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DélioPT said:
Final-Fan said:

Well when Jesus speaks of "living water" it is easy to believe that he was speaking metaphorically.  But what about when the Bible says you shouldn't eat four-legged insects, except for the ones that jump around like grasshoppers and crickets?  (They have six legs.)  


"But what about when the Bible says you shouldn't eat four-legged insects, except for the ones that jump around like grasshoppers and crickets?"
As i said, i never read the Bible, so, actually, to me that is a first... i think. Still, from what i saw on the internet it seems to revolve around being unclean and therefore to stay way from them. And the Law was to avoid impurity afterall.
I know very little about the apocrypha but it doesn`t seem to deny nothing that was said in the Bible about Jesus, God and Mary - about Mary, it seems to have a reference of her purity.

But if you still doubt - and it`s not my words that are going to change that - read the maria apparitions one day or other apparitions and you will see that what was said in the Bible about Jesus, God, the Holy Spirit and Mary was found in those apparitions, not just the figures but also their message.

"admittedly this story has a happy ending for Job..."
But this IS a big part of the meaning of the Book of Job. What i see in that book is no different from what i see in the life of everyone and Jesus Himself.
You make it seem that God was playing with the devil, when it`s not that. If God praised Job it was because He was happy for him and with him. The fact that he let the devil tempt him - and that the conversation is known - is for only one reason: God loves us so much that He doesn`t want to control us. So He allows for you to make the call on what you want.
The happy ending is just representative of the retribution for loving God.

The Book of Job is the sign to show people what our eyes can`t see: devil`s temptations and God`s love.

You're completely missing my point on the grasshopper thing.  The Bible thinks they have four legs when in fact they have six. 

I believe some of the apocryphal books contradict some of the canon books, and it was fallible men that decided which were canon. 

As for the "apparitions", I am of the opinion that they are hallucinated or otherwise imagined by the faithful, or in some cases by fakers. 

What kind of "temptation" is killing a man's family?  And part of what makes it so bad is that it was just God's bragging that started the whole thing, according to the Bible. 



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