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Well, the Old Testament didn't just evaporate. Keep in mind that when Jesus talks about scripture he was talking about the Old Testament; the New Testament hadn't been written yet. Matthew 5:17-18 explicitly states that he didn't come to abolish the law of the Old Testament. The Christian...

Here's a link explaining the logic that they're using to clock Judgment Day in at May 21st. They start off using the 11,013 BC creation date coming that comes from this calculation. None of it makes a lot of sense, but they've settled on May 21st as Judgment Day and October 21st (six months...

An IUD functions by preventing the fertilized egg from attaching to the wall of the womb. Those who define life as beginning at fertilization would consider it a means of abortion.

It might not look like it, but we actually agree on most things. Or at least we agree on what's most important. Somebody already mentioned the Nicene Creed; that pretty much sums up the big stuff. Anytime you get a bunch of like-minded people together, they're going to start disagreeing...

I read a few of the posts and I think something is missing here. We're addressing repenting before God, but most sin also involves another human being. If we don't repent toward them as well by doing what we can to undo the harm we've caused and asking for forgiveness for our actions, how much...

God doesn't foresee the future. When we say God is "eternal" it means more than just a long time. God is not bound by space and time as we are, so he doesn't foresee a future which hasn't happened yet. He sees all of space and time in a single boundless "now". We're not like that. We...

The only reason God is referred to as male is due to a weakness in the language when dealing with pronouns. The single pronouns only give you three choices: he, she and it. We can discard the impersonal "it". After that it's pretty much a coin flip, but convention has settled on "he". We...

The early church had a problem in that many of the new converts came in with more than one wife. Either the church would have to accept this arrangement or require that one wife be divorced. That would be a severe hardship on the rejected wife. In the end, the polygamous relationships were...

You are proposing the late date, but I think I prefer the earlier date because I think the discovery of the Menerptah Stela poses problems with the late date theories. I know there are those who argue that the stela need not present problems to the "New Chronology", but I'm currently inclined...

Okay. Here's more info on the subject than you wanted: By the time of Christ the Talmud's interpretation of scripture predominated in Jewish practice. Part of the philosophy in the Talmud was to "build a fence around the law". In other words, a set of secondary rules were set up to prevent...

Good heavens. All these posts and I didn't see the one passage that matters. I did see this bit: But what on earth happened to the next half of the verse: If Jesus himself declared all foods -- and that's all foods -- clean, then what's left to argue about?

I don't see how since her philosophy is profoundly atheist. As I've grown older, I've also come to the conclusion that her philosophy is immature. Basically, she was a well-to-do woman who left Communist Russia and wanted justification for her wealth as opposed to the superficially...

Pray that God will grant him the grace to grow a friggin' backbone. :mad: Okay, so that probably wasn't the most helpful way to put it, but Scripture says that, "a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh." There's nothing about...

First of all, if you're going to go, then drop the ill feelings. They're just going to spoil the vacation and waste your bonus check. If you just go with the flow you'll probably have a good time. But my wife and I have a rule; she deals with her family and I deal with mine. I don't want...

What is he getting out of these tantrums? What you want to do here is what behaviorists call "extinguishing a behavior." Usually temper tantrums and whining are attention-seeking behavior. When my little one has a temper tantrum (and they all do), I ignore him completely until it's over. As...

Does he even know? Remember, these are people who he's known since the day he was born. Perhaps he's grown so used to their habits that he doesn't even see them as unusual. It may take some explaining for him to understand the problem from his wife's point of view. This is true even of...

Oh. Big mistake number one; never stop trying. But you're probably going about it wrong. The first thing you need to do is to find out what it is she needs/wants from you. If she's giving you the cold shoulder, then there is probably some need she feels isn't being met. And she might not...

Perhaps, but there is a downside to waiting too long as well. My wife and I did not have a child until we were both over forty. As things have turned out, my son lost both of his grandfathers before his third birthday. And the saddest thing is that he will never know what he has missed.

My wife and I met when we were in seminary. She thought I was a lunatic. I was learning Aramaic at the time and, since language is primarily verbal, I made a point of speaking it out loud. For those guys looking to impress women; walking up and dramatically reciting sections of the book of...

This is one of several cryptic admonitions (like verse 27 of the same chapter, "'Do not cut the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.") that seem out of place. Some of them -- like Exodus 23:19, ""Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk." -- are almost like...