In article <134.18.14.05.238302000@srcbs.org>, Gary McNees says...
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>"Matthew Johnson" wrote in message
>news:133.37.08.05.024481000@srcbs.org...

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>Matthew, haven't you seen yet that the Calvinists treat Scripture
>in the same fashion as do the JW's.

No, they are not _quite_ as bad. At least they do not tamper with the text.

>Every passage which clearly contradicts Calvinism is CHANGED,
>mutilated, twisted, and otherwise perverted, and made void so
>that they can continue to hold onto their corrupt diabolical Calvinistic
>system.

>Ex 18:23 is but one of hundreds of Scriptures which must be so
>treated for them to maintain their false system.

Right. But when they come up with their twisted interpretation, they do violence
to the context only, NOT to the text, nor to the individual words of the text.

What I mean by this is that when they translate "do I will the death of the
sinner" as "do I delight in the death of the sinner", they are still within the
semantic range of the verb I insist must be 'will'. But they do violence to the
context.

This is bad, of course, but not as bad the the JWs, who claim that YHWH can be
inserted all over the place in the NT.

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Mike Rhodes writes:
>On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 23:18:37 +0000 (UTC), "Stephen M. Adams" wrote:
>>"Gary" writes:

>>>This idea is absurd.
>>
>>So is quantum mechanics. But without quantum tunneling and various
>>other quantum effects, your computer wouldn't be working right now.
>>
>Wikipedia said quantum tunneling is what causes such a power drain and
>heating in Very-large-scale integration (VLSI) electronics. But I
>didn't see a reference to how our computers actually take advantage of
>it. There is the tunnel diode, but the source says conventional
>semi-conductor devices have surpased it in performance.
>
>Curious, but I don't really know.

Transistors are quantum devices - they depend on electrons "jumping"
an impermiable barrier...

-Stephen
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