Did someone say you had to? Nope, I'm just curious is all. I like to consider the things that challenge my thinking the most. as to whether we are monogamous or not: mind your own damn business. I couldn't help but laugh at this one. Good answer. I was just wondering what the reason for marriage woul
There is no one else to be responsible, no one else to blame in excuse, but the Magickian himself. Insofar as he understands his position and exercises his choices in the light of that understanding he is automatically honest and automatically has integrity. Honesty and Integrity are hard traits to come by. Most people I know aren't either on many occasions - Christian or not (Including myself) - even when held accountable regardless of by self or other
It's so much easier to just be a Christian, because then you don't have to face these choices, you don't have to own your morality (it comes pre-packaged and pre-defined) and you certainly don't have to take personal responsibility for anything, ever. All blessings come from God, all evil comes from Satan and mankind is just a he
If you were to ask me now who I thought Jesus was I'd have to say he was a wise man, a man who observed and understood the human condition with great charity, a man disciplined and committed enough to hold by what he believed without yielding to consequence, and a man capable of making his Will manifest in physical reality. Becau
Oh, I feel left out. No bones to throw my way frog legs? QoD
I don't normally pressure my husband to do things that he doesn't like/want to do. He doesn't socialize much and I've pretty well accepted the way he is. It's so bad that he often retreats to his office as soon as the doorbell rings. He won't even answer the door for me. But Wednesday night I really had to lay it on him hard. I don't think I've ever pressured him
It looks like you'll do just fine. I'd love to review your work if you want. Just let me know. I'm working on a second Bachelors in English so I can teach at the college level. So it'd be right up my alley. fire away. Let me know if you want my e-mail address.
To put it simply a good man enjoys heaven on earth and a bad man enjoys hell on earth, a tormented, twisted, negative existence. Oh, I don't agree. I've seen plenty a 'bad man' living it up here on earth just as happily as any 'good man' and usually at the 'good man's' expense. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/ju/T_JU/smiles/Mad.gif" border=0 align="absmiddle
I think that it was a generation thing. How about the Lucy show? They had separate beds. I have neighbors in their mid 70s and they have separate beds. Sometimes I don't like sleeping with my husband, but it's usually fine. He snores but I don't have any problem wearing earplugs. He hogs the bed but I've been known to climb out, go around the bed and get back in. But how about
Yesterday at the morning service I saw a man Baptised. It was done by full immersion. The pastor (in waders - which I thought looked pretty comical) covered the man's mouth and nose with a cloth and lowered him backwards down into the water until he was fully submurged and then lifted him back out again. So, it got me thinking about whether I'm really bap
Situation: A friend, Sally, was married to a guy named Dave. They were both 21 when married and started having kids early on in their marriage. When Dave was 23 he started to show symptoms of schizophrenia. For three years after this they struggled and even had to be separated because Dave thought that his kids were aliens and he wanted to kill them. Eventually h
Chapter 6 tells us of sins that exclude from the kingdom of heaven and especially of the evil of fornication. My Douay Rheims has 1Cor.6:9-10 as Iulapilgrim, it would help me a great deal if you would incorporate these additional materials when helping to aswer my question. Otherwise, in my unlearned
One of the many reasons that I fell away from the Church was because I was being too judgmental... and was also seeing too much judgment as well. In a time, as a young person (13-14) I needed the help of the pastor and youth pastor to get out of an abusive environment. Now granted the danger was not life threatening or anything like that, but it w
they forget about the vertical relationship that makes them a damned Christian in the first place. hee..hee... I just had to laugh at this one. Damned Christians..... hm, and I thought I was saved.... I too am a hypocrite. B
Oh, and regarding argument turning me off to christianity you could refer to responses in Question #3 Link where KFC and I had this interaction. KFC Reasoning together has it's benefits. We can learn from one another as iron sharpens
That was my initial reaction as well. The post that QOD deleted had to do with Theistic Evolution which is akin to the Gap theory. How that would turn her off from Christianity is beyond me, but then again, like she says, it's her sandbox. The reason it was deleted was that it was based on another pers
Explicitly condemned are acts of lust, fornication, rape, pornography, prostitituion, masturbation, homosexuality, adultery, incest, polygamy and divorce. Could you give me the KJV of the sixth and ninth commandments? I can't see where many of these are "explicitly" condemend. (Note: I'm not argueing
Those things in the OT were a shadow of Christ. He fulfilled those things in the NT, he was the real thing. I've read Acts Chap 15 a few times now. I guess I'm one of those Gentiles that wants to know what are the right things to be done. So KFC, are you saying that the nitpicking of rules isn't ver
B), women were also regarded as inferior. Today, with its hectic lifestyle, the equality of women, high medical standards and the ease with which women can remain "Clean", comfortable and unsullied by the discomfort, negate any old-fashioned approach. But what else in the Bible ends up being "old-fashi
lulapilgrim, You've opened up the meaning of the entire chapter. So what about masterbation? Yes or no? Is it just and old cleanliness thing too? I'm just confused on what applies today and what doesn't and why.
Reasoning together has it's benefits. We can learn from one another as iron sharpens iron. I see your point KFC and it's a good one. I just don't want my search for faith to become so heated that I'm completely turned off to christianity all together. Maybe it's wrong of me to lump everyone together,
forever, Mostly it's because it's just the way I want it. My sandbox and such.... I'm exploring faith and debating and argueing might just turn me off to christianity all together - which has happened in the past. The point is that I want to know what individuals believe and why he/she believes it. I don't want to know why the other person is wrong. It's Ok for you to hold a different opinion, and to state that opinion but I d
forever, The question comes down to Laws in the Old Testement. Which ones do believers follow and why? Which ones should I believe and why? This was a law and many believe that Jesus did not take away the laws of the OT so, how do we know which ones to follow? Specifically I ask about this one because I am a woman and don't understand why believers don't follow it, or if there's a reason not to follow i.e. was it nullif
Non-believers need not post. First, I want to let everyone know that this is not a debate. Anyone who argues with another poster will find their post deleted. I'm posting this question in an effort to learn. As such, your answer with supporting explanation/evidence would be most helpful to me. References to documents and/or the Bible would be helpfu
Lulapilgrim, I appreciate your post, but I've requested no debate. You have not stated your postion (that I can tell anyway), but rather opposed another's point of view. For this reason I am deleting your post. Please feel free to post YOUR opinion. Thanks for participating.
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