[Johny Joe Hold]

Re: Everything you need to know about THE MOON

Hold on guys, the kind gentleman wants to share his wisdom with us.
Go ahead man, we're listening

For goodness sake, I go to the trouble of explaining moon phases to you and this is how you show your appreciation? Look at any of our books in the True Christianity Science library and you will find I am right.

[Bruhman73638]

Re: Everything you need to know about THE MOON

These trolls that come by here and make ridiculous arguments are quite amusing. They use the word "science" but know little about God's role in it.

Let's take the moon's "phases." If you watch the moon a lot you will see that sometimes it is not there, sometimes it is all there, sometime half and so on. Why does this happen?

These "phases" are God sending coded messages to his favorite people. Those of us at Landover Baptist know what God is saying.

Recently, for example, the moon has been full. This is code for God telling us at Landover Baptist to open our eyes and see what evil Satan and his liberals are doing. Sometimes we see Democrats doing half witted things. God will show us a half moon.

Trolls here should buckle down and study this stuff.

Hold on guys, the kind gentleman wants to share his wisdom with us.

Go ahead man, we're listening

[Johny Joe Hold]

Re: Everything you need to know about THE MOON

These trolls that come by here and make ridiculous arguments are quite amusing. They use the word "science" but know little about God's role in it.

Let's take the moon's "phases." If you watch the moon a lot you will see that sometimes it is not there, sometimes it is all there, sometime half and so on. Why does this happen?

These "phases" are God sending coded messages to his favorite people. Those of us at Landover Baptist know what God is saying.

Recently, for example, the moon has been full. This is code for God telling us at Landover Baptist to open our eyes and see what evil Satan and his liberals are doing. Sometimes we see Democrats doing half witted things. God will show us a half moon.

Trolls here should buckle down and study this stuff.

[Bruhman73638]

Re: Everything you need to know about THE MOON

I can't see what any of this has to do with the moon. Reason is relevant and I've already included Isaiah 1:18 where God encourages us to use reason to understand important aspects of the world He made. The Bible is our source for information in that case and does include details about the moon, referred to in OP.



You won't believe this but recently I came across two utterly ridiculous claims, one being that The Firmament is actually the earth's crust! That would mean that any moons attached to it would only be visible from "inside" (requiring the earth to be something like a tennis ball) or alternatively if we allow for a discus shape——just to accommodate this idiotic suggestion——a "crust embedded moon" could be poking up above the surface like this:

central moon

70% embedded

An even more ludicrous idea was that there are TWO FIRMAMENTS. One underneath our feet, one above our heads. And this from charlatans who claim to believe The Bible and appear to have read at least some of it but want God to fit in with their own model so they can sell books about cosmology which contradict God on this important subject. The Firmament is inelastic. Not a tenuous orb diminishing to infinity (another idea from "crust" proponents) and not a void.

We know the moon is set in The Firmament and clearly it's above our heads, not under our feet where people would trip over it or it might pop up at different places and topple people over, so I looked up the details here†

Genesis 1:14a; 17 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament ... And God set them in the firmament of the heaven

God made the moon. He knows how He made it and where He put it. It's often suggested that God ceased to exist after He made everything, perhaps like a bubble full of smoke disappears when it liberates the smoke. There is the cloud of smoke (universe) but the bubble (God) no longer exists. Such a God is NOT what's described in The Bible and anyone who disagrees really needs to show where their information is coming from. Whether you wear dungarees or a kilt, however, is completely irrelevant.



† https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/set

Thank you

[MitzaLizalor]

Re: Everything you need to know about THE MOON

I can't see what any of this has to do with the moon. Reason is relevant and I've already included Isaiah 1:18 where God encourages us to use reason to understand important aspects of the world He made. The Bible is our source for information in that case and does include details about the moon, referred to in OP.

