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Agreed. And we have none. Have you noticed that? Because it seems to have zipped right past you. You want to talk about what's accepted in a court of law (where i spend 80% of my working days)? OOH. LET'S! Witness testimony is respected. Hearsay (i heard from a friend whose cousin was dating a guy whose grandfather said he witnessed the resurrection) is not respected in a court of law. And that is literally all we have in the gospels You know what else is accepted in a court of law? Expert testimony from the very people you harrumph as "intellectuals." You know, the ones who authenticate whether things like Hitler's diaries and II Timothy are actually written by their purported authors or by Epstein's mother or by a LIAR who's trying to mislead the gullible. Let me ask you something: Mary Magdalene was the first witness of the resurrection, right? Where the f did she go? Her presence is, at best, implied in Acts 1. And then she's gone. Poof. Ever been to Arimathea? If so, you'd be the only one. If you were walking from San Diego to Las Vegas, would you stop in Portland, Oregon? Because that is as ridiculous as what the Gospel of Mark has Jesus do during one of his constitutionals. Aside from Barabbas, name one person Pilate released on Passover in accordance with his annual tradition. If he did this every year, there has to be some record of this policy, some resentment that an insurrectionist was spared because of a holiday. Pilate had no such policy. The gospels lied. Point being, the gospels are not eyewitness accounts. They are not based on eyewitness accounts. They are based on hearsay handed down for at least a generation, likely more. So PLEASE, let's use acceptable in court as a standard. It would literally leave you with no credible evidence for the resurrection at all.

We celebrate, but that celebration is tempered by the knowledge that 17 lost their lives. We did what we do, and we did it well. After the announcement I called the dad of one of the victims. He congratulated us and told us to celebrate, but also to get right back to work. It's not over. #RememberThe17

Let's head back. I'll let you know next time I am in Deerfield.

The official page: https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2019?fbclid=IwAR1uilHNGeLSxUMlxIiv5sqdyqAAH3BdYS0Aufld9Gmy4kmLmp2d0JbbiII My entry: https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/parkland/florida-school-shooting/fl-florida-school-shooting-contempt-hearing-20180814-story.html

Try this, Rocky https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/parkland/florida-school-shooting/fl-ne-pulitzer-prize-sun-sentinel-20190415-story.html?fbclid=IwAR2UbEu5YpAo9EsGLzjLDm8nLfN7fnytX_Jv4hURg9OdzRRM5_oWC4zeOgs Engine, I think I knew you were local once but I have long forgotten. Did we have lunch at La Bamba? Anyway, find me. You have my number at work.

The Sun Sentinel, based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., won the public-service medal for its coverage of the February 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland and its follow-up reporting about local officials’ actions before and after the killing of 17 students and staff members at the school. The public-service award is considered the most prestigious in the 14 journalism categories. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-washington-post-wins-3-pulitzer-prizes-sun-sentinel-wins-public-service-medal-for-parkland-shooting-coverage/2019/04/15/1478f18e-5fa3-11e9-9ff2-abc984dc9eec_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.798ab522192d

And the Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for Public Service Reporting goes to the staff of the South Florida Sun Sentinel!!! That's us. Which includes me. But US!!!!

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As a bad man once said, biting my fingernails to the third knuckle...

Rookie of the Year though I'm stumped on the two years later hint, it is the only movie directed by Daniel Stern. My kids love this and Angels in the Outfield

I should clarify something. I said this STARTED as bad news. I cannot overstate that. This started as very, very bad news. Any joy in what "great news" happens today is tempered by the bad news that kicked it off. That said, we can raise a glass (hopefully) while remembering how much more wonderful it would be if we didn't have to. If you haven't figured it out by now: 3 p.m. If you have, shhh. Don't spoil it.

so that was a swing and a miss, then. Hm. Good pitcher.

Tomorrow! Tomorrow! I love ya! Tomorrow!

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Jesus could look the 12 right in the eye and say Make disciples of all nations and STILL we have to twist ourselves into knots over whether the 12 were ever commissioned to preach the gospel to all the nations. Wow. And people wonder why I throw my hands up trying to reason with them.

The Getaway Steve McQueen The Towering Inferno That oughta open it up. Ali @#$&ing McGraw

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Trying to copy and paste a code onto here. Not really doing so great. TWO DAYS!!!

Based on Matthew 28:19, there is no reason for them to have accepted this framework if they had ears. He said to them to go and make disciples of all the nations. They would have had to go through some quite sophisticated gymnastics to go from a clear instruction like that to "ok, first Israel, then Christ comes back, THEN the rest of the world." You can get Israel first out of Luke, but not Matthew. And in neither case does Christ's return PRECEDE preaching to the gentiles.

70 hours from 5 p.m. EDT Friday.

Spiritual insight is literally the opposite of evidence. Belittling actual evidence with unnecessary qualifiers like "material" or "senses" betrays a lack of confidence in the non-evidence being asserted as equally valuable. Evidence is evidence. If God is telling you something, prove it. Give me the number (which I have already disclosed to another poster so I can't pretend you were wrong if you are right). Nobody in the initial posts or videos on this thread claimed the resurrection happened because God said so. All point to evidence, failing to recognize the embarrassing flaws in Luke and Acts. Defend Luke! Defend the gospel writers! But "spiritual insight" is a chicken-sh*t excuse for recognizing the evidence opposes your position. God told me you're full of sh*t. Now, based on the evidence, who's right?