ElishaElijah
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Which you’re not correct in you assumption that Paul was lying. Whether or not the snake was poisonous, the people who lived there seem to think it was. I really am not sure what your point is.
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Jesus is a Fictional Character
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Audie
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Really? The story says " viper".
You figure that is true, or false?
Be sure to say if you think its true.
It was harmless snake, if there wss even a snake at all. Once one part of the story
is a lie, some of us get real suspicious about the rest of it.
If there was a snake-
Paul uses it to trick ignorant and
superstitious people into thinking he is under
"God's" protection.
What a shabby fraud.
Audie
Veteran Member
I was correct that you did not check. But i dud.
If paul said it was a viper, he lied.
ElishaElijah
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Read Acts 27
ElishaElijah
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Yeah viper is poisonous snake so what makes you believe it wasn’t?
ElishaElijah
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You say Paul was a fraud, yet if you knew him, his ministry, how he lived, what he did, how God worked through him you’d be ashamed and embarrassed at your comment.
oldbadger
Skanky Old Mongrel!
So you cannot figure out what a myther is,?
OK. That word has been used on RF for ten years at least. I read it first in 'outhouse's' posts, meaning folks who just call everything in the NT or Bible myths. = Mythers.
I began to call them miffers, a kind of English slang, but that could really have thrown you, maybe.
Audie
Veteran Member
First - you dont know. You just have an
opinion.
I am analyzing a story for credibility- something you seem unwilling to do. Why?
Either stay on topic, or drop it, please?
These are no vipers, no dangerous snakes in Malta.
Can you accept that? If not this goes off into
stubborn unreason.
A yes or no on the " vipers" will do.
Are there vipers on Malta?
Audie
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THERE ARE NO VIPERS ON MALTA
Audie
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That changes nothing.
ElishaElijah
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The topic is Paul, his character and motives is it not? Apparently on Malta approximately 2000 years ago there were vipers at least the one that latched onto Paul.
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ElishaElijah
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Chapter 27 gives some insights into Paul’s character and the context of Malta, he didn’t need to prove anything and was a prisoner.
ElishaElijah
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You’re analyzing the story but not the context, Paul’s letters, how he lived, how God used him, what the other apostles thought of him. By the way, sounds to me that Luke wrote Acts.
Audie
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Oh, the context is, it was ok to make things up.
God needed a fake story so he can " use" paul?
I understand it was all about how he
was "special". Dont assume i dont know gospel.
Satan does too.
If he had been special they wouldnt need to fake it.
This stuff is very simple.
Yes / no on him being bitten by a viper where
there arent any
RestlessSoul
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Audie
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That were St Pat.Because St Paul drove them all away
lukethethird
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There are many theories as to what or who Jesus was,
the difference between you and I is that you have picked one and choose to defend it against any criticism. How noble of you.
lukethethird
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That story from Acts was written in the second century by an anonymous gospel writer, Paul died by the year 70CE and never mentioned it.
Audie
Veteran Member
Ah, so somebody else made the story up.
Either way its a distinction sans difference,
as far as credibility of the accounts about
Paul are concerned.
A lot of that make - stuff- up goes around, like the " fact" that there ever were vipers on Malta,
and that they "latch on", or "cling" when they bite.
They dont. The strike is so quick you dont even
see the bite.
lukethethird
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Acts is full of stories that illustrate how true believers are protected from such things.
In Acts, James and John are taken as prisoners but an angel of the Lord swooped into the prison and freed John. Meanwhile, James was executed by the sword, the moral of the story is that followers of John's are better protected than James's.
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