The Bible teaches us that the Moon is a light, not a reflector, and it doesn't float around in space, it's stuck in the sky, which is a solid object called "the firmament"

You won't believe this but recently I came across two utterly ridiculous claims, one being that The Firmament is actually the earth's crust! That would mean that any moons attached to it would only be visible from "inside" (requiring the earth to be something like a tennis ball) or alternatively if we allow for a discus shape——just to accommodate this idiotic suggestion——a "crust embedded moon" could be poking up above the surface like this:

central moon

70% embedded

An even more ludicrous idea was that there are TWO FIRMAMENTS. One underneath our feet, one above our heads. And this from charlatans who claim to believe The Bible and appear to have read at least some of it but want God to fit in with their own model so they can sell books about cosmology which contradict God on this important subject. The Firmament is inelastic. Not a tenuous orb diminishing to infinity (another idea from "crust" proponents) and not a void.

We know the moon is set in The Firmament and clearly it's above our heads, not under our feet where people would trip over it or it might pop up at different places and topple people over, so I looked up the details here†

Genesis 1:14a; 17 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament ... And God set them in the firmament of the heaven

set verb
to put something in a particular place or position

God made the moon. He knows how He made it and where He put it. It's often suggested that God ceased to exist after He made everything, perhaps like a bubble full of smoke disappears when it liberates the smoke. There is the cloud of smoke (universe) but the bubble (God) no longer exists. Such a God is NOT what's described in The Bible and anyone who disagrees really needs to show where their information is coming from. Whether you wear dungarees or a kilt, however, is completely irrelevant.



† https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/set

[handmaiden]

Re: Everything you need to know about THE MOON

Oh, waawaawaa, I want my milk in a bottle, cuz I am acting like a baby, maybe got take that book and [*** DISGUSTING, POTTY LANGUAGE REMOVED BY CORDIAL MODERATOR ***]

And perhaps you should broaden your diet beyond Mountain Dew and gummy worms. And after that, you should open a Bible, learn something about the underpinnings of Western Civilization, apologize to Mr. Much (even a foul atheist deserves basic courtesy), then go outside and get some fresh air. It would do you a world of good.

[Didymus Much]

Re: Everything you need to know about THE MOON

No I'm not, I'm just a friend of him, why can't you accept that he is male and I am his friend, seriously, this entire forums page is selfish and self-centered

As soon as you offer satisfactory evidence of your claims, we will accept them, because that's how things work in the grown-up world.


Aside: why is it so all-fired important to you that people accept that your friend is male? Why would it make his/her contributions any less valid?

...Get a life, jackass

[Bruhman73638]

Re: Everything you need to know about THE MOON

And that makes five completely unsupported claims in one post with poor grammar.


You're a TF2 "leet" (or whatever they call it these days), I'm assuming?

Oh, waawaawaa, I want my milk in a bottle, cuz I am acting like a baby, maybe got take that book and [*** DISGUSTING, POTTY LANGUAGE REMOVED BY CORDIAL MODERATOR ***]

[Bruhman73638]

Re: Everything you need to know about THE MOON

And why should we listen to a racist who doesn't even have a holy book to blame his stupidity on?

And that makes five completely unsupported claims in one post with poor grammar.


You're a TF2 "leet" (or whatever they call it these days), I'm assuming?

No I'm not, I'm just a friend of him, why can't you accept that he is male and I am his friend, seriously, this entire forums page is selfish and self-centered


Get a life, jackass

[Didymus Much]

Re: Everything you need to know about THE MOON

He's literally a male, he's not bisexual, he is always a man, I'm his good friend, I've known him since 4th grade

And that makes five completely unsupported claims in one post with poor grammar.


You're a TF2 "leet" (or whatever they call it these days), I'm assuming?

[Bruhman73638]

Re: Everything you need to know about THE MOON

Young lady, you cannot just identify as a man and expect everyone to suddenly start treating you as one. God made men and women and He expects them to stay that way.

Deuteronomy 22:5 The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God.

I trust this settles the matter.

YIC

He's literally a male, he's not bisexual, he is always a man, I'm his good friend, I've known him since 4th grade

[Dr Laurence Niles]

Re: Everything you need to know about THE MOON

I am a male, you just gender assumed me.

Young lady, you cannot just identify as a man and expect everyone to suddenly start treating you as one. God made men and women and He expects them to stay that way.

Deuteronomy 22:5 The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God.

I trust this settles the matter.

