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r10k says...

So "God" wrote the Bible then? Funny, I thought men wrote it.


That's explained in the bible. Just read it.

The way I understand it, if those "laws" you are taking out of context are still in the books, then they still apply. Simply because they were written in 1942 does not make them any less valid or enforceable by officers of the law.


You understand it badly. Firstly, the point was context. The law example can work any way you like- take laws from 1942 and apply them to today. If you can't grasp what issues can arise from taking something out of context, I'd suggest going back to school. Possibly a 'special' school. Secondly, I'm not going to bother arguing about laws between 1942 and today, because to do so would be to forget the full context of my analogy- that laws were being transferred between countries as well. Perhaps it's an imprefect analogy, but it's good enough to get the point across.

I would have thought someone with even the slighest amount of brain power would have gotten the point and not quibbled over the details of the analogy, but I guess I was wrong.

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r10k says...

Can someone (perhaps you, r10k?) explain just what exactly qualifies as in (and out) of context scriptures?


Well, context is what it is Not to try and insult your intelligence, but the good ol' dictionary says it's "the interrelated conditions in which something exists or occurs". So, in this case, I'm talking about some laws which were designed for a different place and time, and as a part of a different covenant (or agreement) between man and God. Times have changed since then- the context has changed. What made sense for then now doesn't make sense if you try and apply it to now. That's not the bible's fault. It's the same if I pull the laws of Iceland in 1942 from out of their context and apply them to your home town today. In many places I'm sure it wouldn't work too well

Any scripture can be taken out of context. Christian's will often say though, that when a scripture is understood, it should be understood in context of the whole bible. So, for example, you don't take a passage from the old testament and apply it to your daily life, without keeping in mind what God says throughout the entire bible.

I hope that makes sense.

Asking Texans if the Bible is Completely True

r10k says...

The video should have been named after the photo gag. That was great, but as funny as the Chaser can be, picking on people who don't know how to answer out of context scriptures is pretty lame. Of course, it's anti-bible so it's Videosift gold!!!1 But yes, lame anyhow.

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r10k says...

>> ^rebuilder:
"current software stabilizes video by combining multiple frames"
It does? All I've seen are utilities that track fixed features in the video, then either fully stabilize the shot (for when there's no intended camera movement) or apply some type of gaussian filtering to the tracking data to weed out the random shake, then simply moving each frame around by the negative of the amount of shake motion detected. Of course you have to crop the footage afterwards, since the edges of the image will move inside the frame, and this won't remove motion blur, but usually it works fine and doesn't produce the artefacts shown in the video.


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r10k says...

Context? Pfft! Videosift people don't use no stinkin' context! You just pick out whatever you want, make it mean whatever you want, and then agree with every video that has an anti-Christian sentiment.



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