no understanding of the poverty here in the west.

People, and I mean all people, not just Arabs, may use religion as a substitute for what is the primary issue, which is jealousy of an imagined utopia they unconsciously desire, but feel oppressed by circumstance, so, their impulse is sublimated by the unconscious mind and what is conscious is a religious zeal, with a dread for something they can grasp by labeling it is an evil, which they desire, a sublimated desire, one that is transformed from desire for gain of the imagined good, to dread of difference, which is really a perverted, ( not sexual as is a sexual deviancy, but in a misguided drive ) , into an inclination for violence and death.

They desire us, but cannpt consciously admit and feel this, so they turn that drive inward and imagine themselves possessing what they need, yet do not have and assume, falsely, that the other (us) is the bad object they must destroy.
 

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Darwinists love it when the discussion is about how many people believe what

Seriously, Stripe does the whole "Darwinist" shtick already. He really doesn't need a sidekick...


Except that it doesn't, no matter how badly you want it to.

The evidence, including the Bible, says six days and from the beginning of creation around 7-10,000 years ago.

Yes, it does. That's why it's accepted. It's not a case of me "wanting it to be so". Why some of you try that thing is utterly bemusing. I wouldn't have a problem whatsoever if the earth were only a few thousand years old, why would I?
 

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I believe the Islamic fundamentalists hate the Christian dominated west for only one main reason, they believe the west is so very wealthy and they envoy that wealth. They really do assume all in the USA are very wealthy and have no understanding of the poverty here in the west.

People, and I mean all people, not just Arabs, may use religion as a substitute for what is the primary issue, which is jealousy of an imagined utopia they unconsciously desire, but feel oppressed by circumstance, so, their impulse is sublimated by the unconscious mind and what is conscious is a religious zeal, with a dread for something they can grasp by labeling it is an evil, which they desire, a sublimated desire, one that is transformed from desire for gain of the imagined good, to dread of difference, which is really a perverted, ( not sexual as is a sexual deviancy, but in a misguided drive ) , into an inclination for violence and death.

They desire us, but cannpt consciously admit and feel this, so they turn that drive inward and imagine themselves possessing what they need, yet do not have and assume, falsely, that the other (us) is the bad object they must destroy.

So in a word...it's simple 'jealousy'. Well, that Freudian-esque simplification may personally succor the depths of your concern yet, the stench of religious hate historically retains its ugly legacy. 9/11 being its latest chapter.
 

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I believe the Islamic fundamentalists hate the Christian dominated west for only one main reason, they believe the west is so very wealthy and they envoy that wealth. They really do assume all in the USA are very wealthy and have no understanding of the poverty here in the west.

People, and I mean all people, not just Arabs, may use religion as a substitute for what is the primary issue, which is jealousy of an imagined utopia they unconsciously desire, but feel oppressed by circumstance, so, their impulse is sublimated by the unconscious mind and what is conscious is a religious zeal, with a dread for something they can grasp by labeling it is an evil, which they desire, a sublimated desire, one that is transformed from desire for gain of the imagined good, to dread of difference, which is really a perverted, ( not sexual as is a sexual deviancy, but in a misguided drive ) , into an inclination for violence and death.

They desire us, but cannpt consciously admit and feel this, so they turn that drive inward and imagine themselves possessing what they need, yet do not have and assume, falsely, that the other (us) is the bad object they must destroy.
Rubbish. Muslims do not hate the west for wealth (which is stolen by the way) but because your wars are slaughtering them and their children. Your policies have destroyed their lives and will destroy their children's lives and you will not let them live in peace.

Nothing more.

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Where do you decide what's absolutely literal and what can be taken as figurative? What absolute criteria do you have for that that isn't subjective to any extent?

You can't do it by just guessing.

When you're about to go on a trip with a friend and you say, "let's hit the road," (or whatever the british equivalent of that is) do you or your friend ever think that you meant that you should literally go out and hit the road with a sledgehammer?

