Recent content by Halbhh

Hi, suppose one hears a theory about a natural cause of climate change that isn't man made -- that wouldn't change the fact that we are adding a lot of CO2 to the atmosphere and that CO2 factually increases heat retention proportionally to it's quantity on any planet by a well established...

turn on captions at bottom of screen ('CC' button) Who could satisfy us but You, our Savior!

Egyptians Christians have been persecuted a lot over the years..... (for example: 10 Facts about Christian Persecution in Egypt) How do they feel about that? A lot of joy! 11 “Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of...

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But we can notice that some profound information in scripture what it means to have breath from God.... 22 And with that he [Christ Jesus] breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit." https://biblehub.com/john/20-22.htm https://biblehub.com/john/3-8.htm 2 Suddenly a sound like the...

This paper reports modeling that implies the Trappist system according to the modeling would have no planets with significant atmosphere -- all 7 of the 7 Earth sized planets in the system. The last sentence in the abstract is the most notable though. "In this work we aim to determine the...

Without repentance, it's evident a person doesn't have faith in all Christ is. To 'repent' means to admit to God that you have sinned, and want to be cleansed/freed of those sins, and this implies you need redemption/cleansing from your sins. To believe in Christ means both to believe He is...

The parable meaning in a story in the text not only the most important part (by far), but is really the only part that matters (over time, ultimately). If some literalist reads the text and misses the parable meaning -- the meaning of the story about their own life -- then lacking that parable...

It's definitely a parable. There are both stories that are purely parable, and also some accounts of events that are also parables. Really every story in the Old Testament is a parable, only in the text because it helps us learn something about human nature and so on. For this story though...

That's my whole point! That's what I've been saying for many posts now.