http://www.observer.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,432993,00.html

Not so. The Christian church is growing like no time since Jesus ministered in Israel 2000 years ago! If you have a television, Daniel, you may want to check out Kenneth Copeland, Joyce Meyer, Creflo Dollar (he's going to be ministering in London this month!), and a few others. These Bible teachers have huge international ministeries that are growing daily, because they are teaching the full Gospel and people are being set free from sickness & disease, as well as bondages of all kinds!
Your statement could not be more wrong. The Christian body of believers is in the midst of the great end-time harvest of souls, and the growth is phenomenal! At the end of last year, Dutch evangelist Reinhard Bonnke brought over SIX MILLION people in South Africa to the Lord Jesus Christ! Even here in my area, the churches that are teaching the FULL GOSPEL (I'm not speaking of the main-line denominations here, because many of them ARE drying up!) are growing like never before. It's happening throughout the world, in fulfillment of prophecy.

”Bob had powder burns all over his uniform, and the five bullets were retrieved from the back of the police vehicle seat.”

It’s a shame that God couldn’t have prevented those powder burns from ruining his uniform as well. And then there’s the punctured upholstery of the police vehicle’s seat. Wouldn’t it have been easier (and less messy) for God to have simply prevented the gun from firing in the first place?"

I know you're pulling my leg. The story is completely factual exactly as I related it to you. Newspapers in Atlanta, Georgia documented the incident in anal-retentive detail.
However, in a pragmatic sense you do make a point. God could easily have made the entire incident much cleaner by simply jamming the gun. But then nobody would've SEEN THE HAND OF GOD simply because a gun jammed. Bob led many fellow police officers to the Lord because of this - they NEEDED evidence - just like YOU need evidence, Daniel. God is always delighted to provide evidence. Ruining a police uniform and automobile upholstery is a small price to pay for a uniquely supernatural display of divine protection.

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Originally posted by Observer:
Terry Gilliam probably has the worst luck of any filmmaker

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Dammit.

Within ten days, THIS will be the longest thread-response of ALL time

In reply #19, after Mark Hatfield announced that he won't "contribute to this silliness", H Rocco said:

Me neither. I don't know WHAT I was thinking.

Say, Your H'ness, what do you think now?

Who ever ends it sings "So Long and Farewell" and links to "Another ? For Peter K".

I double posted!

That's seven!

PeterK, I bet, has a doomsday device, doesn't he? He'll set it off on the thread when it's over?

HEEEEEEE HAAAAAAAAH! YEEEEEEEE HAAAAAAA!
WOOOOOOOOO HEEEEEEEEE HAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

I was joking then. I'm being serious now when I say that I'll miss this thread, despite the arguments and boring lectures from Historians.

THE END

As Wedge observed many hundreds of messages ago, and Marian implicitly just mentioned, I DID kind of goose this thread into being the monster it is -- but I repeat what I said a while ago: I HAD NO IDEA IT WOULD GO THIS FAR!

So blame it all on me if you must, but we've had more fun than not. And apparently are continuing to have it, since the thread persists.

DANIEL2! Stop scaring Chris with your mystical mumbo-jumbo, right this very second!

YEAH!

uh...did you say Daniel2 is here?

Wedgie, BABY! I believe your figures are just a bit askew...

Four months ago Reinhard Bonnke lead over SIX MILLION people to Jesus in South Africa!