Recent content by ClaytonP

The "wise men" were there to warn Herod of the birth of Jesus and to mock God. They were Maji, Zorastan priests of Persia. The devil knew the Christ was born, and by sending the "wise men," he was mocking the people to whom God had explained the birth, life, and death of the Messiah. Having lost...

No, you are not wrong. The secular Left is winning the battle on all these fronts, with the common thread being mostly a direct and deliberate attack against the traditional family and Christian morals. These are incompatible with Socialist doctrine. The significance, for me, in the question is...

Human rights are attempts to erode individual rights. The Founding Fathers recognized that all rights belong inalienablly to the individual, none to a group. Many efforts to legally define and implement deceptively-called "human rights" are often a veiled erosion of another's individual rights.

I fully agree. However, considering the context in which 2 Thessalonians 2: 11-12 was written, do you think that Paul was here referring more specifically to a delusion, the belief in a lie, concerning the Anti-Christ? That God will cause non-believers to believe a lie SO THAT they will accept...

Because some are listening.

Because God IS Life.

If God created the physical world, wouldn't this then imply that He was not part of the physical world, unless He created Himself?

Faith is WHAT one believes. It is not "a leap" as suggested by Kant. It is not blind. And it is not 'hope.' Faith is the combination of belief and will. I observe that it is a cloudy morning. Based on this and the weather report, I believe that it is going to rain. That is my belief. But it...

I am a 48-year-old carpenter and woodworker. I have no wife or kids. Just a simple man trying to understand The Way of the Lord.