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1   Rick Frueh    http://judahslion.blogspot.com/
October 1st, 2010 at 5:28 am

In an embarrassing revelation of my age and generation, I waited for the “punch line” finale in the video but in the end, I don’t get it. I am old.

2   Chris L    http://www.fishingtheabyss.com/
October 1st, 2010 at 8:20 am

Shamaylan’s most famous movie (The Sixth Sense) has a twist at the end where you find out that the main character of the movie has been dead since about 5 minutes into it… (which was the reference at the end of the clip) Since then, almost all of his movies have tried to duplicate that moment, with degenerating degrees of success…

3   Jerry    http://www.jerryhillyer.com
October 1st, 2010 at 9:27 am

I may be a little slow here, but i just discovered a new commentary series on the market that may be of interest. I enjoy reading commentaries, so I will look forward to acquiring these volumes at some point.

Hippo/Africa Bible Commentary Series

Has anyone read any of these volumes?

4   Jerry    http://www.jerryhillyer.com
October 1st, 2010 at 9:34 am

Hmmm…a comment I posted was lost…here’s another:

The Other Religion at Ground Zero

5   Phil Miller    http://pmwords.blogspot.com
October 1st, 2010 at 9:37 am

That first comment you left got marked as spam for some reason, Jerry. I loved it and set it free…

6   Jerry    http://www.jerryhillyer.com
October 1st, 2010 at 10:05 am

Thanks Phil.

7   Chris L    http://www.fishingtheabyss.com/
October 1st, 2010 at 10:34 am

Can you say … well, duh!

8   Chris L    http://www.fishingtheabyss.com/
October 1st, 2010 at 4:54 pm

And something new from the religion of anthropomorphic global warming:

9   John Hughes    
October 6th, 2010 at 8:13 am

Can Satan affect the weather?

10   neil    
October 6th, 2010 at 1:40 pm

technically speaking i think you meant “anthropogenic global wamring.”

11   John Hughes    
October 7th, 2010 at 12:31 pm

Job 1

12Then the LORD said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your power, only do not put forth your hand on him.” So Satan departed from the presence of the LORD.

19and behold, a great wind came from across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people and they died, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

So, I guess Satan was directly responsible for that wind.

But even by today’s technology we could cause enough “wind” to blow a house down, but does Satan have enough power to create a whole tempest at sea?

12   Phil Miller    http://pmwords.blogspot.com
October 7th, 2010 at 1:50 pm

I don’t think I’d say I think Satan controls the weather. One idea that comes into play in the OT (and in the NT partly, as well) is that all these forces on earth are under the care of other spiritual beings. Not in a henotheistic way, but in the sense that they are “officers” under God’s authority. Like roque soldiers, these beings, or entities, have rebelled, and are now in a state of chaos. So God is in the business of bringing order to this chaos. This is why was such a big deal when Jesus calmed the storm. For Him to be able to bring order to this situation is tapping into the Creation narrative where Yahweh started bringing the universe into order from chaos.

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