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Blessings to you too brother. :) Thank you Victor; may there be flowers along the side of your road. :)

Hey guys -- Think it's time for me to move on from CF. Please PM me if you'd like to stay in touch. AzA

Hey guys -- Think it's time for me to move on from CF. Please PM me if you'd like to stay in touch. AzA

I wish Christians wouldn't say that educating people about a subject is the same as promoting it. It makes us appear weak and fearful. Truth can withstand examination -- or it is not truth.

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Exactly. They continue to have some difficulty with enforcing this one outside of the West, though during the 50s there was a certain cocky insistence that everything should be the same in all places.

You mean the fourth century, right? Because Constantine was end of 3rd century, beginning of 4th century. And the big councils, from Nicea forward, started happening around that time as well. And if you are more skeptical about the Christian text than the Jewish text, on what basis would you...

Gossamyrrh -- One thing I am finding is that if I don't feel any resonance with something I tend not to be concerned about it one way or the other. If I am strongly pulled to it, I ask myself why. If I strongly resist it, I ask myself why. My background is fundamentalist, however, so I...

Thank you, gentlemen.

From my perspective the FB stands in as the organization's position on the family. This is probably more important for 2010 Adventism than for many other denominations today because Adventism is so deliberately universal in mission. Its prime claim is that it has the whole-soul light that...

Oh, and welcome back. :)

That was well-expressed, LF. Paul taught that all scripture was profitable in some way. Acknowledging the enduring value of scripture is one way to keep holding a full-of-faith/faithful orientation of it. This was curious for me. The same process of compilation gave us the Tanakh. So why the...

In Matthew 10 and 11, Jesus names Sodom while giving instructions to those "angels" that he is sending out with the gospel to evangelize Judaea. At this point they are not to go to the Gentiles. Their mission is only to Israel. They are to invite those they go to respond to them, testing how...

Since the thread has surfaced yet again, some background talk about how "Sodom" is used in the Bible may be helpful. Jude's reference to Sodom suggests that the attempted gang rape in Genesis 19 was not homosexual as we understand it, but "heterosexual", other-sexual, in a higher sense. The...

Funny true story: I came across that Einstein quote earlier today and nearly posted it on Facebook. Only reason I didn't is that I didn't find out where it had originally been published. (Some other nice quotes on this page.) :) I'm also very big on recognizing our interconnection. I resonate...

Thanks for that contribution, H. Are you familiar with the work of Jay Michaelson? For the last few years he has been exploring the legacy of Jewish nondualism, especially that rooted in the phrases "ein od milvado" and "there is nothing but God".

What a great story! Thanks for sharing it. :) I like how you put that -- "Goodness matters." It does. Was talking this morning with a few people about bullying. One thing I said was that sometimes bullying is institutionalized and religious people do nothing about it, or even affirm it, just...

I do appreciate that. Thanks Febble. :) I think "the trinity" often becomes a shibboleth for Christians. And one may treat it as "roadmap for the Godhead" if one wishes. I enjoy considering what it teaches about the balancing of unity and multiplicity, transcendence and immanence, and...

Since no one else seems to want to go specific... I don't agree with FB 23 as written. I do not believe that marriage was established at creation, or that in the biblical era marriage was defined as a love relationship between one man and one woman; or that the order of biblical marriages...

There may well be. When I preach or contribute to Bible studies or Sabbath School discussions, I add whatever material is appropriate for the subject. That's dependent on what I read. What I've seen within the US, let alone in the Caribbean and the UK, has varied so widely that it is not...