Or do you recognize that it's a figure of speech that means "let's get going"? Did you decide what it meant? Or did the phrase already have a certain meaning before you started to use it?

Hebrew (and Greek, for that matter) is no different. Words and phrases have meaning.

I don't decide what is or is not a figure of speech arbitrarily. I learn what the figures of speech are, so that when I see one, I can recognize it.

For example:

"Love and hate" is a Hebrew idiom that means "to love more and to love."

So when God says "Jacob I have loved but Esau I have hated," it doesn't mean that God actually hated Esau, but it means that God loves Jacob so much that it's AS IF He hated Esau.

You make it sound like figures of speech are this magical thing that allow anything to work with anything else.

But figures of speech have meaning, because words have meaning. So the next time you claim, "oh, but Genesis is [insert type of figurative language here]," I'm going to ask you what the passage in question means.

If you can't come up with an answer, and feel free to use the internet to help you find what it means, then it likely isn't figurative language, and can probably be read literally.

Why don't you try. Pick a verse that you think is just figurative for something, post it here, and then try to explain what the alleged figure of speech means or represents.

Here's another example.

"The womb" and "the depths of the earth" are interchangeable, ESPECIALLY in Hebrew poetry, and both are used throughout the Bible.

Fundamentalism is indeed a strict adherence to a set of dogmatic beliefs. That's why it should be questioned.

Fundamentalism is an adherance to the basics of what the Bible teaches.

Any belief that does not allow it's opponents to question it is simply blind faith, and is most likely a false belief.

Fundamentalism WELCOMES questioning.
 

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So in a word...it's simple 'jealousy'. Well, that Freudian-esque simplification may personally succor the depths of your concern yet, the stench of religious hate historically retains its ugly legacy. 9/11 being its latest chapter.
Actually Bin Laden laid out his hatred for the west in his letter to America.

Read here : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/nov/24/theobserver



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I believe the Islamic fundamentalists hate the Christian dominated west for only one main reason, they believe the west is so very wealthy and they envoy that wealth.

There's only one problem with this theory: Qatar is the richest nation on earth. Brunei, Kuwait, and United Arab Emirates are the 3rd, 4th, and 5th richest nations on earth. The USA? We are in 11th place when it comes to gross national income. Saudi Arabia is right behind, in 12th place.

Do you think Osama Bin Laden envied us for our wealth? He had plenty of it. I don't think they envy us for our wealth.
 

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So in a word...it's simple 'jealousy'. Well, that Freudian-esque simplification may personally succor the depths of your concern yet, the stench of religious hate historically retains its ugly legacy. 9/11 being its latest chapter.

It is true some of my explanations comes from psychoanalysis, but it has little to do with Freud. I am writing about how these groups have come to have such hatred towards western European, and more so, Americans. It is based on there desire, which is directly expressed, would lead to personal shame. Not that it must, but that, given there social influence, it would.

If I called the NY attack, would you be offended if I called it 11/9? most likely not, but some closed minded persons would dread such a minor, nontraditional difference, for the American perspective.

In the case of the Middle East, they have a past relation with the west to feel oppressed, but the important issue is the degree they have successfully preserved a tradition, and how it metamorphosed into a mental hate weapon.

PS. I studied under the theories of thinkers like this person.
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Full text: bin Laden's 'letter to America'

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Online document: the full text of Osama bin Laden's "letter to the American people", reported in today's Observer. The letter first appeared on the internet in Arabic and has since been translated and circulated by Islamists in Britain.

Observer Worldview : Sunday November 24, 2002

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, "Permission to fight (against disbelievers) is given to those (believers) who are fought against, because they have been wronged and surely, Allah is Able to give them (believers) victory" [Quran 22:39]

"Those who believe, fight in the Cause of Allah, and those who disbelieve, fight in the cause of Taghut (anything worshipped other than Allah e.g. Satan). So fight you against the friends of Satan; ever feeble is indeed the plot of Satan."[Quran 4:76]

Some American writers have published articles under the title 'On what basis are we fighting?' These articles have generated a number of responses, some of which adhered to the truth and were based on Islamic Law, and others which have not. Here we wanted to outline the truth - as an explanation and warning - hoping for Allah's reward, seeking success and support from Him.

