Re: [asa] The Hebrew for the Making of Man

On Feb 3, 2008 9:53 PM, Michael Roberts <michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk>
wrote:

> I am bored. I don't think the OT was meant to be read like this and
> trying to get information on the exact location of the Flood etc.
>
> It is a case of asking the wrong questions.
>

You ain't seen nothing yet! On a business trip to the Indianapolis last
week, I tuned in on my hotel TV to a channel called "Rejoice TV", where a
suited preacher called Dr. Neal Jackson was preaching about heaven. He had
got a mathematician to work out that there would have been 32 billion people
born in the world since Adam. Then, taking some figures (from Ezekiel I
think?) about the dimensions of Heaven, he figured out that if as many as
half of humankind made it to heaven that they'd each have 210 square miles
in God's mansion (with ceilings a mile high); a whole lotta real estate. I
am not kidding - I actually saw this. That was followed by another
preacher, I forget the name, preaching about "prosperity gospel", who seemed
to have his congregation whipped up into some kind of frenzy, doing bunny
hops across the floor and proclaiming "I'm never going to be in debt
again!!". At this point I was sufficiently turned off to turn it off.
Christianity in Britain seems a whole different religion as far as I can
see.

Iain

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Received on Mon Feb 4 03:23:27 2008