From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help 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 Organization: I need to put my ORGANIZATION here. Message-ID: <87sl15sa1y.fsf_-_@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> References: <47851D69.8010101@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199997631 5629 80.91.229.12 (10 Jan 2008 20:40:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:40:31 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 10 21:40:53 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JD4Cp-0005ZG-1E for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:40:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JD4CR-00030z-G7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:40:27 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!uio.no!quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.harvard.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: w0053328.mgh.harvard.edu Original-X-Trace: plato.harvard.edu 1199996697 24969 132.183.29.121 (10 Jan 2008 20:24:57 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@plato.harvard.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:24:57 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:vCrVNBSwM1TZBye0lrqqLtNweQU= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:155227 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:50642 Archived-At: Alan Mackenzie 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 (303) 880-3109