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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: john 3:13 at televised sports events
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Date: Tue, 7-May-85 16:30:38 EDT
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In article <413@ihu1m.UUCP> johnnyr@ihu1m.UUCP (John R. Rosenberg) writes:

>Watching the Kentucky Derby Saturday reminded me of a question
>that i'd been meaning to ask. As the horses were coming from
>the paddock area onto the track, a man wearing a multi-colored
>fright wig held up a banner which read John 3:13. He was clearly
>located so as to be in the television camera's field of view. I have
>noticed this same thing happening at most major televised sports
>events. For example, the World Series, Super Bowl etc. Even the Winter
>Olympics, near the bobsled/luge run.
 
>I know that John 3:13 is the verse beginning "For God so loved the world..."

Actually, you're thinking of John 3:*16*.  John 3:13 says:


   "No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended from heaven,
    the son of man ["who is in heaven" is added in some texts]".

This doesn't make any sense to me, either.

Charley Wingate   umcp-cs!mangoe