Fwd: Re: Fwd: JESUS AND JERUSALEM
Brian Dean bridean@hotmail.com
Sat, 31 Jan 1998 11:04:53 PST (00886295093, 19980131190454.25804.qmail@hotmail.com)
RONCRISS
"It is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God"!
"Tyger, Tyger, burning bright....."
BRIDEAN
I appologize to the list ahead of time for not fixing the line feed
problems in the post below. I am including it because it will only
take a quick glance of it to see what Ron is refering to.
>>>RONCRISS
>>>
>>>>If you don't believe
>>>>in God you won't believe He had Jerusalem destroyed. Too bad. It is
a
>>>>fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
>>>
>>>PATRICK
>>>
>>>Roncriss is asserting that Jesus is responsible for the events of the
>>fall
>>>of Jerusalem. If this is the case, then perhaps he might also assume
>>that
>>>Josephus' recordings of those events constitutes a record, more or
>less
>>>accurate, of God's actions. The following is excerpted from book 6 of
>>>Jospehus' "War of the Jews":
>>>
>>>"indeed the multitude of carcasses that lay in heaps one upon another
>>was a
>>>horrible sight, and produced a pestilential stench, which was a
>>hinderance
>>>to those that would make sallies out of the city, and fight the
enemy:
>>but
>>>as those were to go in battle-array, who had been already used to ten
>>>thousand murders, and must tread upon those dead bodies as they
>marched
>>>along, so were not they terrified, nor did they pity men as they
>>marched
>>>over them; nor did they deem this affront offered to the deceased
*the rest sniped for sake of sanity to the eyes*
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