Bronzesnake Arrives!

[Bronzesnake]

Hello everyone.
I'm John Bronzesnake. I am a Christian and I believe in a literal understanding of scriptures.
I believe in the pre-trib rapture, and a literal genesis account etc.

I have a pretty good knowledge of the theory of evolution, and I find it utterly unreliable.
I beleiev God created everything in 6 literal days.

can't wait to begin discussing and meet some great people.

John

 

[Nick]

Welcome John!

Sounds like you'd want Science forum permissions....then you can PM either Rick W or Free to gain posting access.

 

[Bronzesnake]

Great.
Thanks Nick.

John

 

[Mike]

Another cool Christian!

Now that's about right! Welcome John :waving

 

[freeway]

Hi Bronzesnake, I already like your stance on things you posted.... get permission for the science forum.... you'll love it.........hehe...

 

[elijah23]

Welcome to CF, John.

 

[jasoncran]

welcome. and we have already talked.

 

[Bronzesnake]

Thanks everyone. Just as I had expected, I am already making solid friends!
I hope to get to know you all on a "username" or first name basis soon my friends.

Take care.

John Bronzesnake

 

[Nick]

I hope to get to know you all on a "username" or first name basis soon my friends.

My username is Nick. My name is Nick. You can call me Nick.

 

[jasoncran]

Thanks everyone. Just as I had expected, I am already making solid friends!
I hope to get to know you all on a "username" or first name basis soon my friends.

Take care.

John Bronzesnake

i am jason, and is that actually your last name?

 

[Bronzesnake]

Hello Nick and Jason.
Great to be acquainted with you!

Jason, no Bronzesnake is not my actual last name.
As you most likely know it is a reference to an Old Testament story where poisonous snakes had no effect on anyone who gazed upon the serpent on the pole...the Bronzesnake...


The following is from...


Jason, no Bronzesnake is not my actual last name.
As you most likely know it is a reference to an old testament story where poisonous snakes had no effect on anyone who gazed upon the serpent on the pole...the Bronzesnake...


The following is from...

http://www.keyway.ca/htm2000/20001212.htm

The bronze serpent (RSV), also known as the bronze snake (NIV) and the serpent of brass (KJV) was made by Moses, at God's command, during the Wilderness Journey. The Israelites had been speaking bitterly against God, to which The Lord responded by sending poisonous snakes among the rebels. The bronze serpent was provided as a visible means for repentant believers to be saved from their sin, and was, as Christ Himself plainly stated (see "Fact Finder" below), symbolic of Someone far greater to come.
The Bronze Serpent

"From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; and the people became impatient on the way. And the people spoke against God and against Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this worthless food."

"Then The Lord [see Rock Of Ages] sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died. And the people came to Moses, and said, "We have sinned, for we have spoken against The Lord and against you; pray to The Lord, that he take away the serpents from us." So Moses prayed for the people."

"And The Lord said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and every one who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live." So Moses made a bronze serpent, and set it on a pole; and if a serpent bit any man, he would look at the bronze serpent and live." (Numbers 21:4-9 RSV)

Take care my friends...

John Bronzesnake

 

[jasoncran]

when you were just floating around and not posting i noticed that name and was thinking of the brazenserpent(old english) i really didnt think that it was your last name.

 

[Bronzesnake]

when you were just floating around and not posting i noticed that name and was thinking of the brazenserpent(old english) i really didnt think that it was your last name.

Good call bro!
Without giving my last name over the world wide web, I'll tell you that I'm half Scottish, my father and grandparents were born in Scotland.
My grandmother on my mother's side was born in Ireland. My grandfather on my mother's side was born in Germany, and my great grandmother was Cheerokee Indian... However, I was adopted at birth and both my parents were born in England.

I just met my three birth sisters about two and a half years ago.
I am very close to the one who lives just an hour's drive north of us.
I noticed you're avatar is of a german soldier fireing an MG 32, are you of German ancestry?


Take care Jason
John

 

[jasoncran]

no, that weapon is actually mg42, not the 32. i am hebrew and did a ww2 reenactment with a friend and wife's cousin who owns those weapons(fully functional) and he does the german side.

that is why i made the avatar of that.

 

[Bronzesnake]

no, that weapon is actually mg42, not the 32. i am hebrew and did a ww2 reenactment with a friend and wife's cousin who owns those weapons(fully functional) and he does the german side.

that is why i made the avatar of that.