While seeking Allah's help, we form our reply based on two questions directed at the Americans:

(Q1) Why are we fighting and opposing you?
Q2)What are we calling you to, and what do we want from you?

As for the first question: Why are we fighting and opposing you? The answer is very simple:

(1) Because you attacked us and continue to attack us.

a) You attacked us in Palestine:

(i) Palestine, which has sunk under military occupation for more than 80 years. The British handed over Palestine, with your help and your support, to the Jews, who have occupied it for more than 50 years; years overflowing with oppression, tyranny, crimes, killing, expulsion, destruction and devastation. The creation and continuation of Israel is one of the greatest crimes, and you are the leaders of its criminals. And of course there is no need to explain and prove the degree of American support for Israel. The creation of Israel is a crime which must be erased. Each and every person whose hands have become polluted in the contribution towards this crime must pay its*price, and pay for it heavily.

(ii) It brings us both laughter and tears to see that you have not yet tired of repeating your fabricated lies that the Jews have a historical right to Palestine, as it was promised to them in the Torah. Anyone who disputes with them on this alleged fact is accused of anti-semitism. This is one of the most fallacious, widely-circulated fabrications in history. The people of Palestine are pure Arabs and original Semites. It is the Muslims who are the inheritors of Moses (peace be upon him) and the inheritors of the real Torah that has not been changed. Muslims believe in all of the Prophets, including Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon them all. If the followers of Moses have been promised a right to Palestine in the Torah, then the Muslims are the most worthy nation of this.

When the Muslims conquered Palestine and drove out the Romans, Palestine and Jerusalem returned to Islaam, the religion of all the Prophets peace be upon them. Therefore, the call to a historical right to Palestine cannot be raised against the Islamic Ummah that believes in all the Prophets of Allah (peace and blessings be upon them) - and we make no distinction between them.

(iii) The blood pouring out of Palestine must be equally revenged. You must know that the Palestinians do not cry alone; their women are not widowed alone; their sons are not orphaned alone.

(b) You attacked us in Somalia; you supported the Russian atrocities against us in Chechnya, the Indian oppression against us in Kashmir, and the Jewish aggression against us in Lebanon.

(c) Under your supervision, consent and orders, the governments of our countries which act as your agents, attack us on a daily basis;

(i) These governments prevent our people from establishing the Islamic Shariah, using violence and lies to do so.

(ii) These governments give us a taste of humiliation, and places us in a large prison of fear and subdual.

(iii) These governments steal our Ummah's wealth and sell them to you at a paltry price.

(iv) These governments have surrendered to the Jews, and handed them most of Palestine, acknowledging the existence of their state over the dismembered limbs of their own people.

(v) The removal of these governments is an obligation upon us, and a necessary step to free the Ummah, to make the Shariah the supreme law and to regain Palestine. And our fight against these governments is not separate from out fight against you.

(d) You steal our wealth and oil at paltry prices because of you international influence and military threats. This theft is indeed the biggest theft ever witnessed by mankind in the history of the world.

(e) Your forces occupy our countries; you spread your military bases throughout them; you corrupt our lands, and you besiege our sanctities, to protect the security of the Jews and to ensure the continuity of your pillage of our treasures.

(f) You have starved the Muslims of Iraq, where children die every day. It is a wonder that more than 1.5 million Iraqi children have died as a result of your sanctions, and you did not show concern. Yet when 3000 of your people died, the entire world rises and has not yet sat down.

(g) You have supported the Jews in their idea that Jerusalem is their eternal capital, and agreed to move your embassy there. With your help and under your protection, the Israelis are planning to destroy the Al-Aqsa mosque. Under the protection of your weapons, Sharon entered the Al-Aqsa mosque, to pollute it as a preparation to capture and destroy it.

