[How did Jesus pay for taking other people's livestock, e.g. Matthew 8:28-34?]
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jesus stole some poor farmer's pigs? And made them jump off a cliff? Oh, wait. They just ran off it on their own.
I wish you would take that same leap of faith.
If you really believed, you would.
I hope at the very least you're hot.
Oh, that crazy story. Christ and his disciples arrives on shoreline, discovers evil demon-infested pigs, drives demons out of them, terrifies population in doing so and is asked to leave, gets back into boat, finds another shoreline with demon-infested animals, and repeats. I think it happened thrice in total.
It's in the Brick Testament somewhere (thebricktestament.com).
Yeah, here we go:Link
Strange, strange story.
As a good Jewish boy, he shouldn't be hanging about with pigs, anyway.
Maybe he paid the worth of the pigs in lots and lots of loaves and fishes :-)
Yes I'm sure that that was of great comfort to the farmer who lost a large part of his livelihood.
Anyway nevermind that, what I really want to know is how does running of a bloody cliff equal common sense.
"as for the herd of swine, who would want them with a legions of demons in them"
Mr Mordecai and his amazing talking pigs show?
Raising pigs was and is illegal in Israel.
Well, it certainly SEEMS as if pigs have more SENSE THAN you, Jesusgirl.
Jesus didn't send the swine over the cliff anyway!!
But Jesus did cast the demons into the swine and that caused them to hurl themselves off the cliff. Jesus didn't exercise due diligence and could be sued for negligence. I'd be willing to be this was important to the swine herder who watched his livelihood falling to their deaths.
"how do people think up such crazy things!!!????"By reading the same Bible you do.
"That wasn't exactly that important to record,"But it would be to the farmer.
"and as for the herd of swine, who would want them with a legions of demons in them"Explain that to the farmer. Or anyone, for that matter.
"Jesus didn't send the swine over the cliff anyway!! THEY ran off of it."Right. He just stole them and lead them there.
"sometime it seams the pigs have more since that humans"No matter how many times I read this, I honestly can't tell what it says.
If you define "humans" as people like you, jesusgirl, then yes, it does "seam" that the pigs have vastly more "since."
Jesusgirl, you have avoided the issue. That is dishonest. Not quite as dishonest as killing someone's pigs. Stealing is forbidden, even if you are Jesus. Soooo...... Go back to start, do not pass GO, do not collect two hundred graces and merits.
Along these lines, something else that bothers me a great deal is when Jesus told the prostitute to "go, and sin no more".
That's real nice and all, but how the hell was she going to support herself after that? I mean, I would assume that during an age where prostitution = death, you'd have to be pretty damn desperate to get into the game in the first place, right?
So .. what? She goes to work in someone's field for a pittance and a place to sleep?
But hey, she was "saved" and after that, who gives a rat's left buttock about her, right?
Bleh
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