Recent content by dhh712

Oh, it will go back to conservative Christian values as the normative value of society. (unless Jesus returns before that time). Although we are progressing linearly until the time of Jesus' return, these kinds of trends occur cyclically. We actually are not existing in the most hedonistic...

I just love the Christmas holiday season! It's over way too fast. My favourite thing to do is put up the tree/window lights/wrap gifts while playing my old-fashioned Christmas songs (mostly instrumentals from Victorian or Early English or Medieval/Renaissance times). I look forward to it every...

No. You take showers without your clothes on, right? The only possibility where things can go wrong is if you think you're alone but you run into someone unexpectedly. In a general sense though I don't see anything wrong with swimming in a river or lake without your clothes on as long as...

My opinion is that it was the right thing for you to try to save your marriage but that you went about it the wrong way. You should have went to your pastor for counseling, someone who knows the both of you and who wouldn't have charged you for the counseling (and who wouldn't have been able to...

This is pretty much exactly what I believe. I think there are core beliefs that must be upheld in a Christian church such as for example that Jesus is the only way to the Father. Other things such as infant baptism and the specifics about communion are rather minor. I think you should follow...

I struggle with this a lot since most of my family and people I know are unbelievers as far as I can tell. At the end I have to give up the mental anguish and trust that what God has revealed to us in his word is true--that he is the only just and righteous one and that his mercy is abounding as...

I'm so glad it doesn't around where I live! We have a person who exclusively says "Merry Christmas" because she doesn't put up with the "holiday" nonsense (it's Christmas she says, so that's what I'm going to call it). On the other hand, I do not look at Christmas as a religious holiday. It is...

You rest upon Jesus' finished work. When we stand before God on the last day we are clothed in His righteousness and nothing of our own. You seem to realize this, that if (as I'm sure we all have) as a child you stood in defiance against your parents and didn't do something they told you to do...

No, God perseveres in our salvation to the end; Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith. If it was up to us, yes we could definitely lose it. The only way someone can lose their "salvation" is if they were never saved to begin with. Jesus describes these kinds of situations in his parable...

1) I don't drink because it stopped really doing anything for me and I started getting a headache the next day after drinking a very little. I'm like, this really isn't worth it and stopped. Once in a very great while I may have a flavored beer. 2) What kind of physical or mental effect? The...

It's not. That's abundantly clear. Anyone who tries to come up with a way to rationalize it is trying to do the impossible. It's just plain wrong to kill an innocent person. God reveals to us in the Bible that life begins at conception. Unless the abortion is to save the mother's life then it is...

You did the right thing if you are serious about a commitment to Christ. You can be acquainted with unbelievers, but to be in a relationship either a romantic or even a close friendship is unadvised. Satan is a very clever and strong enemy and it is never a good thing to trifle with him. Yes we...

You may want to check out the "Westminster Confessions of Faith". It is a very logical explanation of the doctrines of the Bible. Then you will understand how our logic has been corrupted by the sin in this world (as well as being imperfect and completely unable to totally comprehend an infinite...

You don't need us to convince you, you need the Holy Spirit to convince you. If you want to come back to Jesus, the door is wide open. What is holding you back? I noticed your screen name. Is it your ego that you must have the right and respectable mindset before others? Does it make you look...

I would hope as a worshiper of the God-man Jesus Christ you would believe he, as the incarnate Word of God, is the standard for truth (over what something in this corrupted world would show). However, I don't know of any place in the Bible where it states clearly how old the earth is. As far as...