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    Biblical punishment for beating someone up?

    But what would be the punishment? Is there any direct mentioning of a specific punishment in the Old an/or New Testament?
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    Biblical punishment for beating someone up?

    What is the punishment in the bible for beating someone up that wronged you greatly with thievery. Does anyone has citations on this?
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    Why aren't christians doing anything

    We need more Americans like Jordan Matson.
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    Why aren't christians doing anything

    This post can be deleted. I see the question ahve already been rephrased. -- Post: My question is why is there so little Christian initiative to go and fight? Why don't we see Christians standing up and taking up arms to defending a Christian population that is suffering from a campaign...
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    Why aren't christians doing anything

    I just don't understand why Christians don't get involved in helping the christians on the ground. Or atleast I don't see that happening on a wide scale and certainly not militarly.
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    Why aren't christians doing anything

    In Iraq and Syria Christians are being slaughtered and oppressed by ISIS. We've seen Kurdish people living abroad go back to Kurdistan to fight with the peshmerga that is aiding christians. Why are there no Christians as far as I know taking up arms or atleast helping and supporting the...
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    Free will vs Determinism and religion

    But how can God punish us for our sins then if he already decided we would commit them? Especially talking about eternity in hell.
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    Free will vs Determinism and religion

    But if he made a person and that person is born his whole life script is already there. So how can G-d punish sinners then if he already decided that they would sin?
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    Free will vs Determinism and religion

    First of all I want to say that I am extremely inexperienced regarding faith and theology. And I do not mean this thread provactive in any way. If G-d is all knowing and thus knows the future does this mean that the future is already determined. And if that is the case how could the L-rd then...
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    ISIS terrorists destroyed grave of prophet Jonah

    Can't post links/images or youtube vids here because of my low post count (bit ridiculous) but you can see ISIS destroying the grave of prophet Jonah which lies in the Iraqi city Mosul in this video: youtube: watch?v=D25Jl2fLU6M
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    Shall surely die?

    What is meant with 'Shall surely die'? Adam and Eve were told that they would surely die after eating the fruit. But instead they were kicked out of the Garden of Eden. They did not die as in being death in the way we understand it. If a person commits a biblical capital offence such as...
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    Knowledge of Evil

    In the Story of Adam and Eve. God forbade them to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. They could separate Good from Evil already. Since they knew that eating the apple was evil. However they did not truly know evil. Since one could only know evil after eating the apple. What...
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    Question about evil and sin

    In the Story of Adam and Eve. God forbade them to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. They could separate Good from Evil already. Since they knew that eating the apple was evil. However they did not truly know evil. Since one could only know evil after eating the apple. What...
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    Just War Theory

    Dear Christian Forums, I have a question about Just War Theory. Often the following are hailed as conditions for a just war: I have a few questions regarding them. ''All aggression is condemned; only defensive war is legitimate.'' What is aggressive and what is defensive? Must you...
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    Just War Theory

    Dear Christian Forums, I have a question about Just War Theory. Often the following are hailed as conditions for a just war: I have a few questions regarding them. ''All aggression is condemned; only defensive war is legitimate.'' What is aggressive and what is defensive? Must you...