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Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by okeechobee, May 1, 2024.

  1. lacuna

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    From Luke 4 ~


    1. [16] And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up; and he went to the synagogue, as his custom was, on the sabbath day. And he stood up to read;
      [17] and there was given to him the book of the prophet Isaiah. He opened the book and found the place where it was written,
      [18] "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
      because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor.
      He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives
      and recovering of sight to the blind,
      to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
      [19] to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord."
      [20] And he closed the book, and gave it back to the attendant, and sat down; and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him.
      [21] And he began to say to them, "Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."
      [22] And all spoke well of him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth; and they said, "Is not this Joseph's son?"
      [23] And he said to them, "Doubtless you will quote to me this proverb, `Physician, heal yourself; what we have heard you did at Caper'na-um, do here also in your own country.'"
      [24] And he said, "Truly, I say to you, no prophet is acceptable in his own country.

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    Moses, also a messianic type, led the captives out of slavery from those who held them captive, to the land promised to them.

    The words spoken by Jesus, recorded in Isaiah, indicate another type of freedom. The spiritual freedom that comes when one puts to death the self serving ego to lay down one's desires and possessions for the benefit of others whose need is greater than their own.
     
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  2. okeechobee

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    It's not fun watching them attempt to whitewash history.
     
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    Obfuscation. Please allow @lacuna the latitude for the obligatory message board obfuscation when you point out irrefutable fact. It's human. We all do it when we're talking about organized religion killing someone.
     
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    Continue the comments, this should be interesting.
     
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    There are a few things in the archeological record for Moses. The Greek island of Santorini blew up in a massive volcanic eruption at about the time that the Moses story occurred. People inland of the Mediterranean probably didn't see direct evidence of the eruption (or enough to know that it was an eruption), but several of the "plagues" could be explained as after-effects of the eruption. Naturally, a story about Moses rescuing his people from Egypt would incorporate him warning the Egyptians of the bad things that would happen, even if he didn't actually warn them. Most religious leaders advise that the Bible is not to be taken literally, even though it is generally based on true events, told generations later by people who heard the story passed down to them. For all we know, there could have been dozens of Moses-type characters throughout the years of captivity in Egypt, ready to lead the Jewish people to freedom, but only one that was lucky enough to be there when the volcano erupted.