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Um, sorry. Too chilling to be funny, huh? I sometimes step over that line without even seeing it. Again, oops. Sorry.

Or perhaps they'll learn to bring lawsuit against those who would speak against them.

:amen:Whew!! I was afraid the irony might be missed. Your humorous reply is greatly appreciated.

Wail and lament for the poor child whose misfortune it was to be baptized by a woman priest, taught for years in Sunday School by women teachers, and confirmed, at last, by a woman bishop. The Holy Spirit has not sanctified the Eucharist even once in its lifetime. The Holy Spirit is not...

In Acts 2, we find Peter quoting the prophet Joel (who was doubtlessly quoting God): 17 “In the last days it will be,” God declares, “that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons AND your daughters shall prophesy, and … 18 Even upon my slaves, both...

"Plain as day" seems to denote, for you, no need for interpretation. But as I wrote in a post above, we are not dealing with Objective Truth when we read scripture, but rather with Revealed Truth. That which must pass through the heart of the receiver, then to mind and to hand on a scroll...

I think our discussion here about Objective Truth / Subjective Truth has missed the very foundational aspect. That we are a people of Revealed Truth. We discover Objective Truth through our human experience and we can extrapolate Common Morality from it. It's objectively "bad" for me to hold...

bms, I wrote: And you replied, First of all, I'm NOT "more interested in the wicked culture...." I was merely answering YOUR question. If the answer to YOUR question requires a look at the difference between ancient and modern cultures, why do you shy away from the answer? In answer...

You ask me Why the "rape" of Lot's little girls shouldn't be called "rape" and I explained, at a little length, at least. And though I answer your question, you reply as if you'd missed the entire explanation. You answer me: with... Because I was explaining the "sin" potential of the...

bms, You write so much, yet your thoughts are more clearly seen in what you choose to ignore. Am I to assume you have no answers to my pressing points. P.S. Proving you know the contrary word for "exegesis" does not, in itself, prove you understand the meaning of either word. You misuse the...

bms, Well, what I've "got" is that you are, at the very least, consistent (not to quote Emerson and put too fine a point on it). Still, we MUST take into account how Our Culture differs from the Culture of those who wrote the Hebrew Scriptures. In an earlier answer to your question about...

Ah, I think I see where you're getting confused. I NEVER added the word "rape" to the text. I merely interpreted the idea of "rape" from the text (exactly as Polycarp 1 has done). In plainer words, I NEVER wrote a quote from anywhere in Genesis 19 and inserted the word "rape" as though it...

Hi HisHomeMaker, I agree that your comment is based on scripture (both OT &NT). I also agree with it's truth. By extension we could apply it to His aligning Himself with the entire Nation of Israel, and to Believers in Christ before Constantine, and Believers, even now, in atheistic states...

bms, That's okay. I think I've shown adequately that the words YOU put in writing as MY "think[ing]" are YOUR defamation of me, and not based on anything I wrote. Anyone dropping into the discussion from that point on will Know who is being intellectually honest. That's all I cared about on...

bms, This a despicable insinuation, and I "obviously" require an apology. Still, in a later post you reverse your insinuation (no less corrupt), as though either would match my thinking, or could be gleaned/ [mis]interpreted from Anything I've ever written. So just to clearly state my...

Alright bms, Actually, YOUR example is what makes MY point! (More's the "humour.") And as you've chosen not to answer my question, I'll elucidate for the both of us. As a Society and Culture, We've decided and accepted that Slavery and Pedophilia, BOTH, are flat-out WRONG. The Bible is...

Thank you, lucaspa. You've spun my "straw-thoughts" into gold. Blessings.

No. Not at all. It would be God's Word affected by human culture. Where in scripture does it say that the entire institution of slavery is EVIL and that humans OWNING other humans is wrong at all times and in all places? C'mon. Where? But do YOU believe that sometimes it is a Good thing...

I apologize up front for coming back before I said I would (“…I'll not be returning to even look here until the page count reaches over 50, which I believe hardly likely.”) Please take it in the spirit of the “first son” in Jesus’ Parable of the Two Sons from...

Behold the Spirit: A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion - Alan Watts [HIGHLY recommended] Your God is Too Small - J.B. Phillips The Mustard Seed Book - Mike Flynn The Kingdom Of God is Within You - Leo Tolstoy Conversations with Meister Eckhart - Meister Eckhart and Simon Parke