YIC

[MitzaLizalor]

Re: Everything you need to know about THE MOON

Logic is the thing holding society together. So, suck on that

Perhaps you've heard of the Roman Empire? They imported most of their culture from the Greeks, concentrating more on society than culture. From Julius Caesar onwards for a few years they managed to expand their sphere of influence and although he didn't ever call himself an emperor, what he achieved was generally beneficial. Economies of scale enabled some very impressive infrastructure, roads, plumbing, central heating. No trains but you can't have everything.

The Greeks were a bit older and had invented this logic you talk about. It never held anything together, their society revolving around assorted temples and the mutterings of soothsayers. Some of the temples were a springboard for something like guilds: doctors, hunters, spinners weavers and dyers, you get the idea. They imagined gods/goddesses embodying "the hunt" or "music" etc., all with no evidence, and things went along quite well with no logic involved at all. False gods however cannot produce sons capable of retroactive creation, even creation of the moon.

Colossians 1:3a, 15-17 We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ ... Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: for by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: and he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

There was another stratum of thought among the Greeks however. Sometimes it's said that's where logic was invented (or perhaps codified for the first time) but the great big elephant in that particular room is what happened next. They suggested the temple dogma was false, that there were no gods and goddesses living on the magic mountain and movers & shakers like Euclid, Epicurus, Aristophanes (to name but three) whether privately or in public certainly challenged those temples. Whether by ridicule——and in theatrical tradition (well, it's a tradition now) the logicians were ridiculed too——or by reason, what you call «the thing that holds society together» was being ripped to shreds.

By importing culture, that is what the Romans imported. They did make some statues but they weren't anything to write home about. And despite every effort of the temples to amalgamate, to dump all their bling under one single heading, the whole caboodle imploded. What was being proposed in either case contradicted God.

Why does the moon not fall down? One day the stars will. They're starting to do so now. Some nights quite a few become dislodged and streak down. Now and then one will explode. All explained in The Bible. But astrology doesn't hold anything together either. What's importance is obedience. Obedience to God. Here He includes the alternative to following His word and making up new forms of "logic."

Isaiah 1:18-20 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: but if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.

I hope that is helpful.

[Elmer G. White]

Re: Everything you need to know about THE MOON

(s)he

I am a male, you just gender assumed me.

How?

Galatians 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

Instead of attempting to bypass the actual argument ("1997"), you are simply using the fallacious ad hominem (accusing others), straw man (twisting the message of others, e.g., in which manner is (s)he assuming your sex?) and using a red herring, not to mention some overtones of ad misericordiam. This is not comely of a person who enters the stage claiming reason and logic. Still, in my unbiased manner, I'm looking forward to your assessing the 1997 issue.


Yours in Christ,

Elmer

[Iplaytf2]

Re: Everything you need to know about THE MOON

This is exciting, and as a Creation Scientist, I am always ready to make an unbiased assessment of this. Obviously, in addition to pure reason, we expect this person to do careful fact-checking of the data (s)he is going to present, as follows:Now, I am baffled. Even NASA in their Bible-opposing lewdness do not claim to have sent anyone on the Moon in 1997, nor is there any fake photographic (Daguerreotype or newer) evidence of this around. Obviously, logic did not entail fact-checking for this person. Hint: there are easily accessible documents that you can access with the help of your school's librarian. There are microfilmed newspaper clippings of the year that NASA DID claim to have reached the moon, many encyclopedias mention this if you browse the books (that are arranged in alphabetical order) for "moon". Even some of your schoolbooks on postmodern history might also mention this. So, please do a tiny bit more research and you'll be astonished!

But... (for my True Christian Siblings in Christ™): It is possible that there is a more sinister motive behind the "1997" - it could be a subliminal reference to the false Muslim-Catholic Cult, as there IS a verse 19:97 in the fictional Quran. It is the Surah Maryam 19:97:
So, [O Muhammad], We have only made Qur’an easy in the Arabic language that you may give good tidings thereby to the righteous and warn thereby a hostile people.

A clear reference to the Islamic part of the Papist conspiracy, to have everyone learn Arabic and discard Jesus AND an ulterior, even more devious reference to the Catholics, as "Surah Maryam" means "The Surah of Mary", i.e., Mary worship, Papism, everything Jesus opposes. Eventually this would mean forced sodomy.

Genesis 19:5 (NOT 19:97, that does not exist)
And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.

I rest my case.


Yours in Christ,

Elmer

I am a male, you just gender assumed me.