Thelandism - The New Religion For Losers.

[Theland1]

It struck me suddenly, right in me gob, and dripped down me chin and onto me soup encrusted shirt. Eureka!
I have been accused, or rather, credited, with all of the necessary attributes to become the founder of a new religion!
Slapping modesty in the chops and kicking him out into four foot of deep and crisp and even, I am settled on calling my new religion, "Thelandism."
You lot have told me that I already have dogma in spades, and with a few props like a smokey handbag, a portaloo for a confessional, and a couple of scoops to bring on the tongues, this could really take off in a big way.
A bit of your hard earned donated to this good cause may save your soul from the indignity of having your name scrawled on a few lavatory walls.
Thank you all for the inspiration.
Would you like to join?

[naomi24]

Theland, I'm cut to the quick! A lazy argument? Cheap shots? Me? Never!! Wash your mouth out, you .. you .. you .... cad!! Have a custard pie! Sperlatt!

// we must try to remove ourselves from trying to impose our thinking on the Bible authors with their traditions, sayings, proverbs etc etc. //

But in allowing yourself to believe the clap trap of men who twist words and make them fit where they want them to fit because they have an agenda, that's precisely what you are doing. You'd be better placed in putting your faith in the prophecies of Nostradamus. At least he had the courage and the foresight (sorry) in many instances to provide dates!

And okay, you say your timeframe rule doesn't apply to the New Testament - which is mighty convenient - but then you've completely ignored poor old Moses who, following the logic of your so-called scholars, must have (impossibly) tramped around Sinai trailing generations of Israelites behind him for around 15000 years. Or doesn't it apply to that particular section of the bible either?

Do you know, Theland, when you talk about 'scholars doing it for us' that really worries me - and if you thought about it seriously it ought to worry you too. You sound exactly like Keyplus. Have you really allowed religion to cause you to abandon your own intellect to that degree?

I've missed our banter Theland old chap. I do hope you're not going to disappear again - but I won't hold my breath. :o)

[Nadis]

If we are to remove ourselves from trying to impose our thinking from the Bible authors then what has the Christian Church been doing to society for all these years?

[Nadis]

I apologise, "...on the Bible authors".

[Theland1]

Bible language study is quite intricate. Forty days and forty nights is nothing more than you or I saying that we are so hungry we could eat a horse, or describing an inconvenient wait as a month of Sundays. Different sayings for different scenarios.
But you know that don't you? You are just being ... er ... well .... YOU!
I say black and you say white, etc etc ad infinitum.

[Theland1]

I shall try not to disappear. I know that I provide a valuable service, ie providing blood for the carnivores.

[Count-A-Strong]

Yep boring and pointless ain't it.

[naomi24]

Ha ha! Now come on Theland, you old devil. You demand I ditch the graffiti and cut to the chase - and as soon as I do, what happens? You try to duck the well-aimed custard pie!! Coward! Come out here and pud 'em up!! :o)

[Theland1]

Daniels vision gave a time line that even when taking into account the change from one calendar to another, the reunification of Jerusalem comes out at 1967, smack bang within living memory, for some of us that is.
Forty is a number that was analogous to a long time, hence forty days and nights, or forty years in the desert. Your Jewish friends will confirm this of course.

[naomi24]

Theland, even though 'scholars' have decided how they will interpret biblical timelines and where their count should begin, we cannot be sure when the prophecy was written, and therefore whichever mathematical equation you choose to employ, there's no way that anyone can come up with the year 1967 and claim it to be absolutely accurate.

Don't you ever wonder why the year 1967 wasn't acclaimed as the great date by your 'scholars' before 1967? Or was it? If it was, I certainly know nothing about it. Boy, that really would have been something!

[mibn2cweus]

It's one thing to make predictions of past events but you'd think by now, 40 days and forty nights later, they'd get their facts straight!

Oops, make that forty 'years' later . . . no big.

[piggynose]

the real issue here is, are you a troll?

[naomi24]

My point precisely Mibs. Easy after the event! Just imagine if the scholars working on these so-called predictions had said years before the event "we've worked it all out and this is definitely going to happen in 1967." Wow! Wouldn't that have been fantastic! Who could have doubted the veracity of the biblical predictions? Just one snag - they didn't.

Piggynose, Theland isn't a troll.

[naomi24]

Theland, you wanted to discuss this. Where are you?

[Theland1]

Yes it is annoying that it seems nobody made headlines of this prophecy. However, do the math after reading Daniel. Impressive.
I try to stick around but find it difficult as busy with other problems.

[naomi24]

Theland, I take it this is what you mean?

http://www.spreadingl...om/prophecy/707s.html

My initial impression is that the author is desperately trying to make something out of what appears to be total confusion. Incidentally, other websites give conflicting information.

[Theland1]

A column in the Jerusalem Post a few months ago, written by a Jewish Christian scholar, gave his analysis of the prophecy and step by step explained how he arrived at 1967.
So, there you have it.

[jackthehat]

It's the *one* prophecy you habitually rely upon to show just how prescient the bible is.

I've often asked you to provide details of other prophecies 'now revealed'. Do you think that you could oblige this time...............?

[Theland1]

I'll work on it. See if I can find the J.P. column.