Also the fact that people believe in hell as a place of torment. And since we teach that God is love, then why would he torment people?

better yet, there's a scripture talking about children being put through the fire, and that it wasn't Jehovah's command...let me look it up.

my Bible's in the car...I can't look it up right now. Maybe later.

you thinking of Deuteronomy 12:31? "You must not do that way to Jehovah your God, for everything detestable to Jehovah that he does hate they have done to their gods, for even their sons and the...

that works, it's something like that. Does that scripture continue on saying something like: "a thing which I had not commanded, no, nor did it come into my heart"

it continues, "Every word that I am commanding YOU is what YOU should be careful to do. YOU must not add to it nor take away from it."

look up some other scriptures with the cross-reference

don't tell him what to do!

shut up, doofus neck (see...the funny thing about this comment is that I go on to tell YOU what to do..and that is "shut up". Really this comment is made for laughs, and is not designed to hurt...

I don't laugh at any comment that lacks Ian's FUNNY label. Without it, how am I supposed to know if it is really funny?

hm... what about comments made off of eZabel? do u call up Ian and ask if he would mark them funny THEN laugh? hehe that would be silly...

one could carry around brightly colored pieces of posterboard marked "funny" or "off topic"...kind of like the flashing APPLAUSE sign for a studio audience.