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Last year I moved from a major city where finding a church with a younger average age wasn't a problem. Now I live in the South in a small town in the bible belt and have stopped even looking for a church. There arn't many contemporary, non denominational or AG churches around here (I had all of...

What's wrong with that?

How is that a bad thing? Many examples modern technology were inspired by fictional sci fi concepts. People looked at it, and said "Hey, lets find a way to make this science fiction into science fact".

Whats wrong with sci fi?

I think it's up the the individual and their convictions. If you ditch TV, then how far do you take your isolation? How much do you isolate your kids? Are you willing to let them walk into a social trainwreck when they go off to college by over sheltering? It's very easy to argue that almost any...

Quantum physics is a different set of laws then regular physics. In quantum physics, weird things are possible. For instance, teleportation through quantum entanglement has already been accomplished. Granted, the object was a few atoms wide, but for a moment, it literally existed in two places...

IMHO, I don't see anything wrong with the pill. In the case of twins, the zygote does not become two entities until about 48 hours after fertilization. This leads me to believe that the soul is inherited sometime shortly after that and before that point, it is just cells and would not fall into...

*Assuming loving = not willing to harm* If a neighbor (or friend/family) was threatened by an enemy, and you do nothing, wouldn't you be loving an enemy at the expense of loving your neighbor? In this case you are forced to choose between two wrongs. You may as well go with the option that is...

Can anyone preaching a message of non-resistance honestly tell me they would allow harm to come to a loved one when violence could have saved them? I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I failed to protect a loved one. Didn't God command the Israelites to go to war? Personally, I carry a...

I agree. I believe the entire reason the forbidden fruit was in the Garden was to allow for free will. The question on free will in heaven does perplex me. If I recall, Revelation doesn't say there will be no sin during the 1000 year reign of Christ after Armageddon, which leads me to believe...

I was listening to Ravi Zacharias on this subject, and he said that the Bible is one of the most accurate books ever written. 98.x% or so accurate. Even modern textbooks struggle to obtain that level of accuracy.

The high school years suck IMHO. Your trapped between being a kid and moving on into your own life. Life gets to be much better in college. If your depressed, are you on anti depressants? They made a WORLD of difference for a friend of mine. He is a completely different person now. Anyway, spend...

You can't have true love or a real relationship by force. It has to be chosen. God created man to worship him and have a relationship with him. Without free will, it would be impossible for those goals to be realized. Free will also solves the problem of evil. There is a 2000 year-ish old...

So if birth control is a sin, and I don't want more then 3 kids at the most, then should I just never get married to avoid sin? Of course not, that just makes the Christian children population issue worse. Heck, forget birth control. It seems to me that the OP's logic would make even abstaining...

There is nothing inherently sinful about mind altering drugs. Or, at least it's situational... Or pain meds for surgery are sinful. Take your pick, I'v seen all three viewpoints argued. IMHO, the thing that determines right and wrong in this subject is your heart. I take legally prescribed...

Micro, Macro, or both kinds of evolution?

I feel you OP. The only music genre I enjoy is hard rock and metal. If a song doesn't have a fast tempo and a screaming guitar/vocalist, I have no desire to listen. The problem for me is that the Christian metal genre is very small, so there is a smaller pool of artists making music. For the...

Was he teaching Micro or Macro evolution? School policy aside, I'm not sure Maco (or Darwinian) evolution necessarily conflicts with creationism, so I won't comment on that. If he was teaching Micro Evolution, then firing him would be absurd. Micro Evolution is simply environmental adaption...

I was talking about this issue with a foreign friend of mine. Outside the US, alcohol is far less taboo with Christians. From what I have been able to gather, the American Christian taboo of alcohol stems from the prohibition period where alcohol and organized crime were closely related. Since...

Iv been told from the pulpit that I'm going to hell for drinking :/ I didn't take that pastor too seriously, and never went back.