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    Should I care?

    I'm generally indifferent to whether or not I'm "saved." Should I care? Me and ego aside for the moment, how to does it benefit anyone else whether or not I'm "saved?"
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    What can be done?

    Christian Music…Why Does It Suck? What Can Be Done? An Open Letter to Worship Songwriters Miniblog #155: Something Is Terribly Wrong with the “Jesus Is My Boyfriend” Genre | Musings of a Hardlining Moderate Curious what folks think of this. Valid criticism? If so, what...
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    Pastors not following Statement of Faith

    I go to a non-denominational church. Our leadership has historic strength in management, fundraising, marketing, public speaking, and event production. Aside from one or two pastors, there's limited theological training or even for that matter awareness. About eight years ago, our prior...
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    Who killed Goliath?

    An who killed his brother??? http://bible.cc/2_samuel/21-19.htm
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    Why do you reject Islam?

    What's your reason?
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    How did you determine the Bible is the Word of God?

    And specifically which canon(s)? And which manuscript(s)/translation(s)?
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    B’nai Elohim

    What exactly are the "sons of God" in Genesis?
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    Who wrote 2 John and 3 John?

    Who was the author?
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    What doesn't genetic, archaeological, and linguistic evidence match Genesis well?

    Independent evidence in the fields of genetics, archaeology, and linguistics point to a common out-of-Africa hypothesis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_Africa_theory Yet this doesn't really match the Garden of Eden story. Why's that?
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    Why would one be happy smashing Babylonian babies against rocks?

    O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us - he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks. ~ Psalms 137:8-9
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    The power of prayer and fasting?

    How come Matthew 17:21 is deleted from my NIV? http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew%2017:21&version=31 http://bible.cc/matthew/17-21.htm
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    Have you read the Bible cover to cover?

    Not necessarily in front-to-back order, but every last word of every chapter of every book? (Specifically referring to either Protestant or Catholic Bible.)
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    Jesus and the adulterous woman

    Do you think this event (John 7:53–8:11) actually occured with Jesus of Nazareth?
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    Think about it a moment...

    I saw this thread about "Do these go to hell?" Can't post over there can I just can't honest say I serious believe the Niceaen Creed at all anymore. (But think reading a lot of the post in the "Christian" section I think there a good number of people on this forum proclaiming their...
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    What do you do when you don't believe any more?

    OK, so I'm 40 years old. I was a devout Christian (short-term missionary, lay leader, ...) for half a lifetime. Then, in pursuit of truth and in hope of confirmation of my faith, I went out in this intense reading spree over the last several years. I read everything I could find time for on...
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    Newly Deconverted

    At the age of 40, I'm newly deconverted from my Christianity. I'm in the closet still and it is quite difficult to say the least. I feel like I'm living a double life with my new-found disbelief and I hate this. I'm coming to this site, not so much looking for arguments, debates, and...