my question is this was the god of old constipated ?
2007-08-18 17:15:59 · 9 answers · asked by dogpatch USA 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The number 40 in Semitic languages is symbolic of a long time....without precise measure.
2007-08-18 17:22:24 · answer #1 · answered by The Carmelite 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
"40 is the number of tribulation"
My pastor is battling cancer.
Pastor Rob turned 40, and foolishly an old lady in the congregation told him "40 is the number of tribulation" (based on those bible examples you gave) during a birthday celebration at Evangel.
I wish she had not! He was nice about it, but some of us were devestated by those thoughtless words.
She could've gone all day without saying that!
He went through Kemo without ever calling the "c" word by name.
He lost all his hair for a while; but one of his 4 young children said to him poignantly : "You are still my dad even if you are bald"!
During that period my kid bro Al died of cancer. A smoker, Al was spitting up blood from his lungs worse and worse.
I didn't want to bother him, but I had Pastor Rob praying for Al...what else could i do???
Now my pastor finally calls his brain tumour "cancer". He has progressed to radiation treatments, and his hair has made a comeback.
Good news: his brain tumour -- "cancer" has shrunk to almost nothing. Praise God!
We are praying for Rev Rob Elka, and you can too. We're believing God for a complete healing!!!
2007-08-19 00:35:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Aril,
Noah was on the Ark much longer than that. Our GOD has no physical body to have any problem with. We will also be spiritual in Heaven. Hopefully, you will change your ways before the Judgment Time. Have a great week.
Thanks,
Eds
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2007-08-19 00:21:37 · answer #3 · answered by Eds 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bible is full of patterns and numbers, a generation in the bible is 40 years, if you disobey God he will curse you for four generations which is 160 years.
2007-08-21 05:03:24 · answer #4 · answered by lmtcht 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At least some of this, and quite possibly all of it, is fiction. The Noah story, in particular, isn't real.
2007-08-19 00:23:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
forty days is a mystycal fact only for the mystic to know the value of forty days. there was such saying that " life begins at forty" and it was this forty that they meant.
2007-08-19 07:39:00 · answer #6 · answered by Huzur 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well he has a lot of s--- to get rid of but he know's how to dooooo that PEACE
2007-08-19 00:37:41 · answer #7 · answered by grace 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Okay, I thought this was going to be a serious question about typology. As it stands, all it did was remind me I'm constipated. Thanks.
2007-08-19 00:21:23 · answer #8 · answered by delsydebothom 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Biblical authors should have atleast used some "variety" of ideas in different fairy tales.
2007-08-19 00:20:18 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