"God created things which had free will. That means creatures which can go wrong or right. Some people think they can imagine a creature which was free but had no possibility of going wrong, but I can't. If a thing is free to be good it's also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having. A world of automata -of creatures that worked like machines- would hardly be worth creating. The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water. And for that they've got to be free.
Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently, He thought it worth the risk. (...) If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will -that is, for making a real world in which creatures can do real good or harm and something of real importance can happen, instead of a toy world which only moves when He pulls the strings- then we may take it it is worth paying."

- C.S. Lewis, The Case for Christianity

Join GregD, MikeD, DaveT and Uncle Jack as they discuss the purpose of Christ and the ramifications of the Cross upon the entirety of humanity.

Oh yeah, some flat-earth is in there too.


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LXX2012: Septuagint in English 2012

This is a translation of the Old Testament and Apocrypha/Deuterocanon from Hebrew to Greek to 19th Century British English, with some updates of spelling and word usage to contemporary American English. The original English translation was done by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton and published by Samuel Bagster & Sons, Ltd., in London in 1851. It has entered the Public Domain due to the passage of sufficient time. In the process of scanning and typing the text, the original poetry and prose formatting, as well as peripheral material like introductions and notes, have been omitted.

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Hi Greg,

After seeing "Rocket hitting the flat earth dome" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAcp3BFBYw4 I was compelled to search out the source (stolen) footage...

This one seems to show a complete version of the "Rocket Hits The Dome" video that goes on to show the jettison of the nose capsule from the booster rocket with continued upward momentum:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=001IXnp0ogc&feature=youtu.be&t=56

This website discusses the likelihood that a "yo-yo de-spin device" has been deployed prior to stage separation to stabilize the capsule for the rest of its voyage - presumably into space.

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/17089/how-did-the-gofast-2014-rocket-de-spin

Some of the comments for those videos are hilarious...

People often lie to support their mistaken beliefs - In many ways I fear that the whole flat-earth phenomenon is orchestrated to mock people's belief in God - to "take it on faith." Luckily we know truth only because God has given it to us.

This idea of a rocket hitting a dome is literally rocket science and is over most peoples heads

Thanks for the diversion

In this thrilling episode GregD, MikeD, DaveT and Uncle Jack briefly entertain the notion of a Flat Earth and consider its potential for a future, in-depth, discussion topic. In the midst of that "tall grass" the conversation turns toward a consideration of 1Corinthians 4:6 (in part: "...not to think of men above that which is written...") and question whether he was referring to the Septuagint (see topic: A Bible for Jesus and Paul) and if so, how does this admonition square with the acceptance of a "New" Testament.

So many questions...



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This is one of my favorite verses.

This week GregD, MikeD and DaveT gladly welcome Jack back into the discussion; promptly delving into a topic that soon reminds us all why this Bible study group bears the "Not Mainstream" label. While in the course of a pre-meeting discussion, the question arose concerning whether worshiping Jesus as God is truly what we should be doing... Is Jesus truly God? Was Jesus just a man? Is the doctrine of the "Trinity" truly Biblical? What is Faith - really? When the recording opens we had already begun our journey down this path of exploration...

A lively discussion focusing on many deep philosophical and theological ideas that many might find uncomfortable. It is of course, an understanding of the truth that will ultimately bring us comfort; so we continue to study God's word - that we should not be ashamed - as we work diligently in our efforts to be "rightly dividing the word of truth."* 

* 2 Timothy 2:15

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