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  1. tango

    God Told Me

    So it seems we conclude from these stunningly insightful "prophetic words" that the disciples of Jesus might have supernatural powers or they might not, and if they do they might belong to the disciple or they might belong to Jesus, but it's not clear unless you ask and then the answer shifts to...
  2. tango

    The soup that makes you happy?

    If I recall it uses canned potatoes, the little ones that don't overpower the soup. It has bacon bits in it, and heavy cream (I think my wife swaps it for half-and-half, to at least slightly cut down on the fat in it). The standard recipe calls for kale but that has a nasty tendency to go...
  3. tango

    The soup that makes you happy?

    My wife makes a few soups I like. The one we've been eating lately is chicken tortellini (sp?). She also does a potato and sausage soup, a chicken orzo soup and a cheeseburger soup. We like the cheeseburger soup a lot but there's a lot of dietary junk in that so we don't eat it very often...
  4. tango

    God Told Me

    I never said she wasn't, I simply said we can't be certain. You're insisting on the certainty that she was, I'm saying we don't know. I give no credence to her one way or the other. There is a big difference.
  5. tango

    God Told Me

    I brought up something that someone claiming to speak for Jesus said on that date. Humility is listed as a fruit of the spirit in Galatians so it's not as if we need modern day prophets, genuine or fake, to know that humility is one way we might distinguish true from fake messengers. Endlessly...
  6. tango

    God Told Me

    I brought up something that someone claiming to speak for Jesus confirmed to be true.
  7. tango

    God Told Me

    Posting something that I happen to at least partly agree with doesn't confirm that it was spoken by God as directly as you claim.
  8. tango

    God Told Me

    I don't know that I'd say none of them but as soon as someone speaks very forcefully in terms of "God told me that...", as opposed to something presented with more humility such as "I think God might be saying that...." I'd be inclined to immediately suspect they are making it up. Limited...
  9. tango

    This heretical teaching is disproven.

    I'm really struggling to take you seriously at this point. There are only so many times someone can present an absurd argument before any sense of purpose in engaging with them goes away and, to be honest, I see no point continuing to engage with someone whose argument shifts like the sands.
  10. tango

    This heretical teaching is disproven.

    Except that you have, repeatedly, when Mary remarked that "I am a virgin" and you insist that the present tense refers to the present and the indefinite future. You've got some more speculation going on there. If sex wasn't meant to be enjoyed, why is it enjoyable? If it's purely to produce...
  11. tango

    This heretical teaching is disproven.

    On what basis do you believe that sex between husband and wife is purely to create children? Do you believe that a husband and wife who are unable to bear children should refrain from sex? If so, perhaps you could cite some Scripture to support your assertion. It's not crass to point out that...
  12. tango

    This heretical teaching is disproven.

    If something was important we might have expected God to have thought of it, and made a point to make a note of it somewhere. Maybe in a scroll or something, that could be compiled into a book that would be preserved for future generations to read. Perhaps God just forgot - in all the...
  13. tango

    This heretical teaching is disproven.

    I'm not ashamed of anything. God created sex for husband and wife to enjoy. If Mary and Joseph enjoyed this gift that God created, good for them. How is it any more irreverent for them to enjoy God's gift than it is for my wife and I to enjoy that same gift? I wouldn't specifically ask Jesus...
  14. tango

    God Told Me

    It really depends on the context. If we believe that we can have an individual calling it's reasonable to say that "God called me to...", which can sometimes be a roundabout way of saying "God told me to..." The key difference is the scope of the thing that God allegedly told them. If I...
  15. tango

    God Told Me

    It really depends on the context. If we believe that we can have an individual calling it's reasonable to say that "God called me to...", which can sometimes be a roundabout way of saying "God told me to..." The key difference is the scope of the thing that God allegedly told them. If I...
  16. tango

    This heretical teaching is disproven.

    Where Scripture is silent we can conclude that we don't know, which presumably means it doesn't matter. Pointing out the holes in your argument that Mary was a perpetual virgin doesn't mean that she was not a perpetual virgin, it simply means we don't know. People aren't assuming things are...
  17. tango

    This heretical teaching is disproven.

    This sounds like you're saying sex is inherently sinful, when it was God who told Adam and Eve to be fruitful and multiply. Besides, nobody is disputing that Mary was a virgin before Jesus was born. If you're saying Mary had to remain a virgin because otherwise she was somehow defiled that...
  18. tango

    This heretical teaching is disproven.

    Presumably your reasoning would require that once Jesus left that womb of the utterly sinless woman he entered into a world that was also utterly without impurity and sin? In which case there was no need for him to come at all.
  19. tango

    The most you'll pay for a beverage at a restaurant?

    I don't know I'd pay $5 for pop. I routinely pay $7-8 for a craft beer, although I don't drink enough of them for the price to be a problem. On a particularly nice trip I took in about 2001 I ordered the Hennessy XO in the bar overlooking the Niagara Falls. I should probably have checked the...
  20. tango

    This heretical teaching is disproven.

    She could want to remain untouched. That doesn't mean she did want to remain untouched. There's a huge spectrum between the modern day permissiveness where sex is seen by some as being little more than a few steps on from shaking someone's hand, and vows of lifetime celibacy. Since God told...
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