I should have looked closer because I am a bit of a war and war weapons buff.
I love the WWII tanks and planes, but I also love the guns.

My favorite tank is the Tiger for the Axes forces and the Sherman Fire Fly for the allies. The Abrams came online too late in the war to make a real difference but that would actually have been the most powerful tank on the field. The Russian T-34 was pretty good also.

The P 51 Mustang and the Hell Cat fighter planes are my favourite ally fighters.
The Lancaster and the B29 are sweet bombers.

The Germans had the Messerschmitt Bf 109 and it was one of the best in the sky for the first couple of years. The English matched it with the Super Marine Spitfire.

The Japanese had a great fighter in the Zero but it sacrificed defensive metal protection for a light weight agile handling fighter.
The allies had no real answer in the early years of the Pacific campaign for the Zero.
The Wild Cat couldn't maneuver with the Zero, but a good pilot could score kills by using superior tactics, still when the allies improved on the Wild cat and came out with the Hell cat the Zero suffered greatly.
Superior tactics by the allies such as the Thatch weave proved to be too much for the Japanese to handle.

The real difference maker was the P 51 Mustang though. That fighter was the first and only escort fighter that could follow bombers in an escort support role right to Berlin and back and was a devastating and horrible reality for the Germans at the time.

The Germans really knew how to design guns!
They designed and produced the world’s first assault rifle and one of my all time favorite WWII weapons... the Sturmgewehr 44 or StG 44.

Of course the allies had a really sweet machine gun...it was the .45 Caliber Thompson Submachine Gun.

As for the rifles, the Germans once again were on the ball when they designed and produced the semi-automatic Gewehr 41 and 43 rifles.

The best allies’ rifle and my favorite was the semi auto M1 carbine, which was also capable of going fully automatic.

Tied for my #1 a favorite automatic rifle is the M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle or the BAR.

My second favorite ally rifle is the M1 Garand.

Anyway...I am rambling!

Bronzesnake

 

[jasoncran]

nothing wrong with that, and some of those my friend has, a fellow guardsmen actually has some german half tracks built for him.

i have pics that i will post later on from the patton musuem.

 

[Bronzesnake]

Hey thought I'd expose my ugly mugguns!
This is the Bronzesnake catching a manly fish!

And this is one without the mop taken while I was recovering from a near fatal operation...

Take care my friends...

John Bronzesnake

 

[Bronzesnake]

What's going on over here??
I thought for sure someone would have noticed that huge Rainbow trout by now....
I guess I'll have to haul in a bigger one.

Bronzesnake

 

[jasoncran]

What's going on over here??
I thought for sure someone would have noticed that huge Rainbow trout by now....
I guess I'll have to haul in a bigger one.

Bronzesnake

i noticed that. well was he good eats. that is rare to find in the fishing holes in north carolina near the cherokee mountains. the couple yrs of drought has hurt the population of the trout in that area near the little tennesee river basin and its off shoots.

 

[Bronzesnake]

What's going on over here??
I thought for sure someone would have noticed that huge Rainbow trout by now....
I guess I'll have to haul in a bigger one.

Bronzesnake

i noticed that. well was he good eats. that is rare to find in the fishing holes in north carolina near the cherokee mountains. the couple yrs of drought has hurt the population of the trout in that area near the little tennesee river basin and its off shoots.

Hey brother Jason. My great Grandmums was Cherokee Indian, so I guess I partially own those mountains!

So do you get some fishing done Jay?
No he wasn't good eats, I let him go.
You can eat small fish out of Lake Ontario but I wouldn't risk eating anything over four pounds.
The lake is polluted with mercury and all kinds of other toxins, and so I don't tend to eat anything out of it.

I’ve caught some massive Chinook salmon out of the lake. Same deal, I fish up stream in the tributaries, and usually Oshawa.
I hooked one Salmon that I guestimated to be around 30 pounds! It was a lunker!
We didn't have a camera, and so after that we made sure one of us had one.
I would fish in the spring for Trout and in the fall for Salmon. My brother and I would go together several times a year, but I haven't gone down that way since he died.

I have taken my boys fishing up around the Kinmount Ontario area. We had a cottage up there when I was a kid, and there's some hugeantic Muskie in the Burnt River, as well as some of the finest Pickerel fishing I've ever had.

Take care broseph!

John Bronzesnake