Mystery Owl

Is there a 'right' amount? No matter how much I give, it never seems like enough

There's still a month to go and I can't get jingle bell rock out of my head :(

WHAT DID I EVER DO TO YOU, JESUS

I pointed out that there was a pair of new parents just outside the shop with a newborn but they still refused to make me any. It was like they were going out of their way to avoid my business. Atheists, have you ever been discriminated against like this? Share your stories below

What did it ever do to me :(

1. Thou shalt not abuse the report function

2. Thou shalt not stretch pages with long spam answers which no one will read anyway

3. Thou shalt have a sense of humour, even when the jokes are at thine expense

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And Jesus' blood is wine, shouldn't people get baptized in wine?

"Just stopping by, guys. Really, don't get up. I can find my own way out."

Or, to put it another way, is there any evidence of a Jewish belief, pre-New Testament, that the messiah would alter these rules? Because I hear Christians saying all the time that Jesus didn't change the Mosaic laws, he 'fulfilled' them, and it just seems like silly wordplay. The laws of Jehovah said one thing, then Jesus came along, and then they said another. Unless someone can show that the Judaic god warned people of this dramatic change in social policy, it seems reasonable to stick with his previous instructions: "Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you." Deut 4:2

One passage that can be comfortably attributed to Jesus is the prophecy that, within a generation, the kingdom of god would come to earth (Mark 13:30; Luke 21:32, Matt. 24:34). Obviously, it didn't, to the point where someone had to write a letter pretending to be Peter, saying that "scoffers will come in the last days, saying 'where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things have continued as they were from the beginning of creation.'" 2 Peter 3:3-5. The fathers fell asleep- this is clearly a late response to the fact that, despite people's expectations given a reasonable reading of the text, the prophecy didn't come true, in the given time frame. Is there any way to reconcile this fact with a belief that Jesus Christ was the messiah?

In Genesis 2:2 it says "By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work." Should we assume from this verse that the Judaic god is not omnipotent? Resting implies a limit to your strength. You have to stop and rebuild your energy because you've used it all up. But why would a god with unlimited reserves of power ever need to stop, even for a second?