(2) These tragedies and calamities are only a few examples of your oppression and aggression against us. It is commanded by our religion and intellect that the oppressed have a right to return the aggression. Do not await anything from us but Jihad, resistance and revenge. Is it in any way rational to expect that after America has attacked us for more than half a century, that we will then leave her to live in security and peace?!!

(3) You may then dispute that all the above does not justify aggression against civilians, for crimes they did not commit and offenses in which they did not partake:

(a) This argument contradicts your continuous repetition that America is the land of freedom, and its leaders in this world. Therefore, the American people are the ones who choose their government by way of their own free will; a choice which stems from their agreement to its policies. Thus the American people have chosen, consented to, and affirmed their support for the Israeli oppression of the Palestinians, the occupation and usurpation of their land, and its continuous killing, torture, punishment and expulsion of the Palestinians. The American people have the ability and choice to refuse the policies of their Government and even to change it if they want.

(b) The American people are the ones who pay the taxes which fund the planes that bomb us in Afghanistan, the tanks that strike and destroy our homes in Palestine, the armies which occupy our lands in the Arabian Gulf, and the fleets which ensure the blockade of Iraq. These tax dollars are given to Israel for it to continue to attack us and penetrate our lands. So the American people are the ones who fund the attacks against us, and they are the ones who oversee the expenditure of these monies in the way they wish, through their elected candidates.

(c) Also the American army is part of the American people. It is this very same people who are shamelessly helping the Jews fight against us.

(d) The American people are the ones who employ both their men and their women in the American Forces which attack us.

(e) This is why the American people cannot be not innocent of all the crimes committed by the Americans and Jews against us.

(f) Allah, the Almighty, legislated the permission and the option to take revenge. Thus, if we are attacked, then we have the right to attack back. Whoever has destroyed our villages and towns, then we have the right to destroy their villages and towns. Whoever has stolen our wealth, then we have the right to destroy their economy. And whoever has killed our civilians, then we have the right to kill theirs.

The American Government and press still refuses to answer the question:

Why did they attack us in New York and Washington?

If Sharon is a man of peace in the eyes of Bush, then we are also men of peace!!! America does not understand the language of manners and principles, so we are addressing it using the language it understands.

(Q2) As for the second question that we want to answer: What are we calling you to, and what do we want from you?

(1) The first thing that we are calling you to is Islam.

(a) The religion of the Unification of God; of freedom from associating partners with Him, and rejection of this; of complete love of Him, the Exalted; of complete submission to His Laws; and of the discarding of all the opinions, orders, theories and religions which contradict with the religion He sent down to His Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). Islam is the religion of all the prophets, and makes no distinction between them - peace be upon them all.

It is to this religion that we call you; the seal of all the previous religions. It is the religion of Unification of God, sincerity, the best of manners, righteousness, mercy, honour, purity, and piety. It is the religion of showing kindness to others, establishing justice between them, granting them their rights, and defending the oppressed and the persecuted. It is the religion of enjoining the good and forbidding the evil with the hand, tongue and heart. It is the religion of Jihad in the way of Allah so that Allah's Word and religion reign Supreme. And it is the religion of unity and agreement on the obedience to Allah, and total equality between all people, without regarding their colour, sex, or language.

(b) It is the religion whose book - the Quran - will remained preserved and unchanged, after the other Divine books and messages have been changed. The Quran is the miracle until the Day of Judgment. Allah has challenged anyone to bring a book like the Quran or even ten verses like it.

(2) The second thing we call you to, is to stop your oppression, lies, immorality and debauchery that has spread among you.

(a) We call you to be a people of manners, principles, honour, and purity; to reject the immoral acts of fornication, homosexuality, intoxicants, gambling's, and trading with interest.

