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I'm lucky - I always worship Sundays and Wednesdays, and often Thursdays, and can, and sometimes do, every other day of the week; the problem is trying to ensure I keep up with my obligations to non-christians as well... Magi

I am just about to meet a friend who went to church willingly for pretty much the first time this morning. She has been running away from becoming a christian for a long time - but now wants to make the leap. Please pray for her. WanderingMagi

How do you know this is what he is saying? It seems a sensible enough understanding, certainly, but it is certainly not one that is in any way incontrivertible according to the evidence presented here. We have an exclamation mark because it is astonishing, and the the KJV omits it because...

Perhaps to us: but for Christ to say 'Before Abraham was, I am' is quite simply an absolute statement of his divinity to anyone brought up within the Jewish tradition - a tradition it does us good to understand if we are to understand the bible, created within it at the same time as being...

Please don't say 'gods'. You know we don't believe that. Notice that lord is here spelled without a capital L. The original words typically translated 'Lord' and 'lord' are actually different. To say 'Lord' means The Lord. Brilliant post, though: I wish I had more time to argue the...

Of course: and Christianity means to follow...Christ. Following is a type of submission, and the submission in question is beleived to be to the will of God, and must be by choice to be valid. Why does the bible tell Joshua to slaughter the Amalekites? It doesn't say to do those things...

This is really offensive! Go and read the Quran before you say anything else about Islam. The Quran directly says that people of the book (at least!) are not to be forcibly converted, but to be debated with in a free and instructional manner. Muslim states during the middle agesactually...

I'm another Scot in exile: I was born in Lewis, live in the Borders, and am currently at university in England. I miss the open space! WanderingMagi.

Constantinople fell in large part because the 'crusaders' had sacked it... WanderingMagi

I have to say that I agree in some ways with your boyfriend... You certainly are more whole when you marry, especially a soul-mate. But, all the same, I have always thought that it is dangerous to look for wholeness in another, because it becomes easy to try and solve your problems by doing so...

Yes, but Muslims believe he appeared to die on the cross! Your evidence is exactly in accordance with Muslim as well as Christian belief! And? Two men agreed on something so all the world should believe? I know I couldn't without the holy spirit enabling me to. Besides, if Christ didn't...

I don't think so. But the point here is not that - it is that Paul may be lying when he says 500 people saw him - we trust only one man, not 500. Obviously, I do trust him - I am a christian. But, as a historian, dealing with literary evidence all day, I can certainly see why others would...

Good to see you - sounds like CF will be pretty lucky to have you! WanderingMagi

God bless you. I know how you feel: I just split up with my girlfriend yesterday, partly because I didn't feel it was right. It is agony. Congratulations on having the strength to ask him to move out. It really does hurt. Hope you're managing to work out the chatroom easily enough: it takes...

Surely I can identify a pigeon because it is a subset of bird because I have seen bird and pigeon=stupid grey bird with silly feet. Not very Platonic - but you can still, even operating with this sort of philosophy, apply Lewis' argument to morality, because his point is that with absoluutely...

I'm an absolutely convinced Christian, but I still don't see this as an argument. That a book is older does not make it more accurate! Quite the opposite: if a book is copied many times, it increases the number of errors it contains. The issue is simply this: which was inspired? They think...

I agree history is objective - but not what I, a historian, do. To learn objective reasoning skills is not to be objective: it permits at most a degree of objectivity in your reasoning. In history, no one ever comes to a confident conclusion about things that matter or are interesting. We may...

The Jews then had a much stronger belief in ghosts than we do today. Doesn't make it right. WanderingMagi

Yes but you would have. It is this state of sinfulness that is wrong.

Very true: but I don't think what we write is history at all, but the reflection of it. Also, if we are to do our best at presenting some form of useful history that is similar to past event and from which we may learn, then we must hold up the ideal of history, unattainable though it is...