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‘God’ responds to lawsuit— Twice!
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Ben Witherington
Lincoln Nebraska seems like a sane enough place. But recently it has been the site where a lawsuit has been filed against God by a state senator (Ernie Chambers– see the previous blog post on this matter). Now, there have been not one but two responses to this suit. The story can be found on…
Just in Time for All Hallow’s Eve– Ezekiel’s Skeleton People Show Up
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Ben Witherington
Prophecy in Ezekiel 37 Proved True— Story follows: (http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29976?utm_source=EMTF_Onion) —————- Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People December 8, 1999 | Issue 35•45 Related Story— Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New ‘Intelligent Falling’ Theory August 17, 2005 OAS_AD(AL JIZAH, EGYPT—A team of British and Egyptian archaeologists made a stunning discovery Monday, unearthing several intact…
‘The Sorrow of God’– G. Studdert-Kennedy
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Ben Witherington
Kennedy was a chaplain in WWI for the British and saw the worst of human evil in the Maginot line. In this poem, done in Cockney dialect ( I have Americanized it a bit for the sake of intelligibility. It can be found in his wonderful long out of print book ‘The Unutterable Beauty’ pp.…
Religion in the News— God gets Sued!!
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Ben Witherington
God, according to the Bible, is omnipresent. This means, according to State Senate from Nebraska Ernie Chambers, God can be sued, since he resides in all the U.S. of A. Specifically Senator Chambers is suing God for what the insurance companies usually call ‘acts of God’– namely natural disasters, such as the tornadoes that recently…
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