We call you to all of this that you may be freed from that which you have become caught up in; that you may be freed from the deceptive lies that you are a great nation, that your leaders spread amongst you to conceal from you the despicable state to which you have reached.

(b) It is saddening to tell you that you are the worst civilization witnessed by the history of mankind:

(i) You are the nation who, rather than ruling by the Shariah of Allah in its Constitution and Laws, choose to invent your own laws as you will and desire. You separate religion from your policies, contradicting the pure nature which affirms Absolute Authority to the Lord and your Creator. You flee from the embarrassing question posed to you: How is it possible for Allah the Almighty to create His creation, grant them power over all the creatures and land, grant them all the amenities of life, and then deny them that which they are most in need of: knowledge of the laws which govern their lives?

(ii) You are the nation that permits Usury, which has been forbidden by all the religions. Yet you build your economy and investments on Usury. As a result of this, in all its different forms and guises, the Jews have taken control of your economy, through which they have then taken control of your media, and now control all aspects of your life making you their servants and achieving their aims at your expense; precisely what Benjamin Franklin warned you against.

(iii) You are a nation that permits the production, trading and usage of intoxicants. You also permit drugs, and only forbid the trade of them, even though your nation is the largest consumer of them.

(iv) You are a nation that permits acts of immorality, and you consider them to be pillars of personal freedom. You have continued to sink down this abyss from level to level until incest has spread amongst you, in the face of which neither your sense of honour nor your laws object.

Who can forget your President Clinton's immoral acts committed in the official Oval office? After that you did not even bring him to account, other than that he 'made a mistake', after which everything passed with no punishment. Is there a worse kind of event for which your name will go down in history and remembered by nations?

(v) You are a nation that permits gambling in its all forms. The companies practice this as well, resulting in the investments becoming active and the criminals becoming rich.

(vi) You are a nation that exploits women like consumer products or advertising tools calling upon customers to purchase them. You use women to serve passengers, visitors, and strangers to increase your profit margins. You then rant that you support the liberation of women.

(vii) You are a nation that practices the trade of sex in all its forms, directly and indirectly. Giant corporations and establishments are established on this, under the name of art, entertainment, tourism and freedom, and other deceptive names you attribute to it.

(viii) And because of all this, you have been described in history as a nation that spreads diseases that were unknown to man in the past. Go ahead and boast to the nations of man, that you brought them AIDS as a Satanic American Invention.

(xi) You have destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than any other nation in history. Despite this, you refuse to sign the Kyoto agreement so that you can secure the profit of your greedy companies and*industries.

(x) Your law is the law of the rich and wealthy people, who hold sway in their political parties, and fund their election campaigns with their gifts. Behind them stand the Jews, who control your policies, media and economy.

(xi) That which you are singled out for in the history of mankind, is that you have used your force to destroy mankind more than any other nation in history; not to defend principles and values, but to hasten to secure your interests and profits. You who dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan, even though Japan was ready to negotiate an end to the war. How many acts of oppression, tyranny and injustice have you carried out, O callers to freedom?

(xii) Let us not forget one of your major characteristics: your duality in both manners and values; your hypocrisy in manners and principles. All*manners, principles and values have two scales: one for you and one for the others.

(a)The freedom and democracy that you call to is for yourselves and for white race only; as for the rest of the world, you impose upon them your monstrous, destructive policies and Governments, which you call the 'American friends'. Yet you prevent them from establishing democracies. When the Islamic party in Algeria wanted to practice democracy and they won the election, you unleashed your agents in the Algerian army onto them, and to attack them with tanks and guns, to imprison them and torture them - a new lesson from the 'American book of democracy'!!!

(b)Your policy on prohibiting and forcibly removing weapons of mass destruction to ensure world peace: it only applies to those countries which you do not permit to possess such weapons. As for the countries you consent to, such as Israel, then they are allowed to keep and use such weapons to defend their security. Anyone else who you suspect might be manufacturing or keeping these kinds of weapons, you call them criminals and you take military action against them.

