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"Dogmantic Pyrrhonist (AKA Al)" <alwhipp@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message 
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> On Jul 14, 10:17 am, "Smiler" <Smi...@Joe.King.com> wrote:
>> "rbwinn" <rbwi...@juno.com> wrote in message
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>> On Jul 12, 4:39?pm, "Alex W." <ing...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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>>
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>> > "rbwinn" <rbwi...@juno.com> wrote in message
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>> >news:2d741a9f-d66d-4b9f-83b8-72a659eef035@z72g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
>> > On Jul 12, 12:07?pm, "Steve O" <nospamh...@thanks.com> wrote:
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>> > > "Ben Dolan" <ben_dolan_...@reet.com> wrote in message
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>> > >news:1ijymef.1uecsu856mbioN%ben_dolan_III@reet.com...
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>> > > > rbwinn <rbwi...@juno.com> wrote:
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>> > > >> Unlike an athiest, the goal of Jesus Christ in his earthly life 
>> > > >> was
>> > > >> not to obtain money.
>>
>> > > > Boy, you really are a caricature, aren't you, child? Do you have 
>> > > > any
>> > > > sense of how foolish you appear? Any self awareness at all?
>>
>> > > Presumably, Bobby doesn't think Jesus was a carpenter by trade.
>> > > Carpenters get paid, don't they?
>> > > And before Bobby tries to claim that Jesus had no trade to speak of,
>> > > according to Mark he was an apprentice carpenter, following in the
>> > > footsteps
>> > > of stepdad.
>> > > I've even been to Rome and have seen ?the Holy Cheeseboard made by 
>> > > his
>> > > own
>> > > hands, so you can't fool me!
>>
>> > > --
>> > > Steve O
>>
>> > Well, if he was an apprentice carpenter working for his stepfather,
>> > how can you prove any money was involved. ?Once his ministry started,
>> > he did not use money at all, except for what his unfaithful apostle
>> > carried around in a bag. ?Jesus Christ did not need that money, but he
>> > did not stop Judas from carrying it around.
>>
>> > =========
>>
>> > So you are claiming that he was a freeloader, a scrounger, a bludger, a
>> > welfare leech and presumably didn't pay his restaurant bills either.
>> > ?Great
>> > role model ....
>>
>> > BTW, because something is not explicitly mentioned in scripture does 
>> > not
>> > mean it never happened. ?Being human, I am pretty sure that Jesus would
>> > occasionally have had a widdle or squatted down to have a crap. ?Heck, 
>> > he
>> > probably farted, too.- Hide quoted text -
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>> > - Show quoted text -
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>> Jesus And his apostles traveled without purse or scrip, except for
>> Judas Iscariot, who did not have faith to follow that instruction from
>> Jesus.  As I understand it, you are upset that disciples of Christ
>> shared their food and clothing with him.
>> ====================================
>> "his apostles traveled without purse or scrip" so they had nothing to 
>> share
>> with him.
>> Ah. Got it now. Magic food and clothes. Bwahahahaha.
>> ====================================
>> It was fulfillment of a
>> prophecy of John the Baptist,
>> ===============================
>> As I understand it, John the Baptist lived concurrently with your Jesus
>> character.
>> Not much of a prophesy there.
>> "Son, you're gonna make it big time." from a talent scout, isn't a 
>> prophesy.
>>
>> ===========================================
>> Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
>> =======================================
>> They had landscape artists in the 1st century?
>>
>
> No, they had Roman road builders, dang it!
> And sanitation, ...
>

Clean water!
And don't forget education...

Smiler,
The godless one
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