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I vote which ever candidate is best. Voted for Bush, Obama, Trump...etc. But this year is the first time I am not voting at all. I feel like everyone running on both sides are terrible. Especially being disabled. If I vote Trump, I lose more healthcare and my wife (an immigrant) as affected more negatively. If I vote democrat, healthcare may go back to normal or be better. However because both sides are for things that I find to ungodly, I won't vote at all now.

Some would say you can't complain if you don't vote. I disagree. I'm at the point of thinking "What if I end up voting for someone like the anti-christ?"? I don't want to be pulled into such things. Granted I realize the anti-christ comes from the east. None the less whoever I...

Hello! Does the Bible teach a formula that is to be stated at baptism? Thanks!

My interest here is to hear from non-Christians and Christians alike who support Bernie. Since other political forums are Christian-only, and this is current news as of yesterday, I posted it here.

By Ken Dilanian and Dan De Luce (NBC News)
"WASHINGTON — In October 1985, a few months after Bernie Sanders traveled to Nicaragua to celebrate the sixth anniversary of that country's socialist revolution, the Soviet-backed government suspended the civil liberties of its citizens, including the rights to free speech, free assembly and labor strikes."

For article see: Will Sanders' past praise of Socialist regimes hurt Democrats?

Can anyone show me where the Bible condemns polygamy? In the OT we see many instances of multiple wives and concubines. In the NT Jesus says that a marriage is between one man and one woman but he doesnt say anything about multiple marriages and/or concubines. Im not taking a side here and am interested to see the scripture provided.

in 1 Timothy 3:2 a distinction is made that a church elder must be a man of one wife but other than that I dont see it condemned

I am looking for an approach to Christianity that works. I've tried many churches, many popular pastors like Joel Osteen, Andy Stanley, Kenneth Copeland, Kenneth Hagin, and others, and many approaches. It seems like with a lot of them you have to do 1000 things right before you can expect an answer to your prayer - tithe, forgive, believe, don't wear your clothes inside out (Lol) and a thousand other things! Does anyone have an approach that works for them - that consistently results in answered prayers!

Thanks

Article from Christianity Today:

A pastor recently told me (Preston) about Tyler and Amanda (names changed), high-school sweethearts raised in Christian homes, living in the Bible belt. After getting married, they seemed to be living the American dream with a house, good jobs, and two kids. Then Jon, a friend of Tyler’s, began living with their family. Amanda developed a close relationship with him, but their flirtation soon developed into something more, and Jon and Amanda proposed to Tyler that they begin exploring polyamory, with Amanda adding Jon as a significant other. They also encouraged Tyler to develop a relationship with another woman he’d met at the gym. He agreed.

When Tyler and Amanda came out as polyamorous, their...

Can you be moral without God?

You Tube "Prophet" William Tapley, AKA Third Eagle, can really bust out the tunes. However, he is serious about his predictions. This July 2010 video he claimed Obama was "Beast #3" and the "Leopard king" who came from the sea. He said Obama would start a war. Does expanding the war to Syria count?
Apparently this guy has the goods on Trump as well:

I didn't know about the rape; the thread was about the music, and witchcraft isn't real. Harry Potter is fiction

The whole Harry Potter is not bad because is fiction excuse does not work. Jesus condemned the mind sin of lust (Which is fantasy) in Matthew 5:28-30. We are told to cast down imaginations and lead every thought captive in obedience to Christ Jesus in 2 Corinthians 10:5. Harry Potter is the glorification of witchcraft. God condemned witchcraft heavily in the Old Testament. To think about something sinful in a fantasy way does not make it any less sinful. Is cartoon porn okay? Surely not. Just because it is pure fantasy does not undo the fact that sin is being pushed or communicated upon the viewer. It's wrong....

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In Islam there is a religious permission to lie, “Taqiyya,” which allows Muslims to lie to non-believers to advance the cause of Islam. There is also a religious justification of human trafficking in Islam, a system known as Kafala. Kafala, originally referring to the Islamic “adoption” of children, is an exploitive “sponsorship” system that results in the organized crime of human trafficking in Gulf Cooperation Council countries Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and some neighboring states. The two Islamic religious practices of taqiyya and Kafala combine to justify participation in a worldwide network of human trafficking for sex, labor, and harvesting of human organs.

Each year the...