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The Landover Baptist Church Forum - General Church Fellowship https://www.landoverbaptist.net/ A place for True Christians to join in praise, faith and fellowship. en Fri, 15 May 2026 17:46:37 GMT vBulletin 60 https://www.landoverbaptist.net/images/misc/rss.png The Landover Baptist Church Forum - General Church Fellowship https://www.landoverbaptist.net/ Did God Really Say This? https://www.landoverbaptist.net/forum/church-forums/general-church-fellowship/2078838-did-god-really-say-this Tue, 05 May 2026 16:53:13 GMT
"Do not let a flaunting woman coax and cozen and deceive you: she is after your barn. The man who trusts womankind trusts deceivers." (Compare: Proverb:21:9: It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.)

Such wise advice that seems eternally true... I felt the quote must come from Ecclesiastes, or Psalms, or Proverbs and I had somehow missed it.

But no! It comes from "Hesiod's Works and Days" https://people.sc.fsu.edu/~dduke/lectures/hesiod1.pdf written in Greek about 700BC (about the same time as Isaiah), but worse still, the poem is filled with references to Zeus, and the rest of them!

It has always bothered me that the Greeks believed all the gods lived up Mount Olympus, but apparently, none of them bothered to go up the mountain to check.

That aside, I wondered is it possible for a piece of profound wisdom and deepest truth to exist anywhere else other than in the Bible?

Surely, everything else is of Satan or the puny works of man.

]]> General Church Fellowship Ezekiel Bathfire https://www.landoverbaptist.net/forum/church-forums/general-church-fellowship/2078838-did-god-really-say-this An ode - In the midst of life, we are in death https://www.landoverbaptist.net/forum/church-forums/general-church-fellowship/the-poetaster-s-korner/2078792-an-ode-in-the-midst-of-life-we-are-in-death Fri, 01 May 2026 15:09:37 GMT la vie c'est du pet in French but I translated it to English for all his friends here.

In the midst of life, we are in death
Sorrows fall onto the Virgin's chest
He walks now into the Light
Our Holy Father's precious sight,
Now as flies through air and sea,
as fast as his deliveries,
Sweet Jesus take my baby please
Like altar boys, I'm on my knees,
laying red roses in careful pottage,
Bless my boy, Q. Ponce Frottage.
For you it's written on the plaque,
how a raccoon nipped your sack,
it was your fate, no ifs or maybes,
to succumbed to the evil rabies.
Now you're home, with Our Lord
With you gone, this church is bored.
Amen.

]]> Madame Frottage https://www.landoverbaptist.net/forum/church-forums/general-church-fellowship/the-poetaster-s-korner/2078792-an-ode-in-the-midst-of-life-we-are-in-death