Prove it...:)
You can't collect taxes from a country that's in revolt! That's why Pilate tried to be neutral to keep the both the snooty priests and Jesus's...
[img] Ask any sunday school kid mate and they'll tell you it's the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee which ties in with this verse- "They...
Incidentally Lloyds bank bosses have gone nuts and are trying to project the "gay marriage is normal" thing by including these two characters in...
It makes perfect sense..:) Pilate's job was to keep the peace and collect truckloads of taxes to send to his masters in Rome, so he was in a...
40 years ago when I played board wargames before home computers arrived, I hated having to wrestle with big thick rulebooks, so when computer...
The town of Gerasa is not mentioned in the Bible! Rather, the reference to the "region of the Gerasenes" in the following verse refers to a...
The fact remains Pilate found Jesus "not guilty" and wanted to let him go, how do you (or Philo) explain that?....:)
The first original Civilisation game is still my favourite because later versions became too complex, slow-moving and boring, and even the...
Whoa mate, I haven't finished hauling Dawkins over the coals yet....:) To recap, first I poked fun at him for saying on page 146 of "Climbing Mt...
I had it about 8 years ago and felt cold and sluggish all the time like a cold-blooded reptile and for two pins would have basked on warm rocks...
Think politics mate..:) As I mentioned before, Rome wanted to rule a peaceful tax-paying empire, so if Pilate treated rebels harshly and their...
Prove it..:)
So what? Jesus didn't stick in one place, he got around..:)
It goes much, much deeper than that mate but sadly our human brains aren't capable of seeing the big picture just as JC said- "You hardly believe...
Nevertheless he would have had to suppress his violent tendencies on the orders of his masters in Rome who wanted taxes not corpses. Likewise in...
But mate, the famous Drake Equation suggests there are thousands of alien civilisations out there, so shouldn't we open-mindedly and...
Like I said, we shouldn't try to pin it down to a specific town (what would herds of pigs be doing in a town anyway?), but regard it as a general...
Sorry mate but I don't understand what you're trying to say. Check your monitor settings to see if my Dawkins quote is displaying properly for...
Yes, if philosophers come into this "Religion and Philosophy" forum I'm happy to bust their noses for them, but to avoid bloodshed I suggested to...
I'm a scientist in my own small way, I got College of Preceptors exam passes in General Science and Advanced Science in the 1960's and went on to...
I don't seem to have a dollar sign on my keyboard, but i've got a £ sign..:) PS- Amazingly I sometimes get compliments from atheists, for example...
No chum, it's a direct quote from Dawkins book "Climbing Mount Improbable", page 146, he seems to be saying a lump of jelly appeared out of...
If you're a 'Civilisation' computer game player as I am, you know that conquering enemy cities means you'll be able to tax their balls off and...
As this is the "Science" forum category, surely we should be interested in the "Superscience" that Jesus used to blow peoples socks off?...
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