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    Might Hillary not be a godly woman?

    It is unfair to oversimplify Hillary's positon as pro-abortion. Rather, she opposes government interference in what she views as a very private decision between a woman and her doctor. She expresses her opinion this way: "I think abortion should remain legal, but it needs to be safe and rare...
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    The Mystery of the Global Spread of Ancient Africans

    (1) How did Stone Age hunter gatherers akin to African pygmies get to the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean about 40,000-60,000 years ago? Some of these Africans display Asian markers in their DNA, but there are several tribes there, and more tests need to be made. Some of their islands are...
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    Demon Possession and Exorcism

    (1) What do you believe about possession by evil spirits and exorcisms? (2) It is commonly believed that Jesus' exorcisms merely reflect the superstitions of the ancient world about mental illness and disease. Why do you assume that the practice of exorcizing demons was common prior to Jesus...
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    Why do you defy Jesus' wishes by petitioning Him in prayer?

    The NT encourages us to praise, thank, worship, and love Jesus. In those senses, we of course pray to Jesus. But all my life, my desire to commune with Christ has prompted me to offer up petitions to Him as well, and recently I have been asking myself why I do so in defiance of his expressed...
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    History's Most Spectacular Revivals

    No videos I have ever posted on any website are nearly as important to me as (1)-(4) posted below. No word in the English language has been more watered down and more treated as a vacuous jargon term than “revival.” Yet the dramatic decline in western Christianity in recent decades leaves “the...
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    The Inspiration of Scripture: Issues Arising

    This thread is intended to help you think through the implications of your views on the inspiration of Scripture. In the interests of coherent discussion, I ask that you respond to no more than 1 of the 9 questions below in a single post and that you begin with the first question. Feel free to...
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    What matters most? Spiritual Experience vs.Apologetics

    Christianity is first and foremost an experiential relationship with Christ based on faith. It stands or falls with the validity of our self-authenticating assurance of our salvation based not on apologetics, but on the inner work of the Holy Spirit. (1) Though apologetics is needed to open...
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    The Close-minded Christian: A Serious Spiritual Problem?

    The 2nd century physician, Galen, was the greatest medical researcher in late antiquity. He was very frustrated with the intellectual inflexibility of the medical and philosophical schools of his day and he lampoons them by comparing them to Jews and Christians who were evidently famous for...
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    Pope Joan

    Why do conservative Catholics freak out over the attested tradition of Pope Joan that was well known in Luther's day? http://www.reformation.org/pope-joan.html
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    Swedenborg: The Most Gifted Mystic Ever

    Nightflight, I am delighted to see you start a thread on Emanuel Swedenborg (hereafter ES: 1688-1772). I'm starting this complementary thread to illustrate ES's unprecedented psychic talents, to present some of ES's discoveries about that nature of Heaven and Hell and the process of entering...
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    Limitations Imposed by Jesus' Humanity

    Most Christians, like myself, affirm that the historical Jesus was God incarnate. But they have rarely thought through what they mean, or should mean, by affirming Jesus as fully human. This thread is intended to help us do just that. In any good seminary, these 5 questions serve as...
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    A funny thing happened in church.

    Please share your stories about funny things that happened in your church. I'll begin by sharing some of mine: (1) PREACHER BLOOPERS: Pastor Herb was a great preacher, but lacked a sense of humor. That lack must explain why I found his 2 sermon bloopers so funny. (a) One Sunday, he was...
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    The Gender of God in the Bible, Ancient Judaism, and the Early Church

    I open wih 4 theses designed to stimulate a discussion. If no one responds, then I'll be forced to give lectures, and I don't want that. I intend to pursue these topics sequentially, but I welcome digressions that serve the flow of discussion. (1) The Old Testament (OT) repeatedly denies the...
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    The Best Ever Movies on a Spiritual Theme

    You might want to distinguish "the best" movies from "your favorites." For example, "Somewhere in Time," starring a young Christopher Reeves and a young Jane Seymour, was not critically acclaimed, but it was without question my favorite movie ever. I got so emotionally involved in the romantic...
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    The Right Prayer Partner

    (1) This is an extremely important, but controversial issue. Sometimes people aren't healed because the right faith-filled person did not prayer for the answer to the need in question. Anglican mystic, Agnes Sanford, has written several books on prayer and spirituality. In her classic, "The...
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    The Spirituality of Premonitions

    "THE SCIENCE OF PREMONITIONS:" A Book by Dr. Larry Dossey: By "science," Dossey has in mind replicable lab experiments that confirm compelling anecdotal cases and suggest that we all potentially have this ability, an ability which can be transformed into a gift of the Holy Spirit, when it is...
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    Speaking in Tongues and the Baptism of the Holy Spirit

    The Pentecostal movement now numbers 200 million globally. To understand its phenomenal success amid great decline of mainline denominations, a good place to start is with the 3 YouTube videos posted below. The first 2 videos describe the astounding Welsh revival of 1904-1906 that spread...
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    Worship Wars: Traditional Hymns Vs. Praise Choruses

    As a UMC pastor (now retired), I have conducted many funeral and memorial services, mostly with organ accompaniment and traditional hymns. My Dad was a TV Gospel singer for the longest televised Christian program in North America. He just hated contemporary praise choruses. Until the new...
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    NDEs and ADCs: Awesome Verifications

    In my experience, the near- and post-death experiences that I will recount and discuss in this thread are more compelling for skeptics than more traditional Christian apologetics. But these paranormal experiences raise many questions about the extent to which they are compatible with biblical...
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    Kenneth Miller's Reconciliation of Evolution with His Catholic Faith

    I recently watched this YouTube video of cell biologist Kenneth Miller's lecture at Yale. It is the most stimulating lecture I have ever heard online. It has the potential to elevate the level of dialogue created by the God and evolution thread. Among other things, it has prompted me to rethink...
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