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From: jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: OT: Torturing Ancient Judeans (was: How to move the cursor to the bottom of the screen?)
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:24:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sl15sa1y.fsf_-_@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.5947.1199954002.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

>> -- 
>> YES, JESUS LOVES YOU, TOO.
>> For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that
>> whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life(John
>> 3:16).
>
> This is very off-topic,

No, just off-topic.

> but I've never understood the logic connecting the second bit of that
> sentence to the first.

It's probably lost in translation.  It's all Greek to me, which is a
pity because I've never learned Greek.

> Couldn't God have somehow arranged eternal life without being
> complicit in torturing somebody to death first?

You might be thinking of the Romans ;)

Joel

-- 
Joel J. Adamson
Biostatistician
Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research Unit
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA  02114
(617) 643-1432
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-10 20:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-09 17:58 How to move the cursor to the bottom of the screen? Ye ilho
2008-01-09 18:44 ` B. Smith-Mannschott
2008-01-09 19:07   ` Ye ilho
2008-01-09 19:15     ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-01-09 19:23       ` Ye ilho
2008-01-10  8:15         ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-01-10  9:32           ` Thierry Volpiatto
     [not found]         ` <mailman.5947.1199954002.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-10 20:24           ` Joel J. Adamson [this message]
     [not found]       ` <mailman.5934.1199906623.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-09 22:48         ` Barry Margolin
2008-01-10  4:34     ` Sanjeev Kumar.S
2008-01-10  9:05 ` Dmitri Minaev

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