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Who knows? Possibly most people as sex is holy and good!

I think you are wrong. Masturbation like sex with a partner requires thoughts of a sexual nature but I don't think that this has to mean lust in its normal negative sense.

Please can we stop accusing each other of either being Satan or speaking his words!

Yet another example of the fallacy of etymology. The root of a word does not necessarily give us the meaning of the word in its normal use. Proskunein may have it's roots in 'to kiss towards' but it's normal meaning is just 'to worship' just as it still is in modern Greek. When we use a word...

Surely you don't expect me to believe that an early church service looked anything like one held in an Orthodox church today? Did early church leaders from the first century dress like orthodox ones now? I don't think so. In the early church, according to the Bible, people could bring hymns...

And thereby a gift from God.

There are all kind of reasons that the woman might have been at the well. NOT every woman who has had more than one husband is a prostitute! That is a disgraceful thing to say. You say "EVERY WOMAN is held by tradition to be a PROSTITUTE, other than "those whose ministry was to give birth to...

I don't think you will find much evidence to prove the early church did not use instruments. There are one or two later documents where writers spoke against their use but why would they do that unless some churches were using instruments? Anyway, a few documents don't prove very much. I think...

Have a nice day EVERYONE! :clap:

And "NON-pot users" are often automatically on the attack - either by posture, or by accusation.

I don't think that is true at all. In missions I have met a fair number of women pastors in various parts of the world and they were not in dead or dying churches and all had men as part of their church. A case in point: I was in the southern Philippines (Mindanao) recently and visited six...

Huh? Where do you get that idea from? You'll need to back that up with something solid!

No more rock climbing or skin diving for me then. Far too dangerous and therefore 'immoral' - not!

"Pray without ceasing" means I can pray in the bath, working up a ladder, or while out for a run!

Spot on Solidlyhere IMO! It is not what I see either. My experience is that women are very active in the Church and are often leaders and pioneers. As i think about it the last two churches I was a member of were both started by women. I agree with Solidlyhere that what is important is today...

You've seen the light! :clap:

If President Clinton ever smoked with a hookar (either kind) I'm sure he didn't inhale!

I'm afraid that Christians have usually been the ones leading the way shouting "She's a witch", "Burn her, burn her", "He's using the power of demons" when they simply don't understand something new to them. I have heard more than a few Christians condemn hypnosis yet the ones I have known...

That is not a very convincing agrument for proving hypnosis is sorcery. There is plenty of irrational and unchristlike behaviour among those who have NOT been hypnotized!

Personally I think it is wise to keep a relatively clear mind but I don't think that you are doing anything necessarily immoral.