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How do I remove the old glue? Doesn't "rough up the metal" mean damaging it? Why is that necessary?

Would you please tell me what glue I should use to reattach this corpus to this crucifix? (See photo.) Could you link me to the product from Amazon.com? Could you tell me what materials these appear to be? (Is it olive wood and stainless steel?)

This teaching is common among ministers of Christian churches. I'm considering what I'm being told by others. This is an important point indeed! Biblically it appears to me God defines it as obeying Him, and doesn't really care to talk with us individually the vast majority of the time. Given...

One possible way to rebut this argument may be through a sort of Bayesian probability analysis: Given X how probable is Y? In particular: Aliens doing it is just as unknowable in an empirical sense as God doing it. Functionally (semantically?), then, one is replacing "God" with a different god...

That's fine for general life principles, but I'm suffering not knowing why God allowed certain atrocities to happen, why He's refusing to heal, etc. -- specific answer to specific questions.

Please share this story in detail. What does 'reached out to me' and 'I listened' mean in concrete terms? Did you have a dream you interpreted as God's communication, for example? Ed Feser (professional philosopher) was persuaded by Thomas Aquinas' logical arguments. I think they rest on...

-- Pacwa, M (2011). How to Listen When God is Speaking. Frederick, MD: The Word Among Us Press. p. 11. Why is this not practically a stand-alone 'proof by contradiction' argument? It needs only a little fleshing out: If God created us for relationship with Him and intends to speak to us, he...

How would you refute this argument? Would you share resources online or citations for further study? All the history and miracles in the Christian Bible (including Hebrew Scriptures, both Old and New Testament) can be explained by aliens with advanced technology who deceived humans, rather than...

How do you know that? Or, what do you mean? How is that not contradicted already even by what I wrote in the OP? My dog decided to communicate he was tired and ready to return home by stopping, resisting the leash, and angling his body in the direction he wanted to go -- the path home in a...

-- Pacwa, M (2011). How to Listen When God is Speaking. Frederick, MD: The Word Among Us Press. p. 16. Other animals like DDR German Shepherds (and even other humans) exhibit intelligence suggesting rationality is a matter of degree not kind, that humans are the most advanced intelligence, not...

-- Pacwa, M (2011). How to Listen When God is Speaking. Frederick, MD: The Word Among Us Press. p. 14. Can't the Bible also be explained by advanced aliens tricking humans? Doesn't this hypothesis contain more explanatory power as it also accounts for God's absence, silence, and refusal to...

Pacwa, M (2011). How to Listen When God is Speaking. Frederick, MD: The Word Among Us Press. p. 13. I don't need to believe that any physical thing exists before I am able to hear it. How much more should God be able to make himself heard than something lacking omnipotence like a tree falling...

I read the first page, and conversation seemed to turn in a direction tangential to my original questions. Following up here to post the answer I came to after reading a bit from Kreeft & Tacelli's Handbook of Catholic Apologetics and meditating on Isaiah 53; a priest and university chaplain...

??? To what are you referring? If it helps: I didn't see the bulk of your post when I posted earlier. It's possible an advertisement pushed page content such that all I saw was your signature and I thought it was your entire post; or else I haven't been here in a long time and the formatting of...

I'm trying to learn about reality and follow what is true. I try to be open to any truth I can find. (It is regrettable that so many Protestants have not studied history.)