(c)You are the last ones to respect the resolutions and policies of International Law, yet you claim to want to selectively punish anyone else who does the same. Israel has for more than 50 years been pushing UN resolutions and rules against the wall with the full support of America.

(d)As for the war criminals which you censure and form criminal courts for - you shamelessly ask that your own are granted immunity!! However, history will not forget the war crimes that you committed against the Muslims and the rest of the world; those you have killed in Japan, Afghanistan, Somalia, Lebanon and Iraq will remain a shame that you will never be able to escape. It will suffice to remind you of your latest war crimes in Afghanistan, in which densely populated innocent civilian villages were destroyed, bombs were dropped on mosques causing the roof of the mosque to come crashing down on the heads of the Muslims praying inside. You are the ones who broke the agreement with the Mujahideen when they left Qunduz, bombing them in Jangi fort, and killing more than 1,000 of your prisoners through suffocation and thirst. Allah alone knows how many people have died by torture at the hands of you and your agents. Your planes remain in the Afghan skies, looking for anyone remotely suspicious.

(e)You have claimed to be the vanguards of Human Rights, and your Ministry of Foreign affairs issues annual reports containing statistics of those countries that violate any Human Rights. However, all these things vanished when the Mujahideen hit you, and you then implemented the methods of the same documented governments that you used to curse. In America, you captured thousands the Muslims and Arabs, took them into custody with neither reason, court trial, nor even disclosing their names. You issued newer, harsher laws.

What happens in Guatanamo is a historical embarrassment to America and its values, and it screams into your faces - you hypocrites, "What is the value of your signature on any agreement or treaty?"

(3) What we call you to thirdly is to take an honest stance with yourselves - and I doubt you will do so - to discover that you are a nation without principles or manners, and that the values and principles to you are something which you merely demand from others, not that which you yourself must adhere to.

(4) We also advise you to stop supporting Israel, and to end your support of the Indians in Kashmir, the Russians against the Chechens and to also cease supporting the Manila Government against the Muslims in Southern Philippines.

(5) We also advise you to pack your luggage and get out of our lands. We desire for your goodness, guidance, and righteousness, so do not force us to send you back as cargo in coffins.

(6) Sixthly, we call upon you to end your support of the corrupt leaders in our countries. Do not interfere in our politics and method of education. Leave us alone, or else expect us in New York and Washington.

(7) We also call you to deal with us and interact with us on the basis of mutual interests and benefits, rather than the policies of sub dual, theft and occupation, and not to continue your policy of supporting the Jews because this will result in more disasters for you.

If you fail to respond to all these conditions, then prepare for fight with the Islamic Nation. The Nation of Monotheism, that puts complete trust on Allah and fears none other than Him. The Nation which is addressed by its Quran with the words: "Do you fear them? Allah has more right that you should fear Him if you are believers. Fight against them so that Allah will punish them by your hands and disgrace them and give you victory over them and heal the breasts of believing people. And remove the anger of their (believers') hearts. Allah accepts the repentance of whom He wills. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise." [Quran9:13-1]

The Nation of honour and respect:

"But honour, power and glory belong to Allah, and to His Messenger (Muhammad- peace be upon him) and to the believers." [Quran 63:8]

"So do not become weak (against your enemy), nor be sad, and you will be*superior ( in victory )if you are indeed (true) believers" [Quran 3:139]

The Nation of Martyrdom; the Nation that desires death more than you desire life:

"Think not of those who are killed in the way of Allah as dead. Nay, they are alive with their Lord, and they are being provided for. They rejoice in what Allah has bestowed upon them from His bounty and rejoice for the sake of those who have not yet joined them, but are left behind (not yet martyred) that on them no fear shall come, nor shall they grieve. They rejoice in a grace and a bounty from Allah, and that Allah will not waste the reward of the believers." [Quran 3:169-171]

The Nation of victory and success that Allah has promised:

"It is He Who has sent His Messenger (Muhammad peace be upon him) with guidance and the religion of truth (Islam), to make it victorious over all other religions even though the Polytheists hate it." [Quran 61:9]

"Allah has decreed that 'Verily it is I and My Messengers who shall be victorious.' Verily Allah is All-Powerful, All-Mighty." [Quran 58:21]

The Islamic Nation that was able to dismiss and destroy the previous evil Empires like yourself; the Nation that rejects your attacks, wishes to remove your evils, and is prepared to fight you. You are well aware that the Islamic Nation, from the very core of its soul, despises your haughtiness and arrogance.

