Artifacts found inside the temple suggest that despite the ban on idol worship at the time, those who visited the temple continued to engage in such practices.
All evidence indicates the Israelites practiced a folk religion. The monotheists won after the Babylonian Exile, and they created an epic saga for Israel which depicted the polytheism as a backsliding from an original pure covenant of monotheism revealed at Mt. Sinai. The reality of course is that what we have here is simple religious evolution, and the idolatry of the ancestors needed an explanation that didn't reveal this basic fact. Hence the backsliding theory.
Thanks for your mindless regurgitation of the "total depravity" doctrine.
Mannassah was an idol worshiper, and even Solomon himself was an idol worshiper, according to the only texts we have about them.The only texts we have about the biblical Manassah are the bible, and for obvious reasons these dont count.
1 People don't follow the truth sometimes.This is what all the religions say about yours. Newsflash - 19 Shiites blown up in Pakistan... Protestants threaten to do same to police in northern Ireland. YOUR TRUTH KILLS.
2 We are created to choose. We have choice.No, god knew us before we were in the womb. And Jesus condemns us to eternal torture after death and our religionist neighbors persecute us while we are alive. Some choice.
3 Truth and life have been with us always.But none of the major things in the bible ever HAPPENED. This is not truth.
4 truth is real.But the bible is not truth.
5-Which means that, since the bible describes people who never existed (Adam, Moses, Joshua) and events that never happened (flood, exodus, solomons kingdom), it is not the truth. Therefore the god who wrote it cannot be real. So Dave are you wiling to accept your own equation or not?
If it's not the truth, it's not real. :p
the long-discredited khazar conspiracy theory concerning the origins of ashkenazic jewry, a theory that no academic today takes seriouslyReligionists have tried to discredit this but have failed. Dr shlomo sand of tel aviv university and many others DO think this is the case.
The truth says the most important thing in life is life.Ah I see. You are willfully ignorant of your own book.
I realize your mind has become infected with some sort of disease Otto. You making stuff up, like how the truth says to kill needlesslyNeedlessly. In contrast to what joshua did to the canaanites I suppose?
As for Christ crying out, 'Why have you forsaken me?' This is direct evidence of his innocence in that moment. He may have made mistakes before that, but he died an innocent man.Again, your ignorance. This is only recorded in Mark, the first of the gospels. The author may have been trying to emphasize that jesus was a man. Later gospels tried to sell the notion of the godman hybrid, and someone added the last 11 verses to Mark to confirm that he indeed arose and walked around a bit.
No other man has ever died innocent... We must look past the endless brainwashing found in religions and understandYou mean the other religions dont you? Because how can you be brainwashed with the truth? Haha.
the proof is that every genetic study bears this out - ashkenazi jews are always found with middle eastern markersSo? As dr sand rightly points out, the ME is a melting pot and it is easy to infer ancestry of most any sort.
The truth (The Word of God) says, "The most important thing in life is life." We cannot consider this without life.And since I showed you that the word of god says something else, I would have to conclude that you cannot distinguish truth from untruth.
Learn to listenLearn to read.
Then the israelites are nothing special, and who cares if the Jews are descended from them?The truth matters.
The fact that you keep on going and going until you discredit everything and all things jewishWell thats not a valid extrapolation now is it?
pulls the cat out of the bag on your motives and intentions.-And so if I (and dr sand) fail to agree with you, then our motivations are somehow anti-semitic? Grow up. As davidw says the truth shall set you free.
Who cares, bulldoze it to make room for more jooish "settlers".-cantdrive85
otto: according to what you just replied to me - aren't khazars europeans? if the jews have middle eastern markers then they are middle easterners of some kind - meaning even though the ME is a melting pot with all types, they arent khazar europeans.Instead of asking, why dont you just look these things up yourself?
Another alternative: the picture doesn't give the measurements of the heads, but if the heads are hollowSo lying dimwit you have yet to answer question posed in the other thread, as to why you would think scientists would invent fish that would extinct themselves. So I thought I would ask you here.
If they are all female, how would they breed to replenish the "species"?-is what you said. Why wouldnt scientists KNOW this?? Why would anyone ASK such a STUPID QUESTION unless -Blotto
And I answered your questions in the other thread, idiot.Ha yeah I know.
It says 'MIGHT still be able to breed'. This means that THERE IS A POSSIBILITY, but it is not definite. They will ALL be bred FEMALE. That means there will be NO MALES.AGAIN pussytard tries to outthink scientists. Pussytard, scientists know of many ways to fertilize fish eggs. Did you consider that scientists might know something you dont? No you did not. You thought you had discovered something quite obvious that SCIENTISTS would have missed.
evidence would be buried in the old cityThe kingdom of israel was said to stretch from the sinai to the euphrates. It was described as rivaling those of the phoenicians, hittites, assyrians, and even perhaps babylonians.
actually otto, the hittites mentioned in the bible were a canaanite people of the same name as the anatolian empire, but not the anatolian empire.This has not been determined which I am sure you read if you googled my refs.
However, feel free to keep downrating all of my posts and ironically telling me to grow up at the same time.Sorry I checked and I have downrated none of your posts. I dont typically downrate people who I am having a discussion with unless they become unreasonable. Your raters appear to be iterations of the pussytard person.
i just noticed you call people pussytard - are you 12? i'm done talking to you.-So I won again. Yay. 'Pussytard' is someones nickname which just caught on.
the genetically engineered (GE) salmon cannot reproduce, except a very few MIGHT be able to breed. BUT those few cannot breed since there are no males available UNLESS the females escape and then they only MIGHT be able to breed with the males.Hmmm... There seems to be some disconnect here in the abyss which is pussytards brain. Let's try to break the problem into increments...
Blotto talks about the sterile female salmon being inseminated somehow. But NOWHERE IN THE ARTICLE DOES IT MENTION ANYTHING ABOUT SOME FORM OF INSEMINATION.
What is it with dumbass obamas_cock and making himself look like an ass in articles with Jerusalem in the title?Ahaahaaa that was a good one eh frank? Casting metal boomerangs in wax molds. In the floor. And then all the '900 foot-tall glass-headed Martian' bullshit. I should have kept a list.
http://phys.org/n...lem.html
I don't care who you are, or what you believe...IF you call anyone a tard, you are a hateful bully who spits in the face of, and laugh at those who have mental handicaps-As you know it was not me who coined the term but vendicar. The 'tard' affectation is his thing not mine. He calls everyone tard, including you yes?
Anyone who uses the slur thrown at mentally challenged people, show their true nature and how bigoted they are.So you seem to think pussytard - oh sorry, obamasocks - is mentally challenged? What do you base your opinion on?
you are denigrating those who cannot defend themselvesGee it seems that ritchietard is making a valiant attempt. Heh.
I don't feel better. Why? Because linking someone who is lazy to someone who is mentally disabled STILL demeans the mentally disabled.Well then you should not limit your criticism to me or vendicar, but extend it to all the people who have ever called you a moron or an idiot or a cretin or a pinhead or a simpleton or a bumblehead, all of which bear the same relationship to the mentally challenged as does the 'tard' moniker.
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Dec 28, 2012