Recent content by Voice in the Desert

I think in a Christian context what many people mean by "lusting" is entertaining and developing sexual fantasies in one's mind and imagination.

I agree, I think the definition of child abuse however is very different by some radicals who generally inhabit the far left. Of course the problem with this thread is an assumption that all who believe in Evolution theistic or otherwise hold this ideology, which is false, the two aren't really...

But if our unrighteousness brings out God's righteousness more clearly, what shall we say? That God is unjust in bringing his wrath on us? (I am using a human argument.) Certainly not! If that were so, how could God judge the world? Someone might argue, "If my falsehood enhances God's...

I voted that the bible in inspired, as both inerrancy and infallibility proceed from that. Your view of inspiration is warped, and your poll options are too lacking to be meaningful.

How about you go live in a muslim country before making such ignorant and arrogant statements. Incidentally did anyone see the Voice of the Martyr's magazine cover this month? It's eerily appropriate.

Do you folks who like burning Korans realize that many christians will be killed and churches burned in muslim countries because of your misguided political statements? Oh wait, forgot we weren't actually thinking. :doh:

You mean I need to remove my pikachu shrine?

Did it ever occur to these seemingly short sighted people how many brothers and sisters in Christ will pay with their lives for their arrogant political statement?

Well somehow we got off the legal question and back onto the same old scripture twisting bandwagon. The problem is that you're absolutely right, Leviticus is not the place to look for why homosexuality is wrong, the correct place is Genesis 1-2. But since the majority of the church dismissed...

Understanding the entire NT to be divinely inspired and recognized as scripture is a pretty basic tenet of all Christian denominations I can think of. While some disagree on how it should be interpreted, calling into question the authority of the NT as scripture seems to me a very un-christian...

The question seems strange to me, Jesus did not establish a religion he established his church, he ushered in a kingdom. Therefore the more appropriate question biblically to me would be what is the purpose of the church? But as the OP seems to be looking for something different I'm not quite...

Well at least it seems that one point you did read the actual definition of a theocracy. Which is more than can be said for most people wielding the term as a political cudgel. Nonetheless your logic falls flat on its face. Are you honestly trying to compare the participation of Christians in...

Please, please, please for crying out loud would people who have no clue what the word theocracy means stop using it. It doesn't make you look clever or witty, it looks like you have no clue what the word means, which is exactly true.

Yes it is, you will not find modern libertarian and liberal thinking in the Constitution or writing of the founders. This is a mythology perpetuated in order to advance a new morality not based on God's law and exclude Christians from the public square. But the founders in no way shape or form...

The idea that laws should not be based on Christian morals but purely on "secular ideals" is a godless libertarian concept that has infiltrate the church from the world. Of course as Christians we should make a stand for righteousness, even as we know that people's lives will only be changed by...