If the Americans refuse to listen to our advice and the goodness, guidance and righteousness that we call them to, then be aware that you will lose this Crusade Bush began, just like the other previous Crusades in which you were humiliated by the hands of the Mujahideen, fleeing to your home in great silence and disgrace. If the Americans do not respond, then their fate will be that of the Soviets who fled from Afghanistan to deal with their military defeat, political breakup, ideological downfall, and economic bankruptcy.

This is our message to the Americans, as an answer to theirs. Do they now know why we fight them and over which form of ignorance, by the permission of Allah, we shall be victorious.


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I wouldn't have a problem whatsoever if the earth were only a few thousand years old, why would I?

So then all you need to do is accept that the Bible says six days and from the beginning of creation, and that it ALSO says:

This is the book of the genealogy of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God.He created them male and female, and blessed them and called them Mankind in the day they were created. - Genesis 5:1-2 http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis5:1-2&version=NKJV

And "Let God be true and every man a liar."

Men say millions and billions of years.

God says six days.

Who do you believe?
 

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Looks like i get a warning for posting a factual article rebutting reasons for why a poster here says some muslims hate the west and am told ..."stop agenda pushing"


Basically let others post about muslims but don't demand them.

That same person allowed people to say muslims who die don't matter without any warning given.

It just shows this forum is controlled by people with an agenda.

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Judge rightly, please don't send me private messages with fake reasons of why you are going to ban me.

Just be straight, you can't handle a Muslim with an opinion that doesn't confirm your prejudices on this forum.

By all means ban me, which is how you Zionists usually silence those who oppose you. But don't lie about why you are doing it.

The last one was about a post being too long. Really... when did you become the post length monitor?

Your reasons are getting more and more desperate by the day.

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Arthur Brain

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You can't do it by just guessing.

When you're about to go on a trip with a friend and you say, "let's hit the road," (or whatever the british equivalent of that is) do you or your friend ever think that you meant that you should literally go out and hit the road with a sledgehammer?

Or do you recognize that it's a figure of speech that means "let's get going"? Did you decide what it meant? Or did the phrase already have a certain meaning before you started to use it?

Hebrew (and Greek, for that matter) is no different. Words and phrases have meaning.

I don't decide what is or is not a figure of speech arbitrarily. I learn what the figures of speech are, so that when I see one, I can recognize it.

For example:

"Love and hate" is a Hebrew idiom that means "to love more and to love."

So when God says "Jacob I have loved but Esau I have hated," it doesn't mean that God actually hated Esau, but it means that God loves Jacob so much that it's AS IF He hated Esau.

You make it sound like figures of speech are this magical thing that allow anything to work with anything else.

But figures of speech have meaning, because words have meaning. So the next time you claim, "oh, but Genesis is [insert type of figurative language here]," I'm going to ask you what the passage in question means.

If you can't come up with an answer, and feel free to use the internet to help you find what it means, then it likely isn't figurative language, and can probably be read literally.

Why don't you try. Pick a verse that you think is just figurative for something, post it here, and then try to explain what the alleged figure of speech means or represents.

Here's another example.

"The womb" and "the depths of the earth" are interchangeable, ESPECIALLY in Hebrew poetry, and both are used throughout the Bible.



Fundamentalism is an adherance to the basics of what the Bible teaches.

Any belief that does not allow it's opponents to question it is simply blind faith, and is most likely a false belief.

