John 15:6
If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
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Cleary this translates into “Republicans are evil”. That’s all you need to know. They would all burn in hell, that’s how you know there is no heaven or hell.
Give it a rest!
Exactly what will happen to all these DUMMOCRETIN atheists on HA when Jesus returns in His Clouds of Glory!
Acts 1:11 “Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. “
Am I really as cruel as Puddy suggests?
@4 How is throwing people into eternal fire not cruel? I mean, along with all the Republicans in there. Having to spend even twenty minutes with just one Republican is cruel.
Way back when Adam was only just finished naming everything, not everyone knew what a “branch” was. The Lord is just mansplaining it to the peasantry, that a “branch” is that stuff that men collect and use as firewood, for making fires. Fires being that hot thing the laydeez use to cook stuff. God is treating his listeners like they’re dumbass fratboys. Or, Republicans.
Bunny friend: So why do oyu, an attorney, assume that what is written of me is by me?
Am I sentenced to ignominy by my followers?
@7 Well, you’ve got a point there. But how did You get stuck with such an unsympathetic bunch of biographers? Were they paid below than minimum wage? I know writing Bible chapters on speculation doesn’t pay very well. Once they’ve invested their time and work, the Editor has them by the balls.
They were writing n their own. As an omnipotent One, why would I need a scribe?
@9 What people are wondering, O Omnipotent One, is why someone as powerful and all-seeing as Thee is unable to control what’s written about Him by a cabal of low-paid independent journalists (see, e.g., the Stranger staff for a modern-day example of what the New Testament scribes probably were like back in the day). Why didn’t You intervene and buy these people off; or, at least, buy up all the copies and burn them? That shouldn’t have been too hard to do back when books were printed by hand-copying and a monastical copyist’s lifetime output was 4 or 5 Bible copies. (If they made a typo, they had to redo the entire page, entirely by hand, one character at a time.)
One can argue the Bible is not Christian, being a product created not by Christ but a bunch of bishops gathered together by Emperor Constantine I in AD 325. That group put together the “Bible” by making a “Readers’ Digest” version of the various religious works available then.
One can also argue that Christmas, Easter and the Holy Trinity (among other beliefs) were inspired by beliefs adopted from non Christian religions.
The wine at the last supper was really good!
Nowadays a husbandman here in Washington state won’t just burn the branches. They may be recycled so the compost can be spread back on the vineyard and be used by the vine. Though some may be burned to warm the home of the farmer and hopefully little of it makes it into some landfill here in Washington State.