Recent content by samwise gamgee

I like Star Trek better than Star Wars but I think Babylon Five was better than either of them.

If you feel that having a tooth extracted is a sin, how do you feel about having your hair cut?

There is a sense in which all believers will experience the marriage relationship. God uses marriage as a picture of the relationship between God and his worshipers. In the Old Testament Israel is called the wife of God. In the new the church is called the bride of Christ and the wedding is...

When Peter preached the gospel to Cornelius and his household the Holy Spirit came on them while Peter was still speaking, before they were baptized in water. This shows they were saved. But Peter did tell them they should be baptized in water. When we are saved we are baptized by the Holy...

Whether you should wear Christian clothing depends on your motivation. Jesus condemned those who displayed their faith so others would have a high opinion of them. On the other hand if you do so in order to start conversations with others and share the gospel with them you should do so. Don't...

I am a Young Earth Creationist. However I disagree with this statement on one minor point. I don't believe that all diversity is the result of special creation. Some is the result of natural selection. We know that all breeds of dog are descended from wolves. This process goes even farther...

Doing this would be surrendering to the gays and allowing them to adopt the rainbow as their symbol. It was God who decided what the rainbow symbolizes and while I have never seen the first rainbow he created I am sure that it was in color, not black and white.

I wonder if the people running the school have ever visited the Answers in Genesis website. AiG is putting a lot of emphasis on the rainbow. Ken Ham, the director of the organization, is trying to remind people of God's original purpose in creating rainbows in the first place. Here is an...

I noticed that all of the officers charged were black. I wonder if they would have been charged with murder if they were white.

Your question seems to assume that humans evolved from some lower form of life. Contrary to what we are often told, there is no scientific evidence that this happened, and the Bible clearly teaches that this idea if false.

If private nudity were wrong you wouldn't be able to take a bath and a shower and soon your body odor would make it very unpleasant to be around you.

I try to start every day be reading the Bible. I have found that if I drink a cup of coffee while I am reading it is easier for me to focus on what the Bible says.

Have you forgotten that Satan can appear as an angel of light?

I will pray for your release but also that God will use you where you are to carry out his work. When Paul was in prison he wrote this: "I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel, so that it has become known throughout the whole imperial...

Hades will cease to exist because it won't be needed anymore. The souls in it will be thrown into the lake of fire and they will exist forever.