A Journey to Native Alaska

A personal account of a young man's journey to a small Eskimo village in Alaska. Includes article, pictures, and links.

A Journey to Native Alaska

A personal account of a young man's journey to a small Eskimo village in Alaska. Includes article, pictures, and links.

Alaska Historical Society

The official site of the Alaska Historical Society, home to information about Alaska history and local historical societies throughout the state.

Alaska Historical Society

The official site of the Alaska Historical Society, home to information about Alaska history and local historical societies throughout the state.

Alaska Native Knowledge Network

designed to serve as a resource for compiling and exchanging information related to Alaska Native knowledge systems and ways of knowing.

Alaska Native Knowledge Network

designed to serve as a resource for compiling and exchanging information related to Alaska Native knowledge systems and ways of knowing.

Alaska's Many Cultures

Alaskans are the children of many nations. The legacy of Inupiat and Yupik Eskimos, Aleuts, and Athabascan, Haida, Tlingit, and Tsimshian Indians. The descendants of Russians, and rugged prospectors.

Alaska's Many Cultures

Alaskans are the children of many nations. The legacy of Inupiat and Yupik Eskimos, Aleuts, and Athabascan, Haida, Tlingit, and Tsimshian Indians. The descendants of Russians, and rugged prospectors.

Alaska: The Great Land at nationalgeographic.com

Explore Alaska's land, wildlife, history, and people.

Alaska: The Great Land at nationalgeographic.com

Explore Alaska's land, wildlife, history, and people.

Gary McNees wrote:

> Bob Felts wrote:
> > Gary McNees wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>But I think I see your point. Is it your point that every time you sin,
> >>you have an excuse because it is not you doing it, but "sin which dwells
> >>in you?"
> >>
> >
> >
> > There is no excuse for it. But it is "sin which dwells in me".
>
> Were you "determined" to do it by God? Or could you have refrained from
> doing it?
>

We can't know the answer to that except in hindsight.

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nnalyd@yahoo.com wrote:


> 2. In translations, the important thing is consistancy. In
> the NWT, most of the time the phrase here is translated "God".
> EXCEPT in this verse, where it would quite inconvenient for
> the JW's.
>
> see Acts 28:6 how does the Bible on your desk render this verse?

6 Sie aber warteten, wenn er schwellen würde oder tot
niederfallen. Da sie aber lange warteten und sahen, daß ihm
nichts Ungeheures widerfuhr, wurden sie anderes Sinnes und
sprachen, er wäre ein Gott.


Do you have some point? Rather than answer the question
of how you justify your inconsistancy, you try to derail
the thread (again) to an irrelevant tangent. Not that I'm
surprised. You have yet to give a plain answer to any
challenge.

Bart

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Zach wrote:

>The Psalmist is talking in the general sense. Who is his audience?
>Humanity.

In the larger picture it is but at the time it was for Israelites who
were required to now the Pentateuch (as it was later called). Genesis
5:24 was certainly known by them. Psalms were composed for song and
poetic praise.

>Enoch was a special case. His audience would not care about
>one special case since it is not applicable to anyone else.

Well you do realize you are just assuming this. It is just as
reasonable to think it would be silly to ask a question like: "what man
is he that liveth, and shall not see death?" when the answer could very
well be: "Enoch can!"

>Speaking
>proverbially, one does not include the exceptions, robbing the message
>of its power.

But if Enoch had not died the message would have no power. To ask such
a rhetorical question would not be persuasive at all. If Enoch was an
exception there's no reason there couldn't be other exceptions so why
bother to ask it.

The statement "what man is he that li