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On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:55:26 +0100, "Steve O" <nospamhere@thanks.com>
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>"Antares 531" <gordonlrDELETE@swbell.net> wrote in message 
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>> On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:15:05 +0100, "Steve O" <nospamhere@thanks.com>
>> wrote:
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>>>"Antares 531" <gordonlrDELETE@swbell.net> wrote in message
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>>>> On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:17:41 +0100, The Natural Philosopher <a@b.c>
>>>> wrote:
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>>>>>Antares 531 wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:15:08 -0700, ben_dolan_III@reet.com (Ben Dolan)
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>> (snip)
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>>>>>> Ben, there is an ABUNDANCE of evidence that God exists,
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>>>>>Which God though?
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>>>> The One whose prophecies are repeatedly and accurately fulfilled.
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>>>> http://www.reasons.org/resources/apologetics/prophecy.shtml
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>>>I checked out this link and read the first line, "Unique among all books
>>>ever written, the Bible..."
>>>If the opening line was anything to go by, there wasn't much point in
>>>reading all of the rest.
>>>ALL books are unique... unless it's the same book.
>>>D'oh!
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>> Polycystinea, the main class of  radiolarians is "unique" among the
>> creatures of this planet in that it has a siliceous skeletal
>> composition.
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>Oookaaaaay...
>But we we talking about books, not the unique molecular phylogeny of 
>spongodiscidae.
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I thought we were debating the meaning of "unique." 
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>> The Bible is unique among all books in that it is the word of God,
>> revealed to us through the prophets.
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>Nah.
>Lots of books claim to be the word of God.
>Nothing unique there.
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Have you found books of other religions that provide prophetic
information that actually happens as foretold?
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>>The fact that the prophetic
>> information is and has been reliably fulfilled makes the Bible
>> different than any other such books.   Gordon
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>Ever hear of self- fulfilling prophecy?
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Yes, and I'll admit there is room to suspect that in some Biblical
writings, but there are numerous other prophetic passages in the Bible
that could not have been "constructed" to fit the situation, after the
fact. The above link points out many such writings.  Gordon