Quote: (04-26-2019 07:22 PM)CynicalContrarian Wrote:
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Either way.
I don't recall much of anything about Spring, rabbits nor eggs in the Bible.
That really does not matter. What really matters is that you think that you are right and that it serves your purpose. Just ask Nancy Pelosi:
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who is Catholic, loves to quote her favorite passage from the Bible. She's been doing it for more than a decade, and she did so most recently when she addressed Christian educators at the end of January. But there's just one problem: the verse doesn't exist.
Years ago, to support a push for global warming legislation, she said in an Earth Day press release: "The Bible tells us in the Old Testament, 'To minister to the needs of God's creation is an act of worship. To ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us.'"
Pelosi has quoted the false passage at least 11 times from the House floor since 2002, according to the Congressional Record.
Slate reported that she has used it to recognize genocide in Darfur, support the Endangered Species Act, and twice to honor Catholic schools. She was publicly criticized in 2008 but seems to acknowledge that, of the thousands of Bible verses to choose from, she can't pinpoint exactly where it is.
“I can’t find it in the Bible but I quote it all the time, and I keep reading and reading the Bible. I know it is there someplace," Pelosi told the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities conference last Wednesday. “It’s supposed to be in Isaiah, but I heard a bishop say to minister to the needs of God’s creation is an act of worship. To ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us.” [My Own Note: More likely, she heard it from Satan whispering in her ear.]
“It’s in there somewhere in some words or another, but certainly the spirit of it is there,” Pelosi said. “And that we all have a responsibility to act upon our beliefs and the dignity and worth of every person.”
While she's used the verse for many different causes, last week she pivoted to comprehensive immigration reform.
Claude Mariottini, a professor of Old Testament at Northern Baptist Theological Seminary called it "fictional," saying: "It is not in the Bible. There is nothing that even approximates that."
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/speaker...ible-verse
I posted this news article with some trepidation, because the purpose of this thread is to enable men to bring themselves closer to God. Upon reflection, however, one of the ways in which men can bring themselves closer to God is to avoid the ungodly and the deceitful. "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?" 2 Corinthians 6:14 (KJV)