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Via: krounded • 12 years ago • 7 comments

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Well....the sermon this week is: Who told you that you were naked - Genesis 3:11

The site used to be used to manufacture gas, so I guess this is an improvement.

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Freshman Silent

Swamijim sez 12 years ago

Hhhmmmm--- doesn't look like they're anticipating the Second Coming real soon...

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Buzz of the Orient 12 years ago

Looking for a hard-on? Here's the biggest one you'll ever see. It was built in China. So if size is important - here you go!!!

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Buzz of the Orient 12 years ago

Freshman Silent

Len 12 years ago

As I undersand it, all church steeples are penis shaped --- more or less.

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Buzz of the Orient 12 years ago

Be kind, Len. You could just have said they're phallic symbols.

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Buzz of the Orient 12 years ago

Right on, JFT.

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Len 12 years ago

The Wall Street Journal, in an article on the Noahite movement, referred to steeples as "fertility symbols." Why?

The first I heard about an organized Noahite movement was from a Page 1 article in the Wall Street Journal in 1991. It told how the Rev. J. David Davis, then of the fundamentalist Emmanuel Baptist Church of Athens, Tenn., and about 15 of his flock, took down the steeple and carted it off to the dump. They had decided it was a fertility symbol that had no business on a house of worship. Then they scraped the words, Baptist Church off their sign. They stopped celebrating Christmas and brought in an Orthodox rabbi to regularly instruct them on Jewish philosophy.

Following is the best web site on the subject of the Noahite movement for gentiles. Bookmark and study it.

There is a national movement, called, Bnay Noach (Children of Noah), headed by Vendyl Jones, a former Baptist preacher in Arlington, TX. He also runs the Institute for Judaic-Christian Research, a clearing house for the Noahides (or Noahites). There are informal study groups in Minneapolis, Kansas City, and Houston; and abroad in Belgium, Great Britain and Nigeria. Jones calls it, Judaism for Gentiles. He says that the movement is a fulfillment of Ezekials prophecy that Gentiles would eventually turn to the God of Israel.

Mr. Davis 80-member congregation is the largest (in 1991). They are not converting to Judaism, keeping kosher, being circumcised or becoming bar mitzvah.

But they say they have found in the seven laws of Noah the essence of religion that God intended for gentiles. [He] came to this faith gradually, after suffering doubts about the literal truth of the Bible.

The article quotes James D. Taylor, professor of religion at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Ancient Hebrew writers mentioned certain gentiles called Godfearers, who were dedicated monotheists who hung around the synagogues and followed many beliefs and practices of their Jewish neighbors."

According to the article,

Mr. Davis, who wears a tiny gold Star of David around his neck, leads his flock in a conversation about Scripture. --- Jesus, he says, was a traditional rabbi (a great prophet but no divinity). [His] followers were a mix of Jews and Bnay Noach gentiles, but the whole enterprise got twisted into a new religion by various popes, theologians and Roman emperors (who tacked on pagan holidays such as Christmas and Easter that the Emmanuel group no longer celebrates).

Emmanuel has started a newsletter and mails out tapes of its services. John Hill, a believer in Fort Worth, Texas, has started a bulletin board and puts out a booklet that tells how Noahides can celebrate Jewish holidays such as Hanukkah. Michael Katz, the suburban Atlanta rabbi, who leads Emmanuels members in weekly Torah study [and Talmud], says that institutionalizing such rituals is vital if adherents of Bnay Noach are to keep their children interested and involved. But he admits he is worried about the movements long-term survival unless it grows quickly. The marriage pool is extremely limited.

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