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Why believe the Bible with its many contradictions? It seems stupid to believe lies.?
Have you read the Bible? Right? wow While all these are worthless. bad, just take random, 1 .. 27 (my baseball #) the genealogy in Matthew Josephs is the line of Luke's genealogy is Online Marys. The 101 they can be bypassed with a little research. this question makes you look stupid
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A successful and well-done construction contractor approached me at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, and said he was ready to go home. His words were a big surprise for my system because it was only our first day in Jerusalem.
Waiting patiently until he began to draw out what had been experiencing over the past eight or nine hours. He just could not believe what I saw in one day.
The businessman in northern Scotland do not believe which could cover in one day than we had managed to do.
We made clear our own, but very comfortable hotel in downtown Jerusalem, the eight o'clock and were taken right around the Old City walls.
Our hotel is located opposite the Damascus Gate outside the walls of the old city and right next to Golgotha and the Garden Tomb, where Jesus Christ's tomb was discovered probably over a hundred years ago. It is a beautiful setting.
We had brought up the Mount of Olives and enjoyed the panoramic view of the city old and new. Interestingly, the places where Jesus was arrested in Gethsemane, and then put on trial, and then to Gabatha before going to Calvary on Golgotha. These three words sum up the essence of those few hours: Gethsemane the Gabatha and finally Golgotha. The teaching of these three words allow people to remember the importance of the last twenty hours in the life of Jesus.
After the Mount of Olives, we went six miles to Bethlehem and visited the place where Jesus was born and said to have given them a special permit allowed to walk in the fields of the shepherds, where a sky full of angels announced the birth of Jesus to shepherds tending their sheep ordinary.
Lunch in Bethlehem in a very special restaurant is simple but memorable.
And so it is back to Jerusalem, and just before returning to the hotel, I ask if anyone want to visit the Western Wall and walk back to the hotel. Most accept the invitation. It is only a forty minute walk through the narrow streets of Jerusalem from Door manure to the Damascus Gate and all the way to our hotel.
It was at that time that my businessman said he was ready to go home. I was not tired or bored.
He could not believe I was seeing what he thought would never see and touch things I thought could never touch! It was touching to hear his account, but when I said that every day be better and better refused to believe me.
Three or four day adventure later, in silence approached me and told me I was right. I would like to take you on a very special tour of Jerusalem and Israel.
Talk about adventure! It would be difficult improvement in twelve days there!
Sandy Shaw is Pastor of Nairn Christian Fellowship, Chaplain at Inverness Prison, and Nairn Academy, and serves on The Children's Panel in Scotland, and has travelled extensively over these past years teaching, speaking in America, Canada, South Africa, and Australia, making 12 visits to Israel conducting Tours and Pilgrimages, and most recently in Uganda and Kenya, ministering at Pastors and Leaders Seminars, in the poor areas surrounding Kampala, Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu.
He broadcasts regularly on WSHO radio out of New Orleans, and writes a weekly commentary at http://www.studylight.org entitled "Word from Scotland" on various biblical themes, as well as a weekly newspaper column.
His M.A. and B.D. degrees are from The University of Edinburgh, and he continues to run and exercise regularly to maintain a level of physical fitness.
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