Hundredfold (corrected)
Carl Geisik cgeisik@lanl.gov
Wed, 02 Dec 1998 07:49:25 -0700 (00912631765, 3.0.32.19981202074925.0090dbd0@dxmail.lanl.gov)
At 12:10 AM 12/2/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Hi Carl,
>Yes, I think you suggested what I was thinking, only it was a hundredfold
>and not tenfold as I thought. Thank you. Of course, if this also only
>applies to the "community of believers", it would all be the same to me
>since, as a non-member I would get nothing which is equal to a hundred times
>nothing.
>Bones Bach
>thebachs@fgi.net
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Carl Geisik <cgeisik@lanl.gov>
>To: errancy@infidels.org <errancy@infidels.org>
>Date: Tuesday, December 01, 1998 7:53 PM
>Subject: Re: How to argue?
>
>
>>Greetings
>>
>>At 05:48 PM 12/1/98 -0600, you wrote:
>>>Hi Carl.
>>>from Bach
>>>Yes, Luke 6:37 is pretty much the same as the Matthew passage that I
>cited.
>>>The last line of this verse strikes me a bit odd...."For the measure you
>>>give will be the measure you get back." This is the same as in Matthew
>7:2.
>>>I don't have time to look it up right this minute, but I think it says
>>>elsewhere in the NT that you get back MORE than you give...tenfold, or
>>>something. Which is it, I wonder, the same...or more?
>>>Regards,
>>>Bones Bach
>>>thebachs@fgi.net
>>>
>>
>>GEISIK
>>
>>Is this what you were looking for?
>>
>>Matthew 19:29 And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or
>>sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my
>>name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting
>life.
>>
>>Mark 10:30 But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses,
>>and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with
>>persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.
>>
>>Carl Geisik
>>
>
>
GEISIK
I doubt that I have much coming my way either. However, can someone
explain to me exactly how one gets a "hundredfold" more wives. Didn't
bigamy go out in the Old Testament?
Carl Geisik
>>>>>Sorry folks. Intended to type "polygamy". Guess I should have my
coffee before posting.
Carl