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most overused bible verse
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most overused bible verse
I vote for John 3:16
For god so loved the world he topped himself
This says manic depression to me
For god so loved the world he topped himself
This says manic depression to me
I'll never understand Christians against capital punishment. Without it there would be no Easter.
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My late mother, a CofS protestant, used to use the expression "god willing", often at the end of sentences, and I believe quite a lot of folk still do this. It always struck me as an example of a sort of dour presbyterian fatalism (another one of her more cheery expressions was "aye, we've never died a winter yet!")
you can find the expression 'God willing' (or sometimes the alternative 'if God wills' depending on the bible version) in Acts 18:21
you can find the expression 'God willing' (or sometimes the alternative 'if God wills' depending on the bible version) in Acts 18:21
will be back soon.......But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus
"Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice."
William McIlvanney
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as ma auld maw might have said, "he's not the messiah...he's a very naughty boy"
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"Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice."
William McIlvanney
William McIlvanney
I’m tempted to say: references to ‘the salt of the earth’, ‘the powers that be’, ‘by the skin of our teeth’ or ‘a fly in the ointment’, which are all grossly overused biblical expressions.
But, of course, they aren’t verses. And I actually know the answer to this question. Some sad bastard at an American university has actually done some kind of mapping exercise, on the basis of which he has discovered that the most frequently quoted/overused Bible verse is John Chapter 3 verse 16: ‘For God sae luved the warld at he gied his ae an ane Son, at ilkane at believes in him mayna perish but hae eternal life.’ So you got it in one, Atheists4Jesus!
My most overused expression is still ‘Jee-sus Christ!’, which I started using shortly after my second child uttered his first word, which happened to be ‘God’. He toddled up to me one day, using the word to indicate that he’s soiled his nappy. He used to produce particularly pungent ones, the removal of which would be accompanied on my part by desperate and strangled cries of ‘God!... Oh, God!’ Strange to think that his earliest association of ‘God’ was with a stinking nappy.
But, of course, they aren’t verses. And I actually know the answer to this question. Some sad bastard at an American university has actually done some kind of mapping exercise, on the basis of which he has discovered that the most frequently quoted/overused Bible verse is John Chapter 3 verse 16: ‘For God sae luved the warld at he gied his ae an ane Son, at ilkane at believes in him mayna perish but hae eternal life.’ So you got it in one, Atheists4Jesus!
My most overused expression is still ‘Jee-sus Christ!’, which I started using shortly after my second child uttered his first word, which happened to be ‘God’. He toddled up to me one day, using the word to indicate that he’s soiled his nappy. He used to produce particularly pungent ones, the removal of which would be accompanied on my part by desperate and strangled cries of ‘God!... Oh, God!’ Strange to think that his earliest association of ‘God’ was with a stinking nappy.
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Someone once told me Americans have to have a middle initial at least if not a name. I suppose it makes him sound American. Herbie seems as likely as anything else.petra10 wrote:I have often heard people say Jesus H Christ and I've never worked out what the H stands for.Anybody know?
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The omniscient Wikipedia tells all:
The expression dates to at least the late nineteenth century (although according to Mark Twain it was already old in 1850), and likely originates with the ancient Christian three-letter symbolism IHS (the Christogram).
Using the name of "Jesus Christ" as an oath has been common for many centuries, but the precise origins of the letter H in the expression Jesus H. Christ are obscure. While many explanations have been proposed, some serious and many humorous, the most widely accepted derivation is from the divine monogram of Christian symbolism. The symbol, derived from the first three letters of the Greek name of Jesus, is transliterated "IHS," "IHC," "JHS," or "JHC". Since the transliteration "IHS" gave rise to the backronym Iesus Hominum Salvator (Latin for "Jesus savior of men"), it is plausible that "JHC" similarly led to "Jesus H. Christ".
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