-Caveat Lector- > << Correct Answer: C. (Jesus struck them dead) "But a certain man named > Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, And kept back part of > the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and > laid it at the apostles' feet. But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan > filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the > price of the land? . . . And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave > up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things. . . . > Then fell [Sapphira] straightway at [Peter's] feet, and yielded up the > ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying her > forth, buried her by her husband." Acts 5:1-10. >> > > The "acts" of the Apostles were not necessarily actions of which Christ would > have approved. He certainly reproved them for things they did when he was > present and leading them. Prudy
the implication is that jesus, not peter, smote them dead from heaven; it probably never happened and if did then it probably *was* peter but it's still written there as if it was done by christ. christianity started off as a cult like any other today - give up all your money to The Leader in order to become one of the "special ones". jesus said many things that show a tremendous amount of wisdom but also quite a few things that were almost fascistic in nature. unfortunately, it's virtually impossible to decide what he really did say and what was later attributed to him by various revisionists attempting to make people follow "the rules" - the greeks and romans had alterior motives and the early christians were certainly not neutral. the entire old testament is the story of an angry, vengeful god spying on people like the cia and removing them from the gene pool at the smallest insignificant faults. a large chunk of the new testament is people warning that the same god is coming back to perform mass genocide on all those that did not follow "the rules"..... therefore breaking his promise to noah i might add.....and it is capped off with a story of these events actually occurring. this is supposed to be a good thing. praise the lord! to argue that the jewish, and therefore christian and muslim, god is not a hideously vengeful fascist would be very difficult on your part and i don't suggest you try doing it.. really, take a look at those links i sent. the koran is even worse than the bible for this kind of stuff.. inri np: http://chat.carleton.ca/~jparent2/ ""If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." - george w. bush <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
