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I don't understand why you would ask what our faith says about ghosts, then ask us to ignore anyone else who answers the question.

I've heard some propose that races happened at the Tower of Babel, with the confusion of languages. Same old, same old really.

Regardless of anyone's opinion on "proper" spanking, I highly doubt that anyone on this forum would advocate flogging, whipping, or beating their child. That IS child abuse, and if that is a cultural thing in Jamaica, then it is good that there are organizations like UNICEF that are trying to...

It sounds like her grandparents are willing to help her, and they can probably testify under oath as to her circumstances of birth. They surely have personal knowledge of the event, if her parents refuse to play ball. I think that should be enough for a court to at least hear her case, if for...

Yup-this. If you are born on US soil, you are automatically a citizen period. All she needs to do is get that delayed birth certificate, and that's all the documentation she will need. She can get a driver's license or non-driver state ID from there, and then she will have two forms of ID...

Full disclosure - I've read only the first page and this last page, not the entire thread. Anyways, Christian belief allows for the existence of supernatural beings who are not God, and yet may still be able to perform miraculous-appearing feats. I don't see how the existence of a spiritual...

As intriguing as the casting was in the end, I personally found that to be horrifying. And there is something sick about taking a souvenir like that without any thought or regard to the lives that were spent to acquire it.

I don't recall my mother being harsh with my hair when I was little. She loved my hair, and I never had any issues with pain or anything when she worked on it. My sister in law doesn't seem harsh with my nieces' hair either, and they sit pretty perfectly still without complaint when any of us...

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Interesting idea for a shirt! I kind of like it just for the old-fashioned quirk of it. But I heartily disagree with the sentiment on it. I also am quite fond of Gideon's answer here. There are a ton of doctrinal points that are quite tricky, very deep, and that we won't fully "get" until...

The issue has absolutely nothing to do with Biblical teaching, and absolutely everything to do with our country's history. Doctrines that prohibit alcohol or that try to explain away wine as being "unfermented" hail back to the days of the Temperance movement and Prohibition. It's an American...

He was six when this book was written, and he is sixteen now. So it is not surprising that he would want to recant... I mean really, whether he made it up or not, it really does not seem surprising that a sixteen year old would want to take back a story he told as a very young child. There are...

What exactly is the "National Cathedral"? Is it a cathedral that's supposed to be for whatever Christian denomination, or is it actually administered and run by a specific denomination? If there is a National Cathedral, is there any reason why there cannot be a National Mosque too? It would...

I have never heard a deliverance minister claim that they could do this to find out about generational curses. Every deliverance circle I have know takes a very hard stance on the idea that all spirits=demons, and would never suggest that info can be gleaned by contacting dead relatives. If...

I'm not really sure you are talking about the same sort of thing as what I understand to be "regression therapy." So I'll start off by stating what I think it means, and you can let us know if you meant something different? Regression therapy - when a person is either put into hypnosis, or...

The point at which Bob begins to think he is better than others, or more enlightened, or more deserving because of his success is the point at which he is making too much. The point at which he becomes insulated against the struggles of those less fortunate, or loses touch with reality, or loses...

Couple of things - I assume that even before the Law was given to Moses, Abraham and family still had some ideas of God and what was okay with God. God did call Abraham to leave his home, promised him a son, ect. So those beliefs and values would have then been transmitted to his son, and...

Both historically and in our present day, becoming a eunuch is not typically something that a man does voluntarily. It is done too him, often while still a child, for the purpose of selling him into slavery. Nothing that is done to you without your consent can be a sin. I cannot even imagine...

That pretty much sums up my view on Oneness Pentecostals, in a nutshell. ;) I do also feel, however, that I don't mind accepting them as a Brother or Sister in Christ as long as they have genuinely accepted Jesus as their savior. Then I leave it up to God to correct other peoples' theology...

No. Bi-polar is what used to be called manic-depressive, in which an individual vacillates between manic episodes (feeling energized and on top of the world), and going into deep depressions. I can see how that might look like alternate personalities from the outside, but it is not the same...