Fundamentalism WELCOMES questioning.

Oh, "hit the road" is pretty common over here as well although we obviously don't take that literally...:)

Fundamentalism does not welcome questioning. By your own admission, it's a strict adherence to a set of principles/beliefs. I've been in fundamentalist churches before JR and questioning is only welcomed if you agree to set standard after a certain amount of time. Otherwise it's pretty much "get out"...

The obvious narrative of Genesis as allegory as opposed to rigid literalism is something I've been bemused by for a long time now. Would you suppose the Bible would go into detail about meteorological phenomena like storms etc?
 

JudgeRightly

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Looks like i get a warning for posting a factual article rebutting reasons for why a poster here says some muslims hate the west

Nope. You got an infraction for an extremely lengthy post.

https://theologyonline.com/showthread.php?p=2002486

"Please do not make posts that are extremely long. Anything over 6 short paragraphs may be considered too long. Don't attempt to make your whole argument in one post. (Battle Royale's are exempt from this rule.)"

and am told ..."stop agenda pushing"

Rule 7.

That's in the link above, by the way.

Basically let others post about muslims but don't demand them.

That same person allowed people to say muslims who die don't matter without any warning given.

It just shows this forum is controlled by people with an agenda.

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Did you notice that your post is still there for people to read?

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There's only one problem with this theory: Qatar is the richest nation on earth. Brunei, Kuwait, and United Arab Emirates are the 3rd, 4th, and 5th richest nations on earth. The USA? We are in 11th place when it comes to gross national income. Saudi Arabia is right behind, in 12th place.

Do you think Osama Bin Laden envied us for our wealth? He had plenty of it. I don't think they envy us for our wealth.

It does not mater what the richest have. It does not mater how much wealth the country itself has, or who in that country has the wealth. The majority living there assume that ALL Americans have great wealth. They believe the leaders, and their leaders have them convinced of many untruths.
 

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Judge rightly, please don't send me private messages with fake reasons of why you are going to ban me.

Just be straight, you can't handle a Muslim with an opinion that doesn't confirm your prejudices on this forum.

By all means ban me, which is how you Zionists usually silence those who oppose you. But don't lie about why you are doing it.

The last one was about a post being too long. Really... when did you become the post length monitor?

Your reasons are getting more and more desperate by the day.

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Nope. You got an infraction for an extremely lengthy post.

https://theologyonline.com/showthread.php?p=2002486

"Please do not make posts that are extremely long. Anything over 6 short paragraphs may be considered too long. Don't attempt to make your whole argument in one post. (Battle Royale's are exempt from this rule.)"



Rule 7.

That's in the link above, by the way.



Did you notice that your post is still there for people to read?

:dunce:
 

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The majority living there assume that ALL Americans have great wealth. They believe the leaders, and their leaders have them convinced of many untruths.

And you know this how? Is this what you have heard them say directly, that they hate and envy us because of our wealth?
 

asgharasbukhari

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It does not mater what the richest have. It does not mater how much wealth the country itself has, or who in that country has the wealth. The majority living there assume that ALL Americans have great wealth. They believe the leaders, and their leaders have them convinced of many untruths.
Nothing you say is based on fact. Lengthy research has been done on this. Always pointing to the fact that it is foreign policy of the west that has killed millions of people in the Muslim world that drives anger.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.al...led-million-people-study-181109080620011.html



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Arthur Brain

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So then all you need to do is accept that the Bible says six days and from the beginning of creation, and that it ALSO says:

This is the book of the genealogy of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God.He created them male and female, and blessed them and called them Mankind in the day they were created. - Genesis 5:1-2 http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis5:1-2&version=NKJV

And "Let God be true and every man a liar."

Men say millions and billions of years.

God says six days.

Who do you believe?

No, science says that. Science is not "a man" or a person. Fundamentalism is a dogmatic belief system that denies science. There's no reason to take such seriously.
 
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