Recent content by JohnClay

Though the OT says to love God with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength. This is also repeated in Matthew 22:37, Mark 12:30, and Luke 10:27.

Yeah his answers are quite brief (his whole YouTube channel is short answers to questions). I guess someone putting God first would do things like read the Bible, go to church, tithe, tell lots of people about Jesus, pray and only give other things a priority if they think God wants them to do it.

From my sisters' pastor: What do Christians think?

I was wondering what your beliefs are about what dead people are up to now... are they just unconscious in their graves waiting until the end of the world? Are they in heaven or hell? Some Christians would tell children that their deceased loved one is watching over them in heaven with Jesus. Is...

Yeah they're meant to keep tithing.... It could be a reason not to spend a lot of money on starving children. Well I think there can be difficult questions for Christians. I'm interested in their answers. If a Christian is aware of children dying from malnutrition and they do nothing even...

As far as starving children go they're not personally asking you for help - but what if multiple homeless people kept on asking a Christian for money?

So Christians would often tithe (give 10% or more to the church/etc) but what about loving your neighbor as yourself? Should you keep 50% of your money for yourself and 50% for your neighbors? Or the least amount you can survive on then the rest to people who really need it like starving...

@BobRyan On the topic of God always being 100% moral what about this passage: Deuteronomy 20:16-18 If it is moral to kill everything that breathes including animals and babies then maybe it is moral to send most people to hell forever... ?

Ok I was expecting you to say that if God did it then it must be 100% moral since God defines what is moral.

@BobRyan Hi my question is not whether the Bible says if there is eternal torment for the unsaved but whether that would be just and fair for all of the unsaved.

Hi I meant would it be just if hell hypothetically involved eternal suffering?

Also is it still just if the suffering is unbearable?

BTW as far as "Battlefield of the Mind" goes, I found the following from the teen version interesting: That reminded me of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_insertion Though in the case of Satan it is apparently a reality that thoughts are being inserted rather than a delusion.....

It seems like semi-omnipresence/multi-presence is a new ability for an angel. I wonder when Satan might have first had this ability? Is it so that Satan can be more Godlike? (as a false god)

I get the impression that in Joyce Meyer's "Battlefield of the Mind" it talks about Satan having a presence in many people's minds at once. I thought Satan was an angel that would only have one location/focus at a time.... and in the Old Testament in Job and in the Garden of Eden story it seems...